I let Google Gemini's Nano Banana loose on my selfies to answer a question I’ve never quite dared at the salon: what would I look like with completely different hair? From a mullet to a pixie cut, the results were impressively convincing and, in some cases, dangerously persuasive.

That’s not to say the tool is perfect. It struggles with updos unless you get creative by first asking Gemini to edit you bald (I'm serious) and even then, it doesn’t always capture a range of hair textures accurately.

Still, out of all the AI photo editors I’ve tried, even compared to MidJourney, Gemini delivered the most natural and fun transformations. Here’s the outcome of seven prompts, each giving me a brand-new hairstyle.

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