[January 2026] VRChat Hairstyle Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis

Let a long fall straight, braid it up, or play it with a light androgynous short — January 2026's new hairstyles were a lineup where the choice of silhouette becomes the character itself. Trace the upper ranks and one shared thread stands out: designs where the hair alone completes the look around the face.

At the top sits a wolf cut with small crown horns that swap to light blue or red, crossing the silhouette with a Japanese-horror edge (13,335 likes). Let's start there and go through the lineup one piece at a time.

📊 About the data　Compiled: 2026-07-13 / Scope: hairstyles published on Booth between 2026-01-01 and 2026-01-31 with 300+ likes (77 items)

Top 10 Hairstyles

Ranked by like count as of the compile date (July 2026), here's one pick at a time with the details worth noting.

#1: Maji Oni Wolf / muu(ﾑｰ)

A new release from muu(ﾑｰ) — the creator behind the popular "おさニャニャじみはローツイン." A wolf cut with small horns growing from the crown, crossing a wolf silhouette with a Japanese-horror edge. As of the compile date it sits at 13,335 likes, the sole top spot among January hairstyles.

The silhouette is a semi-long wolf cut reaching from shoulder to chest, with layers worked into the tips for movement. The main visual is a deep navy base, but the horns swap to light blue, red, orange or a gradient, and the hair color spans pink, purple, light blue, black and beige.

Bangs and the cowlick stretch left and right independently via shape keys, and you can even size the crown horns individually — so a single hair swings from "make the oni read loud" to "just a faint Japanese-style lean."

It fits Milltina, Manuka, Shinano, Chocolat and others, 14 avatars in all; assumes Modular Avatar, shader is lilToon, and ships as a .unitypackage plus PSD/PNG textures. A February 2026 Ver1.06 added bone tweaks, so overwriting with the latest version is the safe move. ¥1,100.

#2: Snow Kit Hair / mitokumo

A snow-pale, extra-long straight cut with large cat ears as standard. The length reaches the back, with a soft wave at the tips. As of the compile date, 8,750 likes.

The heart of it is how densely the cat ears and the face-framing trinkets are packed. The ears let you fine-tune size, left-right tilt and edge sharpness with shape keys, and along the hair sit ×-shaped pins, heart pins and a tiny white-cat mascot. Three pin sets each place and size independently, so you fill out the area around the face naturally without buying extra accessories.

The main visual reads sweet in silver, but there are also calmer try-ons against a navy sailor uniform — it's designed as a base that doesn't pick a worldview.

It fits Shinano, Chocolat, Milfy, Manuka and others, 15 avatars in all (Kumaly and Mayo support were added after release); lilToon and Modular Avatar required. ¥1,200.

#3: LV.6+ Lazy_Hair / LookVook

A new release from LookVook — the creator behind the popular "LV.2+ Fancy_Hair." The sixth in the "LV series," with magazine-cover artwork built, as the title says, around a "lazy morning just out of bed." As of the compile date, 8,289 likes.

The silhouette is a natural wave from semi-long to long, the tips loosely curling and spreading at the shoulder — that drowsy, undone air is the concept. The previews add a hair roller, an "aho" sticky note and a thermometer, so the series' worldview is complete in the product images alone.

On top of the base colors, there are separate palette lines like balayage (two-tone dyeing per strand) and gradation, so the same "Lazy_Hair" swings widely from a pink lean to a mint one.

It fits Shinano, Kumaly, Lumina, Ichigo and others, 19 avatars in all — wide coverage; built for Unity 2022.3.22f1, shader lilToon, ships as a Unity Package plus PSD. ¥1,000.

#4: Maro_Hair / Nanaha

A new release from Nanaha — the creator behind the popular "Dahlia_Hair." Nanaha has shipped 10k–18k-like hairs in a row (Dahlia, Ivy, Lili, Twila, Raina), and January is the launch of a new "Maro" line. As of the compile date, 7,753 likes.

The silhouette is a fluffy short bob with blunt bangs, and the rounded layering keeps the proportions from breaking even on baby-faced, shorter avatars.

The standout is that besides the hair itself, cat ears, a long fluffy tail, hair clips and a ribbon come as independent parts you can toggle from the Expression menu, so you build up the density of the face and the back of the head together — and the accessories come in colors matched to the hair. The hair itself picks from a wide range — gray, pink, black, brown, beige, red — so the same "Maro" changes impression dramatically.

