Hair Color & Hairstyle Try-On

Quick answer: tap a colour, a length, a texture and a fringe, and the drawn head above wears the look, free and with no photo. Natural colours carry their number on colourists’ 1–10 scale, from level 1 black to level 10 lightest blonde. To See the Look on your own face, the AI picture redraws only your hair from a photo you add, for 2 credits.

How to use it

Pick a colour from the swatches, then the length, the texture (straight, wavy or curly), a fringe and, if you like, a balayage that lightens the ends. The head redraws on every tap and the link keeps your look, so you can send it to a friend or your stylist. Under the answer are Needle Style’s own photo posts for that colour and that length, to see it on real hair.

Hair colour levels, 1 to 10

Colourists describe how dark or light hair is on one scale, from level 1, black, to level 10, the lightest blonde (StyleSeat, TENAJ Salon Institute, In The Cut Hair Studio):

The names are StyleSeat’s chart. The charts differ on level 8: TENAJ Salon Institute calls it light blonde and In The Cut Hair Studio medium blonde; all three call level 9 light blonde. Auburn, copper, burgundy, silver grey and pastel pink are tones, not depths, so they have no level here. The swatches’ colours on screen are ours: a screen cannot show a dye’s real shade, so judge a dye on a strand, not on a picture.

Hair lengths: where each cut falls

The landmarks and inches are our hair length chart’s, from two hair-length charts and shown as a range where they differ. It also counts the months to grow from one length to the next.

See it on your own photo

The drawn head is free and needs no photo. To see the look on your own face, open the AI picture under the answer, add a clear, front-facing photo and tap the button: the AI keeps your face, features and skin tone as they are and redraws only your hair, in the colour and cut you picked. It costs 2 credits. Your photo is sent to our AI provider only when you tap, to draw the picture, and is not kept. The picture is an idea of the look, not a promise of what a dye or a cut will do on your hair.

Three worked examples

A copper bob: copper is a tone, so it has no level; a chin-length bob falls at the chin, about 6–10 in from the roots.

A platinum pixie: lightest blonde is level 10, the top of the scale; a pixie is ear length, about 4 in from the roots.

Long, wavy medium blonde with balayage: medium blonde is level 7; long hair reaches the armpits, about 15–16 in from the roots; the balayage draws the ends lighter than the roots.

Common mistakes

• Choosing a dye by a screen. Every screen shows colour differently, and a dye also mixes with the colour already in your hair: take the level and the name to a colourist, or test a strand.
• Measuring length from the ends. Lengths are measured from the roots, so a shoulder-length cut is about 10–12 in of hair, whatever your height.
• Reading the AI picture as a promise. It shows the look on your face; the result on your own hair depends on its colour, texture and history.

More on Needle Style

Hair colour ideas, pixie haircuts, styles for shoulder-length hair, blonde balayage and brunette balayage. Then find the cut for your face shape, the shades for your skin tone with the Hair Color Finder, and balayage, foils or an ombré with the Highlights or Balayage? Finder.

Colour levels from StyleSeat, TENAJ Salon Institute and In The Cut Hair Studio; lengths from our hair length chart (CurlCentric, Dimples Hair). Every chart re-read word for word on its own page. Checked 2026-10-02.

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