Which Haircut Suits Your Face Shape

{ "subject": "The SAME person appears in all four panels of the board, and it is her face that decides which cuts are chosen. In the example, a woman of about 35, light brown skin with faint freckles on the cheeks and a small mole on one cheek, a square face shape with a wide, defined jaw and a broad forehead, thick natural eyebrows, brown eyes, almost no make-up, looking straight into the camera with a calm expression and a slight closed-mouth smile. When the reader sends their own photo, keep the face they sent exactly as it is in all four panels: the width of the jaw, the width of the cheekbones, the height of the forehead, the skin tone, the moles, the freckles, the expression lines, the shape of the eyes and the age. Do not slim the face, do not narrow the jaw, do not make the person thinner, do not make them look younger, do not lighten the skin and do not change the person from one panel to another. The shape of the face is the input of this prompt: it is the shape that picks the cuts, not the other way round.", "wardrobe": "the same plain black tank top with wide straps and a U neckline in all four panels, with no print, no shine and no accessory; no earrings, no necklace and no glasses, so that nothing other than the hair changes from one panel to another", "action": "the person poses still and front-on for a haircut test, and the four panels show the same moment with four different heads of hair", "scene": "a simple, empty studio: a plain light grey background, with no objects, no texture and no shadow drawn behind the person. The SAME grey in all four panels, in the same tone, because a different background would make one cut look better than another for a reason that is not the cut.", "composition": "a vertical image in 3:4 proportion, divided into four equal panels, two on top and two below. The two gutters that separate the panels are a white line of constant width, around 0.3% of the side of the image, and each one falls exactly in the middle: the vertical one at 50% of the width, the horizontal one at 50% of the height. Each panel is therefore also 3:4. Inside each panel the framing is the same: a front-on portrait, from mid-shoulder up, centred, with the mouth line at around 52% of the height of the panel and with the face taking, at the mouth line, around 41% of the width of the panel — this is a head shot, not a bust shot: if the face comes out at 34% of the width, the person was photographed too far away and the cuts stop being comparable. The four cuts are chosen to balance the shape of the face that was sent: in the square-face example, a collarbone-length long bob with layered ends and a side parting top left, a mid-length cut with long layers framing the face and loose waves top right, a modern pixie with volume on top and a long side fringe bottom left, and long straight hair with a middle parting and softly graduated ends bottom right.", "camera": "the same camera in all four panels: front-on, at eye level, with no tilt and no low or high perspective; an 85 mm portrait lens, focus on the eyes, background with no strong blur", "lighting": "the same light in all four panels: one large, diffuse studio source from the front and slightly above, softbox style, with no hard shadow on the face, a round catchlight in the eyes, no coloured light and no backlight. Equal light is what makes the comparison worth anything: a different shadow changes the face on its own.", "color_palette": "neutral light grey of the background, black of the tank top, natural skin tone with no correction, and mid brown hair with discreet caramel highlights — the SAME hair colour in all four panels, because what is being tested is the cut and not the colour", "style": "realistic studio portrait photography, high definition, natural colour and real skin texture (pores, freckles and expression lines visible); the look of a salon face-shape consultation board, not an app collage and not a retouched magazine photo", "materials": "real hair-strand texture, with natural shine and loose strands; skin with pores and no digital smoothing; matte jersey of the tank top", "details": "What this board exists to deliver is the COMPARISON, and three things prove it and cannot be missing. First: the face is the same in all four panels, and what changes from one to another is ONLY the hair — the framing, the light, the background, the clothes, the hair colour and the expression stay identical. Second: the mouth line falls at the same height in all four panels, with less than half a percentage point between the panel where it sits highest and the one where it sits lowest, because that is what lets you put one next to another and see the difference of the CUT and not the difference of the photo. Third: no panel carries a label, a cut name, a number or a written caption — what identifies each cut is the drawing of the cut itself, seen front-on and in the same framing; the name of each one and the reason it suits this face shape go in the WRITTEN ANSWER, in reading order (top left, top right, bottom left, bottom right), and never inside the image.", "negative_prompt": "a different person in each panel, a different face from one panel to another, slimmed face, narrowed jaw, thinner face, lightened skin, person made younger, swapped features, heavy make-up, different framing in each panel, full bust framing, small distant face inside the panel, camera further away in one panel than in another, chin at a different height, background of a different colour between panels, different light between panels, hard shadow, different clothes in each panel, earrings, necklace, glasses, different hair colour between panels, text, letter, number, word, label, caption, written cut name, arrow, frame around the image, decorated border, collage with overlap, watermark, real logo or brand, likeness of a real known person, plastic skin, magazine retouching, AI artefacts, deformed hands" }