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Curly & Coily Hair Try-On

Most try-on tools paste straight hair over you. You pick your texture during setup and the result is cut for that texture - braids, locs, afros, silk presses and layered curls included.

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Used for your render, and only you can see it.

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A woman with a defined, voluminous coily afro

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Curly & Coily Hair Try-On results

Twelve of the most-asked-for cuts and colours. Try any of them on your own face.

Long box braids Textured Try this on me

Voluminous afro Textured Try this on me

Honey knotless braids Textured Try this on me

Curly bob Textured Try this on me

Silk press Textured Try this on me

Wolf cut Medium Try this on me

These six are a slice of the atlas, each one rendered on our demo faces with this tool. There are 120+ in it.

Three steps

How it works

If you can take a selfie, you can do this.

01

Your selfie

Add your photo

One front-facing selfie, hair visible. That's the whole setup.
02

120+ looks

Pick a look

120+ cuts, colours and styles, all on that same photo.
03

Your result

Take it to your barber

Save the result and show it, instead of describing a cut and hoping.

Curly and coily hair, rendered on your own texture

Most tools in this category were built around one texture and it is not yours. Here you set your pattern before anything renders - loose 2c waves, springy 3b spirals, tight 4c coils - and every style is drawn the way it would genuinely be cut and worn on curly hair. Box braids, knotless braids, locs, a rounded afro, a silk press, layered curls that sit where curls actually sit. Your face, your skin tone and the light in your photo are left alone; only the hair changes. Shrinkage is part of that: curly hair reading shoulder-length wet can land at your chin dry, so the result is shown dry. Nothing assumes your curly hair needs straightening first.

Your pattern

Choose 2c waves, 3b spirals or 4c coils at the start. The cut is then rendered for that pattern instead of a straightened version of your hair.

Braids and locs

Long box braids, honey-blonde knotless braids, locs and twists. See the length and the parting before you commit six hours to a chair.

Shrinkage shown

A cut measuring shoulder-length wet can sit at the chin once it dries. The render shows the dry result, which is the one you live in.

Silk press

See your own length pressed straight without putting a flat iron near it. Useful when you are weighing a silk press against keeping the curl.

Texture changes how a shorter shape behaves, so try the short hair filter before any big chop. Colour lands differently on coils too, and both the balayage try-on and the virtual hair colour try-on keep your pattern intact. For fringe options on curls, the bangs filter is next door. Upload one photo; the first look is free and needs no account.

Questions about the curly & Coily Hair Try-On

Straight answers, no hedging.

Will it still look like me, and like my curls?

Your face, skin tone, expression and lighting are held from your photo and left alone. The curl pattern you pick at the start drives the render, so a 4c coil is drawn as a 4c coil. If a style would need your texture changed, that is shown, not hidden.

Where does my photo go?

It is used to create your render and kept in your library, where only you can see it. The privacy policy sets out what we do with it, and what we would ask you before doing anything more.

How accurate is it for textured hair?

It is a reference image. It is good on shape, volume, parting and dry length. It cannot know your porosity, how your curls clump on a given day, how tight a braider will install, or how much a style will pull. Curls also vary week to week with weather and product.

Can I try braids, locs and twists?

Yes. Long box braids, knotless braids in honey blonde, locs, twists and a rounded afro are all in the set, along with layered curls. Braided styles are the ones worth previewing hardest, because the install is long and the parting is hard to change afterwards.

Does it straighten my hair by default?

No. Straight renders are an option you choose, not the baseline. If you never pick a silk press, nothing in the result is straightened. That is the difference between this and tools that quietly flatten your hair to make their styles fit over the top.

Can I see a silk press before I heat my hair?

You can see the length and shape a press would give you. What no render can tell you is how your own hair will respond to repeated heat, so treat the picture as a way to decide whether the look is worth asking a stylist about, not as a safety check.