Toca Hair Salon Me
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The third edition of Toca Hair Salon lets you import your own photos, and morph them onto the animated faces of your haircut customer; complete with blinks, yawns and stretches. When you combine this new feature with all the easy to use Toca Hair tools, you have one of the best creativity apps of the year. Tools include a razor, curling iron, crimper and straightener; plus there's a set of ties, ribbons, hats and glasses. Each can be resized or easily swapped out for another look. Weaknesses are hard to find -- teachers might like an ability to control the background music; and this is the type of app that can fill up a photo gallery with images; a feature that might be nice to manage as well. Note that you'll need to grant the app permission to use the camera and to store photos. Warning -- once you get started with this app, it is hard to stop. It's always nice to see a great app get better; such is the case with Toca Hair Salon Me.
$3.99, iPad, iPhone, Android
Teaches: creativity, photography, visual arts