Mastering Negative Prompts


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🔸 Face & Expression Issues

Avoid awkward or creepy facial features:

  • expressionless

  • creepy smile

  • distorted mouth

  • blank stare

  • twisted face

  • double nose

  • off-centered eyes

  • misaligned gaze

  • unnatural expression


🔸 Hair, Skin & Makeup Glitches

For clean beauty shots or natural looks, avoid:

  • messy hair

  • floating hair strands

  • blurry hair texture

  • cracked skin

  • greasy skin

  • glowing skin (if not needed)

  • smudged makeup

  • duplicated eyebrows

  • melted skin


🔸 Body & Limb Errors

Very common in full-body AI art:

  • extra arms

  • broken neck

  • twisted waist

  • fused hands

  • missing fingers

  • unnatural pose

  • overlapping limbs

  • dislocated joints

  • bad anatomy


🔸 Clothing & Accessory Problems

Prevent clothing artifacts:

  • fused clothes

  • broken outfit

  • melted fabric

  • strange textures

  • repeating patterns

  • invisible clothes

  • clothes clipping

  • tangled accessories

  • duplicated jewelry


🔸 Eye Problems

Perfect eyes make or break a portrait:

  • glowing eyes

  • missing pupils

  • cross-eyed

  • double irises

  • dead eyes

  • asymmetric eyes

  • glassy eyes

  • red-eye

  • too large eyes


🔸 Background Issues

Improve composition by removing these:

  • cluttered background

  • messy environment

  • distracting colors

  • low contrast

  • blurred elements

  • irrelevant objects

  • floating objects

  • unrealistic shadows

  • wrong perspective


🔸 Lighting, Style & Effects

Remove bad stylization or rendering issues:

  • harsh shadows

  • extreme highlights

  • over-saturation

  • psychedelic colors

  • unwanted glow

  • noise

  • visual distortion

  • lens flare

  • inconsistent style


Sample Negative Prompt (Portrait-Focused)

If you're making a clean, realistic female portrait, this might be a great starting prompt:

low quality, bad anatomy, creepy smile, extra arms, broken hands, melted skin, dead eyes, fused clothing, harsh lighting, distorted face, misaligned gaze, blurry hair, glowing skin, floating accessories, chaotic background, text, watermark
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