One photo in · Curl pattern, not frizz · No account wall before your result
Curly Hair Filter
See what curls or a perm really look like on you before months of living with the choice — your face, your colour, and the confidence to finally book the salon. No app needed.
Poker straight to defined coils
A real run on Kavel, from dead-straight hair. Drag the divider and watch the silhouette grow while your face, clothes and setting remain the anchors of the result. Now upload your own photo and make the curl pattern yours.
Drag to compare before and after
What does a curly hair filter do?
It restyles the hair in a photo you already have into curls, and leaves your face and everything behind you alone. It is the risk-free way to answer the question people ask a stylist right before committing to a perm they cannot undo for six months.
Three details decide whether a result is convincing. Curls take up more space than straight hair, so the silhouette has to grow outward and the apparent length has to shorten as the coils spring up — hair that stays exactly the same size and length has been textured rather than restyled. The second is root lift, and the third is how light behaves on a coil, which catches in bands rather than as one sheet.
The restyle runs on the Nano Banana image model in the browser with free credits to start; the credit estimate updates before you commit.
Creative engine
How the restyle works
Upload a front-facing photo, name the curl type you want, and the credit estimate updates before you generate.
Defined curl pattern
Coils with separation, lift at the roots and light catching individual strands — not a texture overlay on the same silhouette. If the outline of the hair has not changed, nothing real has happened underneath it.
Nothing to install
It runs in the browser with free credits and hands back a full-resolution image you keep — no salon appointment, no live app overlay, no account wall before you see a result. Naming the curl type — 2C waves, 3B ringlets, 4A coils — narrows the result far more than any adjective.
The rest of the hair shelf runs the same way: any cut or colour in the AI hairstyle changer, length in the AI long hair filter, and the opposite direction entirely in the AI bald filter.
See yourself with curly hair in three steps
From one photo to a full head of coils, with the cost shown before you commit.
Shoot the whole head
Face the camera in even light with your hair down and some space above and beside your head. Curls need room in the frame to expand into.
Name the curl type
Loose beach waves, springy 3B ringlets, a tight coily afro, a 1980s perm. The tighter the pattern you name, the more the silhouette changes — and ask for extra length in the same line to build the whole look in one pass.
Check credits and generate
Generate, then compare. A failed run is refunded unless it broke the content policy, and a new account starts with enough free balance to put three curl types side by side.
Who tries curly hair first
People dodging a six-month mistake, people building the perfect salon reference, and anyone ready to drop a brand-new look into the group chat.
Before the perm
A perm is a chemical commitment measured in months. Seeing the shape on your own face first is the difference between a decision and a gamble.
Showing the stylist
A reference photo of a stranger says what you like. A photo of your own head says what you want — and pairing it with a length test settles the other half of the conversation.
For the post
A profile picture with a look you have never had, or a set of three versions of yourself in one grid to let a group chat vote.
Curls FAQ
Common questions about restyling hair into curls from a photo with Kavel.
No. The usual route to this look is a camera app with a lens you install, sign into, and shoot live through, which gives you a moving overlay rather than a photo you can keep. This runs in the browser with free credits to start, on a photo you already have, and hands back a full-resolution image.
Up to a point. There has to be enough length for a coil to form — a crop of a few centimetres can take a tight curl pattern but not ringlets, and a shaved head has nothing to restyle. If you want length as well as curl, ask for both in the same prompt and the pass will grow it out first.
Yes, and that is the default — colour, hairline and parting position all carry across, and only the curl pattern changes. If you want to test a shade at the same time, name it in the prompt and both changes happen in one run.
Curls change the outline of a head, so the pass redraws the edges where hair meets skin and the frame around your face shifts with the new volume. A sharp, uncompressed source photo keeps that redraw tight to your own features.
Anything you can name: beach waves, spiral ringlets, coily 4A texture, a shaggy 1970s perm, wet-look curls, a curly bob. Being specific about tightness and volume gets you closer than the word curly on its own, and each variation is a fresh run that takes seconds.
It is a good preview of the shape and how the volume sits on your face, which is the part people struggle to imagine. What no image can predict is how your hair takes a chemical treatment — texture, porosity and previous colouring all change the outcome, and that conversation still belongs with a stylist.
The estimate appears before you press generate and moves with the format and resolution you pick, so the number is visible first. Failed runs are refunded unless they broke the content policy, and a new account starts with enough free balance to put three curl types side by side before spending.
For a friend who asked you to, sure. Running someone's face through a restyle and posting it without telling them is the version that causes problems, and it is worth reading the terms for the current position on outputs before anything goes public.
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.
- 9,600 Credits Per Year
- Up to 960 videos
- Up to 1,920 images
- No Queue, Instant Start
- HD, Watermark-Free Downloads
- Commercial Use License
- 38,400 Credits Per Year
- Up to 3,840 videos
- Up to 7,680 images
- No Queue, Instant Start
- HD, Watermark-Free Downloads
- Commercial Use License
- 86,400 Credits Per Year
- Up to 8,640 videos
- Up to 17,280 images
- No Queue, Instant Start
- HD, Watermark-Free Downloads
- Commercial Use License
Free plan
- Get 100 credits a week with check-ins
- 20 Free Credits with login
- Up to 2 videos
- Up to 4 images
- No Card, No Account
- A Free Video With Every Check-in
- Free Engine Every Day
Pay safely and securely with
Payments are processed by Stripe over an encrypted checkout. Your card details are handled by Stripe and are never stored by Kavel.
Other ways to change the hair
Other one-photo restyles, and the models behind them.
See your own face under curls
Stop taking the question to the salon unanswered: one photo in, defined ringlets out — your colour, your hairline, your face. A new account's free balance puts three curl types side by side today.