The claimed invention relates to face contour mask system and method, and in some aspects to a face contour mask system and method for creating shadowed blend.
Creating makeup or tanning contour has been a popular trend in the beauty world. In countoring, the user often wants to shade areas or regions of her face to define or reshape, for example, the forehead, chin, and cheekbones, with shade that is darker than ther skin color. Current contouring products and methods include using contouring airbrush and sunless contouring solutions. A problem with such processes is that the placement of the darkened areas or regions is typically up to the wearer who is most often, not a qualified make-up artist with the knowledge of where and how to apply contouring solutions. These products take much time to apply, are uneven and often create an unnatural “caked-on” artificial look. In addition, these solutions only last for a short time and are easily washed off with a single bathing.
Accordingly, there is a need for a system and method that simplifies the process of creating makeup or tanning contour.
Provided herein are embodiments of system and method for creating shadowed blend using a face contour mask system. In some embodiments, the contour mask system may include a faceplate which can be adapted to cover a plurality of portions (or regions) of a face of a user, thus leving other areas of exposed skin. The faceplate may include two elongated apertures adapted to fit over the eyes of the user. On the inside or back side of the faceplate, an annular ridge may encircle each elongated aperture. The ridges protrude outwardly from the back side of the faceplate. The faceplate may include a flexible nose rest positioned at the foot of each ridge. The flexible nose rest may be reinforced with bendable metal wire. The ridges and the nose rests may allow a space gap between the face of the user and the faceplate when the faceplate is positioned or worn over the user's face. Because the nose rest is flexible, the user may adjust the nose rest to increase or decrease the space gap, or distance between the face of the user and the faceplate.
In some embodiments, the faceplate may include rounded edges, and removable ultraviolet ray protective eyewear.
In some operations, the user may start placing the faceplate to fit over the face of the user. The user then may bend the flexible nose rests to adapt the nose rests to fit over the nose bridge of the user when placing the back side of the faceplate over the face of the user, so that the nose rests may create a space gap between the face of the user and the back side of the faceplate. Once the faceplate is positioned over the face of the user with a desired space gap and desired areas of exposed skin, the user may apply a sprayed solution or tanning rays over desired areas of exposed skin. With the provided space gap, the applied substance or tan may be blurred instantly to all correct/desired areas while being properly blended at the same time, as to advantageously avoid any hard lines.
Other features and advantages of the present invention will be or will become apparent to one with skill in the art upon examination of the following figures and detailed description, which illustrate, by way of examples, the principles of the present invention.
The present invention may be better understood by referring to the following figures. The components in the figures are not necessarily to scale, emphasis instead being placed upon illustrating the principles of the disclosure. In the figures, like reference numerals designate corresponding parts throughout the different views.
The below described figures illustrate the described invention and method of use in at least one of its preferred, best mode embodiment, which is further defined in detail in the following description. Those having ordinary skill in the art may be able to make alterations and modifications to what is described herein without departing from its spirit and scope. While this invention is susceptible of embodiment in many different forms, there is shown in the drawings and will herein be described in detail a preferred embodiment of the invention with the understanding that the present disclosure is to be considered as an exemplification of the principles of the invention and is not intended to limit the broad aspect of the invention to the embodiment illustrated. All features, elements, components, functions, and steps described with respect to any embodiment provided herein are intended to be freely combinable and substitutable with those from any other embodiment unless otherwise stated. Therefore, it should be understood that what is illustrated is set forth only for the purposes of example and should not be taken as a limitation on the scope of the present invention.
In some embodiments, the faceplate may include two elongated apertures (or openings) over the eye portions (or regions) of the eyes. In certain embodiments, the eye areas are made of clear UV protective lenses so that they can prevent application to the eyes while allowing vision and protection from ocular UV exposure. In other certain embodiments, the system may include a removable ultraviolet ray protective eyewear to cover the two elongated apertures to protect the eyes, for example, during a UV tanning process.
In various embodiments, the face mask contour system may allow the faceplate, when positioned over the face of a user, to provide an even space between the face of the user and the faceplate in some or all regions of the face. Such spacing may allow blurring or blending at and adjacent to the edges of the faceplate when applying sunless tan, sprayed or powdered dye, pigment, UV rays, makeup, and the like. The applied substances or rays may be blurred instantly to all correct/desired regions while being properly blended at the same time, as to advantageously avoid any hard lines. Hard lines often suggest an artificial application. Thus, without hard lines, the application may appear more natural and more subjectively beautiful.
The embodiments of the face mask contour system may be used with, but not limited to, UV tanning, sunless tanning solutions, airbrush/make-up contouring, and all other forms of beauty related products.
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When the faceplate 110 is positioned over the face of a user as described below, it leaves portions or regions of the face exposed to application such as sunless tanning solutions, makeup, UV rays to create a design of a desired contour.
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As the faceplate 110 may be made of UV protective material, together with the UV protective lenses or goggles, the face mask contour system 100 may provide an all-in-one system for tanning to protect both the user's eyes and face from UV related damage, while achieving a natural contour of the user's own color.
The flange 142 and flange 140 (not shown) may curve steeper starting at ridge 152 and 150 (not shown). The steeper curves may allow the faceplate 110 to hug the sides of the face of the user closer. But note that, as described herein, the flange 140, 142 may not directly touch the face of the user. In some embodiments, the flange 140 and 142 may be bendable.
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The faceplate 110 may also include a spacer to create a space gap between the user's face and the faceplate 110. In some embodiments, the spacer may be a flexible nose rest 320 fixedly coupled to the elongated aperture 310, and similarly a flexible nose rest 322 fixedly coupled to the elongated aperture 312. In some embodiments, the nose rests 320, 322 may include rubber housing with treaded feet, encapsulating metal wire for customizable flexibility to fit all nose types. In some exemplary operations, a user may bend the nose rest(s) into a position that rests comfortably on the user's nose while allowing the faceplate 110 to continue to maintain a distance from the face of the user. As described herein, the space may advantageously allow the user to create a shadowed blend when applying tanning or makeup solutions.
