Beauty

Shark FacialPro Glow Review: Can You Really Get a Professional-Quality Facial at Home?

This quirky at-home facial device made my face glow for days.

Other Gadgets Claire Maldarelli

The Creator, the New Film From Rogue One‘s Gareth Edwards, Looks Incredible

John David Washington and Gemma Chan star in the sci-fi action film out September 29.

Movies Germain Lussier

Avatar: The Way of Water, RRR, and Pinocchio Lead Genre Contenders on the Oscar Shortlists

Films from James Cameron, S.S. Rajamouli, and Guillermo del Toro are among the potential nominees.

Movies Sabina Graves

The Panasonic Arc6 Electric Razor Is Like Driving a Rolls Royce Across Your Face

The most comfortable shave I've ever had with an electric razor, but priced like a luxury sedan.

Other Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

L’Oréal’s Colorsonic Is a Home Hair Dye Device to Save You From DIY Disaster

Oscillating nozzle bristles evenly distribute dye on your hair and not all over your bathroom.

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski

Blood Feasts, Cashless Stores, and Quantum Computing: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Excellent news here at Gizmodo, where I presume what’s left of our blogger-chewed Forbidden Sandwich is still festering in the back of a fridge. We have discovered yet more ingredients to add to the mix, including head cheese from an ancient species of Pleistocene wolf found preserved in Siberia, cannabis residue scraped from a brazier…

Tech News Tom McKay

Two HIV Cases Linked to Spa That Gave Trendy ‘Vampire Facials’

The so-called vampire facials that have been touted by celebrities for ostensible rejuvenation benefits have been linked to two cases of HIV in New Mexico, according to health officials. The New Mexico Department of Health first warned that clients of the since-closed VIP Spa in Albuquerque should be tested for possible blood-borne infections—including HIV, hepatitis…

Tech News Catie Keck

Silly and Cruel Beauty Gadgets That Were Destined for Failure

Gadgets Whitney Kimball

A Woman Lost Her Toenails After a Fish Pedicure

An unorthodox beauty treatment meant to rejuvenate the feet turned into a disturbing medical mystery for one young woman. According to a case report published by her doctor in JAMA Dermatology, the woman’s toenails stopped growing and started falling off soon after she received a so-called fish pedicure. Fish pedicures involve having small fish nibble at…

Health Ed Cara

This Timelapse Turns LA’s Nightmarish Traffic Into the City’s Most Beautiful Feature

Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Santa Monica; all great reasons to visit Los Angeles that are unfortunately overshadowed by the city’s overwhelming traffic and perpetually-gridlocked highways. But through the lens of Ralph & Randy’s timelapse cameras, LA’s traffic nightmare somehow looks like best reason to head to the West Coast. The seventh video in their TimeLAX series,…

Sploid Andrew Liszewski

Kill Your Idols With Cuteness

Last week, a Chinese photo-editing app called Meitu blessed the world with its “Hand-Drawn” feature, which allows users to transform anyone they’d like into a soft, rosy-cheeked sweetie. It’s the perfect tool to undermine your worst enemies, turning them into soft puddles of kawaii cuteness, or elevate your idols to a level of beauty previously…

Tech News Eve Peyser

Sexual Attraction Varies from Person to Person More Than We Realized

People who use dating app Tinder judge possible hookups just by looking at faces, making instant decisions based on attractiveness. But apparently those decisions aren’t based on some evolutionary instinct — they come from personal experiences. Our ability to recognize human faces seems to be baked into our genetic code. But our perception of beauty?…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Men Are Pressuring Themselves to Become “Spornosexuals”

Nose jobs. Tummy tucks. Botox. Breast implants. Fad diets. Historically, most of the pressure to look a particular way to be considered beautiful and sexy has been put on women. But according to an article by Clarissa Sebag-Montefiore at Aeon, men are starting to feel the heat, as well. From the article: Images of this…

Tech News Diane Kelly

Watch a woman show what 100 years of beauty looks like in 1 minute

Different eras have different definitions of beauty. A look in the early 1900s can fall out of favor a few years down the road or maybe inspire a style decades later. Cut Video made this video that shows a model getting her and make up done to show what beautiful meant from 1910 to 2010.…

