Skin Type Test
What is my skin type?
Almost everybody has an answer to this already, and a surprising number of those answers are wrong.
The usual way of finding out is a questionnaire. Does your skin feel tight after cleansing, does your T-zone shine by midday, do you get flaking around your nose. You answer, and the questionnaire tells you what you have effectively just told it. If your answers are shaped by a label you were given at a counter in 2019, you will get that label back.
The second problem is that skin type is not fixed. It moves with season, hormones, medication, climate and age, and the answer you got five years ago may not be the answer now.
A Different Way of Asking
A different way of asking.
Photograph your face and let the analysis describe what is actually there.
You get a structured assessment of your skin, a Beauty Score, and a plain-language pathway. Where your skin sits across the usual categories — dry, oily, combination, sensitive — comes out of the assessment rather than out of your answers.
Your first seven days are free and include two consultations. After that, membership starts at $29 a month. Cancel any time before the trial ends.
The Categories
The categories, and why they are blunter than they sound.
The four-type model is useful shorthand and it is also a simplification. Real faces are regional: an oily centre panel with dry cheeks is extremely common and gets flattened into “combination”, which then gets treated as a single thing when it is two things needing different handling.
This is part of why a photograph beats a questionnaire. An assessment can describe the forehead and the cheeks separately. A four-option radio button cannot.
What This Is Not
What this is not.
A cosmetic assessment, not a medical device. It does not diagnose disease, it does not detect skin cancer, and it is not a substitute for examination by a qualified medical professional. Persistent irritation, a rash that is not settling, or a mole that has changed are all questions for a doctor rather than for this.
Sensitivity is worth a specific note. Reactive skin is often a barrier problem or a reaction to a product rather than a fixed type, and that distinction matters because the responses are different. The assessment describes what it sees; it does not allergy-test you.
Your Photograph
What happens to your photograph.
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