For the life of me, I cannot get this AI to understand. I tried with the simplest prompts, the most complex prompts, I just cant get it to do this. I am trying to achieve a slicked back, extremely tightly-pulled severe ponytail.

That scraped back look, like Ariana used to do, or that you see in fashion shoots now and then. If you just google “extremely tight ponytail,” the world is full of examples, but apparently this AI has simply never heard of such a thing.

Not only can I not get it to do this, half the shots are from the back. Even if I specify a front view, it wants to show me a rear view of a ponytail. When it does show from the front (or even side, fine, I’ll take it…) it always responds with some weird-ass poof at the scalp, and fucking flyaway hairs that frame the face. Every time with those flyaways, grrrr. I used to get this by adding a bunch of negatives, but now I just cant make it happen.

Trying for extremely tight, scraped back, gelled down, so-tight-it-hurts ponytail.

Help me Obi Wan…

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    17 days ago

    “Front view of Woman with her hair slicked back. You see a ponytail raised up from behind her head.”

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      17 days ago

      If that’s not tall enough, just add “tall” between ’a’ and ‘ponytail’, it should work. If this isn’t what you’re looking for then I am sorry.

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      16 days ago

      Front view of Woman with her hair slicked back. You see a ponytail raised up from behind her head.

      Thank you for trying to help! I should have specified within the “Professional Photo” style, I need to retain a stylistic consistency across various images. When I do that with your prompt, none of them result in a tight style. Of 16, 6 of the images were from the back. Two more were from the front, but with the ponytail hanging in front of the face. All but one had quite loose hair and a fuck ton of flyaways Several had hair buns instead of ponytails, all also loose. Also, I need the woman to be looking into the camera, not downward, which most of the “Casual Photo” attempts yielded. I do appreciate your input though!

      Also, this will be incorporated as a detail in a larger description… adding basically any detail to this is likely to wipe it out (color, length, facial features and expressions.) What I am looking for is specific word choices/descriptors that will consistently generate this style. I have used “slicked back” on its own (and repetitively within the prompt) over and over again to no avail.

      I am not one to use a very short prompt and accept what is given… that is letting the AI imagine a thing. I want to imagine a thing myself, and have the AI depict it as close to I describe as possible. My prompts tend to be much longer, so complex specificity must be combined with brevity.

      Thank you again though!

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        16 days ago

        I gotcha, I work with huge prompts majority of the time. I was offering my first thoughts on a key token structure. Do you have a specific example you could share? I don’t mind doing some testing trying to achieve a better set of tokens to share.

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        16 days ago

        I can say this:

        Try to describe the ponytail this way:

        woman, long (or high or long-high) ponytail, raised (high) on top of head, slicked back with gel, pulled back tightly, stretches forehead, painful and tight

        That should probably give you the result you actually want.