# Christmas PFP: Turn Your Photo Into a Christmas Profile Picture > A Christmas pfp is a Christmas version of your profile picture, and the trend is to switch to one on 1 November. Canonical: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/christmas-pfp-ai-trend Updated: 2026-11-04 Published: 2026-11-04 Author: MakeViral Team (https://www.makeviral.ai/about) Publisher: MakeViral (https://www.makeviral.ai) A **Christmas pfp** is a Christmas version of your profile picture, and the trend is to switch to one on 1 November. The usual looks: a Santa hat with snow, a cartoon, a matching pair, a pet in a Santa hat. Add one photo (two for Matching) and get your own Christmas profile picture, same face. Add one selfie or one pet photo. MakeViral gives it a red Santa hat, falling snow and warm fairy lights, or redraws it as a Christmas cartoon, with your face in the middle for the profile picture circle. Also called: Xmas pfp, Santa pfp, It's time to change your pfps. **Make it now:** [Make this photo](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/christmas-pfp-ai-trend/create). 1 photo in · 2K photo out · 9:16 · 3 credits, charged once · ready in a few minutes · no prompt to write. Keyword: christmas pfp. 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Swapping to a Christmas pfp is a yearly internet ritual. On TikTok, the hashtag #christmaspfpideas dates from November 2022, and pfp idea slideshows go viral every season: on 11 November 2025 @teddycksck3's "Christmas pfp ideas!" (cats and cartoons in Santa hats) reached 402,000 plays, and on 5 December 2025 @karenzhsh's "Christmas PFPS" reached 805,000 plays and 14,000 likes. In the US, Google searches for "christmas pfp" hit about 74,000 in November 2025 and again in December 2025. The 2026 wave started early. On 1 November 2026, @someguynamedsean1 posted "It's time" with the caption "It's time to change your pfps" over Christmas cartoon clips: 1.5 million plays and about 198,000 likes in two days. The same day, @atm94897's "Do it" (#itstime) passed 1 million plays. By 3 November, #christmaspfp counted 3,559 videos and 76.8 million views, and tutorial accounts had started posting "christmas pfp trend" guides. Most viral posts use found pictures of cartoon, anime and film characters in Santa hats. The Christmas pfp AI version puts you, your partner or your pet in the picture instead. ### Christmas PFP trend timeline - **2022-11-12**: The TikTok hashtag #christmaspfpideas is created; it has 21 videos and 612,813 views by 3 November 2026. - **2023-12-25**: @smth.2tact posts "4k christmas pfp's for you guy's" on TikTok; it has about 233,000 plays by November 2026. Source: [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@smth.2tact/video/7316355001314446635). - **2025-11-11**: @teddycksck3's "Christmas pfp ideas!" slideshow of cats and cartoons in Santa hats reaches about 402,000 plays. Source: [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@teddycksck3/video/7571574900180143391). - **2025-12-05**: @karenzhsh posts "Christmas PFPS" (themes from horror films to dogs and matching pairs): about 805,000 plays and 14,000 likes. US Google searches for "christmas pfp" reach about 74,000 in both November and December 2025. Source: [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@karenzhsh/video/7580297235351538999). - **2026-11-01**: @someguynamedsean1 posts "It's time" ("It's time to change your pfps"): 1.5 million plays and about 198,000 likes by 2 November. Source: [TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@someguynamedsean1/video/7703240346129485069). - **2026-11-03**: #christmaspfp counts 3,559 videos and 76.8 million views on TikTok, and tutorial accounts post "christmas pfp trend" guides from 2 November. ## What the Christmas PFP photo looks like Made from the prompt on this page. The people and pets are AI-made, not real persons. Each example is a short before-and-after clip of the photo. Your result will differ from run to run. - **Example 1** (5 s before-and-after clip, 9:16 MP4): Human, one selfie: an AI-made woman in a cafe becomes a Christmas pfp in a red Santa hat, with snow and fairy lights behind. Her smile, her hair and her sweater stay. - Video: https://www.makeviral.ai/media/templates/christmas-pfp-ai-trend/example.mp4 - Poster: https://www.makeviral.ai/media/templates/christmas-pfp-ai-trend/example-poster.jpg - Input photo: https://www.makeviral.ai/media/templates/christmas-pfp-ai-trend/example-input.jpg ## How to make the Christmas PFP photo on MakeViral Everything runs in the browser. No editing app, no watermark. ### The one-tap way (no prompt to write) 1. **Add your photo.** Press "Make yours" and add you, chest up, face clear. Take it with the camera or pick it from your library. Start here: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/christmas-pfp-ai-trend/create 2. **Press Generate.