Image Sourcing and Rights at Hair Musee

Effective date: July 2026

If you’re a photographer, illustrator, or brand and you’ve just found your work on Hair Musee, first of all, hello, and thank you for coming to this page instead of assuming the worst. You’ve landed exactly where you need to be. This page explains how images are sourced here, and it gives you a fast, simple way to get credit added, something changed, or your work taken down. No lawyer required, no hoops, just an email.

Visual work is real work. A styling photo that makes a balayage technique understandable took someone skill, equipment, and time, and Hair Musee wants creators treated the way we’d want our own work treated.

Our Position on Image Use

Hair Musee believes that its use of any third-party images falls within the fair use doctrine or the public domain, and no image on this site is published with the intent to infringe on anyone’s copyright or intellectual property. Image rights on the internet get messy, sources go missing, and mistakes can happen despite honest effort. When they do, we fix them quickly, and this page exists so you can reach us easily.

Where the Images on Hair Musee Come From

Hairstyling is a visual subject, so this site uses a lot of images. Every one of them comes from one of the sources below.

Original photography. A large share of the images here are shot by us: strand tests, color results, mannequin head work, product textures, before-and-afters from testing, and step photos for tutorials. These are owned outright by Hair Musee.

Paid stock photography. For salon scenes, model shots, and hair imagery we can’t produce in-house, Hair Musee licenses images from commercial libraries such as Adobe Stock, Shutterstock, Depositphotos, and Canva Pro, under the terms of their respective licenses.

Creative Commons images. Some images come from platforms like Unsplash, Pexels, and Pixabay, published under Creative Commons or similar open licenses (CC0, CC BY, and related). Where a license requires attribution, we honor those terms and credit the creator.

Public domain images. Occasionally, especially in articles about hair history or iconic styles, Hair Musee uses images that are no longer under copyright or were dedicated to the public domain, sourced from archives like Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress, and Smithsonian Open Access.

Brand, editorial, and press images. When an article reviews a product, covers a launch, or discusses a brand, product images or official press photos may appear in an editorial context. These uses are made in good faith as fair use for commentary, criticism, and review, and attribution to the brand or original photographer is provided where required.

Reader and collaborator images. From time to time, readers or collaborators share photos of their own hair results for use in an article. These are published only with the sender’s permission and credited the way they prefer.

How We Handle Credit

Wherever attribution is required, whether by a Creative Commons license, an editorial use, or simple fairness, Hair Musee credits the original creator and links to the source when a working link exists. If a credit is wrong, incomplete, or pointing to the wrong place, tell us and it gets corrected promptly. Attribution errors are treated as bugs, not annoyances.

An Honest Note About Slip-Ups

Across many articles, pins, and images, there’s a chance that something appears without complete or correct attribution. Sometimes a source link dies, sometimes an image circulated so widely before reaching us that the original creator was genuinely hard to trace, and sometimes it’s plain human oversight. None of it is ever intentional. If you spot a case like this involving your work, we want to know, and we’ll make it right quickly.

You Don’t Need a Lawyer for This

You do not need to file a formal legal notice, send a cease and desist, or hire anyone before contacting Hair Musee about your work. A plain email is enough, and honestly, it’s faster for both of us. We’d much rather sort things out directly and quickly than through paperwork.

Found Your Work Here? You Have Three Options

If your image appears on Hair Musee and you’re the rights holder, pick whichever outcome you’d like:

1. Credit it. We’ll add proper attribution with your name and a link to your portfolio, website, or wherever you’d like it pointed.
2. Change it. We’ll modify how the image is displayed, whether that’s cropping, resizing, adding a watermark, changing the link, or another reasonable adjustment.
3. Remove it. We’ll take the image down completely, from the article and from any pins or social posts we control.

There’s no wrong choice, and no hard feelings about any of them. Email us at images@hairmusee.com with your pick.

What to Include So We Can Move Fast

You don’t need a formal letter. A short email with these details lets us act quickly:

• A link to the Hair Musee page where the image appears
• A link to the original image, or something showing it’s yours, like your portfolio, website, or the original post
• Your name and how you’d like to be contacted
• Which of the three options you’d prefer: credit, change, or removal

That’s it. If you’re missing one of these, send the email anyway and we’ll figure it out together.

What Happens After You Email

First, we confirm we received your message, so you’re not wondering if it vanished into a void. Then we verify the claim where it’s reasonable to do so, usually just by looking at your portfolio or original post. Next, we take the action you asked for. Finally, we reply to confirm it’s done, with a link so you can see for yourself.

How Fast We Respond

Rights holder emails get a response within 48 hours, and usually much sooner. Straightforward removals can typically be handled the same business day. Your work sitting somewhere you don’t want it is not something we’ll leave hanging.

The Door Is Open

Whether you’re a photographer with a concern, a brand with a question about how your product images are used, or a creator who just wants a credit fixed, reach out anytime. Hair Musee would rather hear from you directly than have you frustrated from a distance.

Email: images@hairmusee.com