# Coated-contrast clearing pass — rebuild sheet

A 7.68s front-camera close-up: a coated white neck, one facial razor, one pass that cuts a clean stripe through the coating. 10,422,691 views · 15,712 likes · @meagancarboney.

**Why it works**
The coating is the whole trick — it turns a problem nobody can photograph into something the camera can see, so the moment the tool passes, the before and the after are sitting side by side in the same frame with no cut and no claim. One line stays pinned the entire runtime, so nothing competes with the demo and every second reads as evidence for the promise.

**The beats**

| Time | What happens | On-screen text |
|---|---|---|
| 0.61s | Extreme close-up from below, phone angled up at a raised chin. The whole throat and underside of the jaw is evenly coated in a chalky white powder that catches the light and makes every fine hair read. Dark plain sweatshirt, dim room, one hand at the collar. | tighter neck hack they won't tell you about |
| 1.84s | Same low angle, no cut. The hand pulls the collar down to expose more of the coated neck. Nothing else changes. | tighter neck hack they won't tell you about |
| 3.07s | Camera drops back to take in the whole face — hair pushed back, pink patterned under-eye patches on, face and neck both coated. A small red-handled facial razor comes into frame at the side of the neck. A lit window or mirror behind. | tighter neck hack they won't tell you about |
| 4.3s | Chin lifted high, the razor drawn up the front of the throat — one clean stripe of bare skin through the white coating, coating still on both sides of it. **The money frame.** | tighter neck hack they won't tell you about |
| 5.53s | Back at face level, eyes toward the lens, razor working the jaw and under-chin. More of the neck cleared, cheeks still white. | tighter neck hack they won't tell you about |
| 6.76s | Tighter on the jaw and throat, the pass continuing under the chin, the other hand at the collar. | tighter neck hack they won't tell you about |

**What carries the value**
The cleared stripe. Not the tool, not the face, not the line — the fact that the coating makes the invisible problem visible first, so one pass shows the change happening rather than asserting it. Rebuild this and the coating step is non-negotiable; skip it and there is nothing on screen to see.

**Shoot it**
- **Camera:** phone front camera, vertical, held close at about chest height and angled *up* under the chin. Near-still, no zoom, no cuts — the whole thing plays as one take. Two framings only: tight on the throat, then back far enough to include the face when the tool enters.
- **Light:** one soft source from the side (a window or a mirror light), ordinary home interior, dim surroundings. The coating needs raking side-light to read — flat front light kills the whole effect.
- **Wardrobe:** plain dark top, collar low or pullable. Hair fully off the face and neck. Nothing shiny, no jewellery competing at the neckline.
- **The rule that matters:** coat the area fully and evenly *before* you roll, and make the first clearing pass a single unbroken stroke through the middle of frame so both states are visible at once.
- **Text:** one line, two rows, lower third, small white sans-serif, lowercase, pinned from frame one to the last. It never changes and never moves.

**Straight from the frames, said plainly — what is not shown**
- I have six stills and no audio, so I cannot tell whether she speaks over this or whether there is a voiceover; the pinned line is the only text in any frame.
- The frames do not identify the white coating. It reads as a fine chalky powder, but nothing in shot names it or shows a container.
- No brand or label is legible on the razor.
- There is no separate before/after card, no product hold-up to camera, and no visible debris on the blade — the stripe is the entire proof.

**Or generate it**

```
vertical 9:16 close photograph, front-facing phone camera held low and angled up at
{SUBJECT}'s raised chin and throat, the whole area evenly coated in a chalky white
powder that catches the light, {SUBJECT}'s own hand drawing {PRODUCT} up the centre
of the throat and leaving one clean stripe of bare skin through the coating with
coated skin still on both sides of it, plain dark sweatshirt, dim home bathroom with
a lit window or mirror behind, warm indoor light from one side, phone-camera look,
slight grain, no retouching of the skin, no on-screen text
```

*Motion:* handheld front camera held close and near-still, angled up under the chin; only the hand and the tool move as the stripe opens — no zoom, no ramp, no cut.

*Text overlay:* `"{plain outcome} hack they won't tell you about"` — two lines, lower third, small white sans-serif, pinned unchanged from the first frame to the last.

**Reference:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DSnpYqMEup_/
