Patent ID: 7123753

Claim:
A mascara selecting system for selecting a mascara that can realize an eyelash state desired by a customer, comprising: an imaging apparatus configured to image both eyelashes without the mascara applied and eyelashes with the mascara applied; measuring means for quantitatively measuring the eyelash state of the imaged eyelashes based on the image obtained from the imaging apparatus; a database for storing mascara information indicating a relationship between the eyelash state before application of the mascara and the eyelash state after the application of the mascara for each mascara; an input apparatus for inputting an eyelash state desired by the customer; searching means for searching a mascara that meets the desire of the customer from the database based on the eyelash state of the customer before application of the mascara obtained by the measuring means and the eyelash state desired by the customer input from the input apparatus; and display means for displaying at least the image of the eyelashes of the customer obtained by the imaging apparatus and the mascara searched out by the searching means.