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Thursday, September 17, 2015

3D Makeup Printer: MINK

A Harvard Woman Figured Out How To 3D Print Makeup From Any Home Computer, And The Demo Is Mindblowing (+Video)

Alyson Shontell | May 6, 2014


[Blogger's note: Will require the MINK 3D Printer targeted at around $300 as of this writing.]
Grace Choi was at Harvard Business School when she decided to disrupt the beauty industry. She did a little research and realized that beauty brands create and then majorly mark up their products by mixing lots of colors.
"The makeup industry makes a whole lot of money on a whole lot of bulls---," Choi said at TechCrunch Disrupt this week. "They charge a huge premium on something that tech provides for free. That one thing is color."


3d makeup printer
This is the Mink printer. It uses regular printer ink. Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/mink-3d-prints-makeup-2014-5
<more at http://www.businessinsider.com/mink-3d-prints-makeup-2014-5; related link: http://nymag.com/thecut/2014/06/custom-color-makeup-helps-stop-racism-in-beauty.html# (Custom-Color Makeup Helps Stop Racism in Beauty. June 12, 2014) and http://www.cnbc.com/2014/10/10/next-up-for-3d-printing-womens-makeup.html (Next up for 3D printing: Women's makeup. October 12, 2014); further: http://hellomink.com/about/ (About: Mink) and http://hellomink.com/ (MINK Digital Makup Pen)>

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