Virtual Makeup & Eye Colour Try-On (Lipstick, Kajal, Eyeliner)

About the Virtual Makeup & Eye Colour Try-On (Lipstick, Kajal, Eyeliner)

Try lipstick, eyeliner, kajal (kohl), a brow tint and a new eye colour on your own photo or live in your camera, and compare before and after. Pick from 24 lip shades — nudes, pinks, peach and coral, reds, berries, plums and browns, for cool, neutral and warm undertones — or type any colour code, choose a matte, satin or gloss finish and set how strong each product is.

A face-mapping model that runs in your browser finds 478 points on the face; the lips, the lash lines, the brow hairs and the irises are then coloured from those points, keeping the light and texture of your photo. Nothing is uploaded and nothing is generated: there is no foundation, blush, contour, skin-tone, "fairness" or face-shape change, by design. Every photo first passes an on-device safety check. Use your own photo, or one of someone who agreed.

The free preview shows the made-up photo at preview size (up to 640 pixels, at most half its own size) with a MySmartCoPilot watermark; saving, copying and sharing it unlock with a Pro pass or for this one photo.

How the makeup is put on

• Lips: the area between the outer and the inner lip contour, so the teeth and the inside of the mouth are never coloured. The edge is softened towards the inside only, so no colour runs onto the skin.
• Colour: worked out in the CIE L\*a\b\ colour space. The lips’ average lightness and their colour move towards the shade while the shading of your photo is kept, so they still look like lips. Matte flattens the highlights, satin keeps them and gloss strengthens them and adds a highlight on the side the light comes from.
• Eyeliner and kajal are drawn shapes: a stroke along the upper lash line (thin, winged with a flick at the outer corner, or wide and soft for smoky) and one along the lower lash line. The visible eye is cut out of them, so they never cover the eye itself.
• Brows: inside the brow outline only the hairs — pixels clearly darker than the skin around them — take the tint; the skin between them stays as it is.
• Eye colour: the circle of the iris, without the pupil and cut by the eyelids; the iris’s own pattern and the reflections of light in it are kept.

What it never changes

Only the lips, the lash lines, the brow hairs and the irises are ever touched. There is no foundation, concealer, blush, contour, skin smoothing, skin-tone or "fairness" change, no reshaping of the face, and nothing is invented: the rest of the photo keeps its pixels exactly. Before any makeup is put on, the photo passes an on-device safety check — photos that may contain nudity are refused, and when the check cannot run the try-on stays off. Use your own photo, or one of someone who agreed.

The camera view

The live view colours each camera frame on your device, up to 30 times a second, and steadies the face points with the One Euro filter, a speed-based smoothing filter that keeps a still face from jittering without making a moving one lag. The safety check runs again every 10 seconds. Nothing is recorded: Take a snapshot keeps the current frame as a photo, the way the view shows it (mirrored if Mirror is on). The camera needs your permission and a secure (https) page.

The saved photo

With a Pro pass, or this photo unlocked, the download is the whole photo at its own size (up to 24 megapixels on a computer and 12 on a phone or tablet; larger photos are reduced first), as JPG or PNG. It carries a small "Virtual makeup preview" tag in the bottom-left corner, and its metadata marks it as a photo edited with AI on your device, so it is never mistaken for an untouched original.

Limitations

• This is a preview, not a colour match: real products look different on skin, and what you see depends on your screen, the light in the photo and the camera.
• It works best on a clear, front-facing face at least a few hundred pixels wide, in even light. Side views, strong shadows, hair or hands over the lips or eyes, sunglasses and heavy filters make the outlines less exact.
• Lip and lid outlines come from the mapped points and can be a few pixels off on very full or very thin lips, or with a strong lip liner already on. Lower the amount for a softer edge.
• Eye colour needs open eyes; very dark irises take light colours only partly, as coloured lenses do, and reflections in glasses can be coloured too.
• Foundation, blush, contour and skin changes are not offered, by design.

Privacy

On this device; its files download once

Your photo and camera frames are read and coloured in your browser and never uploaded. The face-mapping model and the photo check come from MySmartCoPilot the first time and your browser keeps them. Where the page asks you to confirm that the photo is yours, or that the person in it agreed, your answer is kept only while the page is open.

Open-source components

This page can load these open-source components, each only when a task needs it:

• It uses libheif and libde265 under the LGPL v3, through libheif-js: licence and source code.

You may replace them with your own builds. Their licences and the credits of every library the site uses are on the open-source credits page.