The prompt system for honest skin luminosity: one locked face, cool navy skim light, real subsurface glow (not beauty-filter HDR), and eight copy-paste shot directions that hold up in close-up.
Pick one identity and write it once: age, skin tone, hair, eyes, makeup. Paste that block into every shot. Glow fails when the face drifts between frames. Lock a mid-20s Black woman with short coily curls, deep cool-brown skin, dark brown eyes, minimal makeup. Only change the crop and the luminosity cue.
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02Studio
Skim cool light, never flood warmth
Set the room once: deep navy #112166 falling to near-black #0A0A0A. Soft cool softbox from camera-left that skims the cheekbones, optional periwinkle rim. No golden hour, no warm beauty dish. Warm flood light is what turns “glow” into plastic. Name the skim angle in every prompt.
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03Glow
Name real luminosity, not HDR glow
Write what light is doing on skin: subsurface scatter on the cheek, soft nose sheen, cool catchlights, natural luminosity, visible pores under the glow. Avoid soft words like “radiant glowing skin” or “dewy HDR”. Specific light-on-skin language is the product.
End every direction with a negative line. Minimum: Neg: beauty filter, plastic skin, airbrushed, CGI, cartoon, oversmoothed, glowing skin, HDR glow, text, watermark. Macros also forbid pore wipe and perfect makeup. Half of honest glow is refusing the fake glow defaults.
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05Ship
Run eight glow shots, QC zoomed in
Generate the hero, then six luminosity macros, then the over-shoulder CTA. Keep aspect 4:5 (1080×1350). QC zoomed in: if the cheek looks waxed, if pores vanish under the sheen, if catchlights bloom into HDR - regenerate that frame only. Titles only on hero + CTA. Full copy-paste deck below.
# MASTER IDENTITY (paste into every shot) Black woman, mid-20s, short natural coily curls with soft tapered crown and defined edges, deep cool-brown skin with visible pores and natural luminosity, dark brown eyes, natural brows, minimal makeup, soft nude lips. Same identity every frame. No plastic skin.
# STUDIO LOCK (skim light) Deep navy studio backdrop (#112166 to near-black #0A0A0A), soft cool daylight softbox from camera-left skimming the cheekbones, optional soft periwinkle rim, no golden hour, no warm orange wash. Photoreal macro, 8K detail, natural film grain.
# 01 HERO - chest-up portrait Ultra realistic vertical 4:5 chest-up portrait. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Looking toward camera, calm expression, bare shoulders. [STUDIO LOCK]. Soft skim reveals honest cheek luminosity and pores on the forehead. Editorial beauty still, not a render. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG]
# 02 CHEEK SKIM Ultra realistic extreme close-up of the left cheek. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Soft subsurface scatter under cool skim light, visible pores under the sheen, soft navy bokeh. Fill the frame with light-on-skin, not plastic glow. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG], beauty blur, HDR glow
# 03 NOSE SHEEN Ultra realistic extreme close-up of the nose in 3/4 profile. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Subtle natural oil sheen on the bridge, macro pores, cool catchlight edge. No glossy beauty pack. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG], wide face crop, plastic shine
# 04 EYE CATCHLIGHT Ultra realistic single-eye fill-frame macro. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Dark brown iris with crisp cool catchlight, individual lashes, natural lid texture. Shallow depth, navy OoF. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG], doll eyes, glowing iris, HDR bloom
# 05 TEMPLE / HAIRLINE Ultra realistic temple and hairline close-up. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Fine coily hairs, soft luminosity along the temple, pores intact. Cool softbox skim. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG], waxed skin, beauty retouch
# 06 LIPS / PHILTRUM Ultra realistic nose-tip to chin close-up. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Softly parted nude lips, natural lip texture, soft luminosity on the philtrum. Cool studio light, no lipstick shine pack. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG], overlined lips, plastic gloss
# 07 JAW / NECK SKIM Ultra realistic jaw-to-neck crop. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Soft skim along the jawline, peach fuzz kept, cool navy backdrop. Honest skin, not retouched wax. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG], waxed skin, beauty filter
# 08 OVER-SHOULDER CTA FRAME Ultra realistic over-shoulder look-back portrait. [MASTER IDENTITY]. Bare shoulder in foreground, face turned toward camera, calm expression with natural cheek luminosity. Leave quiet lower third for a CTA box. [STUDIO LOCK]. Neg: [GLOBAL NEG]
# HOW TO RUN 1) Paste MASTER + STUDIO into your image model (GPT Image / Flux / Midjourney / Soul). 2) Generate 01, lock a keeper as the identity reference if your tool supports refs. 3) Run 02-08 with the same identity block. QC zoomed in. Regenerate only failed macros. 4) Export 1080x1350. Titles only on 01 and 08.
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