It fits Airi, Chocolat, Shinano, Manuka and others, 14 avatars in all; lilToon + Modular Avatar + PhysBone supported. ¥990.

#5: Icicle Two Side Twin Tail Hair / GLAY Unknown

A new release from GLAY Unknown — the creator behind the popular "無造作ショートネオウルフ Ver.2." GLAY Unknown has built a following with twin-tail lines like Neo Wolf and Morning Rabbit, and January's piece carries on that lineage. As of the compile date, 6,187 likes.

The silhouette is an extra-long braided twin tail gathered on both sides, the tips reaching near the floor. It also comes standard with large cat ears tied with black ribbon, so the hair side alone establishes a full "cat-ears × braided twin tail" gothic-leaning set.

The main visual lines up a silver and a black version, showing the same shape reading both sweet and monotone. Recoloring is a simple swap of the white material's main color, and on top of that it ships about 20 preset colors plus modding mask textures — covering both "I'll just use a preset" and "I want to tune it myself."

It fits Moe, Manuka, Chocolat, Airi and others, 10 avatars in all; shader is lilToon. ver1.2 fixed PhysBone interference on the Lumina version. ¥950.

#6: Soft Layer Hair / Peach Edge

As the title says, a semi-long to long cut that shows the flow of layered hair. The main visual is a mature, glossy black composition — a calm route that bets on the base color itself. As of the compile date, 6,090 likes.

Its biggest quirk is that it's built with single-sided mesh, prioritizing lightness and silhouette, so the spec is 28,444 polygons across 4 meshes — light for how voluminous it looks. Support is positioned as "semi-compatible": the maker fits two FBX files per avatar for Airi, Lumina, Shinano, Milltina and others, 8 in all.

The bangs can look faceted when shape keys are used, and the page spells out a workaround — changing the FBX's Normals — so it's worth a look before setup. Shader is lilToon, Modular Avatar supported. ¥780.

#7: Nya nya nya / MariYuri

A new release from MariYuri — the creator behind the popular "ボサボサロングヘア." MariYuri keeps shipping broadly-compatible hairs, and lined up a dog-ear sister piece, "Wan wan wan," in the same month. As of the compile date, 5,797 likes.

The silhouette is a silver long braided twin tail, the thick braids falling on both sides becoming the product's face. As the title suggests, cat ears come standard, and a lace headband plus large hairpins build density around the face.

The detailed spec disclosure is a strength too: 39,566 polygons, 60 shape keys, 17 meshes. Bangs adjust length and thickness separately by left, center and right; the ears move independently so you can drop just one ear; and the cowlick even ships a heart-shaped preset.

Colors multiply 9 shades by 6 gradation patterns into effectively 15 looks, and tail textures matched to each hair color are included too. It fits Milltina, Shinano, Manuka and others, 17 avatars in all; lilToon + Modular Avatar. ¥1,000 (¥1,300 for the full pack).

#8: Nuance Cloud Cut / Mimé rêve

A soft, light androgynous short with nuanced strands scattered through the flow. It leaves the bangs long enough to fall over the eyes, a build that swings to either a male or female avatar. As of the compile date, 5,215 likes.

The main visual is a cool, male-leaning composition with a cap and chains, but there are also cute takes that add cat ears, so the same hair changes impression dramatically.

It ships 25 material colors, including light-on-top, dark-on-bottom two-tones, covering silver, beige, pink, blue, lavender and olive. Bangs adjust finely via shape keys — the left/right sweep, a center part, even volume up and down.

It fits Alué, Komano, Minase, Kanata, Manuka, Shinano and others, 16 avatars in all, and the notable part is that it covers not just the standard Shinano/Manuka line but a male/androgynous-leaning base cluster too. lilToon + Modular Avatar assumed, about 14,918 polygons. ¥1,000.

#9: Rock Cat Side Tail Hair / GLAY Unknown

GLAY Unknown's second January piece, following #5 Icicle. It carries over the same "Two Side Twin Tail" design while this time leaning into a side tail swept to one side, with braiding. As of the compile date, 5,200 likes.

