China is renowned for its early adoption of technology - from phablets to digital wallets, China is at the forefront. Now, China's beauty market is embracing technological advances and gadgets hoping that China's love of innovation will translate to this sector.

The make-up aisles of today's pharmacies are a bright spectrum of colour – but there's always that one perfect shade of lipstick no company seems to make. Harvard Business School graduate Grace Choi is eliminating this irritation with Mink – a 3D printer just for make-up.

The Apple Watch launched in April 2015 with an array of sensors to measure a user’s pulse, movement and location. Touted as a health and productivity aid, the watch is the most mainstream product to gather bodily data in the form of biometrics. But should brands know our every measurement?

With the ever-growing popularity of YouTube makeup tutorials, Selfridges and YSL have partnered to create a Google Glass-powered interactive event. YSL makeup artists will wear the devices to capture and stream their work from a first person perspective.