The complete MaqAI studio
Use virtual makeup try-on, generate a full look, compare shades live, transfer inspiration, build custom layers, and turn the result into a routine.
Start with the decision
Each tool has a different job. Start with the smallest question that would change your decision, then add another feature only when it contributes something new.
Begin with AI Makeup Try-On when the question is broad: clean or dramatic, polished or expressive, everyday or event. See the whole composition first, then isolate the lip, eye, cheek, complexion, or finish carrying the result.
Open AI Makeup Try-On →02Use Live AR to scan color and intensity in motion. Add Color Analysis and Shade Finder when you want to narrow lip, cheek, eye, or complexion ideas into a few families worth testing on skin.
Explore Live AR & shades →03Look Transfer tests the reference's palette, placement, finish, and focal point on your portrait. Makeup Builder then turns the useful parts into controlled layers you can soften, strengthen, name, and save.
Explore transfer & builder →04Use color and face guidance for starting cues, then bring the Beauty Advisor an occasion, time limit, preferred finish, skill level, and feature to emphasize. Specific constraints produce a more practical plan.
Explore analysis & advisor →01AI makeup studio
Use AI makeup try-on on your own photo, or compare more than 20 virtual makeup categories across lips, eyes, complexion, sculpting, brows, and finish.
02Instant experimentation
Use the MaqAI makeup shade finder with Live AR, a photo, and Color Analysis to compare color and placement, then build a focused shade-family shortlist.
03Make inspiration personal
Use AI makeup transfer to test a reference on your portrait, or build a reusable custom makeup look across base, face, eyes, lips, and finish.
04Personalized beauty context
Use color and face reports as flexible starting points, then ask an AI beauty advisor for shade, placement, routine, occasion, or makeup-and-hair ideas shaped around your goal.
One connected workflow
A quick live reaction can become a stable comparison, a saved comparison can become a layered recipe, and a recipe can become a real product test. Stop whenever the answer is already clear.
Use Live AR or complete looks to find the color, mood, or focal point worth investigating.
Keep the portrait and lighting stable while changing one meaningful variable: shade family, placement, finish, or intensity.
Add color or face cues only when they sharpen the question. Give the Beauty Advisor your time, skill, occasion, and products.
Break the saved look into base, face, eyes, lips, and finish. Test the real formula, tools, light, and wear before committing.
Preview first, context second
If you already have a look in mind, try it first. Notice whether the issue is temperature, contrast, placement, finish, or simply too much happening at once. Then use analysis or the Advisor to investigate that specific problem.
Perhaps the berry palette works but the cheek sits too low. Maybe the smoky eye works while the glossy lip competes with it. Keep the successful choice and change only the part that failed.
Creative guidance, clear limits
A polished AI image may still be unhelpful if it changes several things at once, invents details you did not request, or depends on retouching, light, and texture that your real routine cannot match.
A strong result makes one preference unmistakable: the warmth you like, the contrast you want, the blush position that feels fresh, or the liner shape worth practicing. Keep that information even when you reject the exact image.
Six jobs across one beauty workflow
More tools do not automatically create a better decision. Choose the job you need now, stop when the answer is clear, and move to another mode only when the next question is genuinely different.
Use complete AI looks when you want broad contrast between clean, romantic, sculpted, bronze, editorial, and event directions. Judge the whole-face composition first, then identify the lip, eye, cheek, complexion, or finish responsible for the reaction.
Use a focused category when the question is already specific. Keep surrounding makeup unchanged while comparing lipstick families, blush direction, liner shape, brow definition, complexion finish, or another single variable.
Use live try-on for rapid color and intensity exploration while your expression and angle change. When an option feels promising, repeat it as a photo comparison before treating the reaction as a final direction.
Use Look Transfer to explore the palette, placement, finish, and focal point of an inspiration image on your portrait. Keep the visual logic you like without assuming every feature, face, product, or lighting condition should be copied literally.
Use Makeup Builder when a complete generated look is appealing but too vague. Reconstruct the idea across base, sculpt, cheek, eyes, brows, lips, and finish, softening or strengthening each layer until the recipe becomes explainable.
Use Color Analysis, face guidance, and the Beauty Advisor for additional context. Give the goal and constraints explicitly, then verify the advice with real products, relevant light, practice, wear, and qualified professional input where appropriate.
