Hair Color & Hairstyle Try On

Review by eFreeware

If you have ever sat in a salon chair with a color swatch in hand and no real idea how it would look on you, this app is built for that moment. Hair Color & Hairstyle Try On, from Toon Tech Ltd, lets you preview hair colors and styles on your own photo before you commit to anything at a salon. It sits in the Beauty category, is free to install, and has been downloaded more than 100,000 times since its release in early 2025.

The people most likely to want it are the ones already browsing color ideas: brides and bridesmaids planning a wedding look, students getting ready for prom or graduation, professionals who want a fresh image, and anyone who wants to settle a color decision before booking an appointment. The pitch is straightforward — try the look on your own face first, then take the result to your stylist.

What appeals to me about the premise is that it targets a specific kind of regret. A bad dye job is expensive to fix and slow to grow out, and a haircut you dislike is a daily reminder. Previewing on your own photo is a low-stakes way to narrow down what you actually want before money changes hands.

How the color try-on works

The core feature is the hair color try-on. You upload a clear photo of yourself — the developer notes a selfie works well — and the app shows how a color would sit on your hair. There are more than 100 colors to work through, split between natural tones like chestnut, golden blonde and brunette, and fashion shades such as pink, silver, blue and pastel options.

The developer pitches the color engine as respecting your skin tone and lighting rather than pasting a flat block of color over your hair. That distinction matters, because the value of a tool like this depends entirely on whether the preview looks like a plausible version of you. It is billed as an improvement over basic filter apps, and the claim is that the result keeps proper hair flow and light behavior.

I would treat any preview as a strong hint rather than a guarantee. Salon color interacts with your base shade, your hair's porosity and how much lift the stylist needs to do, none of which a photo can fully capture. Used as a shortlist rather than a final answer, the color tool does the job it is meant for: cutting a hundred options down to two or three worth discussing.

Styles, face shape and occasion picks

Beyond color, the app offers thousands of hairstyles to try on. The range spans updos, waves, bobs, curtain bangs, layered cuts, ponytails, braids and celebrity-inspired looks, so there is material for both a subtle trim and a full change of direction. Trying a bob or bangs on your own photo before a stylist picks up the scissors is exactly the sort of decision this feature is suited to.

The face shape analysis is the part that gives the app some structure. It sorts faces into oval, round, square, heart, diamond or oblong and then recommends styles and colors that flatter that shape. If you have never worked out why one cut suits you and another does not, this is a useful starting point, and it is the feature I would expect people to lean on when they feel stuck.

Occasion-based recommendations round things out. The app groups suggestions around weddings and bridal looks, job interviews and professional settings, date nights and parties, and proms, graduations and photoshoots. That framing is practical: a polished interview style and a party look are genuinely different briefs, and having the app sort options by the event saves you from scrolling through styles that do not fit the moment.

The library is also updated over time, with the developer pointing to trends such as Korean-inspired bangs, red-carpet styles, seasonal highlights and balayage. Regular additions keep a browsing app like this from going stale, and the most recent update fixes both the hair analysis and the color analysis.

What it asks of you

The app is free to install and carries no ads. It does offer in-app purchases. If you are comparing this against a paid photo editor or a salon consultation, the entry cost here is low either way.

The main requirement is a good photo. The app asks for a clear image of yourself, and the developer recommends a selfie. Everything downstream — the color preview, the face shape reading, the style suggestions — depends on that upload being usable, so a well-lit, front-facing photo is worth the extra minute.

There is also a workflow expectation baked in. The app is designed around saving, sharing or screenshotting the looks you like and then bringing those results to your stylist. In other words, it is a preparation tool, not a replacement for the appointment itself. The developer's framing is that this leads to a stress-free salon visit, which is a reasonable way to use it as long as you accept that the stylist still has the final say on what your hair can do.

Getting the most from a try-on session

Start with the face shape analysis before you start browsing colors. If the app tells you which shapes it thinks flatter you, that gives you a filter for everything that follows, and it stops the session from turning into an endless scroll through styles that were never going to work on you.

Then narrow the color question separately. Pick a handful of natural tones close to your current shade and a couple of bolder fashion colors, and compare them side by side rather than judging each one in isolation. The contrast between a safe option and a dramatic one is what usually settles the decision.

When you find two or three looks you like, save them rather than relying on memory. Screenshots work for this, and the app also lets you save and share results. A small set of saved images is far more useful in a salon conversation than trying to describe a shade you saw twenty minutes earlier.

If you are planning around an event, work backward from the occasion. Bridal looks, interview styles and party options are grouped for a reason, and picking the category first keeps the choices relevant to the day. It also gives you a realistic sense of how much styling time a look implies before you commit to it.

Finally, be honest about the gap between a photo and reality. A preview cannot tell you how a color will fade, how a cut will behave on day three, or how much upkeep a high-maintenance shade demands. Use the app to decide what to ask for, and let the stylist tell you what is achievable.

A useful step before the salon chair

The combination of a large color library, a wide style catalog and face shape based suggestions gives it more substance than a simple overlay filter, and the occasion groupings make the browsing feel purposeful rather than random.

The 4.3 average across 8,250 ratings suggests the approach lands with most people who try it, and the absence of ads keeps the experience from feeling cluttered. The in-app purchases are the main consideration — the app is free to install.

I would point this at anyone weighing a change and wanting evidence before committing: brides sorting out wedding looks, students planning for prom or graduation, professionals refreshing an image, or simply anyone who has been circling the same three colors for months. It is a planning tool rather than a styling one, and treated that way it is worth keeping on your phone.

What's new in version 9.8.4

-hair analysis fixed -color analysis fixed