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Wolf Cut Try-On

Heavy layers, wispy fringe, volume at the crown. It suits far fewer face shapes than the feed suggests, which is exactly why you should look first.

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Wolf Cut Try-On results

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

Wolf cut - Medium Wolf cut Medium Try this on me Hush cut - Medium Hush cut Medium Try this on me Butterfly layers - Long Butterfly layers Long Try this on me Curtain bangs, long layers - Long Curtain bangs, long layers Long Try this on me Long face-framing layers - Long Long face-framing layers Long Try this on me Textured pixie - Short Textured pixie Short 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.

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How it works

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

  1. 01
    Ada before, with shoulder-length wavy brown hair Your selfie

    Add your photo

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

  2. 02
    120+ looks

    Pick a look

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

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    Ada with a chin-length platinum blunt bob Your result

    Take it to your stylist

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

Where a wolf cut lands on your face

A wolf cut is a shag arguing with a mullet: short choppy layers stacked at the crown, length left at the back, a fringe that splits over the eyes. Point the tool at your photo and it recuts what you already have into a wolf cut, keeping your face, your skin tone and the lighting exactly where they are. Here is the part worth thinking about. Those crown layers are cut properly short, and short layers cannot be lengthened. Decide in week three that you want smooth one-length hair back and you are waiting the better part of a year for the top to reach the bottom. A wolf cut also behaves differently on fine straight hair than on coarse waves, so look at it on your own texture rather than a stranger's.

Wolf or shag

A shag keeps the layers soft and the lengths close together. The wolf cut takes the crown properly short and leaves the back long. See both.

The fringe

Curtain fringe, wispy micro-fringe, or none at all. The fringe changes the cut more than the layering does, so look at all three versions.

Your texture

Set straight, wavy, curly or coily during setup. A wolf cut on loose 2b waves sits nothing like the same cut on tight 3c curls.

Butterfly instead

Not ready to cut the crown short? Butterfly layers give similar movement with the length kept long. Put the two side by side before you decide.

The layers are only half of it. Try the fringe on its own first if the length feels like too much, or keep everything long with butterfly layers. If you are already leaning shorter, look at a pixie, or browse the rest of the women's looks. Upload a photo when you want to see it. The first look is free, no account needed.

Questions about the wolf Cut Try-On

Straight answers, no hedging.

Will it still look like me?

Yes. Same photo, same face, same skin tone, same light. Only the hair is recut. A wolf cut changes the shape around your jaw and cheekbones more than most layered cuts do, which is exactly why seeing it on your own face beats seeing it on a model with different bone structure.

How is a wolf cut different from a shag or a mullet?

A mullet is short at the front and long at the back, full stop. A shag keeps its layers soft and its lengths close together. The wolf cut borrows from both: crown cut short like a mullet, layers running all the way down like a shag. Put them side by side and the difference is obvious.

What happens to my photo?

It is used to create your render and kept in your library, where only you can see it. Nothing is added to a public gallery, and the privacy policy has the detail.

Will a wolf cut work on my hair type?

Set your texture during setup and the render is cut for it. Fine straight hair gives a flatter, wispier result. Thick waves give the volume you see online. Tight curls need the layers placed differently again, and your stylist will still adjust lengths to your growth pattern on the day.

How accurate is the render?

It is a reference image, not a guarantee. Layered cuts depend on cowlicks, density and how your hair dries, and a real wolf cut needs styling - texture spray, a rough blow-dry - to look like the picture. Take it to your stylist as a starting point rather than a specification.

How long does a wolf cut take to grow out?

The crown layers are the slow part. At roughly a centimetre a month, the shortest pieces need most of a year to catch up with the back. That is the trade you are making, and it is the reason to look at butterfly layers first if you are only half sure.

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