January 2026 VRChat Hairstyle Trend Report

Ten most-liked VRChat hairstyles released on Booth in January 2026, reviewed alongside the aggregate numbers behind them. The Top 10 skews toward wolf cuts, twin tails, and braided longs, with a median price of ¥900 and a median like count of 1,244. Nine of the ten hairs ship compatibility for ten or more avatars — the common-base-body lineup (Shinano / Manuka / Milltina) keeps defining the baseline for hairstyle releases, and that shows clearly in January's data.

📊 About the data　Collected: 2026-04-21 / Scope: hairstyles released on Booth between 2026-01-01 and 2026-01-31 with 300+ likes (68 items)

Ten Featured Hairstyles

#1 — Maji Oni Wolf / muu(ﾑｰ)

A new release from muu(ﾑｰ) — the creator behind the popular "OsaNyaNya Jimiha Low Twin" — this is a wolf-cut hair with small horns built into the crown, leaning toward a dark Japanese-horror aesthetic.

The silhouette is a semi-long wolf cut that falls to the collarbone, with visible layering at the tips and a slightly see-through fringe. The main visual runs dark navy, but the package includes horn color swaps (light blue, red, orange) so you can dial the "oni" motif up or down without changing the base hair.

Compatibility covers 13 avatars — Milltina, Manuka, Kumaly, Chocolat, Sio, Mayo, Shinano, Milfy, Shinra, Rurune, Airi, Ichigo, Lumina. Modular Avatar is required and the shader is lilToon. Ships as a .unitypackage plus PSD/PNG textures.

Color range goes wide: around 24 variants spanning pinks, purples, light blues, reds, blacks, greys, and beiges. Shape keys are split across Front / SideA / SideB / Back blocks, and on top of the usual length adjustments you get two fringe lines (Front A / B) and two ahoge lines (Ahoge A / B) that can be swapped independently, plus a Horn_Odeko key that resizes the small horns on the crown. A Ver1.06 bone-fix update landed in late February, so I'd recommend grabbing the latest version after download.

#2 — Snow Kit Hair / mitokumo

As the name "Snow Kit" (kit = fox cub) hints, this is a long, near-floor-length straight hair paired with oversized fox ears as a standard feature. The main visual is silver, but scrolling through the 24-image preview reveals dark navy pairings with school uniforms and other muted configurations — it's designed to anchor a character rather than demand a specific color story.

The hook lives in how the fox ears and face-frame accessories are tuned. The Ears shape-key block has 12 adjusters (Big / Small, left/right Up / Down1 / Down2, Wide / Narrow, Round / Sharp), so the size, tilt, and outline sharpness can be dialed in per avatar. On top of that, X-shaped clips, heart clips, and tiny kitten-face charms are built into the hair, and HairPin 1 / 2 / 3 each have their own shape keys for independent placement and sizing — the face frame fills in without reaching for separate accessory items.

Compatibility covers 15 avatars: Shinano, Chocolat, Milfy, Manuka, Milltina, Rurune, Sio, Ichigo, Eku, Lumina, Airi, Ramune, Plum, Kumaly, Mayo (launched with 14, with Kumaly and Mayo added later as part of ongoing maintenance). Requires lilToon and Modular Avatar. Ships as a UnityPackage plus PSD. v1.02 fixed fringe/forehead clipping on January 18.

#3 — LV.6+ Lazy_Hair / LookVook

A new release from LookVook — the creator behind "LV.2+ Fancy_Hair" — this is the sixth entry in the LV series, and the art direction leans hard into "morning-after laziness" with magazine-cover styling, hair curlers, "aho" sticky notes, and a thermometer as props.

The silhouette is a semi-long to long natural straight with looser waves at the tips that spread out over the shoulders. The package visuals carry the entire concept, so the hair itself reads as a relaxed everyday cut even when you strip away the photo-shoot accessories.

Compatibility covers 17 avatars: Shinano, Kumaly, Lumina, Ichigo, Milfy, Milltina, Airi, Manuka, Moe, Selestia, Sio, Chocolat, Chiffon, Lime, Plum, Shinra, Ramune. Built for Unity 2022.3.22f1 with VRC_Constraint, and the shader is lilToon. Ships as UnityPackage plus PSD.

