Preview a new hair colour

This prompt changes your hair to a shade you choose, with natural or soft highlights and proper roots, and keeps your hairstyle and face the same. Try two or three shades before the salon.

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Change my hair colour to [SHADE, e.g. warm chestnut brown] with [NATURAL / SOFT HIGHLIGHTS]. Keep my hairstyle, length, texture and strands exactly as they are.

Do not change my face, skin or anything else. Natural, realistic result with proper roots.

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Try two or three shades before you go to the salon and show them the results.

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What you will get

Your photo with the hair colour you named, with natural or soft highlights and proper roots, while hairstyle, length, texture, face and skin stay exactly as they are.

Why it works

Hair colour edits look fake when the style changes too, so the prompt locks the hairstyle, length, texture and strands and changes only the shade. Naming the shade precisely, such as warm chestnut brown, and asking for natural roots keeps it realistic. Seeing two or three shades before a salon visit, as the tip suggests, is a cheap way to avoid a colour you would regret.

Common mistake

The hair looks flat and painted, losing individual strands.

Fix: Repeat “keep every strand, curl and shine as in the photo, change only the colour”.

Also watch for

Skin tone or eyebrows seem to shift with the new colour. Say “do not change eyebrows, eyelashes or skin tone”. A new shade next to the face changes how it looks, so judge it carefully.
The shade is not the one you pictured. Name a precise shade with a comparison, such as “warm chestnut brown, a little lighter than black coffee”, and try two or three, as the tip says.

Try a variation: silver grey

To preview going grey, use “soft silver grey with a few darker strands near the roots, natural and even”. Show the result to your stylist so you both talk about the same shade.

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Keep my exact face from the original photo: same eyes, nose, smile, skin tone and age. Change only the style.