The silhouette is an extra-long side tail, the asymmetrically swept locks bound with braids. It comes standard with large cat ears tied with ribbon, with a rock/street composition meant to pair with headphones and studded outfits. True to the "Rock Cat" name, the hair side alone completes a cat-ears × side-tail gothic-rock set.

The main visual lines up silver and brown, showing the same shape working in both cool and warm tones. Recoloring, as with #5, is just a swap of the white material's main color, plus about 24 preset colors and modding masks.

The side-tail length and the cat-ears' angle move via shape keys, even down to an asymmetric adjustment. It fits Moe, Manuka, Chocolat, Airi and others, 10 avatars in all; shader is lilToon. ¥950.

#10: H25 Silky Long / きりはら製作所

The 25th in the "H series." A silky long wave on an ash-silver base — gloss-focused, calm in tone, an elegant pick that stands out as the odd one in the Top 10. As of the compile date, 5,091 likes.

The silhouette is a straight long reaching below the chest, with a loose wave layered into the tips, bangs cut blunt. A dedicated Prefab is prepared per supported avatar, so setup is done by drag-and-drop. It's built to drop calm tones in cleanly, with room to push further via material changes or shape-key tweaks.

It has kept adding support after release — Misaki, Mayo, Kumaly — reaching 17 avatars, wide coverage even among the Top 10. lilToon + Modular Avatar required; ships as a Unity Package plus PSD (ClipStudio format) and FBX. At ¥1,500 it's on the higher side for the Top 10, but it suits anyone who wants to place a glossy long reliably.

January 2026 Trends

Rather than the ranking, let's read the trends across all 77 hairstyles published on Booth in January.

Metric	Value
Items	77
Avg. likes	2,202
Median likes	1,405
Avg. price	¥870
Median price	¥900
Top 10 avg. supported avatars	~14 (8–19)
Top 10 price range	¥780–¥1,500

Median likes are 1,405, median price ¥900. The Top 10 runs from #3 LV.6+ Lazy_Hair's 19 avatars down to #6 Soft Layer's 8, a month built around broadly-compatible hairs lined up across the shared-base ecosystem.

Supported models: Shinano leads, the shared-base line dominates

The top of the supported-model tally: Shinano 50 / Manuka 44 / Milltina 44 / Chocolat 43 / Sio 41 / Lumina 41. 50 of 77 supporting Shinano shows that hairstyles circulate on the premise of broad compatibility with the shared-base ecosystem.

Every one of the Top 10 supports one of these lines, and 9 cover 10+ avatars. The more swap-avatars you keep, the wider one purchase reaches this month.

A representative case of that breadth:

3BON's "Veil Wolf Hair" is a piece that shows a longer gothic-leaning wolf in both male and female examples, with coverage of 31 avatars — past even the Top 10. It lines up a silver-haired female and a black-haired male, embodying the breadth of the shared-base line as a cool style that works regardless of gender.

Silhouette: long is ~40%, braids run thick

The silhouette tally: long hair 35 / blunt bangs 18 / twin tails 17 / straight 15 / bob 15 / braided 13.

Long takes over 40%, while in the Top 10, longs built with braids or plaits — #5 Icicle, #7 Nya nya nya, #9 Rock Cat — make up nearly half. Designing past a plain straight long, with braids and animal ears folded in, was January's mainstream.

A braided one that caught the eye:

Chocolate rice's "Bold Chunky Twin Braids Hair" is a silver long that gathers thick braided twin tails with energy, fitting 15 avatars. On a silver base with faint accent color woven in, it pairs widely from casual to school-style — showing that a silhouette built around braids is liked among broadly-compatible avatar users too.

Taste: girly and cute lead, cool holds steady

The taste tally: girly 32 / cute 26 / natural 22 / cool 19 / clean 10. Girly and cute holding the top shows the hairstyle buyer base leans hard into the cute context.

At the same time cool is thick at 19, and in the Top 10 #9 Rock Cat's rock lean and #8 Nuance Cloud Cut's androgynous short pushed in.

A representative cool / androgynous case:

Craveil's "Noxell" is an androgynous short pulled together with textured bangs and movement at the nape, its black-based calm color suiting male-leaning avatars. Coverage is on the tighter side at 6–7, but in a category that tends to go sweet, it's a catch for cool shorts that suit male and androgynous avatars.