Color range is unusually wide for the Top 10: roughly 24 base colors plus separate lines for BALAYAGE (two-tone highlight dye), GRADATION (vertical gradient), and HALF / SECRET (accent color tucked into the tips) — so the same "Lazy_Hair" reads very differently depending on which palette you pick. The first-week launch price was ¥690 and the first-month sale price was ¥890 — part of why the like count climbed fast.

#4 — Maro_Hair / Nanaha

A new release from Nanaha — the creator behind "Dahlia_Hair" — known for stacking 10k-to-18k-like hair releases (Dahlia, Ivy, Lili, Twila, Raina). January is the debut of a new character line, "Maro."

The silhouette is a soft short bob with a blunt fringe, shaped with rounded layering that keeps proportions intact on baby-faced and shorter avatars. The main visual runs silver-to-ashen-lavender, but the preview also carries darker monochrome color variants — the palette ranges more widely than the cover suggests.

What really stands out is the component count: alongside the Back / Front / Side hair, the package ships nine accessory prefabs as independent parts — cat ears, a long fluffy tail, a hair claw (the "cat-ear headpiece"), earrings, three hair clips, a ribbon, and a ribbon-tail — each with its own shape keys. Tail & Ears each ship in three colors (grey / pink / brown) tuned to match the hair palette, and everything can be toggled from the Expression menu, so the face-frame and back silhouette can be dialed in together. Compatibility covers 14 avatars: Airi, Chocolat, Eku, Ichigo, Lumina, Manuka, Mayo, Milfy, Milltina, Plum, Shinano, Shinra, Sio, Rurune. lilToon + Modular Avatar + PhysBone. Ships as UnityPackage plus texture/clip assets plus PSD.

Base-hair color range covers roughly 20 variants — greys, pinks, black, browns, beiges, red, yellow, light blue, lavender, white — Nanaha's signature palette depth, letting the same "Maro" read very differently per avatar.

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

A new release from GLAY Unknown — the creator behind "Messy Short Neo Wolf Ver.2" — who has shipped a run of 10k+ titles in the Two Side Twin Tail lineage (Neo Wolf, Vance Clip, Bloom braid bun, Morning Rabbit, Lilith). January's release continues that thread.

The silhouette is an extra-long braided twin tail gathered on both sides, with a three-strand braid running down each side and tips that nearly reach the floor. On top of that, oversized cat ears ship as a standard component, and with the black-ribbon accents already worked into the hair, the whole "cat ears + braided twin tails" gothic-girly look is handled inside the hair itself. The main visual pairs a silver version with a black version side by side, making it clear that the same shape lands as both gothic-girly and clean monochrome.

Compatibility covers 10 avatars: Moe, Manuka, Chocolat, Airi, Shinano, Shinra, Milltina, Sio, Milfy, Lumina. Shader is lilToon; color edits just need the main color on the _white material, which keeps the workflow simple. On top of that, the package includes roughly 20 color presets plus 8 MASK textures for further customization, covering both the "preset and go" crowd and buyers who want to tune shading themselves. Ships as UnityPackage plus Prefab, Material, Texture, FBX. Ver1.2 fixed a PhysBone interaction on the Lumina variant.

#6 — Soft Layer Hair / Peach Edge

As the name implies, a layered semi-long-to-long cut that puts the focus on hair flow. The main visual runs black-with-sheen in a composed, grown-up direction — this is the entry for people who want the base color to carry the look.

Compatibility is "semi-compatible" — the creator ships two separately adjusted FBX variants per avatar for Airi, Lumina, Shinano, Milltina, Shinra, Shuan, Marycia, Sio, flagging that it isn't a clean drop-in for all body configurations and may need light line-adjustment.

Specs: 28,444 polys across 4 meshes. lilToon shader, Modular Avatar support, with the product-page thumbnails shot after converting to Poiyomi. The creator also notes that shape-key use causes visible faceting on the fringe and recommends editing the FBX inspector's Normals as a workaround — worth reading the product page before installing.

