✦ AI Skin Coach

The AI skin coach that actually tracks progress.

Scan your face, get a tone-aware read in 30 seconds, and watch your skin change week by week. Calibrated for Fitzpatrick I–VI — including melanin-rich and deeper skin tones most skincare AI gets wrong. Free to download on iOS; Lumière Pro from $9.99/month.

Scan your skin — free How we calibrate

Most skincare apps are storefronts. This one's a mirror.

Built to track your skin — not sell you someone else's shelf.

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Brand-neutral by design

We don't sell a single product line. Our AI recommends what's right for your skin from any brand on Amazon — and tells you when nothing is right yet.

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Tracks your skin over time

Most skin scanners give you a one-time score and disappear. Lumière scans you weekly and shows the trend on a visual journey map with milestones at week 4, 12, 26, and 52.

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An AI that learns your skin

Your AI skin coach reads every scan, journal entry, and routine completion. By scan 4 it knows your skin better than the search bar ever could — and answers questions with your data, not generic tips.

What you actually get

Three outcomes, not six features. Pick the one that sounds like you.

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See your skin clearly

Hydration, clarity, glow, texture, firmness — scored 0–100 with specific visible findings, calibrated by a computer vision model trained for skincare, not selfies.

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Track what's actually working

Side-by-side weekly photos, score trends, AI-detected anomalies. Real change is hard to see day-to-day. Lumière shows it.

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Stop guessing about products

Routines built around your actual skin type, concerns, climate, and goals — not whatever Sephora is promoting this week.

Real skin. Real weeks. Real change.

Three steps. About five minutes the first time. Two minutes a week after that.

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Scan your face

One well-lit selfie. Our AI reads your skin in seconds and returns a structured assessment with hydration, clarity, glow, texture, and firmness scores — plus visible findings explained in plain language.

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Get your routine

Personalised AM and PM rituals built from your scan, your skin profile, and the actual weather where you live. High UV today? You'll know to layer SPF.

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Track weekly

Scan once a week. Watch your skin evolve along the journey map. Hit milestones at weeks 4, 12, 26, and 52. Catch what's working before you'd ever notice it in the mirror.

From the Lumière Journal.

Real research, written in plain English. The skincare-science guides we wish we had three years ago — calibrated for melanin-rich skin, not the generic kind.

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Diagnostic

Why Your Dark Spots Aren't Going Away

7 reasons your routine isn't working — diagnosed and ranked by likelihood on melanin-rich skin.

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Hyperpigmentation

Hyperpigmentation vs Melasma

They look identical. They need opposite treatments. Here's how to tell the difference at home.

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Brightening

Vitamin C for Dark Skin: Does It Actually Work?

Most vitamin C content was written for lighter skin. Here's what actually fades PIH on Fitzpatrick V-VI.

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Routine

The Skincare Routine Order

One rule that decides whether your routine works or wastes money: thinnest to thickest. Plus what changes on darker skin.

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Exfoliation

AHA vs BHA vs PHA: Which Acid Is Right for You

Three families of chemical exfoliants. Different molecule sizes. Different effects. How to pick the right one.

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Myth-busting

The Truth About "Natural" Skincare

Lemon juice. Baking soda. Coconut oil. What the science actually says about every viral DIY skincare hack.
Read all 29 articles ✦
✦ Built by

Redeat Bekele, founder.

"For years, every skincare app I tried gave me the same wrong answer. They'd look at my dark spots and call it oily skin. They'd miss my undertone entirely. They were trained on faces that didn't look like mine."

The data on Black skin, brown skin, melanin-rich skin in dermatology AI is sparse — well-documented, rarely fixed. The apps were guessing on my skin and calling it analysis.

I'm Habesha. I built Lumière because women like me — and Tina, our first user — deserved a scan that actually reads our skin. Free first scan. No card. No catch.

— Redeat ✦

Built with care

Lumière takes your data, your photos, and your skin seriously.

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Encrypted end to end TLS in transit, AES-256 at rest. Your photos live in isolated, encrypted storage on AWS.
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Not a medical device AI insights are educational, not diagnostic. Always consult a dermatologist for medical concerns.
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Delete anytime Account, photos, scans, chat — wipe it all from inside the app or via our delete-account form.
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Never used to train AI Photos are auto-deleted after 24 months max. Our analysis sub-processor is contractually prohibited from training on your data, and we never train anything on your face either.
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13+ only Age-gated at signup. We never knowingly collect data from anyone younger.
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No commissions on links Lumière links to clean retailer pages. We don't take affiliate cuts on the products we recommend. Read the details.
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Built for every skin tone Calibrated for Fitzpatrick I–VI and the Monk Skin Tone scale. PIH and PIE differentiated, vascular signs read across all tones. See our methodology.

Free to start. Pro for the depth.

Two tiers, both available today. The free tier covers the core read; Pro adds the longitudinal coaching layer — AI memory across every scan, proactive anomaly alerts, and the deep-dive clinical report.

LUMIÈRE — FREE
Free to download
  • Tone-aware face scans, calibrated for Fitzpatrick I–VI
  • PIH vs PIE differentiation on every scan
  • Personalised AM + PM routines
  • Weekly Journey map with milestones
  • Community feed + Skin Twin matching
  • Weather-aware daily tips
Download free

No card on file at signup.

LUMIÈRE PRO
$69 / year
or $9.99/month — annual saves 42%
  • Everything in free, plus:
  • Longitudinal AI coaching — memory across every scan
  • Proactive anomaly alerts on score drops + new findings
  • Deep-dive clinical report on every scan
  • Advanced ingredient + product compatibility analysis
  • Priority access to new features
Subscribe in the app ✦

No trial. Billed via Apple In-App Purchase. Cancel anytime in iOS Settings.

Common questions

Is Lumière free?

Lumière is free to download on iOS. The free tier covers tone-aware face scans, your routines, the weekly Journey map, the community, Skin Twin matching, and weather-aware tips. Lumière Pro is available at $9.99/month or $69/year (saves 42%) — billed via Apple In-App Purchase, no trial, cancel anytime in iOS Settings — and adds longitudinal AI coaching across every scan, proactive anomaly alerts, and the deep-dive clinical report. The free tier is the trial: if Lumière works on your skin, the Pro upgrade is real; if it doesn't, you owe nothing.

How is this different from Sephora's or another retailer's skin scan?

Single-brand scanners are designed to recommend products from that brand. Lumière is brand-neutral — we don't sell a product line. Our AI recommends across the entire market and explicitly tells you when nothing is right for your skin yet. We also track your skin over time: weekly scans on a visual journey map, instead of a one-time score that disappears the moment you close the app.

Does Lumière replace seeing a dermatologist?

No. Lumière is an educational AI skincare companion, not a medical device. We don't diagnose conditions or prescribe treatments. For anything that hurts, bleeds, changes shape, or doesn't look right, see a board-certified dermatologist.

What happens to my face photos?

Photos are encrypted at rest (AES-256) on AWS S3 and never shared with advertisers, data brokers, or sold to anyone. They're used only to produce your skin analysis and your Journey map, then auto-deleted after 24 months. You can delete any individual photo, any individual scan, or your entire account at any time — from inside the app or on our delete-account page. Our full privacy policy details every sub-processor and what they receive.

Is it on Android?

Currently in closed testing on Google Play. We'll announce the public Android launch on our blog. iOS is live now on the App Store.

Start your first scan

Free to download on iOS. Android joining soon.

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✦ Free to download · Lumière Pro from $9.99/mo or $69/yr (saves 42%) — no trial