💄AI Beauty Revolution: L'Oréal & OpenAI 🚀

Expanding the Reach of Maybelline’s Virtual Try-On within ChatGPT
The cosmetics giant, L’Oréal, has announced a strategic collaboration with OpenAI to integrate Maybelline New York’s virtual makeup try-on feature directly into the ChatGPT platform. This initiative, unveiled at VivaTech 2026, represents a significant expansion of L’Oréal’s digital beauty services and leverages OpenAI’s advanced AI capabilities. The partnership encompasses consumer-facing shopping tools, product discovery, advertising pilots, internal content production, and internal AI applications for research and formulation.

Maybelline’s Virtual Try-On: A Conversational Beauty Experience
The core of this collaboration centers around Maybelline’s Makeup Virtual Try-On, accessible directly within ChatGPT. This feature utilizes L’Oréal’s ModiFace technology, an augmented reality and AI beauty platform, allowing users to digitally test makeup looks through a conversational interface. ModiFace, acquired by L’Oréal in 2018, has been instrumental in developing virtual makeup try-on, hair color try-on, and augmented reality shopping experiences across L’Oréal’s diverse portfolio of brands. By 2025, L’Oréal’s Beauty Tech services had already reached over 120 million uses across 66 countries and 31 brands, demonstrating the significant market demand for these innovative digital tools.

Product Discovery and Advertising: Optimizing Brand Visibility in ChatGPT
Beyond the core try-on feature, L’Oréal is partnering with OpenAI to enhance product discovery within ChatGPT. This initiative will initially focus on brands including Lancôme and Kérastase, leveraging the platform to improve product surfacing and recommendations. E-commerce for L’Oréal experienced double-digit growth in 2025, surpassing 30% of total sales, highlighting the potential of AI-driven product discovery. Several brands, including SkinCeuticals, CeraVe, and Garnier, are participating in OpenAI’s global ChatGPT advertising pilot, concentrating on AI-native advertising at moments of consumer intent and commerce. L’Oréal describes this pilot as focused on leveraging AI to target consumers directly with relevant product information.

Revolutionizing Research and Formulation with GPT-Rosalind
The L’Oréal-OpenAI partnership extends beyond consumer-facing applications to profoundly impact the company's research and formulation processes. L’Oréal is utilizing OpenAI’s GPT-Rosalind, a model designed for life sciences reasoning, to map the skin microbiome. This research, initially focused on La Roche-Posay, aims to identify beneficial bacteria that can inform the development of new skincare products. Furthermore, L’Oréal, in collaboration with IBM and NVIDIA, is developing a Formulation Foundation Model, leveraging AI for predictive formulation science and 3D product rendering.

Internal AI Tools: Empowering L’Oréal Teams with Generative AI
To drive innovation across all departments, L’Oréal is integrating OpenAI’s latest models into its internal generative AI content platform, CreAItech. This platform is specifically designed to create images and videos reflecting the visual identity of L’Oréal’s brands, empowering L’Oréal teams in beauty content creation. Support for the OpenAI model will apply to both image and video generation within CreAItech.

Employee Empowerment and Training: A Commitment to AI Adoption
As of 2026, L’Oréal has already trained approximately 73,000 employees in generative AI, signifying a company-wide commitment to adopting these technologies. This includes the implementation of internal tools like L’OréalGPT and personal AI companions. As L’Oréal’s Chief Digital and Marketing Officer, Asmita Dubey, emphasized, the company’s AI strategy aims to support both consumers and employees, spanning across marketing and research initiatives. OpenAI’s Managing Director for EMEA, Emmanuel Marill, highlighted the breadth of the collaboration, encompassing research, employee tools, and consumer-facing services.

A Broader AI Ecosystem: L’Oréal’s Comprehensive Programme
This strategic partnership is part of L’Oréal’s broader AI programme, which encompasses consumer tools and internal work across marketing and research. The company’s commitment to AI innovation is further underscored by its ongoing investment in internal tools and its engagement with leading technology providers.

VivaTech 2026 and Beyond: A Milestone Collaboration
This collaboration marks L’Oréal’s 10th year at VivaTech, a prominent technology event, solidifying its position at the forefront of innovation.

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