Updated October 2026 · 14 prompts
The edits that took over social feeds, what each one is, and the prompt to make it.
Nano Banana trends spread because each one is a single prompt applied to your own photo. Below is every major trend since the model launched in 2025, a line on what it looks like, and a prompt you can copy. We add new trends as they appear.
The trend family that made Nano Banana famous.
The original viral Nano Banana trend of 2025: your photo as a boxed 1/7 scale collectible on a desk, with its 3D model on the screen behind it.
Create a 1/7 scale commercial figurine of the person in the uploaded photo, in a realistic style, standing on a round clear acrylic base on a wooden computer desk. Behind it, the computer screen shows the 3D modeling software with the same figure. Next to the screen, a colorful toy packaging box printed with the figure’s artwork. Soft indoor light.
You as a toy sealed in a blister pack, with accessories that match your hobbies.
Turn the person in the uploaded photo into a collectible action figure sealed in a blister pack. The card behind the plastic has their name in bold letters and small accessories that match their hobbies: headphones, a coffee cup and a laptop. Toy-store product photo, bright even lighting.
A cute big-head figure version of you on a pastel base.
Create a cute chibi-style figure of the person in the uploaded photo with a big head and small body, same hairstyle and outfit colors, standing on a pastel round base, soft studio light, clean light background.
A soft, stitched toy version of you or your pet.
Turn the person in the uploaded photo into a soft plush toy with felt and fleece textures, stitched details, button-like eyes and their recognizable hairstyle and outfit colors, sitting on a bed with soft daylight.
Old-film looks applied to your own photo.
A 2025 favorite on Instagram, especially in India: a vintage Bollywood-style portrait in a flowing saree with warm, grainy light.
Using the uploaded photo, create a vintage 1990s Bollywood-style portrait of the same woman in a flowing black chiffon saree, against a warm plain wall with soft golden light and gentle shadows, film grain, dreamy mood. Keep her face unchanged.
The 1990s school yearbook look: big hair, laser or mottled backdrop, soft flash.
Turn the uploaded photo into a 1990s American high school yearbook photo of the same person: period hairstyle and outfit, mottled blue backdrop, soft flash, slightly washed-out colors.
The men’s version of the retro trend: a 1980s film-hero poster look.
Using the uploaded photo, create a 1980s film-hero poster style portrait of the same man in a leather jacket and aviator sunglasses, wind in his hair, warm sunset behind him, slightly faded film colors.
Dramatic black and white studio portraits that look like a magazine shoot.
Using the uploaded photo, create a black and white studio portrait of the same person. Keep their features unchanged. Dramatic single light from above at 45 degrees, deep shadows, black background, high contrast, fine film grain, classic magazine style.
Emotional edits that combine photos from different times or places.
Combine a childhood photo and a current one into a single snapshot of you hugging your younger self.
Create a realistic photo of the adult from the first uploaded photo hugging their younger self from the second uploaded photo, both smiling, soft warm light, plain light background, slight film grain like an old snapshot.
An instant-camera snapshot of two people, flash and all, inside a white polaroid frame.
Create a polaroid-style instant photo of the two people from the uploaded photos standing together and smiling, slight flash, soft blur, white polaroid frame, a curtain as the background. Keep both faces unchanged.
Fun, shareable edits.
A tiny you standing on a giant phone that shows your own selfie.
Create a miniature version of the person in the uploaded photo standing on top of a giant smartphone that shows their own selfie on the screen, the phone lying on a desk, tilt-shift miniature photography look.
Your photo redrawn as a hand-painted anime film scene.
Turn the uploaded photo into a hand-painted Japanese anime film scene: soft watercolor backgrounds, warm light, gentle outlines, the same people and setting reimagined in this style.
What your dog or cat would look like as a person.
Imagine the pet in the uploaded photo as a human: keep its personality, fur colors as hair color and its expression, dressed in clothes that match its character, sitting in the same spot as in the photo. Friendly, realistic portrait.
You as an original superhero in a landing pose.
Turn the person in the uploaded photo into an original superhero in a sleek dark red suit, mid superhero-landing pose on a rooftop at night, city lights below, cinematic lighting. Keep their face recognizable.
It usually means the 3D figurine trend: turning a photo into a boxed collectible figure on a desk. Since then, saree, polaroid, yearbook and other edits have trended the same way.
Upload a clear photo to Nano Banana (in the Gemini app or here), paste the trend’s prompt and generate. Keep the line that asks to keep your face.
Think about what you upload: avoid sharing photos of other people without their consent, and remember that images can carry metadata. Google adds an invisible SynthID watermark to Nano Banana images.
Nano Banana 2 handles most trends quickly. Use Nano Banana Pro for detailed figurine boxes and small faces.