In AI hairstyle try-on, every style costs the same: nothing. So when one style still comes out on top, the margin matters more than the position.
The Winning Number Has an Asterisk
The top of the individual ranking from 10,000 completed generation events:
| Rank | Hairstyle | Generations | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Body Wave | 882 | 8.8% |
| 2 | Loose Wave | 701 | 7.0% |
| 3 | Butterfly Cut | 646 | 6.5% |
| 4 | Layered Straight | 628 | 6.3% |
| 5 | Wavy Lob | 564 | 5.6% |
| 6 | Blunt Bob | 537 | 5.4% |
| 7 | Curly | 510 | 5.1% |
| 8 | Water Wave | 473 | 4.7% |
| 9 | Straight | 455 | 4.6% |
| 10 | Deep Wave | 419 | 4.2% |
Body Wave is #1 — and 8.8% is the highest share in the entire dataset. Ninety-one percent of generation events went to something else. There is no dominant style here; there is a texture family, spread across four named wave styles that together account for 2,475 events (24.8%), the largest style family in the report.
The Wave Victory Is a Pattern, Not a Fluke
Four wave textures sit inside the top ten, and a fifth wave silhouette — Wavy Lob — is #5. The family total (24.8%) is more than twice the winning style's share. So the real finding is not "Body Wave won." It is: when people choose a texture change, they choose wave — and the winner is the most familiar of those wave textures.
Body Wave has a quiet profile that fits everything else the dataset shows:
- It keeps length — and the length data shows 20–24 inches leading at 34.7%.
- It keeps color — and color exploration stayed 52.4% natural dark.
- It changes only the surface — the thing you feel and see first, but the shape identity stays.
In other words, the #1 style is the exact middle point between "same as before" and "different person."
Body Wave vs. Loose Wave: the Gap That Tells the Story
Body Wave (882, 8.8%) beat Loose Wave (701, 7.0%) by 181 events. Both are soft waves; the difference is definition — body wave has broader, looser bends, loose wave is even more relaxed. When the two closest textures sit that close, the lesson is that people are not choosing a precise style so much as treading familiar ground within a texture family.
What Is and Is Not Measured
Measured: the distribution above, with 10,000 completed generation events and the report's stated denominators. Not measured: why. The source report explicitly notes that catalog structure, naming, traffic sources, and repeat generations can influence counts — and that a generation is not a preference. Prefer the visual test to the leaderboard: compare body wave vs. loose wave on your own photo — that is where the choice matters.
