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The HiMirror Plus scanned my face and told me I have wrinkles

The HiMirror Plus scanned my face and told me I have wrinkles

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The HiMirror Plus is a new smart mirror that’ll scan your face and tell you what’s wrong with it. It looks for wrinkles, red spots, pores, fine lines, and brightness levels. The mirror’s a harsh critic, yes, but the idea is that you’ll track your skin as you change beauty products, so you’ll know what’s working and what’s not. Also, you can watch yourself slowly age! That’s fun. The mirror rates each part of your skin on a scale of 100 with 100 representing skin perfection

I tried out the new HiMirror Plus, which is the second version of this device, at CES this week. My skin is generally good. I don’t break out much and on the whole I don’t need to wear much makeup, so my ratings were all within the 90s, not to brag or anything. Although the device did tell me I have wrinkles around my eyes, which was news to me! I did have makeup on, though, so I kind of cheated the mirror. Ideally, my hair would have been pulled back and I’d have a bare face.

The difference between the HiMirror Plus and the HiMirror Basic is the Plus’s light simulation. It can re-create five lighting scenarios, like a brightly lit office or grocery store, so you never look like a clown in your makeup. Unless that’s your look, which is cool, and these lights can ensure you achieve it. The Plus can also store 14,000 photos, as opposed to 2,000, and it supports up to six different users.

What’s really nice about the HiMirror is that its designers recognized that you don’t want to scuff up your $259 purchase, so to control it, you can use either gesture or voice control. I can only vouch for the gesture control because it was insanely loud at CES, so the voice control wasn’t working well. The mirror also protects your data by only unlocking the scan and data review mode when you’re looking in the camera. Although you can always cover the lens for safe measure.

The mirror also doubles as a streaming device that plays music from Spotify or streams YouTube video. This feature is set up through the mirror’s companion app. I didn’t see it demoed.

Overall, the HiMirror Plus is a discerning critic for your bathroom that could make you way more paranoid about your skin, or maybe help you. I have plenty of friends who love to test beauty products, so I can imagine the HiMirror helping track their skin’s transformation. I’d be interested in trying it out over a longer period of time.