jKiwi Portable

jKiwi Portable is an application designed to be your go-to styling studio. With it you are able to load a photo of someone, male or female and see how they would look with different styles of hair and makeup.

jKiwi Portable enables you to load a headshot of someone and apply dozens of hairstyles in a couple of clicks. You can choose between short, medium or long hair types, different colors, and even apply highlights to them.

After you choose the type of hair, it’s also possible to adjust its size so it fits perfectly with the features of the person. It’s worth mentioning that the images or rather portraits you use need to be tidy when it comes to the hairstyle that the person already has. jKiwi Portable doesn’t offer you any spot removing or erasing tools that you can use to eliminate hair which might end up ruining the overall hairstyle that you apply.

Since an elaborate hairstyle doesn’t go well without an equally eye catching makeup, jKiwi Portable also offers you the tools you need to apply concealer, shadow, blush and lipstick.

For each of them you can choose from a rather large color palette and brush over the areas that you want to enhance. The size, opacity and area of the brush can be adjusted so you can work on both subtle and obvious changes.

A bit of a downside to the application is the absence of a zooming function for the preview. You can feel its absence when you want to apply a fine brush over a small area. It’s possible to switch to a full screen view but even that might not be enough.

To put things into perspective, if you have a good portrait of yourself and want to see how a certain hairstyle would look, or better yet, if you are the owner of a beauty salon and want to offer your clients a preview of what can be done, then jKiwi Portable is a good tool for you.