Tag: BEAUTY

Update: Well, look at that. Just moments after we hit "Publish," Apple decided to go ahead and update iTunes before today's Apple event. The Beatles are there in full force, with everything from 'Please Please Me' and 'Let it Be' to 'Revolver' and the full box set (in iTunes LP format). The rumor mill kicked into high gear yesterday, first with an Apple iTunes event teaser, and then the Wall ...

How is beauty truly measured? That's been a much-debated question for quite some time. But the creators of a new iPhone application have the answer: symmetry. According to the Huffington Post, 'Fit or Fugly' uses Fibonacci's Golden Ratio to determine your face's degree of symmetry, which apparently correlates to how good looking you are. For just $0.99, you can download the app, upload a photo of ...

Thinking about a nip here, or a tuck there? If you're not certain that a face lift or lipo is right for you, you might want to test the waters with an iPhone application. According to Reuters, two plastic surgery apps, both aiming to inform surgical candidates about different procedures, have been released in the past month. The first, the Shafer Plastic Surgery App, was launched in October. It ...

Discovering ways that technology infiltrates every aspect of modern life is one of the things that keeps our jobs here at Switched exciting. Tech obviously affects music, communication, and portability, but the way we look is also changed by our increasingly digitized existence. Snap a picture under a harsh light at a concert, and moments later it ends up on Facebook, in all its gruesome ...

U.K. Internet darling Lauren Luke, who has become an overnight YouTube sensation for her homemade makeup tutorials, has launched her own line of makeup at Sephora. "By Lauren Luke" premiered earlier this week with a grand opening at the Sephora in Times Square, PSFK reports. Check Lauren getting giddy about the line on her YouTube page. The 27-year-old single mom got her start by broadcasting ...

What do you get that friend/lover/boss that has everything -- except hair? Why a high-end wig cleaner of course! At $367, the Wig Purifier can only be described as the Rolls Royce of wig maintenance accessories. Simply place the hairpiece inside the handsome cabinet and allow the Wig Purifier's secret weapon (ozone particles) to do the rest. The trioxygen filtering through the chamber ...

Have you ever wondered what you would look like if you lost 50 pounds? How about with a different hairstyle? We recently sat down with Dr. Parham Aarabi, president of face visualization company Modiface, who showed us some of the more interesting uses of his company's high-tech algorithms. Modiface grew out of face recognition technology developed at the University of Toronto. The technology ...

Chances are you've looked in the mirror before and spotted something on your face you wouldn't mind tweaking, whether it be a simple blemish or something a little more serious such as an uneven eye or a nose that didn't make it through your youth without getting a little crooked. Such facial issues can be addressed by doctors and surgeons, to some degree (if you've got the money). But if seeing ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2008/06/18/women-with-long-finger-nails-complaining-that-iphone-is-sexist/'; It's easy to see how some gadgets might be biased towards those who are right-handed versus left, and certainly some gadgets are completely unfriendly toward those with disabilities. But can a gadget be sexist? According to an article published in the Los Angeles Times, that's the ...

Ruh roh. Seems you can't use the "it's good for my health" excuse to watch just one more hour of Sunrise Earth, as a recent study has shown that watching serene scenes on HDTV just doesn't have the same calming effect as does watching a similar scene in nature. The University of Washington-based study discovered that heart recovery rates in people exposed to minor stress were the same when ...

First came makeup designed to shield talking heads from looking too realistic while on HDTV. Now, we've got makeup that does half of the work for you. In the coming months, both Estée Lauder and Lancôme are planning to launch vibrating mascaras, both of which require batteries and promise to cover way more ground than your unstable hand ever could. The former company will be ...

Machines are getting smarter, no doubt, potentially able to engage in a conversation and, erm, kill their captors. But, telling just how hot a given person is has remained outside of the computer's grasp thus far. That's about to change thanks to software that can tell how attractive women are. A program written by an Israeli computer scientist as a Masters thesis can take an image of a given ...