Turn one selfie into a studio-style Christmas portrait that keeps your face as it is.
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One person per photo: a selfie, half or full body, facing the camera with the face clear.
Photo settings
No prompt needed. Only upload photos of yourself or people who agreed to be featured; celebrity photos and film stills aren't allowed.
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Try itAn AI Christmas photoshoot is a holiday portrait made from one ordinary photo of you: the AI keeps your face, hair and build and swaps the outfit, the set and the lighting for a Christmas scene, so it looks like a studio session you never had to book.
One photo, many looks
Each run gives you one AI Christmas portrait in the look you pick. Run the same photo again with another look and you have a matching set of Christmas pictures of yourself for a card, a feed post or a frame, with no studio booking and no one dressing up.
Kept and changed
Your face, skin tone, age, hairstyle and build stay as they are. The clothes, background, light and props change, so it works as a Christmas outfit and background editor in one rather than a lookalike drawn from scratch.
Pick Candy cane (the first look, already selected), upload one photo of yourself and click Generate: you get the trend's sparkly peppermint studio portrait with your own face, without copying a prompt.
December 2025
Between December 18, 2025 and December 22, 2025, posts sharing one long prompt for AI image chatbots turned selfies into the same glossy holiday shoot, also called the Christmas lollipop trend: giant pink and red peppermints, oversized candy canes, frosted trees with pink ornaments, fake snow, a big red ornament, a sparkly white sequined outfit and a lollipop resting on one shoulder, under bright studio light. By December 22, 2025, people were already joking that their feeds were nothing but candy canes and sequins.
Men included
A half or full-body photo gives the sequins, the candy canes and the lollipop pose room; a close-up selfie still works, but you get a tighter portrait with less of the set. It works just as well for men: the peppermint studio stays the same and the sparkly white outfit is cut to suit the person in the photo.
One photo of you is all the generator needs. Here is what that photo decides, which photos keep your face best and the three steps.
1 photoYour photo
Sets the face, skin tone, hairstyle, age and build in every look. The outfit, set, light and pose come from the look you pick.
Works best
Head to hips or full length, standing naturally
Facing the camera, face sharp and unfilteredAvoid
Group shots: one person per photo
Sunglasses, caps or hands over the face
Beauty filters, stickers or cartoon effectsPick a look, add your photo
Choose a look above the upload box, or keep Candy cane, then add your selfie or a half or full-body photo.
Generate
Change the ratio or resolution if you like; the Generate button shows the exact price before you click.
Download it or animate it
Save the portrait for a Christmas card, a Facebook or Instagram post or a frame, or press Animate it to turn it into a short video with falling snow or twinkling lights.
Besides the candy cane studio there are 9 more looks and Surprise me, grouped here by mood.
Plaid Christmas pajamas and hot cocoa by the fireplace, or a loud knitted sweater, a tinsel scarf and a paper crown at a sweater party. The relaxed pair for a family-feed post.
A log cabin at snowy dusk, a vintage steam train on a Christmas Eve platform, or a sleigh piled with gifts under the northern lights. The softest, most card-like looks on the list.
An elegant coat under a towering gold tree in a marble lobby, deep red velvet beside a gold-and-red tree in the studio, or a steaming mug between lantern-lit market stalls. Polished outfits, warm light and bokeh: the Christmas glamour shots of the set.
A tartan wrap by the fire in a candlelit, wood-paneled library, or Surprise me, which designs an original Christmas setting and outfit that isn't on the list, for example a winter glasshouse full of poinsettias.
Not per photo: each portrait costs 3 credits at 1K, 4 at 2K or 5 at 4K. New accounts get 10 free credits when they sign up, and the Generate button shows the exact price before you run it.
No. The template keeps your face, skin tone, hairstyle, age and build and only replaces the outfit, the setting and the light. If a result doesn't look like you, the photo is usually why (a turned head, sunglasses or a beauty filter); the photo checklist above shows what works best.
Yes. The looks describe a setting and a festive outfit, not a gender, so a man's photo gets the same peppermint studio, fireside or hotel lobby, with clothes cut to suit him and his face, facial hair and build kept.
Yes, with most looks, if you're the child's parent or guardian. A child keeps their real age and natural face, with no makeup and a modest, fully covered festive outfit. The candy cane and red velvet looks are designed for adults, so for children pick the pajamas, cabin, night train or North Pole looks.
No. Each look already describes its set, outfit and light, so you only pick a look and upload a photo; there is no text box. The long Christmas photoshoot prompts shared online aren't needed here.
Yes. Most glam looks, such as the candy cane studio and the grand hotel lobby, get their shine from sequins, tailoring, tree lights and studio sparkle and keep your face as it is rather than painting on a new makeup look, so wear the makeup you want in the photo you upload. Red velvet is the one exception: it adds soft glam makeup to go with the velvet.
Yes. Under the finished portrait, Animate it opens the Animate Christmas Photo template with your picture already in place; it makes a 5-second video with falling snow, twinkling lights or gentle movement, for 60 credits at the default settings.
Film, TV and brand characters belong to their owners, so every look here is an original Christmas scene. The Night train look, for example, is a generic snowy station on Christmas Eve with a vintage steam train, without characters or anything copied from a film.
One photo of you, the look you want and a portrait ready for cards, posts and frames.
