Kolmar Korea Wins Top Beauty Tech Honor at CES
The company took the Best of Innovation award in beauty tech and two Artificial Intelligence Innovation Awards at the world's largest IT and home appliance show.
Updated on Nov. 10, 2026 in Beauty
Kolmar Korea won the Best of Innovation award in the beauty tech category at CES 2027, held January 6-9 in Las Vegas. The company also won two Innovation Awards in the Artificial Intelligence category, making it the first to top the beauty tech category two years running.
Why it matters
The recognition highlights growing use of artificial intelligence in personal beauty products, from custom color mixing to skin and scalp analysis. It signals how consumer electronics showcases are becoming a venue for cosmetics innovation.
Kolmar Korea earned three honors at CES 2027, and its ChromaFlow device combines seven color cartridges to produce a customized product within one minute. The company is the first to top the beauty tech category for two consecutive years.
The players
Kolmar Korea
A South Korean cosmetics manufacturer and contract developer known for beauty formulation and manufacturing, which also develops its own AI-based skin and scalp diagnosis tools.
CES
The Consumer Electronics Show, held annually in Las Vegas and billed as the world's largest IT and home appliance exhibition.
The details
Kolmar Korea's ChromaFlow uses an AI optical sensor to analyze the user's lips and reproduce an influencer's on-screen lip color as an actual product. The LumiJet Pro uses AI to analyze skin condition and thickness, then sprays ultrafine particles through NanoJet technology, using nanoparticle contents the company developed directly.
Timeline
January 6-9, 2027: CES 2027 held in Las Vegas, United States.
Culture Shift
The award places AI-driven beauty devices alongside traditional consumer electronics at CES, reflecting a broader move toward personalized, data-driven cosmetics. Kolmar Korea's recognition for two straight years suggests the category is gaining mainstream attention in the technology sector.
Consumers may eventually be able to get custom lip colors matched by AI in about a minute, rather than choosing from ready-made shades. Personalized skin analysis tools could also inform how people select and apply their products.
The takeaway
AI-powered personalization is moving from software into physical beauty products, letting shoppers get formulas tailored to their own skin and color. Watch for whether these award-winning devices reach store shelves or remain showcase concepts.
Further reading
Explore more beauty trends and product innovation to see how technology is reshaping cosmetics.
