AI talent
Kali Solène
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The brief
Build AI talent a brand could actually work with: the same woman in every shot, a clear personality, and written rules for how she looks, sounds and behaves.
Kali Solène is a luxury wellness and beauty creator in her mid-20s, based in San Francisco, with Senegalese and Ghanaian heritage. She is a poet and an art lover.
My role
I created her: the concept, the brand bible, the direction for every image, the comp card and her voice. I generated the images in Higgsfield, testing Soul 2, Nano Banana and GPT Image 2.5 against each other.
Solo project.
My approach
Consistency is the whole job. A face that drifts between shots reads as fake, so I locked the traits that can never change, like skin depth, the shape of the chin, the gold studs and necklaces, and every strand of hair staying inside the frame, and wrote them into the brand bible so each new image inherits the fixes.
Her skin had to be a deep, rich mocha. One model kept lightening her, so I attach a deep-skin reference to every generation and say it plainly in the prompt.
Process
One prompt
She started as a single written headshot description: a luxury wellness creator with deep mocha skin, high cheekbones and dense 4C coils. I kept the first result and built everything from it.
Three models, one face
To rebuild her for consistency I compared the models side by side. Nano Banana got the depth of her skin right. GPT Image got the elegance of the dress. I kept the best of each and wrote down why.
Brand bible
Who she is, her locked appearance, her voice, three hair styles, four wardrobe lanes, gold jewelry only, and guardrails: an AI label on every post, no fake testimonials, no health claims.
A reference set
A master headshot, then profiles, then front, back and side full-body shots, each checked against the headshot before I approved it.
What I cut
I rejected her early profiles for a chin that was too sharp, a torso turned three-quarters, and a head that stretched. The fix was to mirror the approved left profile and use it as the pose guide for the right.
On location
At the Trevi Fountain I matched a real reference photo, sent the railing back until it matched the original, and in the seated shot fixed only the legs.
Comp card
One page, in the order a women's comp card uses, with every photo on the same backdrop so she reads like real talent.
From prompt to piece
1 · First output
The first result from one prompt. I kept it.
2 · Turning point
The off-shoulder profiles: the chin, torso angle and head shape fixed, on the way to the final.
3 · Final
Approved: true 90° profiles in the one-shoulder top, the pair on her comp card.
The work
Next
Video: short clips in her own voice, with her face steady from the first frame to the last.