AI-powered custom lip system ChromaFlow wins best innovation award in beauty tech and innovation award in AI

LumiJet Pro AI skin-care device also takes innovation award in AI category

ChromaFlow, which won the best innovation award in beauty tech and an innovation award in AI at CES 2027 [Kolmar Korea]
ChromaFlow, which won the best innovation award in beauty tech and an innovation award in AI at CES 2027 [Kolmar Korea]

Kolmar Korea has become the first company in the world to win the best innovation award in the beauty tech category at CES for two consecutive years, the cosmetics manufacturer announced Tuesday.

The company said its AI-powered personalized lip manufacturing system ChromaFlow was named the best innovation award winner in beauty tech and also received an innovation award in the AI category at CES 2027, which runs from Jan. 6 to Jan. 9 (local time) in Las Vegas.

A second entry, the AI skin-care device LumiJet Pro, also earned an innovation award in the AI category. With both submissions recognized, Kolmar Korea will take home a total of three awards.

The CES best innovation award goes each year to the highest-scoring product among all innovation award winners. The beauty tech category was established in 2025, with Samsung Electronics taking the inaugural best innovation award. Kolmar Korea became the first beauty company to win the honor last year and has now claimed it for the second consecutive year.

According to the Consumer Technology Association, a record roughly 4,000 entries were submitted for CES innovation awards this year — a 10 percent increase from the previous year — with AI, digital health and robotics accounting for 25 percent of all submissions. Winners are selected by engineers, designers and industry experts who evaluate entries on innovation, functionality and design.

ChromaFlow was developed to let users replicate on their own lips the exact lip color worn by an influencer in a video. When the device is pressed against the lips, an AI optical sensor analyzes the user's lip condition and blends seven color cartridges to produce a custom lip product in under a minute.

Conventional lip products can look different on each person depending on natural lip color and skin tone, even when the same shade is used. ChromaFlow overcomes this limitation by having AI calculate the optimal color-mixing ratio for each individual's lip color. The device features a translucent body so users can watch the color-blending process as it happens.

LumiJet Pro uses AI to analyze skin condition and deliver active ingredients precisely to where they are needed. The device applies "NanoJet" technology, which scans areas affected by skin trouble or pigmentation and fires ultra-fine particles loaded with active ingredients at high speed.

A second technology called "Point-to-Field" then activates: when light of a specific wavelength is applied, the particles inside the skin break down and the active ingredients spread to the surrounding tissue. Kolmar Korea also developed the proprietary nano-particle formulations used in the device.

The recognition is significant because it reflects Kolmar Korea's push to expand beyond its traditional cosmetics manufacturing business into AI-driven beauty tech. By extending AI's role from analyzing individual skin conditions and colors all the way to producing customized cosmetics on demand, the company is building a new competitive edge that bridges research and development with manufacturing.

Going forward, Kolmar Korea plans to build a beauty tech data platform anchored by three products: CAIOME, an AI scalp-diagnosis solution; a scar beauty device that treats and conceals blemishes with makeup; and ChromaFlow. The company intends to connect AI models across each category into a single integrated system covering everything from skin diagnosis and cosmetic formulation design to manufacturing.

"We will advance our beauty tech platform on the strength of accumulated data and lead the global beauty tech market," a Kolmar Korea official said.

Meanwhile, Kolmar Korea will set up a booth at the Venetian Expo in Las Vegas during CES 2027 to showcase ChromaFlow and LumiJet Pro.


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