I asked ChatGPT to give me a glow-up. Yes, really.

A change of season has a way of making your closet, your haircut, and perhaps your entire personality feel due for an upgrade.

Maybe you want a fresh look for the months ahead.

Maybe you’re bored of doing your makeup the same way every morning.

Or maybe we’ve all spent a little too much time looking at ourselves through our phone cameras.

That familiar urge to change something may help explain why people are uploading selfies to ChatGPT and asking how to "glow up." This Tweet is currently unavailable.

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The results have prompted everything from "I want hair extensions now" to questions about whether the suggested changes are truly achievable — and why we’re asking a chatbot to tell us how to look better in the first place. (As one X user put it, the trend is "Dystopian as hell." ) Naturally, I wanted to see what the fuss was about.

So I snapped a selfie and uploaded it to ChatGPT.

I wanted to re-create the glow-up boards I’d seen people sharing on X.

Here’s the prompt I arrived at to get this result after trying it myself (after a few rounds of trial and error).