????多蘭把她最喜歡的化妝品機(jī)器設(shè)備留到最后介紹。她徑直走向?qū)Ｙu店中心。在那里，第三臺(tái)互動(dòng)設(shè)備擺放在一個(gè)光線充足的鏡子旁邊。這臺(tái)比其他兩部設(shè)備都小，被絲芙蘭公司稱為“顏色智商”(Color IQ)的機(jī)器，使用一個(gè)手持拍攝設(shè)備對(duì)準(zhǔn)每位客戶的面部，然后以多達(dá)1,500種不同的色調(diào)來描繪她們的膚色。作為當(dāng)天的“導(dǎo)演”，多蘭招呼一位美容顧問測試一下我的膚色。這位年輕女士刷了兩下我的臉和脖子，“你的皮膚真好，”她說?！邦伾巧獭彪S即確定了我的膚色類型——5y05（“y”代表黃色；還有“R”代表紅色），以及一組與這個(gè)代碼相匹配的粉底和遮瑕膏。

????這套系統(tǒng)的目標(biāo)是減少傳統(tǒng)上非常繁瑣的挑選過程。“平均而言，一位女士需要買7種粉底，才能找到合適自己膚色的產(chǎn)品，”多蘭說?！八粌H僅是在尋找合適的顏色，或許還有類似‘哦，我可不希望花65美元’這樣的心理。這真的是合適的產(chǎn)品，合適的配方，合適的色度。”

????一旦你找到完美的香氛、護(hù)膚品和面部底妝產(chǎn)品，絲芙蘭還有另一種希望你使用的工具：Beauty Board。這是一款在絲芙蘭手機(jī)應(yīng)用和官網(wǎng)上都具備的功能，其運(yùn)作方式就像是照片分享網(wǎng)站Instagram的內(nèi)部交流版。多蘭瀏覽了一下最新發(fā)布的一些帖子：一張是極富特色的金色閃粉眼線，另一張是珊瑚色腮紅。通過Beauty Board，消費(fèi)者和員工可以上傳她們剛剛打理過的臉部照片，并附上使用的化妝品名稱，這樣其他人就可以模仿她們的妝容。事實(shí)證明，自拍真是絲芙蘭的好朋友。

????“最終的想法是，一位美容顧問會(huì)說，‘嘿，你想讓我?guī)湍阌檬謾C(jī)拍一張化妝后的照片嗎？’”多蘭說。她的目光停留在一位二十出頭，打著藍(lán)綠色眼影的女子自拍照上。“現(xiàn)在你可以看著它說，‘哦，這就是我想要的，能達(dá)到這種效果的產(chǎn)品，’根本沒必要經(jīng)歷繁瑣的試錯(cuò)過程?！?/p>

????就這樣，多蘭陸續(xù)花掉了一些積分，她不停地通過手機(jī)來查看她還需要補(bǔ)充哪些化妝品。在我們一起逛店的半小時(shí)內(nèi)，多蘭一刻也沒有放下她的手機(jī)。事實(shí)證明，這正是絲芙蘭預(yù)期甚至鼓勵(lì)的行為。她說：“你可以使用你的手機(jī)，我們希望你在逛店時(shí)掏出手機(jī)。毫無疑問，對(duì)于我們來說這是一個(gè)機(jī)會(huì)?！保ㄘ?cái)富中文網(wǎng)）

????譯者：葉寒

????Dolan saved her favorite marriage—of makeup and machinery—for last. She cleared a path to the center of the store, where a third kiosk, smaller than the rest, sat adjacent to a well-lit mirror. This one, which Sephora calls Color IQ, uses a hand-held capture device that calibrates to each client’s visage and maps out their skin color on a range of 1,500 different hues. Every bit the director in the day’s production, Dolan flagged down a cast member to try it out on me. Two swipes over my face and neck—”You have really nice skin,” the young woman said—and Color IQ gave me the designation of 5y05 (“y” as in yellow; there’s also “r” for red) and an array of foundations and concealers that match that code.

????The goal of the system is to cut down on a traditionally tedious process. “The average woman buys seven foundations before she finds the right one,” Dolan said. “Not only is she looking for the right color, it might be, ‘Oh I don’t want to spend $65.’ It really is the right product, the right formulation, and the right shade.’”

????And once you’ve found the perfect scent, skin care products, and shades with which to makeup your face, Sephora has yet another tool it wants you to use: Beauty Board, a feature within its smartphone app and on its website that functions like an in-house Instagram. Dolan scrolled through some of the latest posts: one featured gold glitter eyeliner; another, coral-colored cheeks. With Beauty Board, customers and staffers can upload photos of their freshly-done faces and tag products so others can emulate their look. Selfies, it turns out, are very much Sephora’s friend.

????“Ultimately the idea will be that a cast member will say ‘Hey, do you want me to take a picture of your makeover with your phone?,’” Dolan said, stopping on a photo of a twentysomething woman with turquoise eyeshadow. “Now you can look at that and say, ‘Oh, this is the product I should use to get that look,’ instead of going through all the trial and error.”

????With that, Dolan ducked away to spend some of her 7,000 points, consulting her phone to see what makeup staples she needed to refill. She hadn’t put down her phone the half hour we’d spent in the store, which, it turns out, is behavior Sephora expects and even encourages. “You can use your phone, we want you to take it out in our store,” she said. “It’s an opportunity for us, for sure.”