February 2026 VRChat Hairstyle Trend Report

Ten most-liked VRChat hairstyles released on Booth in February 2026, reviewed alongside the aggregate numbers behind them. February is the month where cat ears, wolf ears, and fox ears took over the top 10 — beast-ear integration appears in six of the ten entries. The median price sits at ¥900 and the median like count at 941. Top 10 average avatar compatibility lands at around 20 avatars — a step up from January's ~14 — and #3 kurage long ships with 62-avatar compatibility as a single product, a record-setting coverage for the category. On top of January's "common-base-body compatibility × ¥500–1,000 pricing" baseline, February stacks three new pillars: beast-ear as standard, Valentine's Day styling, and extreme multi-avatar coverage.

📊 About the data　Collected: 2026-04-22 / Scope: hairstyles released on Booth between 2026-02-01 and 2026-02-28 with 300+ likes (56 items)

Ten Featured Hairstyles

#1 — Neko Tied Bob Hair / Li-ne_Shop

A new release from Li-ne_Shop — the creator behind the popular "Lovely Low Twintail Hair" (19,161 likes). This is the single breakout of February 2026, pulling 11,650 likes — roughly 4,400 ahead of the #2 slot.

The silhouette is a silver fluffy bob paired with oversized cat ears. The base hair ships with 92 shape keys covering bangs, short/long length, and ear up/down, which means the same prefab can stretch from bob to medium length without swapping assets.

What sets this release apart is the four hair accessories bundled in: a purple heart-shaped earring, a transparent ear halo, a tied hair pin with a black drop ribbon, and a blue plaid bow hair pin. Each can be toggled individually from the Expression menu (Halo / Acc Menu / Ahoge / Front Style 2–4). Instead of stopping at the hairstyle itself, the package also fills the ear-side accessory slot — you don't need to source a separate accessory asset to complete the look, which is what differentiates it from other bob-style releases.

Color range is also heavily loaded: 38 base hair materials ship with the pack, plus three separate mix modes — Three Color Mix (three-color blend), Gradient two-tone (root-to-tip gradient), and Secret two-tone (accent color tucked into the tips) — so the same base color can still read three different ways depending on the mode. Avatars with strict theme colors still get room to tune the vibe through the mode dial rather than being locked to one flat palette.

Compatibility covers 21 avatars: Shinano, Chocolat, Manuka, Milltina, Milfy, Sio, Rurune, Moe, Shinra, Nagi, Chiffon, Ichigo, Eku, Lumina, Karin, Ramune, Plum, Kumaly, Riru, Mayo, and Airi — one of the wider rosters in the Top 10. Modular Avatar-compatible prefabs ship for a subset of avatars (MA recommended for accessory toggles; consumes 13 parameter memory). 92 shape keys, lilToon + MA required, released 2026-02-12.

#2 — Lozy Hair / Nanaha

A new release from Nanaha — the creator behind "Dahlia_Hair" (18,088 likes). After Maro_Hair landed at #4 in January, this is a back-to-back month for Nanaha on the Top 10. This time she steps away from the flower-named series (Dahlia, Ivy, Lili, Twila, Raina) and leans into a "lazy" mood instead.

The silhouette is a long single side braid that runs down to the knee, asymmetrically dropped on one shoulder. The distinctive move is two-tone gradient dyes — blue-violet fading into pink on one version, black-violet fading into pale blue on another — so the top half and bottom half of the hair read as two different palettes. The promo styling pairs it with a black camisole × plaid mini skirt, making this a natural fit for street-casual and "cool" taste categories.

Shape keys are split into four blocks — Back / Front / Braid / Side, totaling 40+ adjusters — that let you tune strand spread, braid sway, length, and positioning per avatar body. The density helps absorb the body-hair clipping that knee-length long hair usually invites.

One more touch that stands out: a heart-shaped particle effect that drifts beside the face. It's nested under the Head bone as a prefab, and the color is swappable via the Renderer's material slot (or the object can be removed entirely if you don't want it). Rather than stopping at the hair itself, Nanaha ships a small "one extra flavor" gimmick that lets the hair contribute to the avatar's mood, not just fill the hairstyle slot.

