Degraded 2008 VHS Camcorder Portrait

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VHS_STYLE_PORTRAIT (image)

Create an ultra-realistic close-up portrait resembling a paused frame from a 2008 VHS camcorder recording. The woman leans close to the camera, her cheek resting against her raised shoulder wrapped in an oversized black sweatshirt. Her head is slightly tilted, her lips gently pouted, and she gazes directly at the camera. She wears an oversized dark brown faux-fur ushanka with thick earflaps and a metallic red star badge. Her hair falls in soft, voluminous waves, with loose strands across her face.

Makeup: long, spiky, doll-like eyelashes; sharp black eyeliner; brown eyeshadow; rosy blush; dark brown lip liner; and glossy nude-pink lips.

Set the scene in a dim apartment interior with beige curtains, a vintage cream wardrobe, and dark furniture.

Critical VHS aesthetic: Make this look like an authentic, degraded 2008 magnetic videotape recording, with heavy horizontal scanlines across the entire frame, analog tracking glitches, interlacing, static noise, visible film grain, color bleeding, ghosting, blurred contours, low resolution, faded details, and occasional white interference lines. Use a very dark, underexposed image with muddy brown-black shadows, warm yellowish highlights, muted sepia tones, imperfect exposure, and soft focus. It must not look like a clean modern photograph with a vintage filter.

VHS overlay: Include a red recording dot, white “REC” and “SP” in the upper-left corner, a battery icon in the upper-right corner, pixelated “10:48 PM” in the bottom-left corner, “MAY 05. 2008” in the bottom-right corner, and a playback icon. Create an authentic, nostalgic VHS freeze-frame with no digital sharpness, no retouching, and no AI look.