Sploid Casey Chan

Woman photoshopped to fit the definition of beauty in 25 countries

Here’s an amazing experiment to see the differences between feminine beauty “ideals” across different countries: 24-year-old radio journalist Esther Honig had her picture photoshopped by Photoshop artists from 25 different countries. She told them to “make her look beautiful” according to their country standards. Sometimes the changes were sweeping with skin lightening, new hairstyles, excessive…

Sploid Casey Chan

Guillermo del Toro Won’t Direct a Beauty and the Beast Film After All

No, it’s not the live-action version being done by Disney, it’s the Warner Bros. version called Beauty and starring Emma Watson. Apparently, del Toro’s other commitments made it impossible for him to direct, despite writing and producing the film. [Deadline]

Movies Katharine Trendacosta

8 Bizarre and Painful Highlights From Two Centuries of Beauty Tech

Humans have been pursuing this elusive quality known as “beauty” long before the miracles of modern medicine. Inventors were always coming up with tools meant to help women—and men—achieve the wide-held physical ideals of their era. Eager test subjects would get hooked up to devices that looked like torture machines, or they would employ products…

Tech News Lisa Hix - Collector's Weekly

Stop-Motion Makeup Short Tells A Story On Your Face

Super clever makeup artist Elvis Schmoulianoff has created this sensational stop-motion short that we cannot stop watching. Inspired by the street work from BLU (specifically the wonderful piece titled “MUTO”) Schmoulianoff has created his own stop motion beauty. Watch! [Via Laughing Squid]

io9 Meredith Woerner

This App Would Turn Your Phone Photos Into Personalized Nail Art

You gaze upon the photo you’ve just uploaded to Instagram: a masterful sunset capture, indeed, the Valencia filter giving it that whisper of intrigue. You think to yourself, Damn, this looks good on my phone but it would look SO GOOD on my pinky fingernail. It could happen, with NailSnaps. Using an app, you can…

Tech News Alissa Walker

Make people misjudge your attractiveness with the Cheerleader Effect

Want to appear more attractive to people? Only show pictures of yourself when you’re with your friends. Amazingly, this is not marketing — you don’t appear more attractive because you’re popular or loved, you actually trick people’s brains into considering your face more attractive. Cheerleaders are a kind of group hypnotism act. Their energy, their…

io9 Esther Inglis-Arkell

Beauty

Shark FacialPro Glow Review: Can You Really Get a Professional-Quality Facial at Home?

The Creator, the New Film From Rogue One‘s Gareth Edwards, Looks Incredible

Avatar: The Way of Water, RRR, and Pinocchio Lead Genre Contenders on the Oscar Shortlists

The Panasonic Arc6 Electric Razor Is Like Driving a Rolls Royce Across Your Face

L’Oréal’s Colorsonic Is a Home Hair Dye Device to Save You From DIY Disaster

Blood Feasts, Cashless Stores, and Quantum Computing: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week

Two HIV Cases Linked to Spa That Gave Trendy ‘Vampire Facials’

Silly and Cruel Beauty Gadgets That Were Destined for Failure

A Woman Lost Her Toenails After a Fish Pedicure

This Timelapse Turns LA’s Nightmarish Traffic Into the City’s Most Beautiful Feature

Kill Your Idols With Cuteness

Sexual Attraction Varies from Person to Person More Than We Realized

Men Are Pressuring Themselves to Become “Spornosexuals”

Watch a woman show what 100 years of beauty looks like in 1 minute

Woman photoshopped to fit the definition of beauty in 25 countries

Guillermo del Toro Won’t Direct a Beauty and the Beast Film After All

8 Bizarre and Painful Highlights From Two Centuries of Beauty Tech

Stop-Motion Makeup Short Tells A Story On Your Face

This App Would Turn Your Phone Photos Into Personalized Nail Art

Make people misjudge your attractiveness with the Cheerleader Effect

This Ridiculously Simple Trick Might Stop Gulls From Nabbing Your Lunch

‘Starfleet Academy’ Season 3 Could Have Done the ‘Voyager’ Sequel Episode of Robert Picardo’s Dreams

Judge Kills Lawsuit Against Infamous Study That Might Have Increased Teen Suicides

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Researchers Discover How to Add Psilocybin, DMT, and Other Psychedelics to Tobacco

Fake Videos Are Already Spreading After Two US Air Force Planes Go Down Near Iran

We’re Obsessed With the Meta Fits on These New Star Wars Toys

Behold These Breathtaking Views of Earth Captured by the Artemis 2 Astronauts

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