By Galileo 
You went from dark brown to copper, and you love it. Then a new client books a call through your website and notices that your headshot no longer reflects how you look now. For anyone whose face is part of their work, a big hair change quietly turns a whole set of photos out of date.
There are three ways to handle it: reshoot, recolor, or leave the old photos alone for now. Recoloring can be a quicker alternative to arranging a new photoshoot, particularly when only a few recent images need updating, and a hair color editing app can bring a headshot in line with your new shade until a proper shoot fits into your schedule.
Recoloring works best on photos taken recently, in soft, neutral light, with a hairstyle close to the one you have now. In that case only the shade changes, and the edited image still looks like you on an ordinary day. A good test is to show it to someone who has seen you since the change and ask whether it looks like a new photo.
It is also a sensible fix for a handful of key images, such as the main headshot on your website and your profile picture on professional networks. These are the photos people see first, so updating them closes most of the gap.
Recoloring has limits. Going from very dark to very light changes how hair reflects light, how your skin looks next to it and often how your eyebrows read, which is why brows sometimes need adjusting along with the hair. Edits across that kind of jump can look convincing in one photo and slightly off in the next.
A reshoot also makes sense when the new color came with a new cut, new glasses or a different style overall. At that point the old photos show a different look, not just a different shade, and editing them one by one takes more effort than a single session.
During the transition, yes, as long as the most visible images match. Visitors rarely scroll through every gallery, but they do notice when the headshot on the homepage and the photo on the booking page show two different people.
Older images in blog posts, event galleries or press coverage can stay as they are. They document a moment, and nobody expects an article from three years ago to be updated after every trip to the salon. An old photo used as the thumbnail for a current service, though, counts as a key image.
Before deciding what to recolor or reshoot, list the places where your photo is used. Common ones include:
- the homepage and the “about” page;
- booking, contact or checkout pages;
- LinkedIn and other professional profiles;
- your Google Business Profile;
- speaker bios, podcast pages and author boxes on guest posts.
Once the list exists, it is easy to see which few images matter most and which can wait for the next shoot.
Your website does not need to freeze you in time, but its first images should match the person clients will meet. Update those, let older pictures age naturally, and keep your public face in step with the one that shows up on the call.