Makeup Application Preference Survey

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With the development of technology, many changes have emerged in how consumers acquire information without restrictions on their location and time. As changes and interest in digital platforms increase, beauty industry applications are being developed in order to attract customers. Therefore, this study has provided the empirical data necessary for the development and advancement of beauty applications in the future by analyzing preferences for makeup applications according to age. The method of this study involved searching for makeup applications that had been downloaded more than 100 million times through the Google Play Store between October 11, 2020 to November 3, 2020. Four applications were identified: YouCma Makeup, YouCam Perfect, Beauty Plus, and Sweet Snap. The surveyed functions were tested on 100 people in their teens, 20s, 30s, and 40s, with a similar profile of 100 people in their teens, 20s, 30s, and 40s surveyed from January 3, 2022 to April 23, 2022. The functional preferences of the application were investigated, and the results were analyzed through frequency analysis. The results are as follows: the application that received the greatest preference for features by age was YCM, which was found to have subdivided functions that provide users a wider range of choices and more detailed work when compared to other applications which enable photo retouching.