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beauTECHfication – Experiment Week 5085

Tom Merritt
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Ever wondered how a beauty app knows your exact skin tone, or why it took until 2017 for most brands to realize people come in more than 12 shades? Our pilot episode decodes the likely tech behind BoldHue’s color-matching technology, debugs the cultural earthquake that was Fenty Beauty’s 40-shade launch unpacked that exposed the beautyContinue reading "beauTECHfication – Experiment Week 5085"
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