This is a very swish application from Marks and Spencer; a virtual beauty counter where you can upload your picture and try on make up. I’ve seen these advanced technology make-over tools in action and they’re super impressive. This one at Your Beauty, uses ground-breaking declassified US army face recognition technology so it is the top of its game.
You can dabble around or try complete looks, such as Golden Goddess, or experiment with a smoky eye form one of 32 regularly updated how-to videos with none of the commitment. But, I’ve got to say the Virtual Manicure section is what is really exciting for me. Upload a picture of your hand so you have your exact skin-tone and nail shape, and get painting! It’s making those ye olde worlde put-a-colour-on-a-nail apps look really clunky. You can upload all your looks to Facebook, Twitter or Google + if you want to.
I’m quite in love with this because it’s so top of the range, and actually, a lot of fun. Give it a try and let me know how you go. Find it HERE
This looks great although I’m still not sure I would feel confident buying certain make up products without seeing them in the flesh. It certainly makes internet browsing more fun though!
http://www.beautyquestblog.co.uk
After seeing what the Daily Mail made of the Duchess of Cambridge using this I was very sceptical. The ‘updated’ Kate looked frankly tarty (she’s a Bobbi Brown girl for goodness sake – the whole Royal gig is about restraint and understatement). But I’ll give it a try.
Looks great but sadly it doesn’t work on Apple products because of the whole Flash issue. When I spoke to M&S about it, they suggested I took the issue up with Apple, so I wasn’t impressed with their customer service.