Free Barbershop NUI brings immersive, cross-framework character customization to GTA RP

A clean barbershop flow can make a character feel established before a player ever leaves the chair, and Free Barbershop NUI leans hard into that first impression. The release, published on April 14, 2026, gives GTA RP servers a modern way to handle haircuts, beard trims, eyebrow tweaks, eye color, and makeup through a live NUI interface instead of the usual clunky menu grind.

The setup is built around five customization categories and pushes the presentation further than a basic shop screen. Players get real-time preview, 64 colors, 31 eye colors, and opacity sliders, all wrapped in two UI themes: Glass, with a frosted blur look, and Solid, a darker modern layout. The barber scene itself is fully staged, with an automatically spawned NPC holding a scissor prop, authentic cutting animations, and a cinematic camera that turns routine grooming into a visible in-world service. That matters in RP because a barber visit is not just cosmetic. It is part of identity, faction presentation, and the kind of screenshot-ready moment that helps a server feel alive from the first login.

What makes the resource stand out is how wide it reaches. Free Barbershop NUI advertises native support for ESX, QBCore, and QBX, plus standalone use, which gives it a much broader footprint than the old ESX-only, menu-driven barber scripts many servers started with. It also works with ox_target, qb-target, qtarget, interact, and marker fallback, and it is compatible with illenium-appearance, fivem-appearance, and qb-clothing. For server owners trying to avoid another one-off system trapped inside a single framework, that cross-compatibility is the real selling point.

The usability side is just as important. Full keyboard navigation is built in, with arrow keys for movement, A, Q, and D for turning the character’s head, Enter to confirm, and Escape to cancel, all shown on screen. Pricing is configurable and validated server-side, appearance saves automatically, and the resource is described as fully configurable for locations, pricing, UI theme, accent colors, barber model, and interaction type. The listing also says the code is not fully open source, with only config, locales, and editable files included, and that the script spans roughly 2,500 lines while requiring oxmysql.

That broader framework push fits where GTA RP tooling has been heading. Qbox said in March 2024 that qbx_core had already been in use and stable since November 2023, framing QBX as a spiritual successor to QB. By 2025, paid barber releases were already emphasizing real-time preview, keyboard navigation, and immersion, so Free Barbershop NUI arrives as part of a fast-moving standard rather than a novelty. For servers trying to look polished on day one, that is the kind of upgrade players notice immediately.