Realistic Prime Time Indoor Selfie

Prompt

A realistic casual indoor selfie of a {argument name="person" default="adult woman"} taken at arm’s length on a smartphone, framed from mid-chest up in a square composition. She has shoulder-length, slightly messy wavy {argument name="hair color" default="auburn red"} hair with natural volume and soft frizz, center-parted, lit by warm golden-hour sunlight coming from a large window or sliding glass door on the left side of the frame. She wears a simple {argument name="shirt color" default="white"} short-sleeve V-neck T-shirt. The pose is relaxed and natural with both forearms faintly visible from holding the phone, creating an authentic unpolished selfie perspective. The setting is a real apartment or home interior: bright vertical window and door frames on the left, beige walls, and a dark brown sofa in the back right. Lighting is soft, warm, and organic, with sun highlights on the hair, shoulders, and arms, mild indoor shadows, realistic skin texture, and no glamor retouching. Overall look should feel candid, believable, and minimally styled, like a genuine phone photo rather than a polished AI portrait. Use natural proportions, subtle image noise, ordinary home background detail, and straightforward smartphone camera realism.

Example output

How to use this prompt

1. 1. Copy the full prompt text above.
2. 2. Paste it into your image model — Midjourney, DALL·E, Stable Diffusion, or GPT Image.
3. 3. Replace the subject, style or lighting words with your own to adapt it.
4. 4. Adjust aspect ratio and steps in your tool; the prompt itself is tool-neutral.
5. 5. Iterate on one variable at a time so you can tell which change mattered.