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Disclosed in a cosmetic apparatus which helps select a make-up pattern which matches a customer\s face and displays a mutually scaled and registered overlay of the selected make-up pattern and the customer\s face or at least an outline of it. Also disclosed is a method of using the apparatus.

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A cosmetic apparatus for selecting a make-up pattern which best matches a customer\s face and for displaying a mutually scaled and registered overlay of the selected make-up pattern and at least an outline of the customer\s face comprising: means for providing an outline of the customer\s face defin

A cosmetic apparatus for selecting a make-up pattern which best matches a customer\s face and for displaying a mutually scaled and registered overlay of the selected make-up pattern and at least an outline of the customer\s face comprising: means for providing an outline of the customer\s face defined by a selected number of significant facial points having predetermined locations relative to an image of the customer\s face; means for storing a number of different reference face patterns each of which is similarly defined by a selected number of significant facial points having similar predetermined locations relative to reference faces, and for storing a respective suitably scaled make-up pattern corresponding to each of said stored face patterns; means for matching said outline of the customer\s face with said stored reference face patterns to select the stored reference face pattern which most closely matches the customer\s face; means for displaying a mutually scaled and registered overlay of the make-up pattern corresponding to the so-selected reference face pattern and at least the so-provided outline of the customer\s face.