The prompt system behind the curls carousel: one locked face with deep skin and natural coily hair, the same cool navy studio, a pores and coil-texture stack, and eight copy-paste shot directions that hold up in close-up, without plastic skin or flattened hair.
Write the identity once: age, skin tone, hair, eyes, makeup. This pack locks a woman in her early 30s with deep warm brown skin, a few small natural dark spots, natural coily 4C hair in a loose puff and dark brown eyes: an ordinary face, which is exactly why it reads as real. Paste the same block into every shot and only change the crop and the texture cue. The traps with deep skin and coily hair: models flatten the skin into one smooth tone and blur the coils into a soft cloud. Ask for honest tonal variation, small natural dark spots, individual coils and a slightly asymmetrical face, and run frames 02-08 image-to-image off the hero so the face holds.
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02Studio
Same navy studio, one soft cool key
Deep navy #112166 falling to near-black #0A0A0A, a single soft cool-white softbox from camera-left, and only a very faint cool edge light on the hair. Deep skin loses detail in the shadows and shines in the wrong places, so keep the key soft and expose for the skin. A strong colored rim turns black hair lavender, so keep it faint. Warm light turns skin orange and waxy. Cool light keeps it honest. Name the backdrop and the key light in every prompt so the set stays consistent when you change the crop.
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03Texture
Name the details AI paints over
Each frame sells one detail: pores on the nose bridge, peach fuzz on the neck, individual lashes, the iris catchlight, natural lip texture, individual coils at the temple. Write the detail in the prompt: visible pores, uneven skin tone, small natural dark spots, fine peach fuzz, unretouched. Soft “beautiful skin” language is what makes AI look fake. Specific texture language is the product.
End every direction with a negative line. Minimum: Neg: beauty filter, plastic skin, airbrushed, CGI, cartoon, oversmoothed, text, watermark. Deep-skin frames also forbid skin smoothing, glowing skin, ashy grey cast, HDR. If you skip negatives, the model will polish the face into a mannequin. Half of realism is what you refuse.
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05Ship
Reference the hero, QC in close-up
Generate the hero, pick one keeper, then run the other seven frames as image-to-image off it. Keep aspect 4:5 (1080×1350). QC zoomed in: if the skin turns waxy, if the lashes disappear, if the small dark spots on the cheek change between frames, if the coils turn soft, regenerate that frame only and do not rebuild the identity. Overlay titles only on the hero and the CTA frame, never on the macros. The full copy-paste deck is in the code block below.
# MASTER IDENTITY (paste into every shot) Woman, early 30s, deep warm brown skin with honest tonal variation and a few small natural dark spots on the cheek and jaw, visible pores and fine peach fuzz, natural soft sheen on the cheekbones (not glowing, not oily), natural coily 4C hair in a loose puff with individual coils and flyaway strands, dark brown eyes, natural full brows, minimal makeup, soft natural brown-rose lips. Same identity every frame. No plastic skin.
# STUDIO LOCK Deep navy studio backdrop (#112166 to near-black #0A0A0A), single soft cool-white softbox from camera-left, only a very faint cool edge light on the hair so it stays natural black-brown, no golden hour, no warm wash, no purple or lavender tint. Shot on an 85mm lens, shallow depth of field, natural film grain, slight sensor noise in the shadows.
# 01 HERO - chest-up three-quarter portrait Candid editorial portrait, vertical 4:5, chest-up in a three-quarter turn. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Relaxed neutral expression, navy tank top, bare shoulders, natural coily puff. [STUDIO LOCK]. Soft key reveals pores, small dark spots and natural sheen on the cheekbones. A real person, not a render. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG]
# 02 NOSE + CHEEK MACRO Extreme close-up of the nose and inner cheek in three-quarter profile. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Pores, small natural dark spots and a soft natural sheen on the bridge of the nose fill the frame, soft navy bokeh behind. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG], wide face crop
# 03 NECK / COLLARBONES Tight crop from the chin down to the collarbones and top of the shoulders. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Peach fuzz and fine coil strands along the neckline, tank top strap at the edge, cool softbox skim light. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG], waxed skin, beauty retouch
# 04 EYE MACRO Single-eye macro fills the frame. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Dark brown iris with a crisp softbox catchlight, individual lashes, fine skin texture on the lid and cheek, a few natural brow hairs, very shallow depth, navy out of focus. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG], doll eyes, glowing iris
# 05 LIPS / LOWER FACE Close-up from nose tip to chin, lips softly parted. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Natural lip texture and slight dryness, pores on the philtrum and chin, cool studio light, no lipstick shine. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG], overlined lips, plastic gloss
# 06 ANGLED FACE FILL Tight face fill, head tilted about 45 degrees. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Pores and the small dark spots on the cheek, honest natural luminosity, crop cutting into the hairline and jaw. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG], beauty blur
# 07 COILS + EAR Close-up of the ear, jawline and the coily hair at the temple from the side. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Every individual coil visible, the natural hairline and fine baby hairs, a faint cool edge light catching the coils, fine hairs on the neck below the ear. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG], jewelry, flattened hair, blurred coils
# 08 OVER-SHOULDER CTA FRAME Over-the-shoulder look-back portrait. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Shoulder and back of the neck in the foreground, face turned back toward camera in profile, navy tank top, quiet dark lower third for a CTA box. [STUDIO LOCK]. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG]
# HOW TO RUN 1) Paste MASTER + STUDIO into your image model (nano-banana pro, GPT Image, Flux or Soul). 2) Generate 01 and keep the best one as the identity reference. 3) Run 02-08 image-to-image off that reference with the same identity block. QC zoomed in. Regenerate only the failed frame. 4) Export 1080x1350. Titles only on 01 and 08.
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