As you’re rummaging through Facebook, you see your friend’s stunning pictures from her vacation. You jealously stare at her plump, red lips and wonder where on earth she bought that perfect shade. If only you could find it and have it at the touch of a button.
Well, now you can.
The Mink, invented by Grace Choi, is a printer for makeup. This device hooks up to your computer and allows you to select specific colors to be printed into various beauty products, like lipsticks, eyeshadows and powders. This means that you can match your makeup to anything that pops on your computer screen.
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This simple process could potentially change the makeup industry forever.
Now I know what you’re thinking: How safe could makeup from a printer be? You may be surprised to learn that the printer uses the same chemicals that are FDA-approved and found in a lot of makeup products.
Grace Choi, a Harvard business school graduate, invented this product with a goal to change the way the makeup industry tells us how to look.
“This is going to finally train our girls to understand that the definition of beauty is something that they should be able to control, not our corporations,” Choi explained in a presentation.
The 55 billion-dollar cosmetic industry may be in for a big decline when people only have to open their laptops for a new smoky-eye look.
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The product is not available yet, but Choi says they should retail for about $300 per unit, which isn’t bad when you consider how much we spend a year on makeup.
The Mink is just one example of 3D printing’s potential. By utilizing printers to create everyday objects, we could dramatically alter countless industries. What will happen when artists can print out their paints? When fashion designers can print patterns directly onto their fabrics?
The possibilities that the Mink introduces are endless. Great innovators not only introduce new products, but may also force us to think in abstract ways. Our society’s status quo only revolves around the inventions of others.
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To quote Steve Jobs, “Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you.”
Inventors like Jobs and Choi are constantly changing the way we look at life and morphing it into obscure shapes and sizes.
The Mink may be a tiny printer, but it paves the way for new inventions and innovators to think abstractly.
So, in the future when our children are printing out nail polish, we can reminisce about the days when printers were used to print silly things like term papers.
Featured photo courtesy of: The Professional Diva
