Remove grey hair

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

EDIT
Remove visible gray, silver or white hair strands from the targeted subject by recoloring them to match the person’s existing natural hair color. Blend the corrected strands seamlessly with the surrounding hair while preserving the exact hairstyle, hairline, strand structure, texture, volume, lighting and facial identity.

PRIMARY OBJECTIVE
Execute the requested “Remove Gray Hair” edit convincingly and naturally. The finished hair should look like the subject’s original hair without visible gray strands—not artificially dyed, darkened, painted over or regenerated. The result must remain photographically realistic and contain no obvious AI-editing artifacts.

EDITING PRIORITY

Recolor only the visible gray, silver or white hair strands.
Match the surrounding natural hair color accurately.
Preserve the subject’s identity, age and facial appearance exactly.
Preserve the original hairstyle, individual strands and natural variation.
Keep every unrelated part of the image unchanged.

GRAY HAIR CORRECTION

Identify genuine gray, silver and white hair strands before making corrections.
Recolor only the affected strands using tones sampled or inferred from the surrounding natural hair.
Match local highlights, shadows, undertones and color variation rather than applying one flat color.
Preserve individual strands, flyaway hairs, fine edges, roots and realistic strand separation.
Maintain natural differences between lighter and darker sections of hair.
Preserve the original hairline, parting, density, length, volume, curl pattern and direction of growth.
Keep corrected strands consistent with the scene’s lighting and color temperature.
Blend transitions gradually so no painted patches, hard edges or repeated textures are visible.
Do not recolor natural highlights, reflections or brightly illuminated strands that only appear gray because of the lighting.
If uncertain whether a strand is naturally gray or simply reflecting light, preserve it rather than making an aggressive correction.

HAIR COLOR & TEXTURE PRESERVATION

Preserve the subject’s existing natural hair color exactly.
Do not make the entire hairstyle darker, warmer, cooler, more saturated or more uniform.
Preserve natural roots, subtle tonal variation and realistic highlights.
Preserve curls, waves, coils, straight strands, frizz and flyaway hairs as they appear in the source.
Do not increase hair density, fill thinning areas or redesign the hairline.
Do not add shine, artificial gloss, excessive smoothness or salon-style enhancement unless explicitly requested.
Keep the hair’s original sharpness, grain and photographic texture.

IDENTITY & AGE PRESERVATION

Preserve the subject’s recognizable identity exactly.
Preserve facial geometry, expression, gaze, skin tone, natural asymmetry and distinguishing features.
Do not alter wrinkles, skin texture, facial hair or other age-related characteristics.
Removing gray hair must not cause the face or overall subject to appear artificially younger.
Do not apply skin smoothing, beauty enhancement, face reshaping or age reduction.
Preserve eyebrows, eyelashes, beard and body hair unless gray-hair removal in those areas is explicitly requested.

TARGETING RULES

Apply the edit only to the intended subject’s scalp hair unless another area is explicitly specified.
If multiple people are visible, modify only the clearly targeted subject.
Do not automatically recolor gray eyebrows, eyelashes, beard, mustache or other facial hair.
Preserve hats, headwear, hair accessories, jewelry and clothing exactly.
Protect fine boundaries where hair overlaps the face, ears, neck, clothing and background.

STRICT PRESERVATION RULES

Do not change anything outside the requested gray-hair correction.
Preserve the original composition, crop, camera position, perspective and aspect ratio.
Preserve the subject’s identity, face, expression, pose, anatomy and body proportions.
Preserve clothing, accessories, makeup, tattoos, scars, freckles and moles.
Preserve the background, objects, architecture, text, logos and environmental details.
Do not change the overall exposure, contrast, saturation, white balance or color grade.
Do not introduce new objects, people, text, decorations or unrelated changes.

REALISM & INTEGRATION

Match the source image’s light direction, brightness, softness and color temperature.
Maintain believable highlights and shadows on every corrected strand.
Match the original camera sharpness, depth of field, grain, noise and compression characteristics.
Keep foreground and flyaway hair edges clean but naturally soft where appropriate.
Preserve correct depth and occlusion where strands cross the face, ears, clothing or background.
Ensure the corrected hair does not look painted, pasted in or digitally selected.

ARTIFACT PREVENTION
Avoid:

changing the subject’s identity or perceived age
recoloring the entire hairstyle unnecessarily
flat or uniform hair color
painted-over gray strands
plastic, waxy or helmet-like hair
altered hairline or hairstyle
increased hair density or hidden thinning
destroyed curls, waves or individual strands
confusing natural highlights with gray hair
unnatural saturation or excessive darkness
repeated or cloned hair textures
halos around the hair
smeared flyaway strands
modifications to eyebrows or facial hair
facial retouching or skin smoothing
background or clothing changes
obvious generative-AI artifacts

QUALITY CONTROL
Before finalizing, compare the result carefully with the source and verify that:

visible gray hair has been naturally and selectively recolored;
the replacement tones match the surrounding natural hair;
the subject’s identity and age remain unchanged;
the hairstyle, hairline, density, texture and individual strands are preserved;
natural highlights have not been mistakenly removed;
corrected areas match the original lighting, grain and sharpness;
no painted patches, halos or repeated textures are visible;
facial hair and eyebrows remain unchanged unless specifically targeted;
every unrelated part of the image remains faithful to the source;
the final result looks believable at close inspection.

OUTPUT
Return one polished final image only. Preserve the original aspect ratio, resolution and framing. Use the highest practical image quality and detail available. Do not add captions, watermarks, borders, comparison labels or explanatory text.