Fitness + Wellness
Analyze Your Skincare Routine
Upload your skin photos and current products, then let AI walk you through a personalized skin analysis and build a simple AM + PM routine.
ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
Best With
An AI that can look at photos and guide you through a conversation
What You’ll Need
• clear, makeup-free photos of your face in natural light
• photos of the skincare products you currently use
• a few minutes to answer questions about your skin, goals and routine
Guided Prompt
How to use this prompt
Copy the entire prompt once into a new AI chat.
The AI will first ask you to upload clear, makeup-free photos of your skin.
Answer the questions it asks about your skin, goals and current routine.
Upload photos of the skincare products you currently use when prompted.
Stay in the same chat while the AI walks you through your analysis, product review and personalized routine.
At the end, it will create a simple written routine and visual summary for you.
You only need to paste the prompt once. Do not copy the individual stages separately.
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Sam’s Tips
Take your photos near a window in indirect daylight and turn off Portrait mode, filters and beauty effects.
When you photograph your products, make sure the product name is readable. If it isn’t, type the exact name into the chat.
You do not need a complicated routine for this to be useful. The goal is to figure out what is actually helping, what may be unnecessary, and what your simplest effective routine could look like.
AI can help organize and evaluate the information you provide, but it cannot diagnose skin conditions from a photo. If something looks concerning or needs medical evaluation, the prompt is designed to tell you when it would make sense to talk with a dermatologist.
Act as my personal skincare routine analyst.
I want you to guide me through a complete personalized skincare analysis from start to finish.
IMPORTANT: I only want to paste this prompt once. After I paste it, take the lead and guide me through the entire process step by step.
Do not give me a giant list of everything you need at once. Ask for information in the stages below, wait for my response, and then move to the next stage automatically.
Do not make me tell you to continue.
STAGE 1: GET MY PHOTOS
Start by asking me to upload clear, makeup-free photos of my skin.
Tell me exactly what photos you need and how to take them so you can evaluate my skin as accurately as possible.
Ask for:
• one straight-on photo
• one photo of each side of my face
• one close-up of my nose and inner cheeks
• one close-up of my under-eye/eye area
• close-ups of any areas I specifically want help with
Tell me to use natural light if possible and avoid filters, Portrait mode, makeup, or beauty effects.
Do not analyze my skin yet.
Wait for me to upload the photos.
STAGE 2: ASK ABOUT MY SKIN
After I upload my photos, ask me a short set of questions to understand my skin and goals.
Ask about:
• my age
• my skin type, if I know it
• my biggest skin concerns
• my skincare goals
• whether my skin tends to be sensitive
• any products or ingredients that have irritated my skin
• any known allergies relevant to skincare
• any prescription skincare or dermatology treatments I currently use
• anything else that would materially change your recommendations
Keep this manageable and easy to answer.
Wait for my answers before continuing.
STAGE 3: GET MY CURRENT PRODUCTS
Next, ask me to upload photos of the skincare products I currently use.
Ask me to include cleansers, serums, treatments, moisturizers, sunscreen, eye products, masks, prescription products, and anything else I regularly put on my face.
If you cannot confidently identify a product from a photo, ask me for the exact product name rather than guessing.
Ask any additional questions you genuinely need to understand how often I use the products or how I use them.
Do not ask unnecessary follow-up questions.
STAGE 4: CHECK THAT YOU HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION
Before giving me recommendations, review everything I provided.
If something important is missing and the answer could materially change your recommendation, ask me about it.
Otherwise, automatically begin my analysis.
Do not make me ask you to continue.
STAGE 5: GIVE ME MY PERSONALIZED SKIN ANALYSIS
Tell me what you can reasonably observe from my photos.
Include relevant observations about:
• overall skin appearance
• texture
• dryness or oiliness
• redness
• visible pores
• pigmentation
• under-eye appearance
• signs of irritation
• anything else you notice that relates to my concerns and goals
Be specific to MY skin rather than giving me generic skincare information.
Do not diagnose medical conditions from my photos.
Clearly distinguish between what you can reasonably observe in an image and anything that would require evaluation by a dermatologist or other healthcare professional.
STAGE 6: EVALUATE EVERYTHING I CURRENTLY USE
Evaluate every skincare product I gave you.
For each product, label it:
KEEP
CHANGE HOW I USE IT
PAUSE
STOP
Briefly explain why.
Then evaluate my routine as a whole.
Look for:
• ingredients I may be unnecessarily duplicating
• combinations that may increase irritation
• important basics I’m missing
• products that may not be helping my actual goals
• unnecessary steps
• places where simplifying would make more sense than adding another product
Take into account how frequently I use each product, not just its ingredient list.
STAGE 7: TELL ME WHAT I’M ACTUALLY MISSING
Tell me if there are any meaningful gaps in my routine.
Recommend the smallest number of additions necessary.
If a specific product would be useful, recommend one and explain why it makes sense for MY skin, goals, and current routine.
Do not recommend products simply to create more steps.
If I don't need anything else, tell me that.
STAGE 8: BUILD MY EXACT ROUTINE
Create my ideal:
AM ROUTINE
PM ROUTINE
Put everything in the correct application order.
Tell me which steps are optional.
If certain products should only be used on certain nights, create a very simple weekly schedule for me.
Make sure the routine is realistic enough that a normal person could actually follow it consistently.
STAGE 9: WHAT I WOULDN’T OVERLOOK
Give me 3–5 personalized things you think I should know based on everything you analyzed.
Prioritize things that may not have been obvious to me.
This could include things like:
• barrier support
• irritation
• under-eye concerns
• sunscreen habits
• pores
• over-exfoliation
• realistic expectations
• ingredient interactions
• something worth discussing with a dermatologist
Only include things that are actually relevant to me.
STAGE 10: MAKE IT REALLY SIMPLE
Finish the written analysis with:
WHAT I’D DO IF THIS WERE MY ROUTINE
Then give me:
KEEP:
Everything I should continue using.
STOP/PAUSE:
Anything I should stop or temporarily pause.
BUY:
Only the products I actually need to add.
EVERY MORNING:
My routine in order.
EVERY NIGHT:
My routine in order.
WEEKLY:
Anything I should only do occasionally.
This section should be simple enough that I can screenshot it and follow it without rereading the entire analysis.
STAGE 11: CREATE MY VISUAL SUMMARY
After completing the written analysis, create a clean 1–2 page visual summary of MY results.
This visual is for my personal use, not social media.
Make it attractive, simple, easy to read on a phone, and useful enough that I can save it to my camera roll and reference it while getting ready.
Include:
MY SKIN ANALYSIS
A concise summary of the most important things you noticed.
KEEP / CHANGE / STOP
A quick summary of what I should do with my current products.
WHAT I’M MISSING
Only the additions you actually recommend.
AM ROUTINE
My exact morning routine in order.
PM ROUTINE
My exact nighttime routine in order.
WHAT I WOULDN’T OVERLOOK
The most important personalized advice from your analysis.
Keep the visual concise. Put detailed explanations in the written analysis instead.
IMPORTANT RULES FOR THE ENTIRE PROCESS:
Do not alter, beautify, smooth, retouch, or recreate my face when analyzing my photos.
Base your analysis on the actual images I provide.
Do not make medical diagnoses from photos.
Do not invent details you cannot see.
Do not assume an expensive or complicated routine is better.
Do not recommend additional products unless they serve a clear purpose for my skin and goals.
If something I show you could warrant professional evaluation, tell me rather than trying to diagnose it yourself.
Your goal is to help me understand my skin and leave me with the simplest effective routine for my needs.