Edwina Ings-Chambers: Beauty tech gadgets - YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Sign in Welcome!Log into your account Forgot your password? Password recovery Recover your password Search Sign in Welcome! Log into your account Forgot your password? Get help Password recovery Recover your password A password will be e-mailed to you. YOU Magazine Fashion Beauty Celebrity Health Life Relationships Horoscopes Food Interiors Travel Home Beauty Edwina Ings-Chambers Beauty gadgets get super high-tech By Edwina Ings-Chambers - April 24, 2022 From skin-scanning at Boots to a hydrating hairdryer, welcome to the future of beauty! Beauty tech is a key area of growth, but it isn’t all about at-home offerings. In-store is a focus at Boots where this month it introduced its No 7 Pro Derm Scan (below), a free service that photographs your skin to dermatologist levels of detail and accuracy. The picture is used to appraise your levels of hydration, fine lines and wrinkles, pores and oil balance in order to better prescribe your correct skincare (and skin tone for your foundation shade). John Nguyen/PA Wire It’s a simple 15-minute process: the gadget looks like an iPhone with a large lens and is held at four points on the face to capture images. These then translate into a mark out of five for each of the categories. (The service is available at 429 stores, find your nearest and book in advance at boots.com.) John Nguyen/PA Wire The resulting products the consultant will recommend are all Boots No 7 – no hardship as the skincare is top notch – and if you try out your recommended regime for four weeks and don’t love the results you can get your money back. But, should you want to, you can always take your diagnosis and use it to shop elsewhere. My hydration result was four out of five, which came as a surprise, as dehydration is one of my main issues. I’m convinced that this was because I’ve been trying the Réduit Boost (£179, reduit.com), a new at-home gadget that promises to super boost the absorption of your skincare with up to five times better results. The small hand-held gizmo is pre-programmed via an app to coincide with the products you use: be it a hydrating serum, an anti-blemish product or an anti-wrinkle potion. Once you apply that stage of your skincare you swipe the Boost over the top – the process is pre-timed on the app. Its pulsed electromagnetic powers help to push the products deep into the skin for optimum results. Hair is also welcoming fresh tech with the Zuvi Halo Hairdryer (above, £329, zuvi.us). It’s impressive: pretty quiet for starters, but it also uses 60 per cent less energy than traditional dryers and works with light energy technology – inspired by the sun, no less – to dry the surface of the hair but leave the inside hydrated so it feels and looks healthier and stronger. Tests also suggest it’s 57 per cent kinder on dyed hair and boosts shine by 38 per cent. It’s currently only available online but dedicated stores will be opening this summer. The handle is chunky – so it could be worth waiting and getting tactile before you spend. @edwinaingschambers RELATED ARTICLESMORE FROM AUTHOR You could get paid to test Liberty’ s Beauty Advent Calendar People are obsessed with this Revlon hair drying tool A new drop of Boots Star Gifts has landed for Christmas 2022 Popular in Beauty People are seriously impressed with Primark’ s £8 skinny curling tongs December 16, 2019 Boots is giving away free lipsticks to celebrate the launch of January 23, 2020 This long-lasting eyebrow product is getting rave reviews and is just June 21, 2021 These Liz Earle gift sets are on sale just in time March 5, 2020 WIN A Kiehl’ s skincare heroes bundle worth £104 July 24, 2020 Cult skincare brand Sunday Riley is branching out into hair products April 24, 2020 Superdrug is holding a huge BOGOF sale on all cosmetics for May 28, 2020 Your salon could charge you extra for overgrown roots and bad June 25, 2020 Facial steamers Why searches for this beauty gadget were up 400 July 10, 2020 Lush subscription boxes have arrived and they contain exclusive new products August 3, 2020 Popular CategoriesFood2704Life2496Fashion2240Beauty1738Celebrity1261Interiors684 Sign up for YOUMail Thanks for subscribing Please check your email to confirm (If you don't see the email, check the spam box) Fashion Beauty Celebrity Life Food Privacy & Cookies T&C Copyright 2022 - YOU Magazine. All Rights Reserved