What exactly am I borrowing from the reference?
Name the color story, placement, finish, focal point, or level of drama you care about before you transfer the image.
Make inspiration personal
AI makeup transfer and a custom makeup look builder
Use AI makeup transfer to test a reference on your portrait, or build a reusable custom makeup look across base, face, eyes, lips, and finish.
SourceYour inspiration
BuilderLayer by layer
StrengthSoft to bold
SaveCustom recipes
The decision brief
The question this feature answers best.
Enter with one decision, keep the comparison controlled, and leave with language you can use beyond the screen.
Adapt the idea instead of copying every pixel
Judge whether the creative direction survives on your portrait, then rebuild the parts that need different shape, scale, or intensity.
A five-layer recipe you can recreate and revise
Save the base, face, eyes, lips, and finish as a named structure so the inspiration becomes usable beyond one generated image.
How it works
From first idea to a comparison worth keeping.
Add inspiration
Choose a clear photo of a real face wearing the makeup you like.
Transfer or rebuild
Test the reference as a whole or assemble your own base, face, eyes, lips, and finish.
Name and save
Keep a custom recipe so you can return to the same idea later.
Test the idea behind the reference—not the model's identity
A saved makeup image bundles the model, visible features, expression, lighting, products, styling, and retouching. Look Transfer helps you test the reference's color story, placement, finish, and focal point on your chosen portrait.
Use a clear close-up of one real face wearing readable makeup. Product swatches, illustrations, masks, extreme crops, and heavily colored light make the result harder to interpret.
Turn a good image into a repeatable recipe
Makeup Builder separates the look into base, face, eyes, lips, and finish. Choose soft, balanced, or bold intensity, undo or reset layers, add a custom description, name the result, and save it on the device.
The saved recipe matters because it explains the image. You can return to the same structure, make a day or evening variation, or translate each layer into products you already own.
- Five organized layer groups
- Soft, balanced, and bold intensity
- Saved custom looks
- Optional free-form AI description
Where it becomes useful
Give the feature one job—and judge it by that job.
A useful result should clarify the whole look, isolate one detail, or give you a product, technique, or routine decision to test next.
Test the idea behind a saved reference
Transfer is most useful when you care about the reference's color story, placement, and mood but need to see whether that direction still feels right on your portrait.
Create one look at three strengths
Build a soft, balanced, and bold version with the same core choices. That turns a single inspiration into a flexible signature direction.
Save a recipe you can explain
Name the anchor, layer order, and intended finish. A useful saved look should help you remember the logic, not only the final image.
Review with a critical eye
Keep the inspiration, question the invented details
A transfer can preserve the broad creative direction while changing small details because the faces, lighting, visible products, and source quality differ. Judge the parts you asked to explore before reacting to every pixel.
Direction
Check whether the color family, focal point, finish, and overall level of drama survived the transfer.
Adaptation
Notice which shapes or placements need adjustment for your visible features, preferred coverage, or everyday technique.
Recipe
Convert the result into base, face, eyes, lips, and finish so the idea can be recreated with products you control.
A repeatable practice plan
Extract the makeup logic from a reference, then rebuild it as editable layers.
A reference includes a person, styling, light, and photography. Look Transfer is more useful when you define the makeup decisions before generation and use Makeup Builder to remove anything that does not belong in your version.
Name the anchor, palette, placement, and finish.
Choose an image you may submit and identify what actually attracts you. Mark details that belong to lighting, retouching, facial features, hair, or accessories so they do not silently enter the brief.
Apply the reference to one neutral portrait.
Judge whether the annotated color story and focal point translate while your identity remains familiar. Do not use overall resemblance to the reference person as the success measure.
Keep the successful layer and replace the conflict.
Preserve the eye if it carries the look, soften the lip if it competes, or reduce cheek saturation while keeping its direction. Focused edits turn a partial success into a deliberate result.
Save the final structure as a named recipe.
Organize base, sculpt, cheek, eyes, brows, lips, and finish. Record relative intensity and the order in which layers should be tested with real products.
Keep the annotated source, transferred result, and final builder recipe together. Write what was preserved, adapted, and ignored. This creates a clean handoff for your own routine or a makeup artist without asking anyone to copy another person’s face or a product that may not exist.
Permission before processing
Only use inspiration portraits you are entitled to submit. MaqAI asks for AI photo-processing consent before uploading a chosen portrait or makeup reference for the requested feature.
How MaqAI handles privacy →Good to know
Questions about Transfer & Makeup Builder
Straight answers about the app, AI previews, privacy, and what to expect.
What kind of inspiration photo works best?
Use a clear close-up of one real face wearing visible makeup. Avoid product swatches, illustrations, masks, and heavily cropped images.
Can I change individual parts of a transferred look?
You can continue exploring individual categories or use Makeup Builder to create a more controlled layered direction.
Are saved looks synced?
Saved-builder behavior can depend on your account and app version. The app clearly indicates when a look is stored on the device.
Put Transfer & Makeup Builder to work
Start with one decision—not twenty random options.
Use Transfer & Makeup Builder to compare a clear direction, keep the part that works, and turn the result into a practical next step.