Illustrious hairstyle prompts, tested

Twenty-four hairstyle tags on the same brown-haired character, so the cut is the only thing that changes.

The test

Every tile below uses the same prompt with one tag swapped in, on the same two seeds (1001 and 1002), on SirenRender’s free anime tile: WAI-Illustrious-SDXL v17 with the DMD2 LoRA, 8 steps, CFG 1, 832×1216. {TAG} marks where each tag goes:

What we found

Hairstyle tags are among the most reliable tags on WAI v17. Almost every cut showed up on both seeds, and the strongest were bob cut, pixie cut, high ponytail, twin braids, curly hair, blunt bangs, hime cut, hair over one eye and undercut. The only real miss was french braid, which came out as a braided updo. Pair a style with a color tag (see hair color prompts) and a length tag: long hair, red hair, high ponytail.