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Y2K Direct-Flash Selfie with Faithful Face Identity

Create a warm-toned, grainy Y2K-style close-up selfie while preserving the reference subject’s facial identity exactly.

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Use the uploaded reference photo as the primary reference and strict guide for facial identity. Preserve the face’s identity, proportions, shape, eyes, eyebrows, nose, lips, jawline, cheeks, skin tone, and natural facial characteristics exactly. Do not redesign, beautify, slim, elongate, or otherwise alter the face in any way.

Makeup:
- Apply Douyin-style makeup with vivid peach blush, heavily placed across the cheekbones and over the bridge of the nose (Igari blush).
- Give the eyes light brown or hazel contact lenses, sharp black cat-eye eyeliner extending outward, and fine, wispy false lashes.
- Make the lips appear fuller than their natural outline with dark reddish-brown overlining and a glossy finish.
- Add prominent, reflective highlighter to the tip and bridge of the nose.

Hair:
- Style the very thick hair straight and jet black.
- Leave two long, straight face-framing bangs hanging on either side of the face.
- Pull the rest of the hair back into a large, messy bun that appears on the left side of the image, with a tuft of hair sticking out from its end like a rooster’s tail.

Outfit:
- Dress the subject in a soft, fuzzy knit cardigan with a large black-and-ivory check pattern.
- Give the cardigan round black buttons and leave it unbuttoned at the top to reveal the neck and collarbone area.

Accessories:
- Add a black knit beanie with two white stripes and reversed white lettering resembling “DIOR.”
- Add aesthetic rimless glasses with clear lenses and thin silver metal arms, worn slightly low on the bridge of the nose.

Head, body, and pose:
- Tilt the head slightly forward and tuck the chin in, while the eyes gaze sharply downward through the camera lens.
- Bend one hand upward, with relaxed, graceful fingers positioned close to the eye and the glasses’ temple.
- Give the subject a relaxed, curled-up posture, leaning toward the knees with one knee drawn up. Show the knee in the lower-right corner with a slight reddish scar or bruise.

Lighting, effects, and background:
- Use direct frontal flash photography, creating deep, sharp shadows beneath the chin and behind the hair.
- Apply warm tones and grain or noise resembling a shot from an old digital compact camera, with a Y2K retro aesthetic.
- Keep the background plain and dark grayish-brown so attention stays on the subject.

Camera and composition:
- Frame the subject in a close-up or medium close-up portrait.
- Shoot from a low angle, like an upright selfie, using a slightly wide-angle lens that gives the face an aesthetic distortion.

Do not change the original face.

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