IMake

Abstract

Many women enjoy applying makeup. Eye makeup is especially important for face because eyeshadow color and eyeline shape can dramatically change a person's impression on others. In addition to standard eye there is eye makeup, which tends to have a greater variety of designs and is more ostentatious than standard eye makeup. Artistic eye makeup often has a motif of characters or symbols, such as a butterfly, heart or rose. Needless to say, it is often difficult for non-artistic people to apply this type of eye makeup. Artistic eye makeup requires a special technique; therefore, we propose and implement a computer-aided eye makeup design system called iMake. This system generates artistic eye makeup designs from the colors and shapes of a favorite character selected by a user. Once the user has selected the desired eye makeup pattern, an ink-jet color printer prints it on a transfer sheet that the user can apply to his/her eyelids. The user can design any type of eye makeup with a simple operation, and then apply the transfer sheet makeup without any special techniques. The usability evaluation provided by eight participants has shown that our system is sufficiently useful for practical eye makeup.