Short Hair Filter

The short hair filter on Viralkey is a studio edit that shortens head hair on a portrait so you can preview a cut on the same face. You upload one source photo, choose a shorter look, and receive an image that keeps pose, clothing, background and lighting from the original while preserving hair color and texture. It is a length-only preview for decision-making and creative stills — not a face swap and not a brand-new person generated from scratch.

You pick one shorter look — Pixie cut, Bob, Long bob, Shaggy crop, Buzz cut or Crew cut — and that single choice is the whole control surface. An optional description lets you call out details to preserve, like curl pattern, fringe shape or parting. 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.

Upload a sharp portrait, pick the cut you are curious about — pixie, bob, lob or crop. Add a short note only if a detail matters, then generate. The result appears in your asset library beside the source photo; download it, or swap to another length on the same upload before you commit at the salon.

It does — every haircut preview is a Viralkey Studio generation billed in credits from your balance. New accounts get a limited free tier for a first look, and the exact cost of a run is displayed in-product before you confirm, so trying a pixie against a bob never means guessing what the comparison will cost.

Yes — color is preserved and the texture family carries over from the source, so straight stays straight and curly stays curly. That continuity is the point of the preview: you are judging a shorter silhouette on the hair you already have, not on a dyed wig that belongs to someone else.

Long hair often covers the neckline, ears and shoulder line. The edit restores those regions so the cut reads as intentional rather than erased, with ends that look freshly cut. Start with a sharp, evenly lit source where the face is unobstructed for the cleanest reconstruction.

Use a clear, well-lit portrait where the face is visible and mostly unobstructed. Front-facing or three-quarter angles work best. Avoid heavy beauty filters, hats, and hair covering the face in the source — those details make length, parting and silhouette harder to place cleanly.

Stick to photos you own or have clear permission to edit. Previewing a haircut on a friend who asked for it is fine; mocking someone with an unflattering crop, deceiving, or harassing is not. Portraits of minors are out of scope entirely — when consent is in doubt, leave the photo out of the studio.

Each finished preview is stored in your Viralkey asset library together with the source portrait, so every cut you have tried on that photo stays browsable in one thread. Download copies anytime, delete the misses, and start the next run from the same single upload — no extra reference images are ever needed.