Experience Endless Selfie Entertainment with the Launch of Perfect Corp’s Newest App YouCam Fun

Perfect Corp, the makers of the world’s #1 virtual beauty makeover app (YouCam Makeup), continues to dominate the selfie space with the launch of entertaining animated filters in YouCam Fun app.

New York, New York—August 23, 2016—Perfect Corp. is proud to announce a new, and wonderfully hilarious, addition to the YouCam Apps family, YouCam Fun, available on iOS and Android. YouCam Fun harnesses the powerful augmented reality that over 280 million users have come to love from the YouCam brand, by combining it with fun animated filters to create a one-of-a-kind social selfie app experience.

YouCam Fun leverages Perfect’s award-winning YouCam face detection technology to add creative designs and fun animated filters to selfie photos and videos. Launching with over 30 top-trending filters like a Pokémon Go-inspired scene[1] and summer festival flower crown, YouCam Fun incorporates designs to suit every mood and tell any story. 

The app integrates makeup-like beautifying features with a diverse range of backgrounds and effects to allow users to create playful selfies and 15-second live video recordings to express themselves. Users can instantly upload their selfie pictures and short videos with filters and share them with friends on the most popular social sites including Facebook® and Instagram®.

“As the makers of the world's best beauty and selfie interactive platform, we know users continue to demand a fun, fast, playful selfie experience,” said Alice H. Chang, CEO of Perfect Corp. “YouCam Fun is simply our way to deliver exactly that. The app allows selfie lovers to create fun photos and short videos, and the unique live action filters empower users to share their stories directly with their friends.”

The new app provides a large variety of fun augmented reality filter experiences, including the most romantic virtual wedding proposal ever, a birthday celebration to remember complete with a cake smash, and even a digital blanket and cup of soup for when you’re feeling under the weather and want the world to know. 

To kick-off the launch of YouCam Fun, Perfect Corp. invites fans to experience the amusing filters firsthand by entering a ‘Back to Fun’ contest. As the holiday season approaches the fun continues with numerous activities and the release of new filters for every occasion from Halloween, to New Years and beyond.

App Availability:

YouCam Fun is available for free on the App Store and Google Play.

About Perfect Corp.:

With over 280 Million downloads globally, Perfect Corporation is dedicated to transforming how consumers, content creators and beauty brands interact together. Our experienced team of engineers and beauty aficionados are pushing the frontiers of technology to create the beauty platform of the future – a fluid environment where individuals express themselves, learn the latest about fashion and beauty, and enjoy instant access to the products from their favorite brands. Further information about Perfect Corp. can be found at perfectcorp.com

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Copyright © 2016 Perfect Corp. All rights reserved.

What is your beauty spirit animal?

How fun?! Ever wanted to know what your actual beauty spirit animal would be? In celebration of National Zoo and Aquarium Month, throughout June you can take a fun quiz that will let you know your spirit animal match as well as suggestions on the best beauty looks to try in real life based on your responses.

Want to try it out? Just download the leading mobile makeover app, YouCam Makeup, available for free download on the App Store and Google Play. Then complete a short six-question quiz based on your beauty habits and preferences to reveal your best spirit animal match. 

For a truly interactive experience, users can then try on the animal-inspired looks in YouCam Makeup directly from their mobile phone (image examples below).

To bring this concept to life, YouCam Makeup teamed up with a face paint artist to design these five unique animal looks: “Wild Thing” inspired by a tiger, “Hello Deer” inspired by a deer, “Catty” inspired by a cat, “Snow Paw” inspired by a snow leopard, and “Peekaboo” inspired by a zebra. Each spirit animal look and description is coupled with a beauty look for users to channel their inner spirit animal in real life, be it through glowing highlights, winged liner or fluttery lashes.

After taking the quiz to discover their favorite spirit animal look, you can share your favorite animal look selfie in Beauty Circle for a chance to score beauty prizes valued at $100.

MassageNow App!

If you’re not familiar with MassageNow, it’s an app made for people just like us— busy NY’ers who would love (and desperately need!) a massage, but have no time or resources to relax. A Hotel Tonight for massages, if you will. The app was developed by local services startup, Locality, and allows customers to quickly book a massage at a four-star spa with just a few hours’ notice, and more importantly, at a DEEP DISCOUNT! 

