Patent ID: 6959119

Claim:
A method for identifying progress of a cosmetic product treatment affect upon a consumer, the affect being personal to that consumer, the method comprising: (i) selecting a cosmetic product for trial on the consumer's body and identifying a body feature being observed over a period of time; (ii) capturing an initial image of the body feature; (iii) displaying the initial image on a monitor; (iv) providing an assessment of the initial image based on results of an expert grader study which has calculated consumer perceivable skin attributes on panelists with no treatment/product use; (v) digitally transforming in a manner reflecting the effect of a recommended cosmetic over a period of time, based upon the assessment, of a property of the body feature of the consumer selected from color, sags, wrinkles, texture, radiance and combinations thereof, and displaying the transformed image tiled beside the initial image; (vi) capturing a further image of the body feature at a later time after the product has been applied by the consumer; (vii) allowing the consumer to compare results between the captured initial, digitally transformed, and later time captured images.