# Visual Kei (ヴィジュアル系) — image generation prompt
# IndexStyle No.593 — https://indexstyle.org/styles/visual-kei
# Style descriptors only. This prompt names no artist, studio, brand or work.

Produce four original images in the visual language of Visual Kei, a style from Subculture Style, 1980s–.

## What to make

Make the kind of thing this style exists for: designing costume, hair, makeup and photography as one band identity, or making changes in a performer's appearance carry a story across eras and fan culture. Choose one subject and hold it across all four images.

## What has to be visible

- Large gravity-defying hair built from sharp sections
- Theatrical pale makeup, strong eyes and fine brows
- Leather or lace mixed with jewelry, military and historic dress
- Long silhouettes crossing gender markers

Someone who knows this style should be able to point at each of these in the finished image.

## How to build it

- Layout and structure: Make face and hair the upper focus, extending a long silhouette through shoulder, sleeve and hem
- Type and lettering: Choose one lineage of sharp serif, blackletter or drawn lettering and align it with the costume quotation
- Material and surface: Layer black leather, lace, metal and velvet, carrying one accent through makeup and hair
- Colour: #ECE7E2 carries the ground, #A62D56 is the colour the style is remembered by, #17131B holds text and outlines. Read off real works, so treat them as a direction rather than a fixed palette.
- What it should feel like: rebellion, exhilaration, luxury

## What goes wrong

Black clothes and heavy makeup are not enough. Bind music, persona, costume and image change into one expression.

## Across the four

Keep every cue above present in all four. Vary the framing, the scale and the arrangement so the set shows the range this style covers rather than four versions of one picture.

## Constraints

- Do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work.
- Do not reproduce the composition of an existing work.
- Produce original compositions in the general period language described above.

Full design spec: https://indexstyle.org/styles/visual-kei/design.md