Celebrity hairstyle: use your mobile to see if it fits you

Japanese mobile phone users got a fun application I would also like to have on my cell phone. The application, dubbed as Hair Chen, allows you to select trendy hairstyles from a sample database and apply them to your own picture to see how you’d look with that new hairdo. You’ll find a lot of Japanese celebrities in that database as usually they are the trendsetter for hairstyles. For starters, the sample database will contain around 80 virtual wigs to try on, but eventually it will grow with the time.

The Hair Chen application is not offered as a standalone, but rather serves as a bait to lure users to the same-named portal that aggregates nationwide data about hair salons and related information. The portal relies on a subscription-based model to make a profit, charging JPY315 (USD2.67) a month. While KDD au users had this application at their disposal from 2003 DoCoMo users got access to it only recently. The application developer Rstream partnered with hair salon operator Taya to feed the portal with the relevant data.

Source: Source: Rstream (Japanese)