Add Beard to Photo

Add Beard to Photo on Viralkey is a studio edit that puts facial hair on a portrait so you can preview a beard on the same face. You upload one source photo, choose a look such as Full beard or Stubble, and receive an image that keeps expression, head hair, background and lighting from the original. It is a facial-hair-only preview for grooming decisions and creative stills — not a face swap and not a brand-new person generated from scratch.

You pick one look — Full beard, Stubble, Goatee, Mustache or Chin strap — and that single choice is the whole control surface. An optional description lets you call out length, density, colour or edge tidiness. There is no render-style setting: the result always comes back in your source photo's own visual language, and no reference images are needed beyond the single portrait you upload.

Upload a clear portrait, choose your look, add a short note if needed, then generate. Open the result in your asset library next to the original, download what you want to keep, and rerun the same photo with a different look when you want a second comparison before you decide what to grow or trim.

Yes. Each run is a Viralkey Studio generation and spends credits from your balance. A limited free tier lets you try the tool before you add more credits; the exact spend per run is shown in-product before you confirm, so you always see the cost in credits rather than guessing from an outside price list.

The requested look replaces what is already there rather than stacking new hair on top. That means you can reshape an existing beard into Goatee or Chin strap on the same portrait, which is useful when you are choosing a trim rather than starting from a clean-shaven face for the first time.

By default the facial hair is matched to the hair you already have, since that is what keeps the result believable on a second look. Ask for gray streaks, a darker tone, or salt-and-pepper in the description when you want to override the default and steer color yourself for a character or age-up brief.

Use a clear, well-lit portrait where the jaw and chin are visible and mostly unobstructed. Front-facing or three-quarter angles work best. Avoid heavy soft-focus face filters and hands covering the lower face in the source — those details make beard edges and contact shadows harder to land cleanly on the first run.

Only run portraits you have the right to modify. Putting a beard on your own face or on a willing friend is the intended use; using the edit to ridicule someone, fake an identity or mislead is prohibited, and photos of minors are never accepted. No permission, no upload — that rule keeps every preview safe.

Finished images are saved to your Viralkey asset library, where you can open them beside the source photo, download a copy, and keep multiple looks from the same upload. Nothing requires a second reference file — one source portrait is enough for each run you confirm.