#7 — Nya nya nya / MariYuri

A new release from MariYuri — the creator behind "Bosabosa Long Hair" — who has been steadily shipping broad-compatibility hair in the 10k-to-16k-like range (Bosabosa Long, Shade Wolf, Fuwarin Twintail, Side Braid, Ribbon Twintail). Two entries land this month — #7 and #10.

The silhouette is a long silver braided twin tail, with thick braids falling on both sides that carry the composition. True to the "nya nya nya" naming, cat ears ship as a standard accessory, and a lace headband with over-sized hair pins (light blue, purple, lavender) fills out the face frame.

Specs are unusually explicit: 39,566 polys / 60 shape keys / 17 meshes (Ahoge, Back Hair, Fringe, Braid Twin, Braid Ribbon, Ears, Side Long, Side Short, Tail, Tail Ribbon, Tail Bell, Tail Tie, etc.). The shape keys are organized into seven blocks — fringe, Side Short, Side Long, Back Hair, Ears, Side Ribbon, and Ahoge. The fringe lets you lengthen Short / Long per-side (L / M / R) and further dial in Thin / Thick variants; the ears let you independently drop Down / Down2 or lift UP on each side, so asymmetric expressions (one ear down, the other up) are possible; Side Short offers eight length steps plus volume control; and on top of the usual Down toggle, Ahoge even ships with a "Heart" preset shape. The package also bundles five accessories: Circle Pin, Heart Pin, Side Ribbon, lace-trimmed Hair Band, and standard Pin.

Color variations: 9 colors plus 6 gradient patterns (Gradation / Half / InOut / Point1-3) — effectively 15 colorways, and each hair color ships with a matching tail texture so the braids and tail stay in the same palette without manual tuning. Compatibility covers 17 avatars: Mayo, Kumaly, Plum, Ramune, Milltina, Ichigo, Shinano, Lumina, Manuka, Chocolat, Eku, Milfy, Rurune, Airi, Shinra, Rinasciita, Kipfel. lilToon + Modular Avatar + colliders pre-configured, built for Unity 2022.3.22f1. Full pack ¥1,300 / individual ¥1,000. VN3 license (MV/concert use prohibited).

#8 — Rock Cat Side tail Hair / GLAY Unknown

GLAY Unknown's second entry of the month, following #5 Icicle. Same Two Side Twin Tail design logic, but this time reworked as a single-sided side tail with braid integration.

The silhouette is an extra-long side tail, with the hair gathered asymmetrically and finished with a braid, designed to anchor rock / street / V-kei outfits — headphones, studded belts, corset tops. On top of that, large cat ears with ribbon accents come as a standard part, so the "Rock Cat" in the name lands directly — a cat-ear + side-tail gothic-rock package that completes the look from the hair side alone. The main visual pairs silver and brown side by side, again showing that the same shape lands as both cool-monochrome and warm-toned.

Compatibility covers 10 avatars: Moe, Manuka, Chocolat, Airi, Shinano, Shinra, Milltina, Sio, Milfy, Lumina. Shader is lilToon, with _white-material color edits just like #5. On top of that, the package includes roughly 24 color presets (monotone / pink-to-red / blonde-to-beige / blue-to-purple / brown families, five groups total) plus 8 MASK textures for further customization — the same "presets for one-click users, MASKs for detail-tuners" split as #5 Icicle. Shape keys are organized into four blocks: side tail (Long / Short / direction shifts), the opposite short tail (including Ahoge OFF / small), the cat ears (BIG / small / ↑ / Turn / Long / Short), and back-hair volume — so asymmetric tail-length adjustments and even cat-ear orientation can be tweaked finely. Ships as UnityPackage plus Prefab, Material, Texture, FBX.

#9 — H25 Silky Long / Kirihara Seisakusho

The 25th entry in the "H--" series. An ashen-silver silky long wave — shine-forward, composed palette — which makes it the one elegance-focused outlier in the Top 10.