It is noted that although embodiments described herein include nose rests to advantageously create a space gap between the user's face and the face mask, other suitable means may also be used to create similar space gap. These may include, but not limited to, fixed or removable spacer, such as rubber spacers placed on the back side of the faceplate, head mount, elastic band or string, clear plastic band, mouth bite mount, and silicone skin adhesive.
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At 520, the faceplate 110 may include clear UV protective lenses over the eye portions to prevent application to the eyes. In other certain embodiments, where the faceplate 110 may not include clear UV protective lenses, the user may attach removable ultraviolet ray protective eyewear to cover the two elongated apertures 130, 132 before positioning the faceplate 110 over the user's face.
At 530, the user may apply a sprayed solution over desired portions or regions of the face of the user. These regions are generally around the faceplate 110. With the provided space gap in step 520, the applied substance may be blurred instantly to all correct/desired regions while being properly blended at the same time, as to advantageously avoid any hard lines.
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In some embodiments, the faceplate 110, 610, 710 may be made of vacuum pressed, molded Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) plastic, machine grade aluminum, or a combination thereof. The faceplate 110, 610, 710 may be made of different sizes and/or different shapes. The faceplates 110, 610, 710 may include rounded edges. Under the laws of fluid dynamics, the rounded edges may cause sprayed or kinetically powered darkening solutions/particles in motion to roll over and dissipate into a more blurred/blended contour on the skin at the edge of the applied substance.
It should be noted that although the faceplate 110, 610, 710 are illustrated in the drawings with certain shapes, they may be made in various shapes (see, for example,
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One or more of the components, processes, features, and/or functions illustrated in the figures may be rearranged and/or combined into a single component, block, feature or function or embodied in several components, steps, or functions. Additional elements, components, processes, and/or functions may also be added without departing from the disclosure. The apparatus, devices, and/or components illustrated in the Figures may be configured to perform one or more of the methods, features, or processes described in the Figures. The algorithms described herein may also be efficiently implemented in software and/or embedded in hardware.
Note that the aspects of the present disclosure may be described herein as a process that is depicted as a flowchart, a flow diagram, a structure diagram, or a block diagram. Although a flowchart may describe the operations as a sequential process, many of the operations can be performed in parallel or concurrently. In addition, the order of the operations may be re-arranged. A process is terminated when its operations are completed. A process may correspond to a method, a function, a procedure, a subroutine, a subprogram, etc. When a process corresponds to a function, its termination corresponds to a return of the function to the calling function or the main function.
The enablements described above are considered novel over the prior art and are considered critical to the operation of at least one aspect of the disclosure and to the achievement of the above described objectives. The words used in this specification to describe the instant embodiments are to be understood not only in the sense of their commonly defined meanings, but to include by special definition in this specification: structure, material or acts beyond the scope of the commonly defined meanings. Thus, if an element can be understood in the context of this specification as including more than one meaning, then its use must be understood as being generic to all possible meanings supported by the specification and by the word or words describing the element.
The definitions of the words or drawing elements described above are meant to include not only the combination of elements which are literally set forth, but all equivalent structure, material or acts for performing substantially the same function in substantially the same way to obtain substantially the same result. In this sense it is therefore contemplated that an equivalent substitution of two or more elements may be made for any one of the elements described and its various embodiments or that a single element may be substituted for two or more elements in a claim.
Changes from the claimed subject matter as viewed by a person with ordinary skill in the art, now known or later devised, are expressly contemplated as being equivalents within the scope intended and its various embodiments. Therefore, obvious substitutions now or later known to one with ordinary skill in the art are defined to be within the scope of the defined elements. This disclosure is thus meant to be understood to include what is specifically illustrated and described above, what is conceptually equivalent, what can be obviously substituted, and also what incorporates the essential ideas.
In the foregoing description and in the figures, like elements are identified with like reference numerals. The use of “e.g.,” “etc.,” and “or” indicates non-exclusive alternatives without limitation, unless otherwise noted. The use of “including” or “includes” means “including, but not limited to,” or “includes, but not limited to,” unless otherwise noted.
As used above, the term “and/or” placed between a first entity and a second entity means one of (1) the first entity, (2) the second entity, and (3) the first entity and the second entity. Multiple entities listed with “and/or” should be construed in the same manner, i.e., “one or more” of the entities so conjoined. Other entities may optionally be present other than the entities specifically identified by the “and/or” clause, whether related or unrelated to those entities specifically identified. Thus, as a non-limiting example, a reference to “A and/or B”, when used in conjunction with open-ended language such as “comprising” can refer, in one embodiment, to A only (optionally including entities other than B); in another embodiment, to B only (optionally including entities other than A); in yet another embodiment, to both A and B (optionally including other entities). These entities may refer to elements, actions, structures, processes, operations, values, and the like.
It should be noted that where a discrete value or range of values is set forth herein (e.g., 5, 6, 10, 100, etc.), it is noted that the value or range of values may be claimed more broadly than as a discrete number or range of numbers, unless indicated otherwise. Any discrete values mentioned herein are merely provided as examples.
The present application is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 18/084,440, filed Dec. 19, 2022, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 17/991,705, filed Nov. 21, 2022, now abandoned, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 16/865,281, filed May 1, 2020, now abandoned, which is a continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 15/962,597, filed Apr. 25, 2018, now abandoned, which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Application No. 62/520,149, filed Jun. 15, 2017, which are hereby incorporated by reference in their entireties.
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