Hair color: brown, black and silver are the big three

The hair-color tally: brown 22 / black 20 / silver 19 / white 11 / pink 9. The calm trio of brown, black and silver takes about 80% of the whole, a month centered on versatile colors that don't pick a worldview.

In the Top 10 too, the cool, achromatic main visuals stand out — #1 Maji Oni Wolf (navy), #2 Snow Kit (silver), #5 Icicle (both silver and black), #6 Soft Layer (black).

One that showed presence on the brown side:

Kogane Mimela's "Unicorn Hair" is an extra-long with a unicorn horn at the brow, lining up a chestnut-brown take alongside a black one for a fantastical piece. At ¥800 it fits 11 avatars, showing you can add fantasy flair even on a brown base — and the horn motif echoes #1 Maji Oni Wolf, in a month where horned hair turned up across several tastes.

Price: clustered at ¥500–999, almost nothing above ¥2,000

The price tally: ¥500–999 48 / ¥1,000–1,999 23 / ¥1–499 4 / ¥2,000–2,999 1 / free 1. 48 of 77 (about 62%) land in ¥500–999 — a narrow band, hair pricing converging around ¥1,000 in January.

Within the Top 10 the prices run ¥780–¥1,500, with #10 H25 Silky Long's ¥1,500 the lone outlier. Where outfits run thick at ¥1,000–1,999, hair clearly favors ¥500–999.

One that caught the eye in that band:

HP値's "Twin pan" is a light-blue twin tail stretched to fit 20 avatars at ¥700. Taking wide avatar coverage even at a low price, it embodies exactly this band's winning shape — loading versatility onto an accessible price rather than pushing with a high one.

January trends from a creator's view

From the Top 10 and the January totals, here are four axes worth noting from a hair-maker's view.

Metric	January 2026
Items	77
Median price	¥900
Median likes	1,405
Top 10 avg. supported avatars	~14
Top 10 supported-avatar range	8–19
Top 10 price range	¥780–¥1,500
Share of ¥500–999	~62% (48 / 77)
¥2,000+	1
Top taste	girly (32)
Top hair color	brown (22)

Points worth noting from a hair-maker's view:

Wrap-up

January 2026's new hairstyles were a month where "long shapes, broad compatibility with the shared base, and a ¥500–1,000 price" took the upper ranks over any wild new silhouette. The Top 10 averaged ~14 supported avatars and stayed within ¥780–¥1,500, and over half ship cat ears, dog ears, horns or hairpins as standard — a shared direction of "the hair itself completing the look around the face."

Taste centers on girly and cute, but cool also held a real slice, as with #9 Rock Cat's rock and #8 Nuance Cloud Cut's androgynous short.

What stood out was makers shifting direction rather than sticking to one style — GLAY Unknown lining up a sweet braided twin tail (#5) and an opposite-direction side tail (#9) in the same month, and MariYuri pairing cat-ear and dog-ear sister pieces. Those makers landed several upper-rank slots at once. Both the broadly-compatible hairs and the single glossy long that narrowed its tones came from purposeful build — and that range is exactly what January's Top 10 shows.

Other categories for January 2026

The new Booth releases of January 2026 are covered category by category in my monthly reports.

• [January 2026] VRChat Avatar Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
• [January 2026] VRChat Outfit Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
• [January 2026] VRChat Accessory Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
• [January 2026] VRChat Small Item Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
• [January 2026] VRChat Gimmick Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis
• [January 2026] VRChat World Trends & Ranking | Booth Trend Analysis

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About the data

• Compiled: 2026-07-13 (originally compiled: 2026-04-21)
• Scope: hairstyles published on Booth between 2026-01-01 and 2026-01-31 (77 items)
• Ranking basis: descending like_count (likes) as of the compile date
• Brush-up: on 2026-07-13 this article was restructured to the latest format, with the ranking and statistics updated to values recompiled the same day
• Inclusion: VRCFinder's DB only collects items with 300+ likes, so items below 300 likes at compile time are not included
• Note: the figures and ranking in this article are a snapshot as of the compile date and do not reflect later changes, so they may differ from current numbers. "Published" refers to when the Booth product page went public, which may differ from the actual sale start
• Each item's supported models, specs and price are based on its Booth product page as of writing. Sale prices and update info may change, so please check the Booth page before purchasing