Update: Version 2 has been released!
There is a slight chance of messed-up hands with this version, adetailer should take care of it for the most part. This will be fixed in the next version.
Note that many of the sample images seem to appear very Asian. This is not an artifact of the LoRA, but rather some weirdness that happened when I upscaled the images.
Please leave some feedback, and I look forward to seeing your images! <3
Notes:
A weight of 1.0 seems to work most of the time. Depending on checkpoint, you might reduce or even increase a bit.
Images were set to 768 in Kohya_SS, but I generated the samples at 896. YMMV. Future versions will have more high-quality images.
Some checkpoints created rather odd faces, deformed or ugly-looking. Probably an artifact from not the highest quality images used in the first version. I usually use Adetailer anyways for faces and hands, and this also worked wonders with this LoRA. "Highly detailed" or even just "lolita" in the positive prompt for faces works great.
Use "lolita", "dress", and/or the trigger word "SweetHarajuku_LoRA" as the main triggers for this LoRA. I'll be changing the trigger word and the lora filename in future versions. Also, I don't believe using the trigger word is absolutely necessary if you have "lolita" in the prompt, but when making the sample images I left it in just in case. YMMV!
Civitai pretty much bans the "lolita" tag on their website. When uploading images with this LoRA in them (or even just in general), try to leave out the "lolita" tag. If it auto-tags and doesn't let you remove it, I've found that upscaling with "highly detailed" or alternatively scrubbing the EXIF data works. Lolita fashion is NOT CP! It is a legitimate J-fashion, and most lolita clothing is far too expensive for children to afford anyways! An average high-quality brand-new Lolita dress can cost anywhere from $150-500 USD!
I'm doing this for fun and my own use mainly, but if you enjoy this LoRA, feel free to drop some coin my way:
Finally, huge thanks to the folks over on the Civitai and SD.Next discords, I couldn't have gotten into AI art and Stable Diffusion without them! You guys rock!