FEB 05
An AI makeup
artist “does”
Kylie Jenner’s
makeup for
Dazed Beauty.
Thanks to China’s most popular makeup app, Meitu, even Putin can have dewy skin. The app’s
456 million users post 6 billion Meitu’d photos per month, dolling up their selfies (or photos of world
gl osy nd glowy skin they’ve never had. And virtual-reality makeup
h .S. this year, YouTube launched augmented-reality ads that let
viewers virtually try on products, like M.A.C lipsticks, to determine how they look before purchasing them.
These apps will allow us to be both lazy and beautiful, moving through the world as camera-ready digital
avatars. We could fall asleep without washing our faces, drink so little water that our pee is neon, and
still look good, dialing into conference calls with our fellow avatars, I mean, co-workers. —KATHLEEN HOU
YOU WILL NEVER
WEAR MAKEUP
