Natural skin retouch (no plastic look)

This prompt retouches a portrait without the plastic look. It softens temporary blemishes, redness and dark circles and evens the skin tone, while keeping pores, moles and freckles. If the result is too smooth, reply asking for less smoothing.

photo-natural-skin — gemini — 55 words

Retouch this portrait naturally. Gently reduce temporary blemishes, acne, redness, and dark under-eye circles, and even out the skin tone — but keep real skin texture, pores, and natural features like moles and freckles.

Do not slim the face, alter the nose or lips, or apply heavy smoothing. Result must look like high-end portrait photography.

Edit in the builder Copy & open Gemini ↗Copy & open ChatGPT ↗

If it looks too smooth, reply: “Less smoothing — bring back natural skin texture.”

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What you will get

Your portrait with blemishes, redness and dark circles softened but pores, freckles and moles still visible, so it looks like you on a good day, not like a filter.

Common mistake

The skin still comes out plastic.

Fix: Upload the original file at full size, not a screenshot. A small, compressed image gives the AI no real texture to keep, so it smooths.

Also watch for

Moles and freckles get tidied away. List them: “keep the mole on my left cheek and the freckles across my nose”. A named feature is protected.
Eyes and teeth look whiter and brighter than before. Add “do not whiten the eyes or teeth”. Small extras creep in unless you rule them out.

Try a variation: match the light

Add one line about the light, such as “soft window light from the left”, so the AI keeps the existing shadows while it evens the tone instead of flattening the face.

Still not right? Reply with this

Less retouching. Keep pores, freckles and moles, and only soften the redness and the dark circles under my eyes.