Why AI Portraits Look Plastic — and How to Fix It
Most AI portrait prompts describe the subject but skip how skin should render. Models default to smoothed, airbrushed "beauty filter" skin unless you explicitly ask for pores, subsurface scattering, freckles and natural imperfections. RealSkin adds those modifiers plus anti-plastic negatives so Nano Banana, Flux and Stable Diffusion lean toward editorial photography instead of CGI dolls.
What RealSkin Adds
- Skin texture — visible pores, peach fuzz, microblemishes, unretouched grain.
- Skin tone — accurate undertones, freckles, sun spots, natural flush.
- Character lock — reference-image identity for AI influencers and virtual models.
- AI influencer look — candid Instagram, editorial lifestyle, clean-girl aesthetic.
- Anti-plastic negatives — waxy skin, uncanny valley, doll face, facetune smoothing.