Compatibility covers 12 avatars. lilToon + Modular Avatar, PhysBone only. Where January's Maro_Hair aimed for breadth with 14 avatars, Lozy Hair narrows the target slightly in exchange for a more color-unified look per avatar — Nanaha's "tune each avatar individually" design philosophy is still visible.

#3 — kurage long / mochipun

A new release from mochipun — the creator behind "Lynn Hair <41 Avatar Compatible>" (12,362 likes). The compatibility count jumps from 41 in the previous release to 62 avatars here — a record-setting coverage for the Top 10.

The silhouette, as the "kurage" (jellyfish) name suggests, is a long straight that flows softly all the way down — imagine hair moving like a jellyfish trailing through water. Droop ears and a fluffy matching tail are both bundled in, and the hair / ears / tail trio ships in roughly 14 color variants (pink / red / violet / navy / brown / black / lavender / coral / blue / yellow / white / vanilla / grey-purple — spanning both warm and cool palettes), letting you switch the whole set to match an avatar's theme color. Paired with sailor uniforms or casual outfits, this reads as a neutral "use-anywhere" hair that fits just about anything.

What's remarkable is the coverage breadth. Beyond the usual Shinano / Manuka / Milltina trio, the avatar list spans niche bases, masculine bases, and chibi bases: Chocolat, Milfy, Chiffon, Milltina, Lzebul, Liloumois, Shinra, Rinasciita, Mao, Rurune, Flare, Eku, Rindo, Nozomi, Nagi, Haolan, Sio, MUMUS, Mafuyu, Ramune, Nemesis, ELusion, Faa-Faa, Luchika, Shinano, Hikarun, Plum, Munkki, Bokusei, Lazuli, Manuka and more. Modular Avatar compatible with drop-in prefabs. At ¥500 for 62-avatar coverage, this is hard to beat if you want one hair working across multiple avatars you own.

#4 — Stile Lupo Hair / DIVENIRE

As the name ("Stile Lupo" = "Wolf Style" in Italian) promises, this is a medium-length cut with oversized wolf ears as a standard feature, leaning gothic.

The silhouette is ashen-brown medium with effortlessly-draped face-framing strands. The wolf ears carry silver chain accents that make the ear-and-hair area read as "decoration that lives on the design" rather than bolted-on. A fluffy wolf tail also ships with the package, so hair / wolf ears / tail can be deployed together as a full wolf-motif set. The promo styling pairs it with a mandarin-collar hound's-tooth jacket — a gothic × oriental direction that January's Top 10 didn't quite cover.

Structurally the hair is split into five independent prefabs — ear / front / side / back / tail — which lets length, volume, and strand placement be tuned per avatar. Shape keys are spread across seven blocks (front A/B, side, side long, back short, back, back long, ear & acc) totaling several hundred adjusters, which means body-hair clipping on unusual bodies can usually be absorbed inside the prefab. Color range also goes beyond the signature ashen-brown: 12 Additional Colors (pinks, lavender, purple, powder blue, mint, coral, yellow, green, white, black) ship alongside the default, letting the same silhouette swing from gothic to pastel.

Compatibility covers 19 avatars. lilToon + Modular Avatar. Alongside the usual Shinano / Manuka / Milltina / Chocolat / Lumina / Airi / Kumaly feminine lineup, the list deliberately includes Bokusei, Komano, Hanka, Alué, Nakiya, and noiz — several leaner / masculine-leaning avatars — so you can keep one hairstyle consistent across both shounen- and shoujo-leaning avatars in your roster. As February's cool-leaning entry, Stile Lupo lands in a different register from January's #8 Rock Cat Side Tail Hair (street-rock) — quieter, more composed, relying less on loud ornamentation.

#5 — Falling Star Hair / MOMORI

Ultra-long pink twintails with a half-up tie-off — a girly pick that commits fully to the direction. Following the "Falling Star" concept, the styling centers a large bow plus fine silver chain accents on the face frame, paired with a fluffy cherry-blossom pink volume.

The hair tips fall to roughly chest-line length, and tying ribbons at the twintail roots creates a two-stage silhouette — half-up on the upper half, twintail on the lower. Color variants span 28 options combining solids, highlighted pinks, and two-tone gradients — not just pinks but white, black, brown, beige, blonde, blue, lavender, mint, teal, and wine red — so the silhouette stays constant while the palette can swing from school-girly all the way to cool-toned. The pink shown in the main visual is one representative color out of the range, tuned for sailor-uniform pairings.

