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Beauty magazine cover with your cosmetic product in the shot

This prompt makes a beauty magazine cover where the star of the issue is your product: an eye with long lashes shot up close, the mascara from your photo held right beside the lashes, a magenta and blue palette and a GLOSS masthead on top. In the example a mascara tube photographed on an office desk became a cover with the line LASHES THAT TALK. Model GPT Image 2.5 Flare, 3:4. Press Try it in ClickBait and add a photo of your product to the references.

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The prompt, the mascara photo and the cover

GLOSS magazine cover: an extreme close-up of an eye with long black lashes, a black mascara tube in a hand with pink nails beside it, the line LASHES THAT TALK and a barcode
GPT Image 2.5 Flare, 3:4
Source photo: a glossy black mascara tube with a ribbed cap on a light office desk, a printer and a monitor behind it
Source product photo in the references
Model
GPT Image 2.5 Flare
Aspect ratio
3:4
Use the product from the reference photo exactly as it is: same shape, proportions, colour and material. Do not redesign it and do not print any logo or text on the product itself. Beauty magazine cover, vertical 3:4. Extreme close-up of a woman's eye with long dramatic black lashes and glossy skin; the mascara from the reference is held right beside the lashes, perfectly sharp. Hot magenta and electric blue palette, glossy flash beauty lighting, wet-look highlights. Big bold masthead at the top: "GLOSS". Large cover line: "LASHES THAT TALK". A few small cover lines, an issue number and a barcode. Real skin texture, premium beauty editorial of an invented magazine. All text must be spelled exactly as given, crisp and legible. No other text, no real brand logos.

The prompt is in English, the language models follow best. Swap the product, colors and headlines right in the text.

The button opens Photo with this prompt, model and aspect ratio. Add a photo of your product to the references: the prompt is written for it. No account yet? Sign up first, the prompt waits for a day.

How to move the technique to another product

  • Pick the close-up by the product. For mascara the prompt says Extreme close-up of a woman's eye with long dramatic black lashes. For a lipstick change it to Extreme close-up of glossy lips, for nail polish to fingertips with fresh polish, for a serum to cheek skin with tiny droplets.
  • The product and its place: in the mascara from the reference is held right beside the lashes swap mascara for your product and lashes for what is in the shot, for example the lipstick beside the lips or the nail polish bottle beside the fingertips.
  • The palette: Hot magenta and electric blue palette suits bold makeup. For skincare go softer, such as peach and milky white, but keep glossy flash beauty lighting and wet-look highlights: they give the cover its shine.
  • The text: replace GLOSS in the masthead and LASHES THAT TALK in the main line with your brand name and the promise of the product. Short quoted words are easier to check letter by letter.
  • The small lines: the prompt only says A few small cover lines, so the model made up the words for them. If you need your own, list them in quotes right after that phrase.

How to make a cover with your product

  1. Shoot the product on its own

    One tube or bottle, whole, cap closed, no hand in the shot: a drawn hand will hold it by the lashes. The office desk from the example did not get in the way, only the shape and the shine of the mascara made it to the cover.

  2. Open the prompt in Photo

    Try it in ClickBait sets GPT Image 2.5 Flare, 3:4, 2K and medium quality. If the cover is going on a large screen, raise the resolution to 4K before the run.

  3. Run it and check sharpness and letters

    You can take up to 4 variants at once. Pick the one where the product is sharp and the cover text has no typos. The price is on the button before you start, and a failed generation returns the tokens on its own.

Why an eye up close and not a portrait

Mascara is small. On a full portrait cover it would get lost in a hand, while next to an eye in close-up the tube runs almost the full height of the frame. Right beside it you see what people buy it for: long lashes.

The light does the rest. Glossy flash beauty lighting and wet-look highlights give a wet shine to the skin and to the plastic of the tube, and Real skin texture keeps the skin from turning waxy. The line premium beauty editorial of an invented magazine asks for a magazine that does not exist, so the masthead is free for your own brand name.

Where to find it in ClickBait

GPT Image 2.5 Flare lives in ClickBait under the Photo section. Sign up, pick a version from the model list and describe what you want to get.

The token price is shown on the run button before you start. If a generation fails, the tokens go back to your balance automatically.

New accounts created with Google or email get a welcome bonus of 10 tokens. These are promo tokens and expire after 14 days.

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Frequently asked questions

Can I put a real person on the cover?

Yes. Add their photo to the references next to the product photo, GPT Image 2.5 Flare takes up to 16 images, and say that the eye and the skin come from that photo. Only use photos of people who agreed to the ad.

Where do the cover lines that are not in the prompt come from?

The prompt asks for A few small cover lines and an issue number but gives no words, so the model made up BOLDER EYES BRIGHTER DAYS and issue #12. If you want your own, put them in quotes and the model will use your words.

Will the mascara on the cover look exactly like mine?

The model takes shape, color and large lettering from the photo: in the example the ribbed cap and the gloss of the tube matched. Small label text can drift, so check it. Check your own logo on the packaging separately too: by default the prompt asks not to print anything on the product.

Can I name the magazine after my brand?

Yes, that turns the cover into a brand ad. Put your name in place of GLOSS. Do not use names of real magazines: they are other brands, and the prompt already asks for an invented magazine.

Where can I use a cover like this?

It is a ready ad frame with the product and the result side by side. Post it in the feed, make a 9:16 version for stories by changing vertical 3:4 in the text and the format in Photo, or put it on a banner for a beauty store.