The silhouette is a straight long that falls past the chest with soft waves at the tips. Blunt fringe. The main selling point on the technical side is that each supported avatar ships with its own prefab, so setup is largely drag-and-drop, backed by a light spec sheet of 36,613 Tris / 6 Skinned Meshes / 1 Material — a lean hair that drops in cleanly. Material swaps and shape-key tweaks are available as further customization when you want to push it.

Compatibility covers 16 avatars — Mayo, Kumaly, Plum, Ramune, Eku, Lumina, Milfy, Milltina, Chocolat, Shinano, Airi, Manuka, Moe, Shinra, Chiffon, Sio — one of the wider rosters in the Top 10. Requires lilToon and Modular Avatar. Ships as UnityPackage plus PSD (made in Clip Studio) plus FBX. V1.2.1 added Mayo support and fixed collider/bone positioning.

#10 — Wan wan wan / MariYuri

MariYuri's companion piece to #7. If Nya nya nya is the cat version, this is the "wan wan wan" dog-ears version — the key art uses the same design language, so the pair can sit side by side in a character's wardrobe if you switch between cat and dog archetypes.

The silhouette reuses the same silver long braided twin tail as #7, this time topped with soft flop-forward dog ears. The ears sit slightly forward on the head, and two small mascot hair clips scatter through the sides.

Specs: 37,040 polys / 40 shape keys / 12 meshes (Ahoge, Back Hair, Fringe, Braid, Ribbon Braid, Ears, Side Long, Side Short, Tail, accessories x3). The "Tail" mesh here is not the braided hair tail from #7 but an actual fluffy dog tail part, which makes the biggest practical difference from Nya nya nya: this pack bundles both the dog ears and the dog tail into one hair release. The 40 shape keys cover ears (Shape 1 / Shape 2 / Small / Big), braids (Thin / Tie Small / Tie Big), Braids_Ribbon (Big / Small), the fringe with per-side (L / R) adjustments, and Ahoge (Thin / Thick) — so you can shrink or enlarge the dog ears, thin the entire braid silhouette, or drop the ears entirely and use it as a silver long twin-tail.

10 base colors plus 6 mask textures — Gradation / Inout / Half / Point 1-3 — for effectively 16 colorways. Compatibility covers 17 avatars: Milltina, Shinano, Manuka, Kumaly, Airi, Shinra, Chocolat, Plum, Rurune, Milfy, Eku, Lumina, Ichigo, Rinasciita, Kipfel, Mayo and more. Same lilToon + Modular Avatar + pre-configured colliders as Nya nya nya. Full pack ¥1,300 / individual ¥1,000. VN3 license (MV/concert use prohibited).

January 2026 Trends

Metric	Value
Items in scope	68
Average like count	1,899.8
Median like count	1,244
Average price	¥878
Median price	¥900
Top 10 average avatar compatibility	~14 avatars
Top 10 average price	¥1,016
MA-compatible tags / total	38 / 68 (~56%)

Supported avatars: Shinano, Manuka, Milltina as the core trio

The top of the supported-avatar ranking is Shinano 44 / Manuka 39 / Milltina 37 / Chocolat 36 / Airi 34. 44 out of 68 items include Shinano support — a distribution that shows clearly how much the hairstyle category runs on common-base-body compatibility. Every entry in the Top 10 ships support for at least one of those five avatars, and nine of ten hairs cover ten or more avatars. The more swappable avatars I own, the wider the wardrobe a single purchase covers — that's the working assumption this category is designed around.

One Shinano-compatible release that didn't quite reach the Top 10 — WishList's "♡⑅ Lamby Hair ⑅♡" — leans into a ram-horn motif on a pink long-wave, suggesting that the "horn-integrated hair" idea carried by the #1 slot also lands on the cute-and-pastel side of the category.

On the Manuka side, Chocolate rice's "Bold Chunky Twin Braids Hair" brings the thick-braid twin tail look, which is a shape that shows up across the Top 10 too — the braid trend reaches the generic-avatar layer in the same month.

