Hair Pro

Though they're not permanent, haircuts are something you have to live with for a while, which can be frustrating if the last one didn't go as well as you'd hoped. If you want to make sure that a particular haircut won't make you look like your mom just cut your hair, you can turn to Hair Pro to see how different styles will look on you. This simple piece of software lets you overlay various hairstyles over a portrait, and it lets you make various tweaks to make it fit better on your head. You can print out your new portrait and give it to your stylist, and avoid the unpleasant situation of paying for a haircut you don't like.

Hair Pro is free to try, without any serious limitations. It works on all popular Windows platforms, and it doesn't rely on any third-party tools or services. You can download and install the application in under a minute, without going through any complex configurations.

The software's functionality is pretty simple. You load a portrait of yourself onto its user interface and pick from the available hairstyles to see how it would suit you. Hair Pro does a fairly good job at placing the hair directly on your head, but if you see the hair in a different location, smaller or larger than it needs to be, you can just clicking and drag it into place and resize it so that it would fit on your head.

Hair Pro comes with a wide variety of hairstyles, all neatly categorized on the right side of the user interface. You can find short hair, long hair, light, medium or dark, hair with accessories and more. What's more, the software lets you tweak the colors, shadows and other characteristics for each style, and you can also turn to a few tools for smudging, blurring or cloning if you need to make some manual adjustments in certain areas.

Though Hair Pro is nothing groundbreaking, it's simple and fun, and it can save you a pretty penny before going to the beauty salon.