A complete MaqAI session does not need to use every tool. You might discover a promising lip family in Live AR, confirm it on one stable photo, and move directly to real swatches. For a larger event look, you may transfer a reference, rebuild the useful layers, add occasion constraints through the Advisor, and finish with a documented trial. The right workflow is the shortest one that resolves the decision.
A better comparison method
Save the original, one safer direction, and one bolder direction. Three purposeful images are usually more useful than twenty tiny variations.
Return to the same source photo so you can distinguish a real preference from the novelty of seeing any change at all.
Keep technique, coverage, time, and products realistic. This option tests whether the direction can enter your current routine.
Push one feature far enough to reveal the underlying preference. You can always borrow only part of it for the final look.
MaqAI can help you
MaqAI cannot prove
What makes a useful preview
Realism can make an image engaging, but usefulness comes from isolating a decision you can carry into a product test, routine, artist brief, or second comparison.
If you requested a warm satin lip, lifted blush, compact smoky eye, or luminous skin, that feature should remain readable without needing the rest of the image to convince you. When several unrelated elements change, treat the result as broad inspiration and repeat the important category in a controlled comparison.
Reuse the same crop, expression, lighting, and base makeup. Keep the eye and cheek steady while comparing lips, or keep color and intensity steady while comparing cheek placement. Controlled options let you explain why one direction works better instead of reacting to a completely different photograph.
Translate the saved look into shade family, depth, saturation, placement, edge, finish, and focal point. Decide which part needs a swatch, a technique practice, a professional trial, or a second preview. If the image produces no actionable language, simplify the question before generating more options.
The overall direction works, one category is useful, and the distracting detail can be isolated or softened without changing the core idea.
The source is unclear, the requested feature is not visible, several unrelated elements dominate, or the image cannot answer the question you began with.
From MaqAI to the mirror
A saved image is easier to act on when the important decisions are written beside it. Keep the note short enough to use while shopping, applying makeup, or discussing the look with a professional.
Name the primary feature: luminous skin, lifted cheek, elongated eye, defined brow, muted lip, or another unmistakable anchor.
Record temperature, depth, saturation, placement, edge, finish, and level of contrast without pretending to know an exact product code.
Add available time, skill, glasses, skin preparation, outfit, venue light, camera, wear duration, touch-ups, budget, and products already owned.
Identify the swatch, technique practice, flash photo, daylight check, wear test, or professional adaptation required before the direction becomes a plan.
Translate the image into a product family and performance brief: medium muted rose satin lipstick, buildable neutral-peach powder blush, fine pearl highlighter, or flexible soft-black pencil. Compare a few real formulas on skin, let them settle, and check the relevant light. Screens cannot prove undertone, opacity, oxidation, texture, flashback, transfer, comfort, or wear, so the preview should reduce the aisle—not select the final item.
Bring the original portrait and no more than two useful references. Point to the feature that matters, explain what should remain familiar, and share the event, clothing, photography, lighting, skin concerns, time, and wear expectations. A professional can preserve the intended mood while changing product, placement, intensity, preparation, or technique to suit your face and the conditions better than a literal copy would.
Good to know
Straight answers about the app, AI previews, privacy, and what to expect.
Start with the decision you are making. Use AI Makeup Try-On for an overall look, Live AR for fast color play, Look Transfer for a saved reference, Makeup Builder for controlled layers, and Beauty Analysis or the Advisor when you want personalized context.
Yes, but a clean or light base makes comparisons easier. Existing liner, lashes, strong lipstick, colored light, or beauty filters can compete with the feature you want to preview.
No. It helps organize shade families and palette directions. Always test the real complexion, lip, or eye product because formula, opacity, oxidation, lighting, screen color, and application change the result.
No. They are appearance-based creative guidance. Apparent-age analysis is explicitly for fun, and none of the reports should be used for medical, biometric, identity, legal, or eligibility decisions.
No. You choose a specific portrait or inspiration image. Processing begins only when you request an AI feature and accept the relevant in-app disclosure. Camera, photo, and chat permissions serve different functions.
No. A preview can clarify color, placement, contrast, finish, and mood. It cannot predict skin preparation, formula behavior, wear time, flashback, texture, or your application technique.
Your next look deserves more than a guess
Start with one clear portrait, test the change you are actually considering, and keep the result that gives you a real next step.