Using its new proprietary system, MassageNow aggregates same-day appointments across its network of partner spas. Similar to their Massage model, new Facial and Waxing additions are more than HALF the price off of a regularly priced service at MassageNow’s spa partners. Users can still utilize the same amenities at each spa locale, while indulging in the deep MassageNow discount.

B.I.O.A. readers can use code BEAUTY20 for a $20 discount for new users only!

ABOUT MassageNow: (www.massagenow.co)

New App from Sally Hansen: ManiMatch

THE NEW AUGMENTED-REALITY NAIL POLISH TRY-ON APP FROM SALLY HANSEN: LIVE, 3D AND FIRST TO MARKET

ManiMatchTM DELIGHTS USERS WITH NEW INSTANT-SCAN TECHNOLOGY, 3D AUGMENTED REALITY TRY-ON OVER 200 SALLY HANSEN SHADES AND PERSONALIZED RECOMMENDATIONS IN REAL TIME

NEW YORK, NEW YORK. Building on next-generation augmented reality technology, Sally Hansen the #1-selling nail color and nail care brand in the US is transforming the shopping experience with the new ManiMatchTM mobile app. 

Users can try on the rainbow of over 200 Sally Hansen nail polish shades in real time, on their nails, before they buy. A simple scan of the user’s hand from any smartphone enables the user to instantly consider and curate her own color choices. There’s no uploading, picture-taking or manual data entry, as the app works in real time. 

It also generates personalized-for-her-skin-tone color suggestions on demand; using cutting-edge, proprietary technology, the app senses and analyzes the pigments in each user’s hand, then matches its polish-shade suggestions to the ones optimally flattering to her skin.

Choosing the perfect shade is traditionally both the most fun and the most difficult aspect of shopping for nail color; consumers surreptitiously dab color onto a single or several nails to approximate how given shades might look on their hands in relation to skin tones, mood or outfit. 

ManiMatchTM flips the trial-only-post-purchase shopping experience that has always frustrated nail color shoppers, transforming the process into a moment of discovery, excitement and pleasure.

 “The app is addictive; everyone who tries it can’t stop herself from checking out more options,” says Jeremy Lowenstein, Sally Hansen Global Marketing Vice President. “The fact that you see exactly how a color will look on your own hands is just pure fun—and incredibly useful. People end up experimenting with shades they’d never normally try.”

“The innovative technology uses bespoke skin tone analysis and an algorithm to map the hand.” – says Kristen D’Arcy, Global Digital Vice President. “It tracks the individual nuances of the user’s hands, analyzes skin tone, finds the nail beds, and photo-realistically simulates our nail polish shades, with shine: the finished manicure appears instantly on the user’s hand. ManiMatchTM generates shade suggestions across all Sally Hansen’s product lines, including Miracle Gel, Complete Salon Manicure, Insta-Dri and Xtreme Wear, so users can easily navigate and experience every color they desire.”

The launch of this app coincides with the release of the new Miracle Gel® Top Coat and new fashionable shades. Available for download for free on iOS platforms when it launches September 2015 (and select Android devices later in fall), ManiMatchTM is poised to revolutionize nail color shopping, both in store and ecommerce. 

Sally Hansen will host a kick-off consumer event in NYC to introduce the app. The first users to share the experience with a friend will have a chance to become the next Sally Hansen hand model for Sally Hansen social media!

YoDerm!

My oh my are we moving in a techie direction?! Apps consistently make me hyper aware that nearly anything is possible. I can get my hair done, make up applied, rent a dress, get a car to drive me anywhere I choose...all from my phone.

You may already have the perfect Valentine’s Day plan, so make sure you also have the perfect Valentine’s Day complexion to match! Acne can be a nuisance, but it doesn’t have to be with YoDerm’s innovative approach to a personalized acne treatment. Don’t let embarrassing breakouts get you down when love is in the air, because a dermatologist and customized acne treatment plan is never too far away.

YoDerm is the easiest way to get a personalized consultation and prescription acne treatment from a board-certified dermatologist through any computer or mobile device! 

Simply complete the registration to start a consult, upload photos of the face from various angles, and your YoDerm dermatologist will send you a personalized treatment plan and send any necessary prescriptions to your local pharmacy. 

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