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Face care for every skin tone · iPhone · 18 and over

A face-care routine, from one selfie.

Glow looks at a photo of your face and tells you your skin tone, your undertone and the visible concerns it sees. Then it gives you a morning and night routine to match, and explains why each step is there.

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Each selfie is deleted after its scan.

Assessed by AI. Cosmetic guidance only, not a medical assessment. Results can vary with lighting.

How it works

Results come first. The personal notes in your routine follow a few seconds later.

  1. Step 1: Take a selfie

    Use the camera, or pick a photo from your library. Daylight from a window works well. If the photo is hard to read, Glow says why and asks for another.

  2. Step 2: Read your results

    Your skin tone on the Monk scale, your undertone, a colour season for style ideas, and how much of each visible concern it sees, such as visible redness or the look of dark spots. Where it is unsure, it says so.

  3. Step 3: Follow your routine

    Steps for morning and night, built from over-the-counter ingredient types. Tested rules choose every step. AI only writes the wording, and it never sees your photo.

Your skin tone is a number, not a goal.

Glow places your skin tone on the Monk Skin Tone scale: ten tones, released by Google under an open licence. It uses that number only to match products and shades.

It never treats your tone as something to change, and its AI is told never to guess your race, ethnicity, age or gender.

Monk Skin Tone Scale by Google, CC BY 4.0

What happens to your photo

Deleted after each scan
Your selfie is deleted when its scan ends, whether the scan worked or not. One cut short is cleaned up within about two hours.
Asked before anything
Glow asks for your consent before it analyses a photo. You can withdraw it in Settings at any time.
Kept in the US
Your photos and results are stored and analysed in the United States, on Google Cloud.
Never for ads
Nothing about your face or skin goes to analytics, crash reports, notifications or advertisers. We don't sell it.

You can delete your account, and everything in it, from Settings. How deletion works

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