** The button shows the price. Nano Banana 2.1 puts your photo into the Christmas PFP scene and makes one 2K photo. You write no prompt. 3. **Download or share.** The photo is ready in a few minutes as a 9:16 2K image. Download it, share it from your phone, turn it into a video, or find it later in My videos. ### The by-hand way, with the exact prompts The one-tap flow runs this prompt for you. The photo prompt puts your photo into the scene (Nano Banana 2.1, image mode, 9:16, 2K). To change it, copy it and edit it in AI Photo. #### Variant: Human Settings: 1 photo (you, chest up, face clear) · Nano Banana 2.1 · photo · 2K · 9:16 · 3 credits in one tap. 1. Open [AI Photo with this template](https://www.makeviral.ai/photo?template=christmas-pfp-ai-trend) and add your photo (you, chest up, face clear). Pick 2K for the same size as the one-tap photo. The photo prompt is filled in: ```text Use the uploaded image as the base. Turn this photo into a cozy Christmas profile picture of the same person. Add a classic red Santa hat with a thick white fur trim and a white pompom, sitting naturally on the head over the subject's own hair, the trim above the eyebrows so the forehead line, the brows and the eyes stay fully visible. Add soft falling snow and warm fairy lights behind. Keep the face the same, with the same expression as in the photo. Compose it as a profile picture: a head-and-shoulders portrait, the face in the exact center of the frame and looking into the camera, the whole hat in view with a little room above the pompom, so a round or square profile picture crop keeps the whole head and the hat. Behind the subject: a softly blurred cozy winter evening with warm golden fairy lights glowing as round bokeh and a hint of a decorated Christmas tree, and big soft snowflakes falling in front of and behind the subject, a few resting on the hat and the shoulders. Keep the person's own clothes from the photo; only if the clothes do not show, a plain cream knit sweater. Warm, soft, flattering light on the face from the fairy lights and a soft front light, a small catchlight in each eye, natural skin texture and true skin color, sharp focus on the eyes. Photo realistic, like a real phone portrait taken on a winter evening, not a painting. Exactly one person. No text, no letters, no numbers, no logo, no watermark, no sticker, no frame and no border. ``` 2. Press Generate, then download the 9:16 image. To make it move, press "Make it a video" on it. One-tap version of this variant: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/christmas-pfp-ai-trend/create #### Variant: Cartoon Settings: 1 photo (you, chest up, face clear) · Nano Banana 2.1 · photo · 2K · 9:16 · 3 credits in one tap. 1. Open [AI Photo with this template](https://www.makeviral.ai/photo?template=christmas-pfp-ai-trend&variant=cartoon) and add your photo (you, chest up, face clear). Pick 2K for the same size as the one-tap photo. The photo prompt is filled in: ```text Use the uploaded image as the base. Redraw this photo as a cute Christmas cartoon profile picture of the same person, in our own illustrated style: clean, smooth dark outlines, soft cel shading, warm cozy colors, a slightly bigger head, big friendly eyes with a highlight, rosy cheeks and a simple small nose and mouth. The cartoon wears a classic red Santa hat with a thick white fur trim and a white pompom, sitting naturally on the head over the subject's own hair, the trim above the eyebrows so the forehead line, the brows and the eyes stay fully visible. The cartoon keeps everything that makes the person recognizable, as simple cartoon shapes: the face shape, the exact hairstyle, hair length and hair color, any beard, moustache or stubble, glasses, earrings and freckles, the skin tone, the age look, the gender, the expression, and the clothes with their colors from the photo. Exactly one character. Compose it as a profile picture: a head-and-shoulders portrait, the face in the exact center of the frame and looking into the camera, the whole hat in view with a little room above the pompom, so a round or square profile picture crop keeps the whole head and the hat. Behind, in the same flat cartoon style: a deep blue winter night with big round snowflakes, a small decorated Christmas tree and a string of warm colored lights. No existing cartoon, anime, game or movie character and no known studio's character design: only a cartoon of the person in the photo. No text, no letters, no numbers, no logo, no watermark, no sticker, no frame and no border. The face is always a hand-drawn cartoon face in this style, never a photo face: the identity rules below apply to the cartoon's face shape, hair, facial hair, glasses, skin tone, age, gender and clothes. ``` 2. Press Generate, then download the 9:16 image. To make it move, press "Make it a video" on it. One-tap version of this variant: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/christmas-pfp-ai-trend/create?variant=cartoon #### Variant: Matching Settings: 2 photos (you, chest up + your partner, friend or pet, chest up) · Nano Banana 2.1 · photo · 2K · 9:16 · 3 credits in one tap. 1. Open [AI Photo with this template](https://www.makeviral.ai/photo?template=christmas-pfp-ai-trend&variant=matching) and add the two photos in this order: you, chest up, then your partner, friend or pet, chest up. Pick 2K for the same size as the one-tap photo. The photo prompt is filled in: ```text Use the two uploaded images. Make a matching pair of cozy Christmas profile pictures in one picture: two square portraits stacked one above the other, split by a thin straight white line across the middle, so each square can be cropped as its own profile picture. The TOP square is the subject from image 1. The BOTTOM square is the subject from image 2. Each square shows only its own subject. Both portraits match: each subject wears a classic red Santa hat with a thick white fur trim and a white pompom, sitting naturally on the head over the subject's own hair, the trim above the eyebrows so the forehead line, the brows and the eyes stay fully visible, with the same cozy background, the same light, the same colors and the same framing. In each square: a head-and-shoulders portrait, the face in the center of the square and looking into the camera, the whole hat in view. Behind each subject: a softly blurred cozy winter evening with warm golden fairy lights as round bokeh, a hint of a decorated Christmas tree, and big soft snowflakes falling, a few on the hat and the shoulders. Each person keeps their own face, hair, glasses, facial hair, skin tone, age and their own clothes from their photo. Never blend the two faces, never swap hair, glasses or clothes between them, and never put both subjects in the same square. If an image shows an animal, that square shows that same animal in the Santa hat, sized for it and sitting between or over its ears, with its own face, fur and markings, not a person. Warm, soft, flattering light, natural skin texture, sharp focus on the eyes. Photo realistic, like two real phone portraits taken on the same winter evening. No text, no letters, no numbers, no logo, no watermark and no sticker. No frame or border around the picture: the thin white line between the two squares is the only line. ``` 2. Press Generate, then download the 9:16 image. To make it move, press "Make it a video" on it. One-tap version of this variant: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/christmas-pfp-ai-trend/create?variant=matching #### Variant: Pet Settings: 1 photo (your pet, head and chest) · Nano Banana 2.1 · photo · 2K · 9:16 · 3 credits in one tap. 1. Open [AI Photo with this template](https://www.makeviral.ai/photo?template=christmas-pfp-ai-trend&variant=pet) and add your photo (your pet, head and chest). Pick 2K for the same size as the one-tap photo. The photo prompt is filled in: ```text Use the uploaded image as the base. Turn this photo into a cozy Christmas profile picture of the same pet. Add a small classic red Santa hat with a thick white fur trim and a white pompom, sized for the animal and sitting naturally between or over its ears, never covering the eyes. Add soft falling snow and warm fairy lights behind. Keep the pet exactly the same, with its own expression. The pet keeps the same species and breed look, the head shape, the ears, the eye color, the fur colors, the fur length, the pattern and the markings, and any collar, tag or bandana from the photo, with the natural body volume of that animal. Compose it as a profile picture: the pet's head and chest, the face in the exact center of the frame and looking into the camera, the whole hat in view with a little room above the pompom, so a round or square profile picture crop keeps the whole head and the hat. Behind the pet: a softly blurred cozy winter evening with warm golden fairy lights glowing as round bokeh and a hint of a decorated Christmas tree, and big soft snowflakes falling, a few resting on the hat and the fur. Warm, soft light, sharp focus on the eyes, every hair of the fur crisp. Photo realistic, like a real phone portrait taken on a winter evening. Exactly the animals in the photo, no people. No text, no letters, no numbers, no logo, no watermark, no sticker, no frame and no border. ``` 2. Press Generate, then download the 9:16 image. To make it move, press "Make it a video" on it. One-tap version of this variant: https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/christmas-pfp-ai-trend/create?variant=pet ### Which photo works best? Use **one sharp photo from the chest up**, looking into the camera. The prompt keeps your face, hair, glasses and expression, so the photo you pick is the face you get. - **Face the camera** in soft daylight, near a window. - **No hat, no hood, no sunglasses.