beauty

Melt Your Pores With Panasonic’s Nano-Care Ion Steamer

5:00AM David Chaid | Nothing like getting a hot steam blast to the face whenever you demand it. Now you can clean out your filthy pores with ‘ion-charged nano-particles’ that a normal pot of boiling water simply can’t provide. Supposedly. More »

You, Too, Can Launch Your Own Nail Fashion Business!

6:40AM Mark Wilson | I’m going to tell you a tale, a tale of friendship that, with the help of a Chinese automatic nail printer, blossomed into a full-out, wet and sticky bromance. More »

A Gadget To Tell You Your Skin Ain’t Great

5:00AM Adam Frucci | Bandai’s Skin Expert is a device that you hold up to your face and it tells you how healthy your skin is. Finally, a gadget to make me feel bad about my appearance automatically! Thanks Japan! [Hobby Blog via Engadget]

DIY Laser Hair Removal And DIY Botox Markets Expanding

1:20PM Rosa Golijan | I love DIY projects, lasers and chemistry sets as much as the next gal, but the whole do-it-yourself laser hair removal and Botox market boom is terrifying. Untrained individuals shouldn’t be pointing needles and lasers at themselves. More »

Urination Is Where We Draw The Line On Home Beauty Products

6:00AM Mark Wilson | You know what they say: Nothing takes the callouses off like fastening plastic bags filled with urine around your feet. More »

Beijing Clinic Using Stem Cells as Eternal Youth Beauty Treatment

6:00PM Elaine Chow | While we debate the morality of stem cell usage here, China’s gone ahead and started marketing it as a beauty product. A Beijing medical centre is offering “age-reversing” stem cell therapy for your face. More »

Eyelash Growing Drug Will Cure That Baldness Around Your Eyes

3:30PM Elaine Chow | If you’ve ever worried about the inadequacy of your eyelashes, the company that brought you Botox now has a serum to make them longer and fuller. The source of its power: repurposed glaucoma meds. More »

Beauty and Bondage Gadget Circa 1961

8:40AM Sean Fallon | People have long considered magnets to be a source of health and beauty, but in 1961 they took this mumbo jumbo very seriously. More »

Weird Combo of the Day: Bailey’s Irish Cream With Free Nivea Skin Cream

5:00AM Jason Chen | What’s the deal with Weird Combos of the Day that they involve booze more often than not. Is it because the people in charge of product synergy are more than occasionally enjoying the products they’re synergising? Perhaps. Or it could be that in reader Charles’ case in Shanghai, that whoever’s stocking these shelves are stretching a bit between the two types of creams. No matter; the Nivea probably tastes rich and creamy going down too. [Thanks Charles!]

Beautification Engine Turns Cultural Bias Into Pretty Pictures

9:30AM Wilson Rothman | Beauty is in the eye of the beholder—68 different beholders in the case of Tommer Leyvand’s new “beautification engine.” The software, featured in a story in the New York Times, takes preferences from a poll of 68 men and women from Israel and Germany who looked at pictures and chose the most beautiful subjects. Measuring common traits like smaller eyes, rounder chins and higher foreheads, it applies those rules of attractiveness, Photoshop-style, to images of other faces. If need be, it can do a full-on virtual nip-tuck-and-slice yet in some cases, the beautification engine won’t change a thing. More »