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FLUX-Makeup: High-Fidelity, Identity-Consistent, and Robust Makeup Transfer via Diffusion Transformer

arXiv 2508.05069 ↗First posted 7 Aug 2025cs.CVcited by 5

On the map: Diffusion models → Image generation, text-to-image and editing

Abstract (arXiv)

Makeup transfer aims to apply the makeup style from a reference face to a target face and has been increasingly adopted in practical applications. Existing GAN-based approaches typically rely on carefully designed loss functions to balance transfer quality and facial identity consistency, while diffusion-based methods often depend on additional face-control modules or algorithms to preserve identity. However, these auxiliary components tend to introduce extra errors, leading to suboptimal transfer results. To overcome these limitations, we propose FLUX-Makeup, a high-fidelity, identity-consistent, and robust makeup transfer framework that eliminates the need for any auxiliary face-control components. Instead, our method directly leverages source-reference image pairs to achieve superior transfer performance. Specifically, we build our framework upon FLUX-Kontext, using the source image as its native conditional input. Furthermore, we introduce RefLoRAInjector, a lightweight makeup feature injector that decouples the reference pathway from the backbone, enabling efficient and comprehensive extraction of makeup-related information. In parallel, we design a robust and scalable data generation pipeline to provide more accurate supervision during training. The paired makeup datasets produced by this pipeline significantly surpass the quality of all existing datasets. Extensive experiments demonstrate that FLUX-Makeup achieves state-of-the-art performance, exhibiting strong robustness across diverse scenarios.

Key facts. Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 7 Oct 2026). Placed in Image generation, text-to-image and editing, one of 14 directions in Diffusion models. Builds on 26 of its 36 references that are in the map. First posted on arXiv 7 Aug 2025.

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26 of 36 references.

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  1. 2025FLUX.1 Kontext: Flow Matching for In-Context Image Generation and Editing in Latent Space17 Jun
  2. 2024Stable-Makeup: When Real-World Makeup Transfer Meets Diffusion Model12 Mar
  3. 2023High-Fidelity Diffusion-based Image Editing25 Dec
  4. 2023AdapEdit: Spatio-Temporal Guided Adaptive Editing Algorithm for Text-Based Continuity-Sensitive Image Editing13 Dec
  5. 2022DreamBooth: Fine Tuning Text-to-Image Diffusion Models for Subject-Driven Generation25 Aug
  6. 2022Photorealistic Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with Deep Language Understanding23 May

Other references · 20

  1. 2021Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervisioncited by 33,456
  2. 2020Denoising Diffusion Implicit Modelscited by 9,655
  3. 2021Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesiscited by 8,185
  4. 2018A Style-Based Generator Architecture for Generative Adversarial Networkscited by 5,986
  5. 2022Generative Adversarial Networkscited by 5,603
  6. 2023SDXL: Improving Latent Diffusion Models for High-Resolution Image Synthesiscited by 4,290
  7. 2018BiSeNet: Bilateral Segmentation Network for Real-time Semantic Segmentationcited by 645
  8. 2024OminiControl: Minimal and Universal Control for Diffusion Transformercited by 334
  9. 2020Towards Fast, Accurate and Stable 3D Dense Face Alignmentcited by 219
  10. 2023SSR-Encoder: Encoding Selective Subject Representation for Subject-Driven Generationcited by 142
  11. 2025EasyControl: Adding Efficient and Flexible Control for Diffusion Transformercited by 118
  12. 2019PSGAN: Pose and Expression Robust Spatial-Aware GAN for Customizable Makeup Transfercited by 66
8 more
  1. 2019LADN: Local Adversarial Disentangling Network for Facial Makeup and De-Makeupcited by 63
  2. 2021Lipstick ain't enough: Beyond Color Matching for In-the-Wild Makeup Transfercited by 35
  3. 2022EleGANt: Exquisite and Locally Editable GAN for Makeup Transfercited by 28
  4. 2021SSAT: A Symmetric Semantic-Aware Transformer Network for Makeup Transfer and Removalcited by 22
  5. 2021Facial Attribute Transformers for Precise and Robust Makeup Transfercited by 17
  6. 2021PSGAN++: Robust Detail-Preserving Makeup Transfer and Removalcited by 17
  7. 2022BeautyREC: Robust, Efficient, and Content-preserving Makeup Transfercited by 16
  8. 2024Content-Style Decoupling for Unsupervised Makeup Transfer without Generating Pseudo Ground Truthcited by 15

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  1. 2026Supervised makeup transfer with a curated dataset: Decoupling identity and makeup features for enhanced transformation
  2. 2024Face Adapter for Pre-Trained Diffusion Models with Fine-Grained ID and Attribute Control
  3. 2022DiffFace: Diffusion-based Face Swapping with Facial Guidance
  4. 2025DreamMakeup: Face Makeup Customization using Latent Diffusion Models
  5. 2024SHMT: Self-supervised Hierarchical Makeup Transfer via Latent Diffusion Models
  6. 2024Toward Tiny and High-quality Facial Makeup with Data Amplify Learning
  7. 2025High-Fidelity Diffusion Face Swapping with ID-Constrained Facial Conditioning
  8. 2025DynamicFace: High-Quality and Consistent Face Swapping for Image and Video using Composable 3D Facial Priors