Silhouette: longs take ~40%, braid integrations dominate

The silhouette ranking: Long hair 29 / Twin tail 14 / Wolf cut 12 / Silver hair 12 / Bob 11 / Braid 10. Longs make up over 40% of the month, and within the Top 10 the pattern runs further — braid-integrated longs appear at #5 (Icicle), #7 (Nya nya nya), #8 (Rock Cat), and #10 (Wan wan wan), roughly half the Top 10. The dominant design move isn't "plain straight long" but "long hair engineered around braid / beast-ear / accessory detail".

For a long-hair entry outside the Top 10, 3BON's "Veil Wolf Hair" lands as a gothic-leaning unisex long wolf cut — a cool-direction option designed to sit on both masculine and feminine avatars, covering a cut the Top 10 doesn't quite hit.

On the twin tail side, ♥MM♥'s "Kururing Roll" uses a classic doll-style outer-curl at the tips, landing at ¥800 — proof that the twin tail design space is spread across the full price range this month.

Taste: cute and girly dominate, cool holds steady

Taste distribution: Cute 45 / Girly 26 / Cool 12 / Elegant 10 / Natural 9 / Cool-ish 8 / Feminine 8. 45 of 68 items carry "cute" and 26 carry "girly" — a strong signal that hairstyle buyers skew toward the cute-avatar context as a baseline.

That said, the cool side holds real space too — Kyee_N's "Kyron_Hair" lands a masculine-leaning short cool cat-ear cut in the ¥1,000 band, confirming there's demand on the short-and-cool end that the Top 10's #8 Rock Cat doesn't fully cover.

On the elegant side, Koganen-chi's "𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝐻𝑎𝑖𝑟" puts a unicorn horn on an extra-long straight at 11-avatar compatibility for ¥800. That puts it next to #1 Maji Oni Wolf and WishList's Lamby Hair (mentioned in the supported-avatar section above) — January is a month where horn-integrated hair shows up across multiple tastes (dark/oni, cute/sheep, elegant/unicorn).

Color: black, silver, brown — pastels play support

Color distribution: Black 15 / Silver 12 / Brown 10 / Gray 8 / White 8 / Pink 5 / Beige 3 / Light blue 3. Black, silver, and brown together cover about half the month — this is a world-agnostic neutral palette month. In the Top 10 too, the main visuals skew that way: #1 Maji Oni Wolf (navy), #2 Snow Kit Hair (silver), #5 Icicle (both silver and black), #6 Soft Layer (black).

Price: concentrated in ¥500–999, ¥2,000+ is rare

Price distribution: ¥500-999: 44 / ¥1,000-1,999: 19 / ¥1-499: 3 / ¥2,000-2,999: 1 / Free: 1 / ¥3,000+: 0. 65% of the month sits in the ¥500-999 band — a tight cluster around the ¥1,000 mark. In the Top 10 specifically the median is ¥995 and the average is ¥1,016; only #9 H25 Silky Long at ¥1,500 sits notably higher. Where outfits concentrate in the ¥1,000-1,999 band, hairstyles concentrate one tier lower at ¥500-999 — a consistent category difference worth keeping in mind.

Closing notes

January 2026 hairstyle releases settled into what reads as the category's default structure: long-dominant silhouettes × common-base-body compatibility × ¥500-1,000 pricing. Top 10 averages sit at ~14 avatars compatible, ¥995 median price, and ~56% MA compatibility — similar-or-stronger compatibility than outfits at a meaningfully lower price tier. Nearly half the Top 10 (#1, #4, #7, #8, #10) bundles hair accessories (horns, beast ears, hair pins) directly into the product, showing that the design move this month is "the hair itself carries the face-frame detail".

Two pairs of creators anchor the month: MariYuri's Nya nya nya (#7) and Wan wan wan (#10) ship as companion cat/dog pieces, while GLAY Unknown's Icicle (#5) and Rock Cat (#8) run the same Two-Side-Twin-Tail design logic twice. Readers who follow specific creators get a high-yield month, and on the spec side 17-avatar coverage, 40-60 shape keys, 15-plus colorways are becoming the working baseline for upper-ranked hair releases.

About the data

• Collected: 2026-04-21
• Scope: hairstyles released on Booth between 2026-01-01 and 2026-01-31 with 300+ likes (68 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