Modiface Review
Tammy Faye –Would she have liked this app?
In preparation for the upcoming Consumer Electronic Show 2010, we will run a series of articles on Consumer Electronics!
ModiFace, the leading developer of face recognition software, is going to be introducing a new iPhone application that allows users to try out new beauty looks with one click. The application will allow you to see what you would look like with different hair colors, hair styles, various makeup applications and more.
ModiFace has already sold thousands of their other iPhone applications. A great review by our resident iPhone expert follows. Bear in mind this is one person’s opinion, other users may have different results. Erin is a super-intelligent and over 45 year old woman who has an opinion about everything. http://www.modiface.com
Review, ModiFace iPhone App – “Who Put a Clown in my iPhone?”
by Erin Waugh
10 Dec 2009
I tried. Honestly. I tried to modify my face with the ModiFace iPhone app. It’s supposed to allow me to apply pretend makeup to my pretend face, but what I got was the Clown of Christmas Future.
To start, I needed to take a photo of my naked morning face. This is never easy, nor, frankly, very wise before strong coffee. You have to guess where you are in front of the lens. I love my iPhone, but why can’t they affix a mirror to the back of it so you can see what you’re snapping? I took 17 shots of my nose hair.
Finally. Got a photo of my VERY CLOSE FACE. Ugh. The app demands that my mouth be closed in the photo, so it‘s a mug shot, as if my naked face had been arrested for indecent exposure. Let’s fix that! Eye liner first. Select color – “dark plum.” Hit go. While it’s thinking and trying to find my eyes, the read-out says: “Makeup Brain is applying makeup.” There. Done. Whoa... There’s a thick smudgy line of dark plum UNDER my eyes. Under?! Women haven’t done that since Brooke Shields came out of her Calvins. I look like a Goth experiment in the nursing home. I look like Alice Cooper.
Let’s try something more subtle and less apt to terrify children. Let’s add foundation. Hit “go.“ Ooh. It appears as if someone applied a “blur” filter to my face, which, honestly, is not such a bad thing. Let’s do eyelashes, my favorite part of makeup. It gives me an array of colors to choose from, all of which are black. So, how about black. “Makeup Brain is applying makeup” and… NOOO!! Tammy Faye Bakker get back! Undo!! Where’s the exorcism button?!
This strange little app may not be ideal for us “vintage” women. I play with it for a few minutes just to rock out my inner clown. Green eye shadow, red lips, maroon cheeks. Maybe this ModiFace app does have some use, because now I know what I will look like when I’m calling BINGO! in the Home for Aging Circus Performers. Perhaps I just have “Makeup Brain,” but seriously, for 99 cents, buy a mirror, glue it to the back of your iPhone, and trim your nose hair.
Blog Note: No compensation or endorsement fee was provided in the review of this product!