New "Mink" 3-D printer for makeup

Grace Choi, a Harvard Business School graduate, developed a miniature 3D printer that combines FDA-approved ink with a variety of substrates to "create any type of makeup, from powders to cream to lipstick."





Using conventional image-editing software that is probably already on your computer and fill the entire image with that color, print it to the Mink, and out pops your makeup after a few minutes.

Choi comments that the various pigments and substrates should be relatively inexpensive.

Choi said in an interview: "What we're doing is taking out the bulls**t. Big makeup companies take the pigment and the substrates and mix them together and then jack the price. We do the same thing and let you get the makeup right in your own house."