Black-and-White Fashion Close-Up with Hat and Round Sunglasses, from Your Own Photo
Turn a photo of your own face into a black-and-white fashion close-up: black wide-brimmed hat, round sunglasses, black turtleneck, hard light and real skin texture.
Drag the handle: the original photo on the left, this prompt’s output in Gemini (Nano Banana) on the right.
The prompt
Upload your own photo to the tool first, then send this prompt.
Edit the uploaded photo. This is a photo edit, not a new portrait: do not regenerate, redraw, beautify or reinterpret the face. Keep the face exactly as it is in the photo — identical facial proportions, eye shape and spacing, eyebrows, nose, lips, jawline, beard and moustache shape and density, hairline and hairstyle, skin tone and every mark on the skin — and keep the same head angle and the same facial expression. If any instruction below conflicts with keeping the face identical, keep the face. Change only the following: turn the photo into a black-and-white fashion close-up framed from the brim of a hat down to the collar; add [a black wide-brimmed hat] and [round dark sunglasses with a thin metal frame] sitting naturally on the nose; replace the clothing with [a black ribbed turtleneck]; hard directional light from the upper side with a deep shadow under the brim; crisp real skin texture with every pore and freckle visible, fine film grain, high contrast; plain grey background, out of focus. No text, no logo. Aspect ratio 4:5.
This prompt turns your photo into a black-and-white fashion close-up framed from the hat brim down to the collar: a black wide-brimmed hat, round sunglasses, a black turtleneck and hard side light that leaves a deep shadow under the brim, with skin texture left real. The example is a before/after, but the before photo is itself an AI-generated sample, not a real person: a selfie-style portrait of a woman with dark wavy shoulder-length hair in a grey t-shirt. The first paragraph is the “face lock”, which holds the face, head angle and expression; do not delete or shorten it.
Upload a sharp front-facing photo. The sunglasses hide the eyes, so judge the likeness by the nose, lips, jawline and moles.
If the brim shadow blacks out half the face or the skin turns smooth and plastic, regenerate.
The prompt works the same with a woman's or a man's photo: a beard or moustache stays as it is, and all three brackets (hat, sunglasses, clothing) suit either.
Use only your own photo or one of someone who agreed. Works with Gemini (Nano Banana) and ChatGPT; results vary from run to run.
How to use it in three steps
Open Gemini or ChatGPT and upload your photo.
Copy the prompt and replace the bracketed parts with your own subject.
Check the result and, in the next message, describe only what should change — step-by-step edits work better than one long instruction.
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BeforeAfter
Your own photo, same faceUses your photoBefore & after4:5
