# Vivi Custom Foundation System

> Vivi scans a face and mixes custom foundation on the spot. Blank Beauty hired us to design and build it, from concept to a Miami trade show in seven months.

- Customer: Blank Beauty
- Industry: Beauty & Retail Tech
- Service: Product Design
- Duration: 7 months
- Capabilities: Industrial Design, Mechanical Design, Control Panel Design, UX/UI, Systems Engineering, Controls & Programming, Build & Integration

## Results at a glance

- **7 months** from concept to trade-show delivery
- **2 machines** face scanner + foundation mixer
- **5 shades** custom-mixed for every customer

## The challenge

- Turn Blank Beauty's color science into a machine customers use themselves
- Scan, match, and mix on the spot, with the customer watching
- Seven months to a live debut at Cosmoprof North America

## What APTUS did

- Designed the hardware and the overall system for the scanner and the mixer
- Co-developed the scanning, cloud, and mixing software with Blank Beauty's team
- Designed the customer-facing screens and experience
- Built, wired, programmed, and tested both machines in our workshop
- Transported the system to Miami and supported it on the show floor

## Results

- Debuted on time, matching customers live at Cosmoprof
- Every customer left with five custom shades: an exact match, plus warmer, cooler, deeper, and lighter
- Blank Beauty came back to us for this after an earlier nail-polish machine

## In the press

- [WBIR: Blank Beauty aims to transform the beauty industry with custom foundation shades](https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/knoxville/blank-beauty-transform-beauty-industry-custom-foundation-shades/51-aaad240f-0072-4eb9-91f4-4e831d7a999a) Local TV on Vivi, the custom foundation system.
- [Teknovation.biz: Knoxville-based Blank Beauty is building new foundations, literally](https://www.teknovation.biz/knoxville-based-blank-beauty-is-building-new-foundation-makeup-2026/) A closer look at Vivi, the custom foundation system.
- [Teknovation.biz: You not the SKU: Blank Beauty is the first cosmetic innovation company to create custom foundation](https://www.teknovation.biz/blank-beauty-is-the-first-cosmetic-innovation-company-to-create-custom-foundation/) Why custom foundation, and how the machine behind it came together.
- [Epson: Epson Robots Invests in Blank Beauty to Bring Automation and Retailtainment to the Consumer Space](https://news.epson.com/news/blank-beauty-scara-robots) Blank Beauty's CEO calls APTUS a longtime trusted design partner, and the ones who brought Epson in.

Source: https://www.aptusdesignworks.com/work/blank-beauty-foundation-machine