Structurally the hair breaks into seven independent prefab parts — Bang / Back / Side / Front Side / Twintail / Chains / Ribbons — so combinations like "drop the twintail and keep only the half-up straight" or "toggle off the ribbons and chains for a cleaner look" are trivial to set up. The promo gallery even pairs the hair with Milltina's gothic-lolita outfit and Shinano's gothic styling, so the range isn't locked to pastel school-girly even if the main visual suggests it.

Compatibility covers 17 avatars. lilToon + Modular Avatar. Where January's #10 Wan wan wan (dog ears + girly) was the beast-ear route to the girly audience, Falling Star is pure ribbon-driven girly with no beast ears — a distinct axis within February's twintail batch.

#6 — Valen_Hair / Kyee_N

5-avatar compatibility — the smallest coverage in the Top 10 — specifically targeting masculine avatars. The roster is Kei, Hanka, Minase, Komano, Shinano, following the same masculine-cool line Kyee_N started with Kyron_Hair in January's trend section (3-avatar support back then).

The silhouette is a grey-toned boy's short cut with the fringe swept diagonally. The main visual shows the hair with an open-collar striped shirt under a black jacket — an "honor student" school look. A Ver1.1 update added Kei (rio3d) support, tailoring the cut for lean masculine body types. Shape keys are grouped into a FRONT set (Front_Short / Front_Long / Front_Move) and a SIDE-BACK set (Side_Close / Side_Long / Side_Short / Back_Long / Back_Short / Ahoge_OFF), so the same prefab can tune fringe length / parting, side volume, and back bulk per avatar body.

lilToon-compatible, PhysBone-only. Hair-only package, priced ¥950–¥1,200. Six color variants — wine red / pink / pale pink / pale beige / pale grey / black — give enough range to push the same cut toward cool or soft-sweet depending on the avatar. The hairstyle category has few masculine-avatar options, and Kyee_N is one of the creators consistently filling that niche month after month.

#7 — Sweet Drop Braids Hair / Chocolate rice

A new release from Chocolate rice — a creator with four 10k+ past hits (Layered Hush Cut Hair at 19,926 likes, Day Layered Cut, Wolf Layered, 4way Smooth Shift) who runs a monthly drop cadence, steadily extending the layering-and-braid lineage with each release. The braid series already surfaced in January's trend section as Bold Chunky Twin Braids Hair, and that trend cameo now steps straight into February's Top 10. This time the release is dressed in Valentine's Day styling ("Valentine's Day Is Here!" is the tagline).

The silhouette is silver with two large braids dropping down both shoulders. Small hair pins in the fringe, black ribbons at the braid roots, and fine hand-drawn flow lines in the tresses — the details are carefully built. The promo art scatters heart motifs over a monochrome base, leaning hard into the February holiday context.

Color range spans around 31 variants — Chocolate rice's signature depth — from monochrome silver / white / black through pink gradations, browns, mint, lavender, navy, and red. The ribbons tied at the braid bases are re-colored to match each hair palette. Shape keys are equally granular: Breast_Big / Small / Flat (for fitting around the chest where the braids fall), Tail_Big / Small / Up / thin / thick, Tail_Tail_Big_L / Tail_Tail_Big_R (thicken the left and right braid independently), Volume_Up / Down, ZigZag / ZigZag_Back, and Side_Short / Long / Flat — so both braid shape and body fit can be dialed in at once.

Compatibility covers 16 avatars (Airi, Chocolat, Kumaly, Lumina and others per the JSON-LD description), priced ¥690–990.

#8 — Yumi Long Hair / DanaStudio

The silhouette is pink-beige long hair paired with oversized fox ears. The ears carry drawn-in fluffy feather detail, pushing beyond the generic "animal ears" into representing actual fur texture. A cheek bandage, a heart-motif choker, and a frilled top build a "slightly-wounded fox kid" narrative around the character.

Hair tips fall well past chest level, with soft waves running through the length. The warm skin tones in the promo reinforce "warm-toned pale palette" as a signature, but the actual color range spans 22 variants — pastels, vivids, darks, and blacks — so this fox-ear style can adapt to any avatar theme color you want to pair it with.

