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Pick an honest photo
Even light, hair clear of the background, no filter already applied — so every shade you try gets a fair side-by-side comparison.
One photo in · Same cut, new shade · No sign-up
AI Hair Color Changer
Full platinum, copper, a money-piece or shadowed roots — on your hair, in your light, before anyone reaches for the bleach.
Judge the shade on the haircut you already haveLit like the room you were inAs many shades as you want
Before / after
Natural brunette, recoloured to icy platinum
A real run on this page's engine, from an ordinary studio portrait. Drag the divider and watch icy platinum replace dark brown while the parting and the flyaways stay put — then picture the same decision on your own hair, in your own light, before the bleach.
Drag to compare before and after
AI photo tool
What does an AI hair color changer do?
It repaints the hair in a photograph and leaves everything else alone — a recolour, not a restyle. The test is whether your own hair still looks like your own hair afterwards, only in a different shade.
Image tool
Colour is the hardest thing to imagine on yourself, which is why salon consultations run on swatch books and phone screenshots of strangers. Neither answers the actual question: a swatch shows you a shade under shop lighting on hair that is not yours, and a photo of someone else shows you their skin tone next to it.
Here you upload a photo, name your shade, and watch it land on your actual hair while the parting, the cut, the flyaways, the clothing and the background are all held in place — right in the browser. Highlights and shadow follow the light that was already in the picture.
Creative engine
How the recolour works
Upload a photo, name the shade you are considering, and compare the results next to each other.
1 photo
Source shot in
Any shade
Per run
Credits back
Render errors
Same strands, new shade
A recolour rather than a restyle: the geometry of the cut is preserved, so the only variable you are judging is the colour — an honest preview of exactly what that one change does for your face.
Nothing to install
No app, no swatch book, no bleach. Upload, name a shade, and look at it on your own face under the light you were actually standing in — which is the one condition a swatch book can never reproduce.
Changing the shape rather than the shade is a different pass: try a whole new cut in the AI hairstyle changer, add length in the AI long hair filter, or see the curl pattern change in the curly hair filter.
How to use
See a new shade in three steps
From one photo to a decision you can actually take to the salon.
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Name the shade
Be specific — ash brown balayage, copper with golden ends, cool platinum with darker roots. Vague words give you the average of everything they could mean.
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Generate and compare
Run two or three shades on the same source and look at them together. Judging a colour on its own is much harder than judging it against another one.
Who it's for
Who tries a shade first
Preview the shade before the appointment, the commitment or the group shoot — then show everyone exactly what you mean.
Before the appointment
Walking in with a picture of yourself in the shade you want ends the guessing on both sides of the chair. Colourists ask for reference photos precisely because words like 'ashy' mean different things to different people.
The change you will not make
Bleach is a commitment; jet black is a six-month decision. Seeing it on your own face is often enough — and if it is not, the AI hairstyle changer will show you the cut that goes with it.
Matching a look
A costume, a wedding party, a character, a band photo where everyone agreed on something. Testing it on the actual faces beats arguing about a hex code.
Answers
Hair colour FAQ
Common questions about recolouring hair in a photo with Kavel.
No. The pass is written to hold the parting, the length, the wave pattern and even the flyaways in place and repaint only the colour. A well-lit photo where the hair stands clear of the background gives it the cleanest edge to work to.
It shows you exactly the platinum that looks right against your face. Take that image to your colourist and the consultation starts with the destination already decided — they plan the route there.
Yes, if you ask for them. Say where the colour should be darker and where it should lighten — darker roots through to lighter ends, money-piece at the front, cool shadow underneath — and the gradient follows the actual fall of your hair rather than sitting on top as a band.
They are left alone unless you name them. If you want the brows to move with the shade, which matters for a big jump like brunette to platinum, say so in the prompt and they will be treated as part of the same edit.
Almost always a lighting mismatch: the new shade was applied evenly while the photo has a strong light on one side. Use a source with softer, more even light, or say explicitly that the highlights should follow the existing light direction.
Only with their agreement. A shade test on a friend before their appointment is exactly what this is for; uploading someone's photo to make an image they have not consented to is not, and the content policy applies to what you generate here.
The estimate is on screen before you press generate and moves with the resolution you pick, so you are never guessing. Failed runs come back to your balance unless they broke the content policy, and a new account starts with enough to compare a few shades.
Choose the largest format the generator offers before running, since enlarging a small result afterwards cannot recover detail that was never there. Keep the original download rather than a copy passed through a chat app, which re-compresses it.
Kavel pricing — you pay per generation, never per seat
Credits are shared across everything Kavel runs. You see the cost before each run, and a failed job is never charged.
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Go further than the shade
Once the colour is settled, the cut, the length and the face are separate passes.
See the shade before the bleach
One photo in, your own hair in a new colour out — same cut, same light, same face. Nothing permanent, and your first shades are free with no sign-up.