http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/11/03/how-to-tell-your-skin-type-with-cool-jewelry/ Cosmetic chemists answer your beauty product questions! We are a group of cosmetic scientists who understand what the chemicals used in cosmetics really do, how products are tested, and what all the advertising means. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:42:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/11/03/how-to-tell-your-skin-type-with-cool-jewelry/comment-page-1/#comment-33314 Jessica Thu, 13 Nov 2008 05:43:01 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/11/06/how-to-tell-your-skin-type-with-cool-jewelry/#comment-33314 There actually are test like that. BeautiControl used to have a 4 dot system, you'd stick 4 round stickers on your face, leave them for 5 minutes while answering a few questions on the card, then putting the stickers on black squares on the card. Then you match them up with a chart, add up your number. They simlified it later, with just two spots on paper that you held up to your face for a few seconds, and now have gone just to an online questionaire (http://www.beautinet.com/empowerU/eprofile/CL/home.asp). The problem I'm having with that one is if anyone says they have acne or sensitive skin, they place them in that skincare when they may just be a little of either. There actually are test like that. BeautiControl used to have a 4 dot system, you’d stick 4 round stickers on your face, leave them for 5 minutes while answering a few questions on the card, then putting the stickers on black squares on the card. Then you match them up with a chart, add up your number. They simlified it later, with just two spots on paper that you held up to your face for a few seconds, and now have gone just to an online questionaire (http://www.beautinet.com/empowerU/eprofile/CL/home.asp). The problem I’m having with that one is if anyone says they have acne or sensitive skin, they place them in that skincare when they may just be a little of either.

]]> http://thebeautybrains.com/2008/11/03/how-to-tell-your-skin-type-with-cool-jewelry/comment-page-1/#comment-33129 Janis Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:29:04 +0000 http://thebeautybrains.com/2006/11/06/how-to-tell-your-skin-type-with-cool-jewelry/#comment-33129 It's a pity the typing isn't done objectively for things like this -- I've seen people shriek over how blotchy and hideous there skin is, and I can't tell what they're complaining about. I wonder if there isn't a way to test this sort of thing in an unbiased fashion? Scanning a photo, testing oiliness of four or five calibration pints on the face, testing skin elasticity with a pinch test or whatnot. There has to be. It’s a pity the typing isn’t done objectively for things like this — I’ve seen people shriek over how blotchy and hideous there skin is, and I can’t tell what they’re complaining about. I wonder if there isn’t a way to test this sort of thing in an unbiased fashion? Scanning a photo, testing oiliness of four or five calibration pints on the face, testing skin elasticity with a pinch test or whatnot. There has to be.

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