Cosmetology Games for Girls

Role-Play Games

• Vanity and beauty shop play sets allow girls to role-play as real hairdressers as they practice procedures on themselves or a friend. Typical play sets include a plastic mirror, dressing table, hair accessories and chair. Most department stores sell child-safe makeup and nail polish that girls can apply on each other, which makes for a fun role-play game as they pretend to be young makeup artists and manicurists.

Video Games

• Nintendo.com contains product overviews and descriptions of cosmetology video games, such as Picture Perfect Hair Salon, Sally's Salon, Salon Superstar and Dream Salon, for its Wii and DS models. These games allow girls to run their own hair salons while styling, massaging and outfitting famous models, characters and everyday people. Besides games specifically designed around hair salons, video games that allow players to create their own Avatars or other characters are fun for girls to play with.

Online Games

• Websites, such as addictinggames.com and heavygames.com, offer free cosmetology games for girls, who can pick out virtual customers with different colored hair, skin and eyes or choose to style well-known characters, such as Hannah Montana. Girls can practice applying different colors of makeup, change hairstyles and cuts, pluck eyebrows and change nail polish.

Mobile Applications

• Smart Hairstyle and My Hair, both of which cost less than $3, allow girls to upload photos of themselves or friends and try different hairstyles and colors to what they look like. Free applications, such as the Eye Shadow Idea Book Hairstyles and How to Stay Beautiful, provide pictures and instructions for makeup application, hairstyling and skin treatments, which girls can try on their own. Appbrain.com contains descriptions of mobile applications for Android phones, while apple.com provides an overview of all of its mobile applications.