Beauty
Shu Uemura’s New AI Mirror Knows Your Face Better Than You Do
Somewhere on the first floor of Omotesando Hills, a mirror is quietly forming opinions. Not the ambient, self-inflicted kind you bring to any reflective surface after a red-eye – actual, data-backed, algorithmically considered opinions. About your face shape. Your proportions. Your feature balance. And then, rather politely, it hands the whole dossier to a human…
Read MoreBiohacking Beauty: Dr Sara on PLIM, Skincare And The Tech She Actually Trusts
A leading doctor at Knightsbridge’s renown Dr Rasha Clinic and ambassador for PLIM, Dr Sara sits exactly where medicine, technology and fintech collide. PLIM is the ‘buy-now-pay-later’ platform revolutionising how we finance our cosmetic treatments: with 0% interest, instant pre-approval, and a marketplace of over 836 vetted clinics. The idea is that paying for aesthetic…
Read MoreThis “Coolmaxxing” Gadget Drops Your Skin Temp By 16°F. Aryna Sabalenka Is Already A Fan.
Other players reach for an ice towel. Aryna Sabalenka reached for a gadget – and, in doing so, handed the summer’s most viral piece of tech an advertisement no marketing budget could buy. The scene: Roland Garros, a French Open that has opened in genuinely punishing heat, with on-court temperatures climbing into the mid-30s Celsius…
Read MoreBiohacking Beauty: Jessica Clarke On Mushrooms, Mother Made & The Future Of Functional Wellness
If biohacking once conjured images of Silicon Valley execs tracking their fitness data their way through meetings, Jessica Clarke is rewriting the narrative – with mushrooms, not machines, at the centre of it. A former fashion insider who became the first New Zealander to walk for Victoria’s Secret, Clarke spent over a decade operating at…
Read MoreOur Top 5 K-Beauty Medicube Must-Haves
K-beauty has always known how to sell glow but in 2025, it sold scale, science and serious profits. South Korean beauty tech firm APR, the parent company of Medicube, has just crossed a milestone most beauty brands only dream of: ₩1.53 trillion ($1 billion) in annual revenue, marking its strongest year since launching in 2014.…
Read MoreMiranda Kerr Uses Two LYMA Lasers at Once – And It’s 2026’s Best Beauty Hack Yet
There are beauty secrets, and then there are beauty systems. The former is a swipe of concealer whispered backstage; the latter is a fully optimised ecosystem of science, ritual and time management – preferably designed to fit around school drop-offs and bedtime stories. In the latest episode of LYMA’s Power Woman series, Miranda Kerr makes…
Read MoreWe Tried Dcypher’s AI Skin Scan Foundation – And It Felt Like Beauty’s iPhone Moment
Founded by beauty industry veteran Ruth De Leo and technology specialist Adam Triantis, Dcypher exists to solve a problem the beauty industry quietly avoids: traditional shade ranges are commercially restrictive, wasteful and fundamentally exclusionary. “I’ve worked in the beauty industry for about 15 years now… I guess that’s when the kind of love or desire…
Read MoreL’Oréal Is Investing €331m To Turn Hyderabad Into The Silicon Valley of Beauty
When a 116-year-old beauty empire places a €331 million bet on artificial intelligence – and chooses a location as its global nerve centre – it’s worth paying attention. This week, L’Oréal confirmed it will establish a first-of-its-kind Beauty Tech Hub in Hyderabad, India positioning the city as a global base for AI-driven beauty innovation. Formalised…
Read MoreThe Modems x Nooance Paris Luxury Beauty-Tech Giveaway (Worth £864)
This community means everything to us – and this one’s for you. In honour of Galentine’s Day, and as a genuine thank-you to the curious, brilliant women who make The Modems what it is, we’re teaming up with Nooance Paris to give back in the most glow-up way possible. The Modems started life as a…
Read MoreThe Apple of Self-Tan? The Swedish Beauty Tech Brand Reinventing Fake Glow
In an era where quiet luxury has crept into our wardrobes and fewer, better things defines our shopping habits, beauty is having its own tech-led reckoning. Enter Comis: a Stockholm-founded beauty brand (launched in 2021) that treats glow not as a gimmick, but as an engineering problem worth solving. Comis positions itself as “a next-generation…
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