Compatibility covers 16 avatars, priced ¥1,000–¥1,100. February's Top 10 now has two fox-ear entries (#8 Yumi and #9 Kogitsune Bun) — evidence that the fox-ear option is now a stable category alongside the long-dominant cat-ear route.

#9 — Kogitsune Bun Hair / Pirouette

A new release from Pirouette — the creator behind "Wolf Float Hair" (16,075 likes). With Wolf Float (wolf ears), Kuroneko Long (cat ears), and Minimal Wolf (wolf ears), Pirouette has stacked three 10k+ hits in the beast-ear lineage, numbering releases by avatar and steadily extending the fox / wolf / cat / rabbit variants over time. This month's combination is fox ears + a topknot bun — a new silhouette for the series.

The silhouette is short hair pulled up into a crown-level bun with face-framing side bangs. The fox ears are posed upright with no angle tilt, at a natural size. Color range starts with 24 base colors — black, silver, brown, beige, pink, lavender, blue, sky — and on top of that the package ships with a two-tone blend material (gradient / split-dye) with a recolor-ready mask plus an inner-color slot, so buyers who want to really build out a custom palette are well supported. Shape keys total 44, covering tunables like bun size, side-hair length, and fringe style.

Specs: 45,439 polygons / 44 shape keys / 3 materials. Compatibility covers 15 avatars, priced ¥1,000–¥1,400, lilToon + Modular Avatar.

#10 — Twinkle☆Cat / MariYuri

A new release from MariYuri — the creator behind "Bosabosa Long Hair" (16,756 likes). Following January's #7 Nya nya nya + #10 Wan wan wan, this is a three-piece Top 10 streak for MariYuri. This time she swings hard toward a cyberpunk × cat-ear concept.

The silhouette is silver ultra-long twintails styled as vertical drill curls, with the strands drawn to catch light. Flanking the curls are mic-equipped gaming cat-ear headphones and black cyber-parts cat ears. The headphone LEDs cycle through 20+ selectable emission colors plus a Bloom-effect on/off toggle, so the lighting can match the avatar's theme color or the scene. A big shift from January's Nya nya nya (cat ears + braided twintails) to a digital × beast-cat register this month — an unusual pairing.

Specs: 46,048 polygons / 35 shape keys / 13 meshes / 17 colors + 4 gradient patterns (effectively 21 colorways). MariYuri's hallmark colorway depth is intact. Shape keys go beyond geometry, too — twintail Short / Long / Thick / Wide, side-strand length, fringe shapes, and an Ahoge setting with Big / Small / Heart (turns the ahoge into a heart shape) — playful axes that let the same "Twinkle☆Cat" read very differently per avatar. Compatibility covers 13 avatars, full pack ¥1,300 / individual ¥1,000, lilToon + Modular Avatar + pre-configured colliders, built for Unity 2022.3.22f1. VN3 license (MV/concert use prohibited).

February 2026 Trends

Metric	Value
Items in scope	56
Average like count	1,836.7
Median like count	941
Average price	¥822
Median price	¥900
Top 10 average avatar compatibility	~20 avatars
Top 10 average price	¥897
Beast-ear standard (count / 10)	6 / 10 (60%)

Supported avatars: the Manuka / Shinano / Milltina trio holds

The top of the supported-avatar ranking is Manuka 33 / Shinano 32 / Milltina 30 / Chocolat 30 / Milfy 27. The ordering shifts slightly from January (Shinano 44 / Manuka 39 / Milltina 37), but the structural reliance on five main base-body avatars continues. Inside the Top 10, #3 kurage long's 62 avatars pulls the overall average up — Top 10 average avatar compatibility lands at ~20 avatars, one tier above January's ~14.

On the Manuka side, MOMORI's "Bell Hair" ships 15-avatar coverage and sits alongside Falling Star Hair as MOMORI's second girly line, keeping presence even outside the Top 10.

For Shinano support, WishList's "Melia Hair" continues January's Lamby Hair lineage — the creator is steadily filling the Shinano-compatible slot month after month with new entries.

Silhouette: long + beast ear leads, short is also meaningful

Silhouette distribution: Long hair 23 / Short hair 15 / Silver hair 13 / Twin tail 10 / Wave hair 8 / Wolf cut 8 / Braid 7 / Black hair 7 / Bob 6 / Intertwined 6. Short hair rose sharply (15 items vs. January's 9), possibly reflecting the season shift from winter to early spring. In the Top 10 too, three short-leaning entries showed up: #1 Neko Tied Bob (bob), #4 Stile Lupo (medium), and #6 Valen_Hair (short).

