Korean beauty tech company Kolmar has received the top innovation award in the beauty tech category at CES 2027 for its AI-based custom lip manufacturing system, 'Chroma Flow.' This marks the first time in the world that a company has won the top innovation award in this category for two consecutive years, following last year's recognition for the 'Sky Beauty Device.'
On November 10, Kolmar announced that Chroma Flow won both the top innovation award in the beauty tech category and an innovation award in the AI category at CES 2027. The skin care device 'LumiJet Pro' also received an innovation award in the AI category, bringing the total number of awards for the two entries to three.
The top innovation award is given to the product that scores the highest in evaluation criteria among the innovation award winners. The beauty tech category was established in 2025, with Samsung Electronics winning the inaugural award that year and Kolmar winning it last year.
Chroma Flow is a device that creates lip products in desired colors by considering the individual's lip color. When the device is placed against the lips, an AI optical sensor analyzes the lip condition and calculates the mixing ratio of seven color cartridges to produce the lip product within one minute. This method reflects the variation in color payoff based on the lip color and tone, and the device's central body is designed to be translucent, allowing users to see the color mixing process.
LumiJet Pro is a skin care device that analyzes skin condition and thickness using AI before delivering active ingredients. It employs 'NanoJet' technology to rapidly spray micro-particles containing active ingredients to the necessary locations and depths within the skin. The 'Point-to-Field' technology is applied, where specific wavelengths of light are used to break down the particles, allowing the active ingredients to disperse.
Kolmar has integrated skin measurement sensors, spray heads, and light source modules into a single head and has developed proprietary nano-particle contents for use in the device. This expansion of its cosmetics research and development (R&D) capabilities into AI skin care devices is seen as significant.
Kolmar plans to build a beauty tech data platform based on accumulated skin and color data from its AI scalp diagnosis solution 'Kaiom,' the Sky Beauty Device, and Chroma Flow. The company envisions connecting AI models across various fields into a single system to support everything from skin diagnosis to cosmetic formulation design and manufacturing.
A Kolmar representative stated, "Winning the top innovation award for two consecutive years is a recognition of Kolmar's database-driven manufacturing technology that connects the entire process of cosmetics from measurement to production on the global stage. We will continue to enhance our beauty tech platform based on the accumulated data."
CES 2027 will take place from January 6 to 9, 2027, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Kolmar will showcase Chroma Flow and LumiJet Pro at booth 56139 in the Venetian Expo.
Meanwhile, Kolmar reported that its cosmetics business growth led to double-digit increases in both revenue and operating profit for its domestic corporation in the third quarter of this year. Operating profit is provisionally estimated to have increased by 40.5% year-on-year to 81.9 billion won, while revenue rose by 21.3% to 828.2 billion won, marking the highest quarterly figure on record.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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