You get plenty of character creation choices in Where Winds Meet, with an impressive amount of control over facial anatomy and fine details but hits a wall when it comes to hair color. You cannot change hair color during the initial customization of your Young Hero unless you have certain hairdye items. This guide explains how to get basic and advanced hair dyes and use them on dyeable hairstyles in your Wardrobe.
Can You Change Your Hair Color in Where Winds Meet?
Character creation in Where Winds Meet gives you fine control over facial structure, beards, and eyebrows, but limits your head hair to pitch black. Smart Customization cannot override this, and resetting your character to start over won’t work to change the hair color either. You need to use consumable dye items to unlock custom hair tones through post-creation gameplay systems or the cosmetic store.
Before dyeing, check your hairstyle since you can’t recolor the default starter cuts, and to apply dye, you’ll have to equip an eligible style that shows a small multicolored brush or color swatch in the bottom right corner of its icon. Styles missing this marker lack dye support. Dyeable styles unlock as you earn Elegance Points, purchase sets, or collect unlocked cosmetics throughout the game.
Coloring in Where Winds Meet is split into two tiers based on color intensity:
- Basic Hair Dye (Inkshade Hairdye): Unlocks natural, earthy, pastel, and muted tones.
- Advanced Hair Dye (Timeless Hairdye): Unlocks bright, saturated, and neon level colors.
Every dye job consumes 10 units of the selected dye to apply and save.
How to Get Hairdye in Where Winds Meet
You can get hair dyes through the gacha banners, currency exchanges, or cosmetic shops.
Inkshade Hairdye (Basic)
- Solemn Echo Exchange: Open the main menu, select Draw, and head to the standard Solemn Echo banner. These draws require Resonating Melodies, which cost Echo Jade you can earn from daily milestones, exploration, and quest rewards. Every pull guarantees Essence of Earth. Open the Exchange Shop on the right of the Draw menu and spend 5 Essence of Earth per Inkshade Hairdye.
- In-Game Shops: You can buy Inkshade Hairdye from the Item Shop, Xiao-fan’s Warehouse using common currency, or Jin-hu’s Treasure Shop with premium pearls.
Timeless Hairdye (Advanced)
- Harmonic Core Exchange: Timeless Hairdye drops from Hairdye Giftboxes in the Draw Shop, with each box containing 5 dyes. You can purchase a box for 1 Harmonic Core.
- Celestial Echo Banner: Harmonic Cores have a low drop rate (roughly 0.747%) from the premium Celestial Echo banner and costs Echo Beads. You can also get them in the Echo Shop using Sound Jade earned from Draw Shop boxes.
How to Dye or Change Your Hair Color in Where Winds Meet
Once you have 10 units of the dye you would like your hair to be and a hairstyle unlocked, press Esc or your menu button, select Appearance, and go to the Workshop tab (or Wardrobe > Hair).
Click the Dye option in the bottom right, then you will have to pick a hairstyle that has the color swatch icon. Next, toggle between either Basic Hair Dye or Advanced Hair Dye along the top bar, depending on the dye in your bag. Adjust your palette across the Basic, Gradient, and Highlights color pickers.
After you’ve customized your character’s hair and are happy with the new look, click Save to apply the style at the cost of 10 dyes. Remember that these dyes can only be used once, so double check your colors before you save the changes.
