Method of evaluating cosmetic products on a consumer with future predictive transformation

A method for identifying cosmetic needs of a consumer that are personal to the consumer, the method comprising:

• (i) gathering information from the consumer concerning the consumer's cosmetic needs in treating a body feature;
• (ii) capturing an image of the consumer's body feature;
• (iii) displaying the image on a monitor;
• (iv) digitally transforming in a manner reflecting the effect of a recommended cosmetic over a period of time a property of the body feature selected from color, sags, wrinkles, texture, radiance and combinations thereof, and displaying the transformed image;
• (v) requiring the consumer to select between transformed and displaced images;
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• (vi) optionally repeating steps (iv) and (v) till the consumer chooses an optimal transformation.

A method for identifying progress of a cosmetic product treatment affect upon a consumer, the affect being personal to that consumer, the method comprising:

• (i) selecting a cosmetic product for trial on the consumer's body and identifying a body feature being observed over a period of time;
• (ii) capturing an image of the body feature;
• (iii) displaying the image on a monitor;
• (iv) capturing a further image of the body feature at a later time after the product has been applied by the consumer;
• (v) allowing the consumer to compare results between the captured and later time captured images;
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• (vi) optionally digitally transforming the captured image of step (ii) in conformance with a predicted affect of the cosmetic product and displaying the digitally transformed image thereby allowing comparison to the later time captured image representing an actual cosmetic product treated body feature as obtained from step (iv).