Sephora Virtual Makeup Artist Made Me Hate Makeup and My Face
Looking at my face you won’t recognize it, but I buy and own a lot of cosmetics. I don’t really wear a ton; I just love it when it’s around. I also enjoy shopping online, eliminating the need to go out and chat with other people. These two factors make me the target audience for the virtual artist Sephora , but that didn’t inspire me to buy cosmetics.
You can use a virtual artist in two ways: online or in an app on your phone. I started with the online version and uploaded a photo of my face, which I thought looked neutral.
After choosing a skin tone range – I chose the palest one – I moved small dots around the lips and eyes so that the virtual artist could apply virtual makeup to my virtual face.
I was then presented with a series of fun, slightly frustrating “looks” along with related products that I could buy if I was happy with my virtual makeover.
Somehow I didn’t buy anything.
Assuming the problem was me – because it wasn’t always? – I took another shot, but this time I smiled, because women should smile.
For some reason, smiling en masse brought out alignment points.
Anyway. Smiling didn’t help much in the look.
There is also a split screen option if you want to compare your face to your new Face of the Future.
So I wasn’t very impressed with the web option, but had a little high hopes for the app.
As you can see from the photo above, the app looks more like Snapchat and looks a little smoother and less terrifying. In the app, you can try on the looks we all know and love, and you can shoot videos, letting the gaze move with your face. There were some problems.
As you can see in the video above, the app seemed to have a hard time distinguishing my bangs from my eyebrows, causing the virtually applied eyebrow powder to dance like an epileptic caterpillar. He also didn’t care about my really cool facial expressions and just gave up completely.
While I have noticed an improvement in the quality of the looks from using the app, I still didn’t feel like I found the right look for my unique face. Luckily, the app lets you create your own looks by choosing false eyelashes, eyeshadow and lipstick. Using this miracle of modern capitalist technology, I was able to get out of this:
to that:
Then I was able to see exactly which box of crayons I used to color everything and got the opportunity to buy the complete set. While I didn’t find this view as frustrating as the previous nationals, I didn’t like it so much that I felt compelled to buy something. That kind of Snapchat was fun though.
Finally, there is a tutorial in the app that introduces you to several more advanced beauty techniques such as contouring, Nighttime Smoky Eye and Brow 3 Ways, which are three different ways to paint your eyebrows. not a video about three eyebrows having sex times. I chose contouring. I messed it up right away without tying my hair back.
Once the app informed me that I had a square instead of a face, it got down to business and taught me how to draw outlines, showing me exactly where to place the various products on my virtual face.
I could describe the process to you, but the pictures really tell a story.
He then gave me a video of the process, but a very rude person, but their very rude finger in my face when the app was taking a picture of me for the said video.
I still didn’t feel obligated to buy any beauty products and I was very tired of looking at my face. Also, I think it’s pretty clear that this concept was wrong from the start. The app will not tell you how the product feels on your face or how it interacts with your skin. It won’t tell you what a product smells like (which is more important than you think), nor does it show you how it looks under different types of lighting. However, at Sephora have a pretty good return policy, so if you want to try it, a virtual artist Sephora may be for you.