When I was younger I didn’t really care too much about the
quality of the makeup that I used. I mean one time I’m pretty sure I used an
orange Crayola as a lipstick.
As I’ve grown up I’ve realised that whipping a crayon out of
your purse to re-apply your lippie isn’t socially acceptable. Plus Mac lipstick
is so much kinder on the lips. The only problem that I’ve found is that a pack
of felt-tip pens are around a couple of quid where MAC’s Red ‘Ruby Woo’ lippie
is a fairly wallet busting £17.
I’m always hearing stories that luxe designer brands use the
exact same ingredients in their eye-wateringly priced cosmetics as the cheaper
make up brands.
It seems I’m not the only one who is a little fed up of
paying over the odds for make-up that is essentially all the same as each
other. Harvard Business graduate Grace Choi has developed every young girl’s
dream – a 3D printer that prints out make-up at home; the Mink Printer.
‘The make-up industry
makes a whole lot of money on a whole lot of bull----‘stated Choi at last
week’s TechCrunch Disrupt conference in NYC. ‘They charge a huge premium on
something that tech provides for free. That one thing is colour.’
The way that the Mink printer works is that the user will
select the colour that they want, either from a photo of a celebrity with a
great lipstick or a friend who has a great shade of blusher, and takes the
pixel code and simply prints out their own version.
The Mink can print everything from lipstick to eyeshadow,
foundation and blusher in the space of a couple of minutes. The printer is set
to be aimed at tech savvy 13-21 year old girls who haven’t developed any
loyalties to any particular brands yet.
Expected to retail at around $200 with all of the colour and
ink sold separately we can imagine the Mink Printer will be topping a lot of
little girl’s Christmas Wishlists when it hits the market.
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