Monster High Beauty Salon and Super Stylist Fashion Makeover cover similar ground, but Toca Boca Hair Salon 4 is built around a single salon with separate stations for hair, face, clothes, photos and washing. Play Piknik makes it, and it is rated Everyone.
A salon with no fixed goal to hit
The game suits children who like to style a character without scoring or instructions. It mixes haircut, makeup and dress-up play, and it is tagged as educational and for everyone.
It sits in the makeup games and kids games categories. It was released on March 10, 2020, so it has been around for several years.
Five stations, from clippers to the shampoo basin
The hair and beard station has clippers, curling irons and dyes, and lets you trim beards and regrow hair. The face station covers mascara, eyeshadow and blush, plus face paint for drawing directly on the character.
The style station adds clothes, stickers and accessories. In the photo booth you pick a background, watch the character pose and save a picture. The shampoo station washes off makeup, paint and dye, then you towel off, blow dry and start again. The listed feature line is "Create, Style, Repeat!".
Ads, purchases and the Piknik subscription
Check the monetization before handing the device to a child. The game is free to download (price 0), yet it contains ads and in-app purchases. The description also mentions Piknik, a subscription with access to preschool apps from Toca Boca, Sago Mini and Originator.
The current version is 3.1 and it needs Android 7.0 or higher. Content is rated Everyone, and the page lists 8 screenshots of the salon, face paint and outfit options if you want a preview first.
Toca Boca Hair Salon 4 pros and cons
Pros
- Five distinct stations: hair and beard, face, style, photo booth and shampoo
- Free to install, with a rating of Everyone
- Over 50 million installs on Google Play
- Photos of finished looks can be saved
- Runs on Android 7.0 and up
Cons
- Contains ads
- Has in-app purchases and a subscription option through Piknik
- Google Play rating is a modest 3.8 from about 176.3 thousand ratings
Is Toca Boca Hair Salon 4 safe?
The publisher is Play Piknik, and the package ID is com.tocaboca.tocahairsalon4, which is handy for confirming you have the right listing. Ads and in-app purchases are both present, so parents should look through the settings and purchase controls on the device before a child starts playing.
How to install Toca Boca Hair Salon 4
- Press the Google Play button on this page.
- Check the listing in the Play Store and press Install.
- Open Toca Boca Hair Salon 4 when the install finishes. Updates arrive through Google Play.
