Glossary
Beauty-tech terminology, defined.
The vocabulary that makes the rest of the site readable. Diagnostics, recommendation engines, compliance terms — short, factual, cross-linked.
A
AI Beauty Agent
An AI system that combines diagnostic input, customer preferences, catalog metadata and contextual signals to generate personalized beauty recommendations.
AR Try-On
Augmented reality preview of a beauty product (lipstick, hair color, foundation) applied to a customer's live or captured face.
B
Biometric Notice
An explicit consent gate displayed before any face-scan-based AI processing begins, disclosing what is captured, how it is processed, how long it is retained, and how to opt out.
BIPA
Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act. Regulates the collection, storage and use of biometric identifiers (including face geometry data used in beauty personalization).
C
Computer Vision Skin Analysis
The use of computer-vision models to extract objective skin signals from face captures, typically across hydration, texture, pores, redness and pigmentation.
Conversation Commerce
An emerging model where customers complete purchase decisions through dialogue with an AI advisor (chat or voice), often building on a diagnostic baseline.
E
F
Fitzpatrick Scale
A six-band classification of human skin types based on response to UV exposure (I = very fair, burns easily; VI = deeply pigmented, rarely burns).
Foundation Match
Algorithmic matching of a customer's skin tone to a foundation shade in a brand catalog, typically through L*a*b* color-space matching with undertone and finish considerations.
H
Hair Color Try-On
Real-time AR preview of hair dye applied to a customer's hair, accounting for original hair color, texture and lighting.
Hydration Index
A normalized 0-100 score reflecting visible skin hydration signals (under-eye texture, micro-folds, surface luminosity) extracted from a face capture.
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P
Personalized Routine
A recommended sequence of beauty products (typically AM and PM, often 4-7 SKUs) tailored to a customer's diagnostic results, preferences and goals.
Pigmentation Score
A normalized score reflecting visible pigmentation variation (sun damage, post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation, melasma) extracted from a skin diagnostic.
Pore Detection
The image-analysis task of identifying and quantifying visible pores in a face capture, used as one signal in skin diagnostics.