When you break the bank on some swanky new skincare products, you want to know that they’re actually working.

Looking at yourself everyday means it can be hard to pinpoint changes that new products are making in your skin’s texture and appearance. This is the reason behind YouCam Makeup app’s new feature, Skin Diary.

This new tool brings a personalised skin assessment to the palm of your hand, delivering a real-time skin analysis directly from the app.

Skin Diary scours four signs of skin health: wrinkles, spots, skin texture and dark circles.

Simply snap a selfie to track results in the Skin Diary and check the efficacy of your skincare regimen over time. Your detailed skin health report includes your skin age and relative skin scores as compared to other users in the same demographic.

For the best and most accurate results, the app suggests taking the daily selfie in the same place with the same lighting.

While having your facial flaws pointed out isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, the information can be mighty helpful, especially when trying new products.

 

Relying on facial recognition technology, it can balance lighting conditions and normalise environmental factors to accurately track changes in the skin condition over time. It even puts all the data in a fancy graph so you can see if your skin is improving or not.

Yep, we’re a little bit excited. New addiction, here we come.