AI Hairstyle Changer

An AI hairstyle changer shows you, or a character, with different hair in a photo you already have. You choose the cut, the length, the texture and the color, and the model repaints the hair so it sits on the head, falls on the shoulders and catches the light the way real hair would.

Mage does this two ways. In Inpaint, you paint a mask over the hair and describe the new style, and only the masked area changes, so the face cannot drift. In the prompt bar, you attach the photo to an edit model such as Mango 3 and describe the change in words, which is quicker when you want to try many styles in a row.

Both keep the person recognizably the same. A good hairstyle edit changes the hair and nothing else: not the face, not the expression, not the clothes. When you want to change the whole face instead, that is a face swap.

Inpaint is the precise way. You decide exactly which pixels may change, which is why it is the safer choice for your own face: nothing outside the mask moves. It asks you to confirm you have permission to use the photo before it generates, which matters when the photo is of someone else.

The prompt bar is the quick way. Pick Mango 3 in the model menu, attach the photo, and write the change: "Change only her hair to a chin-length platinum bob; keep her face, expression, clothes and background." Mango 3 is built for edits that keep the rest of the image in place, and Nano Banana 2.1 is a good second opinion. Use this route to try many styles fast, then go to Inpaint for the final version.

Mask generously. Include the whole of your current hair and a margin around it, because a mask that stops exactly at the hairline leaves stray strands of the old style. For a longer style, extend the mask down over the neck and shoulders where the new hair will fall. For a shorter style, mask all of the old hair so the model can replace it with neck, collar and background.

Leave the face out of the mask. The forehead, eyes and ears that the new style will cover can be included, but the more of the face you leave unmasked, the more surely it stays yours.

• Mask all of the current hair plus a margin
• Extend the mask over the shoulders for longer styles
• Mask the old hair fully when going shorter
• Keep the eyes, nose and mouth out of the mask

Hairdressers have a precise vocabulary, and the model understands it. Name the length (chin-length, shoulder-length, waist-length), the shape (blunt bob, shag, layered, undercut), the texture (pin-straight, loose waves, tight coils), the parting and the bangs, then the color as a shade rather than a word like "blonde": honey, ash, platinum, copper, espresso.

Try color and cut separately when you are undecided: keep your current cut and change only the shade, then the other way round. If the new hair looks lit differently from your face, run the result through Relight, or see the AI photo editor guide for finishing touches.

• Length: chin, shoulder, mid-back, waist
• Shape: blunt bob, shag, pixie, layers, undercut
• Texture: straight, loose waves, curls, coils, braids
• Color as a shade: honey, ash, platinum, copper, espresso