HairGlimpse
See a haircut on your own face before the salon does it
About HairGlimpse
HairGlimpse shows you a haircut or colour on your own face before a stylist commits to it. You upload a selfie, choose a cut or a shade, and it renders the result alongside your original so you are comparing rather than guessing. The stated aim is that the preview still looks like you, which is the whole problem with this category: a tool that produces a beautiful face that is not yours has answered a question nobody asked.
The pricing argument the site makes is the honest one. A salon colour runs 150 to 300 dollars and a cut you regret costs 60 plus three months of growing it out, against roughly 60 cents to see it on your own face first. That framing is unusually direct for a tool page, and it is the case for using something like this at all.
Packs are bought outright rather than subscribed to, with a seven-day refund, and the site notes that the payment processor holds the card rather than them. For a product people will use for a fortnight around one decision and then never again, that is the right shape.
You upload a selfie. One clear photograph facing the camera is the input, and the comparisons are all generated from that same picture so the only variable is the hair.
You pick a direction: a cut, a colour, or both. Each rendering consumes one look from your pack.
The preview appears next to your original photograph rather than on its own, which is what makes it useful. Seeing a style in isolation tells you whether the style is nice; seeing it beside your current hair tells you whether to do it.
You work through several looks on the same selfie to narrow down, which is why the packs are sized in looks rather than in time.
- •Preview beside the original - a comparison rather than a standalone image, which is the actual decision you are making.
- •Keeps your likeness - the stated design goal, and the thing that separates a useful preview from a flattering stranger.
- •Cuts and colours - both axes of the decision, on the same photograph.
- •First try-on free - you find out whether it resembles you before paying anything.
- •One-time packs - 5, 20 or 75 looks bought outright, with no subscription to cancel.
- •Seven-day refund - stated on the pricing page, with the card held by the processor rather than the vendor.
Anyone about to make a hair decision they cannot easily undo, which is most colour changes and any significant length change. The economics are plainly in favour of trying it: the cheapest pack costs less than the tip on a bad haircut.
Also useful for the conversation with a stylist, since showing a picture of your own face with the cut on it is a clearer brief than a photograph of a celebrity with different hair and a different head.
It is not a photo editor and not a beauty filter. It answers one question, and the free first try-on is the right way to find out whether it answers it well on your particular face and hair.