** The Santa hat sits on your own hair. Clear glasses stay on. - **Your clothes stay.** Wear the sweater you want in the picture. - **One person per photo.** For a couple or best friend pfp, use Matching: one photo of each of you. - **Pets:** your dog or cat with its face to the camera, ears in view, not blurry. - **Turn off beauty filters.** A smoothed photo comes back smoothed. - **Only photos of you, or of people who said yes.** Never a stranger or a celebrity. ## How many credits does it cost? You pay per photo in credits, and the create page shows the exact price on the Generate button before you spend anything. The one-tap price covers one 2K photo, charged once. A smaller 1K photo costs less if you run the prompt by hand in AI Photo. | Model | Settings | Credits | | --- | --- | --- | | Nano Banana 2.1 (this template) | 2K photo, 9:16, one tap | 3 | | Nano Banana 2.1 (by hand in AI Photo) | 1K photo, 9:16, same prompt | 2 | Credits come with a plan; see [pricing](https://www.makeviral.ai/pricing). A failed photo gives its credits back. ## Which Christmas pfp should you pick? There are four versions, the same looks people search for most each November. Each one takes your own photo, so the picture is you, not a found image. | Version | What you add | What you get | |---|---|---| | **Human** (Santa hat pfp) | 1 photo of you | You in a red Santa hat with white fur trim, big soft snowflakes and warm fairy lights behind, photo realistic, face in the middle | | **Cartoon** | 1 photo of you | A Christmas cartoon pfp of you in our own illustrated style: clean outlines, rosy cheeks, a Santa hat and a snowy night with a little tree | | **Matching** | 2 photos: you, then your partner, friend or pet | One picture with two matching square portraits, one above the other, same hat, same snow, same light. Crop each square for its own pfp | | **Pet** | 1 photo of your pet | Your dog or cat in a small Santa hat sized for it, in front of the same snow and lights | The Cartoon version is our own style, not a copy of an anime, a TV show or a film. Viral "christmas pfp anime" posts use real show characters, which belong to their studios; this one draws you instead. So it works as a Christmas pfp for a girl or a boy, cute or a little funny, whatever your photo shows. ## How to use it as your profile picture Every app crops a profile picture to a circle or a square from the middle of the image. The prompt puts your face in the center with room above the hat, so the crop keeps the whole head. 1. Download the picture from My videos. 2. In TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp or Discord, open your profile, tap the photo and pick your new Christmas pfp. 3. Move and zoom until the hat's pompom is inside the circle. For **Matching**, crop the top square for one person and the bottom square for the other, then post them on the same day, which is the whole point of a matching Christmas pfp for couples or a matching Christmas pfp for best friends. The same works for matching Christmas pfps for friends with a pet: put your dog or cat in the second slot. Post it on 1 November with "It's time" for the trend, or any day before Christmas. ## What can go wrong, and how to fix it - **The hat hides your eyebrows.** The prompt keeps the trim above the brows, but a photo taken from above can push it down. Take the photo at eye level and run it again. - **The face looks a little different.** Run it again: each run is a little different. A sharp, well-lit photo facing the camera helps most. - **The cartoon looks too much like you, or not enough.** That depends on how strong the features are in the photo. Glasses, a beard and the hairstyle carry the likeness in a cartoon. - **Matching mixed you up.** Check the photo order: photo 1 goes on top, photo 2 at the bottom. One person per photo. - **A pet hat on the wrong spot.** Use a photo where both ears show; the hat sits between or over them. ## Christmas PFP trend questions ### What is the Christmas pfp trend? It is the yearly switch to a Christmas profile picture, mostly on 1 November. In 2026 the "It's time" post by @someguynamedsean1 (1 November) reached 1.5 million plays in two days, and #christmaspfp passed 76.8 million views by 3 November. Most posts use cartoon or film characters in Santa hats; this template puts you in the picture. ### How do I make a Christmas pfp with AI? Press "Create your own", pick Human, Cartoon, Matching or Pet, add your photo (two for Matching) and press Generate. The Christmas pfp AI keeps your face and adds a Santa hat, snow and fairy lights, or redraws you as a cartoon. The picture lands in My videos. ### Is this a Christmas pfp maker or generator? Both words fit: it is an online Christmas pfp maker and generator that runs in your browser, with no app to install. It is also a Christmas profile picture maker with a Santa hat built in, so you do not need a separate santa hat pfp maker, santa hat pfp