Beauty Play: Experience K-Beauty Firsthand

With so many cosmetics available, what should you check first when choosing products that suit your skin? Ingredients and texture are important, but understanding your current skin condition objectively should come first.

Beauty Play is a K-beauty experience and promotional center supported by the Ministry of Health and Welfare of the Republic of Korea and operated by the Korea Cosmetic Industry Institute. It is an open beauty experience space where visitors can discover and try outstanding products from small and medium-sized Korean cosmetics companies.

At Beauty Play, visitors can freely test products from a variety of Korean cosmetics brands and participate in diverse beauty programs, including skin analysis, personal color consultation, professional makeup services, and one-day classes. Beauty Play also supports the global expansion and promotion of Korean cosmetics companies by organizing business consultations that connect participating brands with overseas buyers and influencers.

Beauty Play Official Website · Korea Cosmetic Industry Institute

Understand Your Skin Before Choosing Cosmetics

What makes Beauty Play more than a cosmetics exhibition space is that visitors can check their skin condition before choosing products in a more systematic way. At Beauty Play, visitors can have their skin precisely photographed and analyzed using PIE Co., Ltd.’s premium skin analysis system, JANUS Pro Hybrid.

 When skin is assessed only with the naked eye, concerns such as pores, pigmentation, and skin tone can easily be judged subjectively. High-resolution skin images, however, allow users to visually examine their current skin condition and better understand the direction their skincare should take.

 The opportunity to receive a skin analysis while exploring a wide range of K-beauty products makes Beauty Play a uniquely engaging experience.

Accurate Skin Analysis Begins with Image Quality

The number of analysis parameters is not the only important factor in a skin analysis system. The reliability of the results depends on how clearly and naturally the skin is captured and how consistently the system can reproduce images during repeated measurements.

 JANUS Pro Hybrid uses a 32.5-megapixel high-resolution camera, xenon flash, and 385 nm UV LEDs to capture fine skin characteristics in precise detail. Based on skin images captured under normal, cross-polarized, parallel-polarized, and UV lighting, the system analyzes the following areas:

 - Pores
 - Wrinkles
 - Nasolabial folds
 - Elasticity
 - Jawline angle
 - Pigmentation
 - UV pigmentation
 - Skin texture
 - Redness
 - Skin tone
 - Sebum
 - Porphyrins
 - Skin type
 - Moisture
 - Skin age 

The xenon flash uses a broad spectrum of light to reproduce skin color naturally and helps reveal fine surface characteristics such as pores and wrinkles. UV images are used to examine sebum, porphyrins, and UV pigmentation that may be difficult to identify under normal lighting alone.

Reproducibility Matters in Repeated Measurements

To manage skin condition continuously, it is important to compare current images with previous results rather than relying on a single analysis. Reproducibility is therefore a crucial factor.

 JANUS Pro Hybrid applies facial landmark recognition and positioning correction technology to maintain consistent facial angles and analysis areas during each capture. It also uses a gray-card imaging method to manage image brightness and white balance.

 These imaging technologies help compare skin changes under consistent conditions. This makes the system suitable not only for dermatology practices and clinics but also for cosmetics laboratories, clinical testing organizations, and other professional environments that require reliable skin data.

Hygienic Design for Shared Spaces

Hygiene management is especially important for shared skin analysis systems because multiple users place their faces close to the equipment.

 JANUS Pro Hybrid incorporates continuous UV-A sanitization and intensive UV-C sanitization to support hygienic equipment management in public experience spaces. This design considers both user hygiene and safety in frequently visited facilities such as Beauty Play.

A Smarter Way to Experience K-Beauty

At Beauty Play, visitors can discover outstanding Korean cosmetics brands and personally try a variety of color cosmetics and skincare products. By adding a JANUS Pro Hybrid skin analysis to the experience, visitors can move beyond simply choosing popular products and instead explore products based on a better understanding of their own skin condition.

 If you are interested in cosmetics or would like an objective view of your skin condition, visit Beauty Play and experience PIE Co., Ltd.’s skin analysis technology alongside a diverse selection of K-beauty products.

 A place to see and experience K-beauty—and understand it through skin data.
 Meet JANUS Pro Hybrid at Beauty Play.

Beauty Play Busan Location: https://naver.me/xQJd6xNO

JANUS Pro Hybrid: https://www.pie.co.kr/eng/product/hybrid.php