For a long-hair entry outside the Top 10, P♡P.Hair's "P♡P.Hair 17" landed 14-avatar coverage with active sale pricing — a sign that even in a long-heavy month, products can still pick up likes with smart discounting.

On the short side, mikan-zume-maid's "Kamacho Hair" shows up as a fluffy short option — making the case that "short ≠ only masculine-leaning" in this month's lineup.

Taste: cute and girly dominate, beast-ear works as undercurrent

Taste distribution: Cute 34 / Girly 16 / Cool 14 / Elegant 10 / Natural 10 / Boyish 8 / Sexy 7 / Fluffy 7 / Gothic 6 / Sharp 5. 34 of 56 items carry "cute," so the cute share of the month is roughly the same as January (45/68 items) — the structural characteristic this month is that cool, elegant, and natural cluster together in multiple overlapping bands.

On the elegant side, Misuzumow Shop published a free Heian-era princess ("超かぐや姫！" = Super Kaguya Princess) hair set — a high-quality Japanese-style long released at 0 yen, drawing attention as one of February's rare free entries.

On the cool side, Neochan_shop's "Veltail Cut Hair" takes the short-boyish-cool route with a tight, tailored package — a natural neighbor to Valen_Hair in the masculine-niche space.

Color: brown and silver lead, pink and black-and-white run close

Color distribution: Brown 11 / Silver 11 / Pink 8 / White 8 / Black 8 / Gray 7 / Beige 4 / Gold 4 / Blonde 3 / Purple 3. Compared with January (Black 15 / Silver 12 / Brown 10), brown climbs to tied-first and pink rises to third. This tracks with the Top 10's warm-shift entries — #5 Falling Star (pink), #8 Yumi Long Hair (pink-beige), #4 Stile Lupo (brown).

For a warm-toned entry in the trend pool, Nya!byte's "Nyam! MoniTwin" — 12-avatar pink twintail — also shows up as a symbolic piece of the pink rise this month.

Price: tighter concentration in the ¥500–999 band, sparse at the edges

Price distribution: ¥500–999: 38 / ¥1,000–1,999: 14 / ¥1–499: 3 / Free: 1 / ¥2,000+: 0. 38 of 56 items (about 68%) sit in the ¥500–999 band — a tighter clustering than January's 65%. Inside the Top 10, #3 kurage long hits 62-avatar coverage at ¥500, pushing the "low price + wide coverage" trend another step forward.

The high end sits empty at ¥2,000+. January's #9 H25 Silky Long (¥1,500) was a premium outlier; February's Top 10 caps at under ¥1,500 across the board.

Closing notes

February 2026 hairstyle releases distill into three themes: beast-ear as standard / a step-up in multi-avatar coverage / Valentine's Day styling. Top 10 average avatar compatibility lands at ~20 avatars, up meaningfully from January's ~14. The record is #3 kurage long's 62 avatars. Six of the ten entries (cat / wolf / fox ears) include beast-ear integration as a standard piece, shifting January's "hair accessory integrated" design philosophy one step further into "beast-ear integrated" design.

The top three — Li-ne_Shop, Nanaha, and mochipun — all come in with 10k+ past hits, marking February as the month where brand-name creators locked in the upper ranks. #10 MariYuri extended from January's Nya nya nya + Wan wan wan into a three-piece Top 10 streak; #2 Nanaha is back-to-back after Maro_Hair; #7 Chocolate rice moved from January's trend-section cameo with Bold Chunky Twin Braids to February's Top 10 entry — the category has clearly developed a serialized, month-to-month readability. Reading January and February side by side gives a clear view of how the hairstyle update rhythm and the creators' stylistic evolution work together.

About the data

• Collected: 2026-04-22
• Scope: hairstyles released on Booth between 2026-02-01 and 2026-02-28 with 300+ likes (56 items)
• Like counts are a snapshot at collection time — current numbers may differ
• Supported avatars, specs, and prices are based on each product's Booth page at the time of writing. Sale pricing and update history may have changed since — check the product page before buying