APPS WE LOVE

Express Yourself With Makeup

Tools for exploring your style.

App Store Award winner Prêt à Makeup gives you countless ways to experiment with the power of makeup.

What we love: The app provides a range of line-drawn faces, which include different expressions and represent a range of races and genders (including gender neutral). Experiment with digital makeup products like lipstick, mascara, and highlighter. Use your fingers to layer products like you would on a real face. Themed face templates take things further, letting you apply makeup kits and products across different styles, like Enigmatic, Body Paint, and Pin-up. There’s also the Beard template, the app’s first chart dedicated to men’s facial hair and jawlines.

Whether you’re applying minimalist makeup or something neon-saturated, the app’s dynamic-lighting effect really shines.

Quick tip: With Prêt à Makeup, it’s all about the details. Zoom in to see the texture of your models’ lips or the pores in their skin. Thanks to the accelerometer on your iPhone, the lighting, shadows, and reflections shift as you tilt the screen—a very fun effect.

Meet the creator: Brazilian founder and CEO Roberta Weiand released her first app, Prêt à Template, in 2014 to help people create and share fashion ideas.