Elegant Mexican Catrina Portrait from a Reference Photo

Format

Markdown Parameterized

Inputs

Reference_photo (image) · Required Accessories (text) · Optional · Default: none

Outputs

Catrina_portrait (image)

Replace the ${…} placeholders with your values before using this prompt. See parameters and defaults below.

Create an image using the provided photograph as the primary reference. Transform the person into a spectacular Mexican Catrina with artistic Día de Muertos makeup and an elegant, feminine, mysterious, cinematic aesthetic. The original photograph must determine the person’s identity, physical features, pose, and natural characteristics.

## Preserve identity

Faithfully preserve the recognizable identity of the person in the original image, including facial structure, face shape, eyes, nose, lips, eyebrows, jaw, cheekbones, skin tone, apparent age, expression, hairstyle, and natural proportions.

Adapt the makeup to the existing face and its real anatomy. Do not replace the face, change facial features or age, or make the person look like someone else. The result must look like a professional photograph of the same person styled as a Catrina.

## Artistic Catrina makeup

Create sophisticated, elaborate, visually striking Mexican skull makeup:

- **Eyes:** Apply large areas of fuchsia, magenta, or vivid pink shadow around both eyes, with professional gradients, defined black liner, and small decorative dots following the eye sockets.
- **Decorative details:** Add delicate black filigree over the eyebrows and forehead, with small hearts, petals, curved lines, and ornaments inspired by traditional Mexican art.
- **Nose:** Add a black triangle or inverted heart suggesting a skull’s nasal cavity, seamlessly integrated with the makeup.
- **Lips:** Create a skeletal mouth design with fine vertical black lines suggesting teeth while preserving the real shape and position of the lips.
- **Cheeks and chin:** Add ornamental black lines, small floral motifs, hearts, or geometric details to complete the look.
- **Skin:** Apply a white base over the face beneath the makeup.
- **Finish:** Use highly precise makeup, intense pigments, clean edges, balanced visual symmetry, and realistic texture on the skin.

Use fuchsia, Mexican pink, magenta, black, and natural skin tones as the main palette. Add white, silver, red, purple, or gold accents only if they harmonize with the design.

## Optional decorative accessories

Use only the accessories specified here: ${accessories:none}. If none are specified, create an elegant composition featuring the person’s original hair as the main element.

Accessory options include:
- A crown of fuchsia, red, black, white, or mixed roses, natural or artificial, with defined petals and realistic volume.
- A black lace veil, transparent tulle, or Gothic mantilla placed over the head or behind the hair. Frame the face without hiding the makeup or eyes.
- A floral headband, ornamental comb, individual roses, butterflies, lace, Gothic jewelry, long earrings, small decorative skulls, delicate chains, or a traditional Mexican headdress.

Integrate accessories naturally with the hair, head, clothing, and lighting. Avoid visual clutter or anything that covers the facial features.

## Hair, clothing, and aesthetic

Respect the original hair color, length, texture, and characteristics unless a different hairstyle is explicitly requested.

Transform the clothing into an elegant Catrina outfit, such as a black dress, lace, floral embroidery, a Victorian-inspired corset, bare shoulders, or traditional Mexican details.

Combine Mexican tradition, Gothic beauty, editorial glamour, and artistic fantasy. Avoid a cheap-costume look, childish illustration, or plastic-looking character.

## Photography and lighting

Create a high-quality professional photographic portrait with soft, directional cinematic lighting, sharp eyes, detailed makeup, natural skin texture, defined hair, and accessories made of realistic materials.

Adapt the background to the composition: intense magenta, elegant black, dark red, a floral backdrop, or a blurred Gothic setting. Visually separate the person from the background, balance contrast, and use vivid colors without oversaturation.

Use an editorial beauty composition, a clean frame, natural depth of field, and a premium photographic finish.

## Negative constraints

Do not change the person’s identity or replace the face. Do not alter facial features, artificially enlarge the eyes, narrow the nose, change the shape of the lips, deform the jaw, alter body proportions, apply beauty filters, excessively smooth the skin, or create plastic-looking skin. Do not let accessories hide the eyes. Do not add flowers or veils unless requested. Do not create deformed hands or accessories, introduce floating elements, or turn the photograph into a 3D illustration.

## Final result

Create a realistic, elegant photograph of the same person transformed into a Mexican Catrina, with highly detailed fuchsia and black artistic makeup, a recognizable identity, and accessories customized according to the specified preferences.