We wrote about the imminent release of Toca Boca’s new app Toca Hair Salon Me last week. Now it’s available for iPhone and iPad.

It looks really fun: a reworked version of the developer’s popular Toca Hair Salon hairdressing apps with the twist that it’s your children in the barber’s chair.

Well, your children, or anyone else they can take a photo of: mum, dad, nan, grandad, even the family dog (if they’ll stay still long enough for a decent snapshot).

“Toca Hair Salon Me lets you be the customer and the stylist! Curly, straight or purple? Create a funky hairdo any way you like. Grow it long or cut it short, shave one side or spray paint it every color of the rainbow,” explains the App Store listing.

“Add accessories such as hats, sunglasses and hair clips to top it off. Don’t forget to take a photo and share with friends. Now you can use your own photos as backdrops to complete your style transformation.”

The app doesn’t just turn your photo into a still character – it gets kids to set where the mouth and eyes are, then makes the character animated, blinking and opening/closing its mouth.

Also, you can use photos stored on your iOS device’s Camera Roll for the faces. Far be it from us to suggest that this will result in children scrambling to see what Justin Bieber would look like with a multi-colour dyed frightwig, but… Oh, we’ve already been there.

A lot of fun’s going to be had with this one. Toca Hair Salon Me costs £1.99 for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store. There’s no news on an Android release yet, but on recent form, we’d expect this to be available for Android smartphones and tablets in the next few months.