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Haircut Simulator

Simulate the cut on your own head first. Take the render to your appointment instead of describing what you want and hoping.

Drop your selfie here Your first look is free. See my look

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Photo ready

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

See my looks

A man with a fresh mid taper fade seen from a three-quarter angle

48,000+
users worldwide: 165,000+
hairstyles tried

Low taper fade Edgar Modern mullet Buzz cut Textured crop Curtains Crew cut Wolf cut Blunt bob Curtain bangs Balayage Box braids Silk press Money piece Silver blend Low taper blowout Ivy League French bob Hush cut Cornrows Old money blowout Low taper fade Edgar Modern mullet Buzz cut Textured crop Curtains Crew cut Wolf cut Blunt bob Curtain bangs Balayage Box braids Silk press Money piece Silver blend Low taper blowout Ivy League French bob Hush cut Cornrows Old money blowout

Haircut Simulator results

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

Mid taper fade Fades Try this on me

Grade-two buzz Short Try this on me

Curtains Medium Try this on me

Chin-length blunt bob Short Try this on me

Textured pixie Short 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.

Simulate the cut before you sit in the chair

Hair grows about a centimetre a month, which is the entire reason a haircut simulator is useful: the scissors take two minutes and the correction takes half a year. A screenshot from a feed only proves the cut worked on somebody with a longer neck and thicker hair. Point the haircut simulator at your own selfie instead and the face in the result is your face, at the angle you shot it, under the same lamp, with the same skin tone and the same ears. The cut is the only new thing in the picture. Take the render to the chair and point at it, which is a far better brief than shorter, but not too short.

Fade heights

Low, mid and high on the same head. Three weeks of living with a fade line that sits wrong is avoidable in about a minute.

Named cuts

Grade-two buzz, crew cut, curtains, textured crop, French bob, pixie. Real names your barber already uses, on the head they will actually be cutting.

Your angle

The render keeps the photo you shot: same three-quarter turn, same light. Nothing is smoothed, slimmed or relit to make the cut look better than it is.

Before the booking

Run it before you book. It costs nothing and it stops you asking for curtains when the thing in your head is a textured crop.

Narrowing it down? Fades, crops and curtains sit on men's hairstyle try-on, clippers on the buzz cut filter, and going shorter on short hair. Or upload one clear selfie now. The first look is free and needs no account.

Questions about the haircut Simulator

Straight answers, no hedging.

Will I still recognise myself in the render?

It should look like you with different hair, and nothing else. The simulator holds your face, skin tone, ears and the lighting of your original photo, then rebuilds only the hair. Nobody gets slimmed, smoothed or aged. If the jaw in the result is not yours, discard it and shoot again.

Where does my selfie go?

It is used to create your render and kept in your library, where only you can see it. The privacy policy explains how it is handled, in plain words.

How close is the simulation to the finished cut?

It gets length, silhouette and how a cut sits around your face close. It cannot account for your barber's hands, your growth pattern, a stubborn crown or how the hair falls after the first wash at home. Take it as a reference to discuss, not a guarantee to hold anyone to.

Can I show the render to my barber?

Yes, and that is largely the point. Save the render and show it at the start of the appointment. Barbers read a picture of your own head faster than a description, and it removes the gap between what you said and what you meant by short.

Which haircuts can I simulate?

Fades at low, mid and high, buzzes by grade, crew cuts, curtains, textured crops, and the longer end too: French bobs, pixies, layers and shags. Every one keeps your own face underneath, so you are comparing cuts rather than comparing models.

Does it work on curly or coily hair?

Yes. You set your texture during setup, so a cut is rendered for coils, curls or waves rather than having straight hair pasted over you. Texture changes how much length a cut appears to lose, which is exactly the detail a generic filter gets wrong.