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Overview
The Hair Stylist Career is a confirmed but unreleased career path for inZOI. Zois pursuing this profession will work at salons, perform haircuts and styling on customers, and develop a beauty-focused career arc. The career was originally part of the broader Beauty and Salon Career listed in the December 26, 2025 2026 Roadmap and reaffirmed at the March 28, 2026 anniversary livestream. The current live build is v0.8.5 (May 15, 2026 hotfix), based on the v0.8.0 release of April 29, 2026. v0.8.0 added a Hair Salon business type (chairs that let players change other Zois' hairstyles, available in Dowon, Bliss Bay, and Cahaya), but the Hair Stylist Career itself has not yet shipped as a playable career path and remains deferred.
Confirmed Components
Component | Description |
|---|---|
Active Career Type | Players control their Zoi during shifts at the salon rather than relying on a rabbit-hole abstraction. |
Customer Styling Sessions | Real-time interactions with NPC customers. Each customer presents requests, and the Zoi performs the styling using salon tools. |
Skill Integration | Tied to a salon-specific skill set, expected to overlap with existing Charm and Performance skills for customer satisfaction. |
Salon Workplace | Dedicated salon properties added to one or more cities as workplace lots. |
Promotion Path | Multiple ranks from entry-level stylist through senior stylist; specific salaries not yet announced. |
Relationship to Existing Beauty Content
The Hair Stylist Career joins inZOI's existing beauty-related content but is distinct from it.
Beauty and Salon Careers is the umbrella article for beauty career paths.
Hair Styles documents the hairstyle catalog available in Create a Zoi and salons.
Makeup covers the parallel makeup customization system.
Florist Career is the most recently shipped active career (v0.7.0, March 2026), and likely shares structural similarities with the upcoming Hair Stylist gameplay.
Timeline
Date | Status |
|---|---|
December 26, 2025 | Beauty and Salon Career announced as part of the 2026 Roadmap Q1 deliverables. |
March 26, 2026 | Q1 deliverables status update: Beauty and Salon Career still pending; reassigned to the April 2026 update. |
April 17, 2026 | Community letter named Hair Stylist Career as one of the features prepared but not yet ready to ship. |
April 24, 2026 | Confirmed deferred past May 2026 along with the Clothing Store career and several other in-development systems. |
April 29, 2026 | v0.8.0 launched. A Hair Salon business type was added (chairs that let players change other Zois' hairstyles in Dowon, Bliss Bay, and Cahaya), but the Hair Stylist Career itself was not included and remains deferred. |
Current target | Not specified. Bundled with the next major content patch. |
Open Questions
Whether the salon will support player-owned business ownership in addition to employment.
Specific salon properties and city placement.
Customer satisfaction mechanics and tip flow.
Whether stylist skills will be a new dedicated skill or borrow from existing Charm and Performance.
Crossover with Create a Zoi customization (e.g., applying real haircuts to NPC customers persistently).
Business Type vs Active Career
The phrase Hair Salon and Hair Stylist Career are distinct v0.8.0 concepts and should not be conflated.
Item | Status in v0.8.0 | Description |
|---|---|---|
Hair Salon business type | Shipped April 29, 2026 | Available as one of the in-game business types in Dowon, Bliss Bay, and Cahaya. Salon chairs let players cut and restyle other Zois' hair as the business owner. Players who own this business type run sessions through the standard business management loop. |
Hair Stylist Career (this article) | Deferred | The active career path that lets a Zoi work shifts at a salon as an employee. Confirmed by name in the April 17, 2026 community letter as in development; deferred again in the April 24 letter; not included in v0.8.0. |
If the goal is to play salon gameplay today, the Hair Salon business type is the available path: own the lot, run sessions as the owner, and use the salon chair on NPC customers. The dedicated employee career is still pending.
Watching for the Career Drop
The official roadmap thread is the canonical source for confirming the active career has shipped. Three concrete signs to watch for in a future patch note:
A Career app entry titled Hair Stylist, listed alongside the v0.8.0 careers under Dowon, Bliss Bay, or Cahaya listings.
An active-career-style daily-task structure (greet, consult, style, ring up) appearing in a workplace lot description rather than only in a business-ownership context.
Update history table mentioning Hair Stylist Career as a new active career, not a business type.
Until those land, treat the existing Florist Career article as the closest structurally similar active career: a customer-facing creative service role with a salon-like workspace.
See Also
Beauty and Salon Careers covers the broader beauty career space. Clothing Store Career is a parallel deferred career. Florist Career is the most recent active career to ship live. Hair Styles lists current hairstyles. 2026 Roadmap tracks delivery status. April 2026 Update provides the deferral context.