Education and demonstration – Means for demonstrating apparatus – product – or surface... – Mirror for displaying something as it would appear when...
Patent
1987-05-06
1989-06-27
Chambers, A. Michael
Education and demonstration
Means for demonstrating apparatus, product, or surface...
Mirror for displaying something as it would appear when...
434377, 132200, A45D 4400
Patent
active
048425230
DESCRIPTION:
BRIEF SUMMARY
The present invention relates to a method and to a device for enabling a client to select a given style of facial makeup together with the cosmetics necessary for preparing it, a device for performing the method, together with projection media and makeup charts obtained in accordance with the method.
It is known that a style of makeup lends itself to numerous variants enabling the appearance of the face to be modified practically at will, in particular as a function of lighting. Thus, daytime makeup is generally different, for example, from evening makeup.
The customer finds a large number of substances available, and she chooses between them on criteria which are generally arbitrary. On some occasions she may call on a beautician to make her up in a given style, however she experiences great difficulty in subsequently reproducing the same style of makeup at home.
An object of the present invention is to enable a client to use the services of a consulting beautician or makeup artist to provide a personalized style of makeup which the client can reproduce very simply.
Another object of the invention is a method for guiding the client in selecting the cosmetics most adapted to the conformation of her face, to her complexion, to the characteristics of her skin, and to the color of her eyes and her hair
Yet another object of the invention is a simple device for genuinely training the client in making herself up in a suitable style.
The invention is based on the fact that a style of makeup requires information on cosmetics and their exact tints, and on the configuration of the areas to be made up.
French Patent No. 1,297,337 has already proposed presenting a style of makeup in front of the client on a pre-printed sketch roughly representative of the shape of the customer's face, by directly applying makeup to desired locations on the sketch. However, selecting a predetermined type of face eliminates certain important aspects of a face's personality, and this method runs the risk of leading to a sort of uniformity in styles of makeup.
U.S. Pat. 3,339,453 describes a method of pre-selecting hairstyles. To this end, a photograph of the client with her hair masked out is projected simultaneously with a photograph of the hairstyle to form a composite image. This method requires cutting or masking work to be performed on a picture which has been taken of the client and is relatively long. Also, it is not possible in practice to obtain an exact reproduction of the tints of makeup by projecting a photograph onto a medium. Also, a style of makeup is constituted by a multitude of colored areas so that it is not possible to provide an accurately fitting superposition.
It might have been thought that a makeup simulating device could be constituted by a set of suitably disposed mirrors. However, since simulating a particular style of makeup requires a relatively long period of time, it is not possible to keep the client still for long enough to perform the precision work required to provide a given style of makeup.
A device for simulating makeup is also known which makes use of a television picture with an image being stored and displayed on a screen. However, the selection of makeup tints can only be performed on an image obtained by transmission and this is not satisfactory with regards to color rendition. In addition, such devices are expensive and require highly specialized personnel to maintain them.
According to the present invention, the makeup method is characterized in that it consists in forming an image of the face of a client on an opaque medium suitable for receiving makeup and for reproducing the exact nuances thereof as when applied to the skin, and in applying makeup to said projection at locations suitable for providing a personalized style of makeup which the client can then reproduce easily.
The medium thus simultaneously acts as a projection surface and as a makeup surface. It is essential, in accordance with the invention, to work by reflection since it is reflection and not transmission which is applic
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Bourdier Brigitte E.
Bourdier Frederic G.
Bourdier Jean-Claude
Bourdier nee Serre Claude H.
Baxley Charles E.
Chambers A. Michael
Fox John C.
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