Try Hairstyles on Your Photo

The problem this solves

A perm and a new hair color take hours in a salon, cost real money and are hard to undo. A picture of someone else's brown waves does not show how that color and curl would sit with your own skin tone, face and hair length. A preview on your own photo gets you closer to an answer before you book.

When people ask for this

• Deciding whether to go from long straight black hair to a brown color with waves or curls before a birthday, a trip or a new job
• Bringing a picture of the result to a stylist as a talking point
• Comparing two looks, such as straight and wavy, or dark and lighter brown, before you book

In this example, a woman in her forties has a friend's phone photo of herself on a city sidewalk in a spring trench coat, with long, straight black hair. She is curious about brown hair with loose waves and sends the photo with a short description of the look.

What we change, and what we keep

You send a photo of yourself and tell us the look in your own words, or send a reference picture you like. A human editor rebuilds the hair in your photo to follow it. In this example, the long straight black hair becomes the same length in a warm chestnut brown, with loose, soft waves that fall over her shoulders and the front of her coat.

Her face, expression, earrings, trench coat, sweater and the shop-lined street behind her are kept, and we check each of them against your original. The strands, the highlights and the way the hair meets the coat are redrawn to match the same daylight, so the hair is a reconstruction, not something visible in the original photo.

If you send a reference showing another person, only the color and the shape of the waves are used. Their face, skin tone and features are never transferred to you.

This is a preview, not a promise of the result. How a perm holds and how a color turns out depends on your hair's texture, thickness and starting color, and a stylist may suggest changes. Treat the image as a way to compare looks, not as a guarantee.

What to send

A clear photo of yourself with your hair visible and your shoulders uncovered, and a few words on the color and the wave or curl you have in mind. One or two reference pictures help, but they are optional. A reference taken from a similar angle and lighting makes the match easier.

Private: recreated on our own images, not customer photos

The before/after shown here is recreated on images created or licensed for this site — never a real customer's photo. Your upload is seen only by the editor working on it, and the edit comes with free revisions within 14 days of delivery if anything needs adjusting.