If you love watching Korean beauty programmes, facial scanners shouldn’t be anything foreign to you.
Machines that tell you how wide your pores are, how much makeup you should apply, and even how desirable your features are to other women – apparently, there are specific ratios to the perfect face, but that’s taking things a little too far.
At the end of it, all we want is to understand our features better and find out how we can enhance them. Now, here’s your chance to finally try one for your eyes in Singapore.
A new Eye Define scanner, developed by eyecare brand Acuvue, measures five defining factors of what makes a person’s eyes look healthy – size, colour, shape, whiteness and shine.
These factors were determined by a study done on women in Seoul, South Korea.
Here’s how it works:
Step 1. The machine snaps a picture of my face and then a close up of my eye. Your eye shape is then detected by the machine. During this period, the optometrist tells me about my iris pattern, which has little “rays” and “holes”, or what she described as “jewels”. Everyone has a unique pattern.
Step 2. It then tells you the size of your iris, and how much of it is visible. Only 64 per cent of my iris is visible, the rest of it is covered by my eyelid.
Step 3. Whiteness and shine factor follow. So the machine detects the average colour of your sclera – the whitish part of your eyes. While my eyes are pretty white, they don’t shine as much I’d like them to, scoring 34.10 per cent on the sparkle scale.
Step 4. After measuring these five factors, it sums up your features into a single diagram.
Step 5. Now comes the fun part. Following the features of my eyes, the optometrist recommended different types of eye makeup and contact lenses that’ll enhance them.
What does an optometrist know about makeup? Well, you’d be surprised. Makeup artist Larry Yeo says that their eye makeup recommendations are just about the same as his.
In this picture, I have on 1 Day Acuvue’s Vivid Style lens and smoky eye makeup and received a before-and-after comparison at the end of the process.
Cool huh? If you want to get your analysis, you can book an appointment with the Specialist Eyecare Centre at Great World City.