About r/Hair
Community guide
r/Hair (#208, about 4.5 million) appears (from rules and activity) to be a supportive hair-advice and style-share room; catalogue title/description are empty in this snapshot. Rules require kindness (including to yourself), constructive advice only when requested, and ban NSFW, low-effort content, spam/self-promo/ads, and doxxing/personal info. Gallery/Image (~72 ppd).
Supportive advice culture
Be kind and supportive. Advice must be requested and constructive—not unsolicited critique piles.
What is out
NSFW, low-effort content, spam/self-promotion/ads, and doxxing/personal information are removed.
Practical pointers
Activity samples lean gallery/image (cuts, color, curly/wavy asks). Live rules remain authoritative.
SubMouse Editorial
It sits just behind r/Design (#207) and ahead of r/learnprogramming (#209) in our ranking.
What sets r/Hair apart
People mostly look and upvote here rather than comment — about 4.7 comments per post, against 14.0 for a typical large subreddit. Growth has more or less levelled off (0.01% since Oct 29, 2026), which is common for very mature communities. Its rhythm is strongly tied to time zones: the busiest hour (17:00 UTC) sees about 5.7× as many posts as the quietest (07:00 UTC).
Subscriber growth
Between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026, r/Hair climbed from 4,462,140 to 4,462,553 subscribers (+413, +0.01%). That is about 103 new members per day. The chart uses our weekly snapshots (2 so far), so it gets longer every week.
What r/Hair talks about
We read the titles of 444 recent posts (Oct 29–Nov 5), the words that come up most are “help”, “color”, “cut”, “haircut” and “advice”. Other frequent themes are curly, bangs, wavy, long, fix and tips. Recurring phrases include “color suits”, “naturally curly”, “haircut suggestions” and “current style”. By format, 45% are galleries, 26% are images and 21% are text posts.
Popular post flairs: Help (174), Question (157), Self Appreciation (33), Discussion (28), Before and After (20), Hair Loss (14).
Activity and best time to post
r/Hair gets about 72 new posts a day. The public archive holds 485,023 posts and 2,258,161 comments in total, about 4.7 comments per post. Last week the busiest day was Friday (87 posts) and the quietest was Sunday (49). Posting peaks around 17:00 UTC and is lowest around 07:00 UTC.
Rules of r/Hair
The moderators of r/Hair list 6 rules. In short:
- Be kind and supportive, including to yourself.
- Advice must be requested and constructive.
- No NSFW
- No Low-Effort Content
- No Spam, Self-Promotion, or Ads
- No Doxxing or Personal Information
How to join
Open reddit.com/r/Hair and press “Join”. Read the community rules in the sidebar before you post: every subreddit is run by its own volunteer moderators.
Frequently asked questions
How many subscribers does r/Hair have?
r/Hair has 4,462,553 subscribers (Nov 2, 2026), which makes it the #208 safe-for-work subreddit in the SubMouse ranking. It added 413 members between Oct 29, 2026 and Nov 2, 2026.
How active is r/Hair?
Very active: r/Hair gets about 72 new posts a day (average of the last four weeks). Over its lifetime the archive counts 485,023 posts and 2,258,161 comments. In a sample of 444 recent posts we counted 407 different authors.
When is r/Hair most active?
Based on post counts from Oct 29, 2026 to Nov 4, 2026, the busiest day was Friday and the quietest Sunday, and most posts arrive around 17:00 UTC, with the fewest around 07:00 UTC. More posts also means more competition, so a quieter hour can help a post get noticed.
What is r/Hair about?
r/Hair is a large Reddit community. Recent post titles often mention help, color, cut, haircut and advice. Most posts are galleries (45%).
Is r/Hair safe for work?
Yes. Reddit does not mark r/Hair as an 18+ (NSFW) community, and its own rules forbid NSFW content. SubMouse lists safe-for-work subreddits only.
How do I post on r/Hair?
Join the community on Reddit first, then use “Create post”. r/Hair accepts both text and link posts, with images, videos and galleries enabled. It has 6 posted rules, starting with: “Be kind and supportive, including to yourself.”; “Advice must be requested and constructive.”; “No NSFW”. Moderators remove posts that break the rules, so read them in the sidebar before posting.
Which communities are like r/Hair?
Communities with similar topics include r/Outdoors (5.1M), r/MakeupAddiction (7.6M), r/gardening (9M), r/malefashionadvice (6.5M) and r/femalefashionadvice (5.8M).
Stats from public data (data updated Nov 2, 2026; activity, rules and archive totals via the Arctic Shift archive, Nov 6, 2026). Point and comment counts are archive snapshots and can be lower than on Reddit today. SubMouse is an independent directory and is not affiliated with Reddit or the moderators of r/Hair.