App, my beautiful app, tell me who is the prettiest? We can't stop progress, and the new application straight from the United States is proof of it:Skin Advisor is a diagnostic tool for skin care. Created by the cosmetics company Olay, it analyzes the user's skin, asks questions about the skincare ritual and offers products adapted to structure, moisturize and tone the face. Small bonus:the application guesses the age of the user thanks to an algorithm developed from the functioning of the human brain, explains the Telegraph .
Jun Xhu, one of the creators of Skin Advisor, says:“the application learned to detect age and skin defects after being confronted with tens of thousands of faces ". She would get better results in determining a person's age than dermatologists, who are used to the task! So how does it work? All you have to do is take a selfie, make-up removed (of course!), and answer the famous questionnaire about your facial care routine. After analysis, the areas on which the action must be targeted are revealed:eye contour, mouth, forehead, etc. The app then offers the appropriate product, obviously from the Olay brand.
If the application is not the first to guess the age of users – Microsoft's How Old do I Look is based on this principle (with more or less success, when ten years of difference separate two photo diagnostics almost -similar…) – spotting facial imperfections on the simple basis of a selfie and offering specific cosmetics to remedy them is unheard of! For now, Skin Advisor is available in the US and will soon be available in the UK. In France, the IOMA brand offers an extremely advanced diagnosis (more so than that of Skin Advisor), via a facial analysis carried out by a machine, at the brand new IOMA boutique or in the Marionnaud boutiques. On the app side, we can console ourselves with iSkin from Vichy which allows, via videos, to show how to use beauty products and optimize their effects, in addition to providing valuable advice.
Would you be tempted by this little technological revolution?
