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Step 1
Photograph the hairline
Face the camera in even light with your forehead uncovered. Push your hair back if it falls forward. The temples and the crown are what the preview is built from, so they need to be in the frame.
One photo in · Your own head shape · Nothing to install
AI Buzz Cut Filter
The clippers do not have an undo. Upload one photo and see your own head shaved down to a grade 1 first — same face, same ears, same jaw, same light. The only thing that changes is the hair.
Runs in the browserYour head, not a stock oneEvery length, not just shaved
Before / after
One man, thick hair and grade 1
Made with the model this page uses. Drag the divider — the jaw, the ears and the light on the left cheek are identical on both sides; only the hair is gone.
Drag to compare before and after
AI photo tool
What a buzz cut filter actually has to get right
It takes one photo and cuts the hair down to clipper length, rebuilding the scalp underneath with your own skin tone and the same light that is already on your face. Everything else — features, expression, beard, clothing, background — is supposed to survive untouched. When it works, the picture is boring in the best way: it just looks like a photo of you with short hair.
Image tool
The question underneath this is almost never fashion. It is people whose hair is thinning and who are wondering whether to stop fighting it — the ones who usually try the bald filter next — people about to enlist or start chemo, and people who have simply had the same head of hair for fifteen years.
None of them want a haircut idea. What they want is one honest look at the version of themselves on the other side of a decision that takes ten minutes to make and three months to undo. That is also why one run is rarely enough: most people arrive wanting a single number and leave having tried three, because the gap between a grade 1 and a grade 3 on their own head is wider than they pictured.
Creative engine
How the preview works
Upload a photo, say which grade you are thinking about, and the credit estimate updates before you press anything. The run happens on this page and the result opens directly under the box.
1 photo
Photo in
0 to 4
Grades
Kept
Face and beard
Check the skull and the hairline first
Hair hides the back and sides of a head, so the model has to invent what was under there — a rounder or flatter skull than yours gives you a stranger. The hairline is the other tell: it does not disappear at grade 1, it becomes more visible, and a preview that quietly hands back the hairline you had at twenty is flattering and useless.
Your photo decides more than the grade
A straight-on frame in even daylight with your forehead visible gives the model the hairline, the temples and the crown. A cap, hard overhead sun or a low angle gives it almost nothing. Keep the beard in too — grade 0 shows scalp and grade 4 barely reads as buzzed, and the beard rebalances both.
How to use
Three steps to a preview you can trust
From one photo to a version of your own head you can look at properly.
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Step 2
Name the grade
The prompt is already written for a grade 1. Change the number if you are considering a different length, and add anything the model should keep — a beard, glasses, a scar you do not want smoothed away.
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Step 3
Check the skull, then run the neighbours
Look at the shape of the head before you look at the haircut. If it is yours, run the grade either side and compare all three. That comparison is usually what settles it.
Who it's for
Who looks before the clippers come out
The people who ask this question are mostly not asking about fashion.
Losing it anyway
Deciding whether to get ahead of a receding hairline instead of managing it. Seeing the honest version — temples where they really are — is the point, not a flattering one.
About to have no choice
Basic training, a role, a treatment starting next month. Looking first turns something that is going to happen anyway into something you have already seen.
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Fifteen years of the same head
No crisis, just curiosity that has never been worth the risk of acting on. Ten minutes with a photo answers it without a three-month grow-out.
Answers
Questions about the preview
What it keeps, what it needs, and what it will not flatter.
Upload one straight-on photo on this page, pick the clipper grade you are considering, and press generate. The result appears under the box on this page. There is nothing to install and you do not need to hand your photo to an app store first.
That is the thing to check first. Hair hides the back and sides, so the model rebuilds them from your proportions — the width of your jaw, the set of your ears, the slope of your forehead. If the head in the result does not look like yours, the photo probably did not show enough of your hairline. Retake it straight on with your forehead clear and run it again.
No, and it should not. A preview that quietly restores the hairline you had at twenty is pleasant to look at and no use for the decision you are making. The temples stay where the photo says they are.
Grade 0 leaves stubble and shows scalp. Grade 1 is the classic buzz — visibly shaved but with even coverage. Grade 2 keeps enough density to read as a choice. Grade 4 is closer to a short back and sides. They look more different on a real head than the numbers suggest, which is why running two or three is normal.
Yes. The prompt only touches the hair on your head, so a beard, stubble or moustache stays exactly as photographed. That matters, because the balance between a shaved head and facial hair is most of what the final look actually is.
The run happens when you press generate and the result is yours to download. If you are signed in it stays in your history so you can compare grades later; signed out, it is gone when you leave the page. Either way nothing is posted anywhere.
Technically it will run on any portrait. Whether you should is between you and the person whose head you are shaving — most people send it to them rather than about them.
Almost always the input. A hat, hair falling across the forehead, hard overhead light, or a low camera angle leaves the model guessing at the parts of your skull it cannot see. Even daylight and a straight-on angle fix it more reliably than any change to the prompt.
Yes — take the result into a video model and it will animate, so you can see the cut from more than one angle before you commit. That is a separate run with its own estimate.
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Look before the clippers
Ten minutes with a photo against three months of growing it back out. The estimate is on the button before you press it.