Hairstyle Try On Hair AI

Review by eFreeware

Most style apps ask you to pick a model who looks vaguely like you and squint. Hairstyle Try On Hair AI, developed by illebra.app and also known as Mira, takes the opposite approach: you supply the face, and it renders the new hair, color, beard or makeup onto your own photo. That single decision is what makes it interesting, because the question people actually have before a salon appointment is not what a style looks like in general, but what it would look like on them.

It is built for that moment of hesitation. Someone considering a first pixie cut, a switch from brunette to blonde, a beard shape they have never worn, or a bolder makeup look for an event can see a version of the result before anything irreversible happens. The app has passed 50,000 installs and carries a 4.2 average from 511 ratings, which suggests a modest but reasonably content audience since its release in October 2025.

What follows is a look at what the app offers, how the free and paid sides work, and the kind of alternative you might weigh against it.

Built for the before-the-salon decision

The core audience here is anyone making a change they cannot undo in an afternoon. Hair grows back, but a bad color correction or an unfamiliar fade can take months to live down, and a salon visit costs real money. Mira's pitch is that you see the result first, on your own face, rather than relying on a stylist's interpretation or a stranger's photo on a mood board.

The catalog is broad enough to cover most of those decisions. There are 24 women's styles, including a French bob, a blunt lob, a soft pixie, long layers, waves, updos and bangs. Men get 20 cuts built around fades and short shapes: low, mid, high skin, burst and taper fades, plus a buzz cut. Beards add another 14 options spanning stubble, a short boxed beard, a corporate beard, a goatee and a moustache.

Color is the other half of the equation, with more than 55 shades covering blonde, brunette, red and gray alongside bolder fashion colors. For anyone who has spent weeks debating whether to go lighter, being able to preview a specific shade on their own hair rather than a swatch is the most useful thing the app does.

I would expect it to appeal most to people who are curious rather than committed: someone between appointments, someone helping a friend talk through a change, or someone who simply wants to see a few options before booking. It is a decision tool, and the people who get value from it are the ones with a decision in front of them.

Haircuts, color and the 360-degree view

The central feature is the virtual makeover itself. You upload a selfie, and the app renders a new look onto your face in seconds, according to the developer. The hairstyle catalog splits into women's and men's sets, and the app is designed to let you compare looks side by side, which matters more than it sounds. A bob and a lob can read almost identically in a single photo, and seeing them next to each other is how most people actually decide.

The 360-degree view is the feature I find most thoughtful. Each style can be viewed from the front, both sides and the back. That is the part a mirror cannot give you, and it is exactly where salon regrets tend to live. A cut can look fine from the front and feel wrong from behind, and being able to check the back before committing is a genuinely useful piece of the pitch.

Color works alongside the cuts rather than as a separate tool. With more than 55 shades available, you can preview a dye job on your own photo before committing to it, which is the scenario the developer leans on hardest. Combining a new cut with a new color in the same render is where the app starts to resemble an actual consultation rather than a filter.

Beards, makeup and the newer additions

Beard styles are handled with the same logic as haircuts. Fourteen shapes cover the usual range from stubble through a short boxed beard and a corporate beard to a goatee and moustache, so someone who has always been clean-shaven can see what a fuller face of hair would do to their jawline before growing anything out.

The makeup section lists 20 looks, ranging from Soft Glam and bolder evening styles to No-Makeup Glow and Clean Girl. This is a different use case from the haircut tool: rather than a long-term decision, it is closer to planning a look for a specific occasion, and the range covers both the understated and the dramatic ends.

The most recent update widened the app considerably. It added 20 glasses frames and sunglasses that can be tried in any color, more than 50 realistic photos aimed at work, dating and social media profiles, and over 130 themed looks, 48 of them for Halloween. The update also added 22 new hairstyles and let you customize profile photos and themed looks with your own text.

That last addition is interesting because it moves the app beyond hair. The 24 photo scenes, which include a rooftop terrace, a beach, a vineyard and a neon street, plus skin smoothing, subtle face retouching and photo enhancement, suggest the developer sees this as a broader portrait tool. Whether that is a strength depends on what you came for. If your interest is a haircut, the extras are harmless; if you want a polished profile picture, they are the point.

What the free tier and Mira Premium involve

The app is free to download and offers in-app purchases. According to the developer, you watch a short ad to earn credits, and those credits let you try hairstyles, colors and makeup at no cost.

Mira Premium is the paid option. A rendered makeover you want to share or keep is less useful with branding across it, so the watermark is worth noting.

Someone testing one haircut before a single appointment may never need Premium; someone working through dozens of looks for a costume or a profile photo may want it quickly.

How it compares with the alternatives

The obvious alternative is doing nothing and trusting the stylist, which costs nothing and works fine for small changes. Where that falls down is with dramatic ones: a first pixie, a platinum blonde conversion or a fade you have never worn. For those, a preview is worth having, and the closest substitute is a wig fitting or a stylist's sketch, both of which are slower and less personal than seeing your own face.

There is also the general-purpose photo editor route. Plenty of editing apps can tint hair or apply a filter, but they are built for creative effects rather than accurate previews, and they rarely show the back of a style. A dedicated hairstyle simulator is a narrower tool, and the 360-degree view is the clearest example of what that specialization buys you.

The nearest comparison in spirit is a salon consultation itself. A good stylist will talk through face shape and what a cut will do over the following weeks, which no app can replicate. Mira is better understood as preparation for that conversation: you arrive with a specific look in mind and a realistic sense of how it sits on you, rather than a vague idea and a photo of someone else.

A useful preview tool before you commit

Hairstyle Try On Hair AI does one thing well and has been steadily widening what that one thing covers. Rendering a new cut, color, beard or makeup look onto your own photo, then letting you check it from four angles, is a genuinely practical answer to a common worry. The catalog is substantial for a free app: 24 women's styles, 20 men's cuts, 14 beards, over 55 colors and 20 makeup looks, with glasses, themed looks and profile photos layered on top.

The caveats are straightforward. Heavy use may mean paying for Mira Premium. There is also a real limit to what any simulation can promise, since how a cut behaves as it grows out is not something a photo can show.

If you are weighing a change and want to see it on your own face first, this is a sensible place to start. If you are happy to decide at the chair and trust the person holding the scissors, you will not miss much. For everyone in between, the 360-degree view alone makes the case.

What's new in version 3.2.0

New: Glasses, Profile Photos and Themed Looks. • Glasses – try on 20 frames and sunglasses in any color • Profile Photos – 50+ realistic photos for work, dating and social media • Themed Looks – 130+ looks, including 48 for Halloween • Edit profile photos and themed looks in your own words • 22 new hairstyles to try