generator or Christmas hat pfp maker. ### Can I make a matching Christmas pfp? Yes, with the Matching version. Add your photo first, then your partner's, friend's or pet's. You get one picture with two matching square portraits, one above the other: crop each for its own profile picture. It works as a Christmas pfp couple, duo or best friend set. ### Can I make a Christmas pfp of my dog or cat? Yes. Pick Pet and add one photo of your dog or cat with its face to the camera. It gets a small Santa hat sized for it, falling snow and warm lights, and keeps its own fur, markings and eye color. A Christmas pfp dog or Christmas pfp cat is one of the most searched looks. ### Can I get a Christmas cartoon pfp or an anime pfp? The Cartoon version redraws you as a cute Christmas cartoon in our own style, with a Santa hat and a snowy night. It does not copy an anime, a show or a film character, because those belong to their studios. If you searched for a Christmas pfp anime, it gives you the same cozy feel with your own face. ### What size is the picture? Will it fit a profile picture? It is a tall 2K picture with your face in the exact center and room above the hat, so the round or square crop of TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp and Discord keeps the whole head. Move and zoom when you set it. ### Does the AI change my face? It must not. The prompt asks for the same face, hair, glasses, skin and expression as in your photo, with no beauty filter. If a run still looks off, run it again; a sharp photo facing the camera in daylight helps most. ### What are some Christmas profile picture ideas? The classic Christmas profile pictures and Christmas pfp ideas are a Santa hat with snow (aesthetic and simple), a cartoon of yourself, a matching pair, a pet in a Santa hat, and a funny one: a dramatic face in a Santa hat works well. All four versions here start from your photo, so a cute or a funny pfp depends on the face you pull. ### Can I change the background? Each version has its own Christmas pfp background: a blurred winter evening with fairy lights and snow for Human, Matching and Pet, and a snowy cartoon night for Cartoon. To try another one, copy the prompt into AI Photo and edit the background words. ### Where is the Christmas pfp prompt? It is on this page to copy. We wrote it ourselves, because the viral posts use found pictures and share no prompt. You can paste it into AI Photo, edit it like a filter or an editor would, and run it again. ### Can I make an animated Christmas pfp? Yes. Under your finished picture, press "Make it a video": it opens AI Video with your picture as the first frame, for a short animated clip with the snow falling. Some apps take a video as a profile picture; others take only the still. The video costs its own credits. ### When do people change to a Christmas pfp? Most people switch on 1 November, the day the "It's time" posts come out, and keep it until early January. Searches peak in November and December. ### Does the Christmas pfp cost credits? Yes. The create page shows the exact price on the Generate button before you spend anything. A photo costs far fewer credits than a video, and if a run fails, the credits come back. ## Other AI video templates and tools - [AI Elf Dance: You and Your Friends as Dancing Christmas Elves](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/ai-elf-dance-video): Your photo turns into a real elf: red and green suit, pointy ears, a hat with a bell. Then you dance by a lit Christmas tree, with your own face. Solo, a group of up to four, or your pet. 10 seconds, with sound. - [Rugrats Filter: Your Group Photo as a 90s Cartoon](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/rugrats-cartoon-ai-filter): Add a group photo, a family photo, a selfie or your pet. AI redraws it as a hand-drawn 90s cartoon with thick wobbly outlines, flat colors and big heads, in a pastel playroom full of toys. Everyone keeps their pose, hair and outfit. - [Charlie Brown Christmas Trend: Turn Your Photo Into the Snoopy Christmas Cartoon](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/charlie-brown-christmas-ai-trend): Add one photo. MakeViral draws you as a flat 1960s comic-strip cartoon, standing on a red doghouse with a wreath, next to a little white beagle, in the snow. Your hair, glasses and outfit stay. - [Nano Banana 2](https://www.makeviral.ai/tools/nano-banana-2-image-generator): Google's image model, in a browser tab, with the reference-image dropzone that makes it useful: up to 14 photos in, one new image out. - [AI photo generator](https://www.makeviral.ai/ai-photo-generator) - [All AI video templates](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates) ## Make your own Christmas PFP photo Add one photo and press Generate. No prompt to write. 3 credits, charged once. [Make this photo](https://www.makeviral.ai/templates/christmas-pfp-ai-trend/create)