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" Imagine this: A friend&amp;#x27;s wearing a lipstick color you love. You snap a photo of it on your phone and send to your makeup printer, which dispenses an exact match for you. Yes, it prints actual, wearable lipstick. Sounds too crazy to even be believable in a sci-fi movie, right? Well, actually, the makeup printer I&amp;#x27;m describing already exists, the brainchild of Harvard Business School grad Grace Choi. And it&amp;#x27;s slated to go on sale later this year for less than $200. If you&amp;#x27;re having as much trouble wrapping your mind around this as I was, watch her do a demo of her 3-D makeup printer, called Mink, over at TechCrunch; she revealed her invention to the world at the publication&amp;#x27;s Disrupt NY event this week. Mink uses software that already exists, pigments currently used in makeup, and basic cosmetic ingredients, and Cho claims it can generate creamy lipsticks, powder eyeshadow, or blush, you name it. The result: more convenience and total instant gratification when it comes to makeup. The target demographic is the more-adventurous age 13-to-21 bracket, who are often looking for bolder options than what&amp;#x27;s sold at drugstores and tend to not be brand-loyal. Of course, makeup&amp;#x27;s as much about consistency as color, and it seems crazy that this little machine could rival the capabilities of major makeup factories when it comes to creating perfect texture. And if my normal ink cartridges cost me approximately $2.4 billion/year, I can only imagine what Mink ink will cost. So time will tell whether this invention lives up to its potential&amp;amp;#8212;but we&amp;#x27;ll definitely be keeping an eye on it for you. Meanwhile, if she can make one of these that prints nail polish (or even just stickers) in any color, I am ON. BOARD. Consider me an investor. Is your mind blown by Grace Choi&amp;#x27;s Mink printer? How quickly do you want to get your hands on this thing&amp;amp;#8212;or do you think you&amp;#x27;ll prefer to keep it more old-school when it comes to how you try new makeup?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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