Fix uneven haircuts

ROLE
Act as a senior professional photo retoucher, image editor, photographer and AI image-editing specialist. Perform a controlled, production-quality edit of the uploaded image. Treat the source image as the ground truth: preserve everything that is not explicitly requested to change.

EDIT
Correct only visibly uneven or unintentionally inconsistent areas of the subject's haircut. Subtly balance mismatched lengths, irregular edges or poorly blended sections while preserving the original hairstyle, overall length, hairline, texture, density, color, volume and facial identity. The result should look like the same haircut professionally corrected, not replaced with a different hairstyle.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE
Execute the requested "Fix Uneven Haircut" edit convincingly and naturally. The finished haircut should appear cleaner, more balanced and professionally finished while remaining unmistakably the subject's original hairstyle. Avoid unnecessary hair reconstruction, excessive symmetry and obvious AI-generation artifacts.

EDITING PRIORITY
1. Correct only genuinely uneven or unintentionally inconsistent haircut areas.
2. Preserve the original hairstyle, overall length, hairline and recognizable appearance.
3. Maintain realistic hair density, strand direction, texture, volume and natural asymmetry.
4. Integrate corrected sections seamlessly with the surrounding hair.
5. Prefer minimal localized correction over redesigning or restyling the haircut.

HAIRCUT CORRECTION — IMPORTANT
- Identify only areas that appear unintentionally uneven, poorly blended or inconsistent with the established haircut.
- Correct mismatched lengths conservatively and only where visually necessary.
- Smooth abrupt or accidental transitions between sections while preserving the intended haircut structure.
- Preserve the existing hairstyle and its recognizable silhouette.
- Preserve the subject's original overall hair length.
- Do not convert the haircut into a different style.
- Do not substantially shorten or lengthen the hair.
- Preserve the natural hairline, temples, sideburns and neckline unless a tiny local correction is required to resolve the uneven haircut.
- Do not artificially lower, raise, straighten or redesign the hairline.
- Preserve natural asymmetry when it appears intentional or anatomically normal.
- Do not force perfectly identical left and right sides.
- Preserve existing layers, fades, curls, waves, parting and styling direction where present.
- If the haircut already appears reasonably even, make only minimal corrections rather than forcing a visible transformation.

HAIR DETAIL & TEXTURE
- Preserve the subject's natural hair type, including straight, wavy, curly, coily or textured characteristics.
- Preserve realistic individual strands, strand groups and natural variation.
- Maintain the original hair color, highlights, shadows and tonal variation.
- Preserve natural density and scalp visibility.
- Do not artificially increase hair volume or density unless required to reconstruct a very small corrected section.
- Match existing hair direction and growth patterns.
- Preserve realistic transitions between shorter and longer sections.
- Avoid repeated, cloned or painted-looking strands.
- Match the source image's sharpness, grain, focus and available level of hair detail.
- Do not create artificially detailed hair inconsistent with the source resolution.

HAIRLINE & FACIAL PRESERVATION
- Preserve the subject's natural hairline and recognizable forehead shape.
- Preserve sideburn placement and natural transitions between scalp hair and facial hair.
- Do not fill receding areas, thinning areas or naturally sparse regions unless they are directly caused by the visibly uneven haircut being corrected.
- Do not alter eyebrows, eyelashes, beard, moustache or other facial hair.
- Do not allow corrected hair to unnaturally overlap the forehead, ears, eyes or face.
- Preserve realistic fine hairs around the hairline where visible.

IDENTITY & FACIAL PRESERVATION
- Preserve the subject's recognizable identity exactly.
- Preserve facial geometry: head shape, forehead, eyebrows, eye shape and spacing, nose, lips, teeth when visible, ears, jawline, chin, cheek structure and natural asymmetry.
- Preserve age, ethnicity/skin tone, natural proportions and distinguishing permanent features.
- Preserve realistic pores, fine skin texture, natural highlights and believable facial detail.
- Do not apply an artificial beauty filter, face swap, facial redesign, excessive symmetry correction or plastic skin.
- Do not alter facial expression, makeup, clothing, body, pose, background or camera framing.

STRICT PRESERVATION RULES
- Do not change anything outside the requested haircut correction unless a tiny correction is absolutely necessary for realistic integration.
- Preserve the original composition, crop, camera position, perspective and aspect ratio.
- Preserve all people who are not explicitly targeted by the edit.
- Preserve facial identity, body proportions, pose, hand position and anatomy.
- Preserve clothing, accessories, jewelry, tattoos, scars, freckles, moles, logos and other distinctive details.
- Preserve background architecture, furniture, objects, text and environmental details.
- Preserve realistic texture in skin, hair, fabric, metal, glass, wood and other materials.
- Do not introduce unrelated props, people, text, logos, decorations or environmental changes.

REALISM & INTEGRATION
- Match the source image's light direction, intensity, softness, color temperature and shadow behavior.
- Match local reflections, ambient light and color spill where relevant.
- Match the original camera perspective, lens characteristics, depth of field, focus falloff and motion blur.
- Match image grain, noise structure, sharpness and compression character so corrected hair does not look regenerated or pasted in.
- Maintain correct hair depth, overlap and occlusion around the head, ears, neck and clothing.
- Keep hair boundaries clean but naturally irregular.
- Preserve fine strands along the silhouette rather than creating unnaturally smooth edges.
- Keep colors within believable photographic ranges.

ANATOMY & GEOMETRY SAFETY
- Preserve the subject's original head shape and proportions.
- Do not alter skull shape to accommodate the haircut correction.
- Maintain correct placement and visibility of the forehead, ears, temples and neck.
- Do not warp the face, ears, eyebrows, neck, clothing or surrounding background.
- Do not create duplicate hair sections, impossible growth patterns or floating strands.
- Do not unintentionally alter face shape, perceived age or body proportions.

ARTIFACT PREVENTION
Avoid:
- changing the hairstyle
- excessive shortening or lengthening
- redesigned hairlines
- artificially perfect symmetry
- unrealistic increases in hair density
- helmet-like hair
- painted or solid-looking hair
- repeated or cloned strands
- unnatural strand direction
- abrupt texture changes
- fake fades or gradients
- blurry reconstructed patches
- unnaturally sharp corrected sections
- hair overlapping facial features incorrectly
- plastic or over-smoothed skin
- halos around hair edges
- smeared or melted textures
- distorted ears or facial anatomy
- inconsistent lighting or shadows
- obvious generative-AI artifacts

QUALITY CONTROL
Before finalizing, inspect the entire image and mentally compare it with the source. Verify that:
- visibly uneven haircut areas have been corrected;
- the original hairstyle remains clearly recognizable;
- overall hair length and silhouette remain faithful to the source;
- the natural hairline, temples, sideburns and neckline remain preserved;
- corrected sections blend naturally with surrounding hair;
- hair texture, density, color and strand direction remain realistic;
- natural asymmetry has not been unnecessarily removed;
- facial identity and expression remain unchanged;
- all untouched areas remain faithful to the original;
- no unintended hairstyle, grooming or facial changes were introduced;
- the result looks like the existing haircut was professionally corrected rather than digitally replaced;
- the correction remains believable at close inspection.

OUTPUT
Return one polished final image only. Preserve the original aspect ratio and framing unless the requested edit explicitly requires otherwise. Use the highest practical image quality and detail available. Do not add captions, watermarks, borders or explanatory text to the image.