Best New Beauty Tools Coming in 2022

There’s one category of beauty that we can’t resist no matter how hard we try: beauty tools. As Ariel from The Little Mermaid once expressed, “I’ve got gadgets and gizmos a-plenty,”  Each year we wait with anticipation to see what new skin-care, makeup, and hair products our favorite brands will come up with, but nothing drums up excitement quite like beauty gadgets. From inventive heat-styling tools unlike anything we have in our current stash to skin-care devices that rival in-office machines, each year is packed with more developments and innovations than the one before.

No matter what year you were born, saying 2022 out loud sounds like you’re speaking of a world light years ahead. In the minds of many, self-driving cars should be standard by now, teleportation the easiest way to get from one place to the next, and using physical cash to pay for things is a practice as antiquated as a fax machine. While some of these technological advancements have come to fruition, one of the biggest booms has been in the beauty business. There’s no doubt that even with the most advanced day-to-day essentials, the endless pursuit of healthy, youthful skin and hair will always exist. And now, with the use of artificial intelligence (AI), actual DNA, and even machinery used to build cars and jets, getting closer to a personal standard of perfection is not that unreasonable.

Whether you’re looking to unlock your best skin or hair yet in the new year or simply want to indulge in a treat for yourself for no particular reason at all, we rounded up the best new beauty gadgets of 2022 ahead.

Noble Panacea The Chronobiology Sleep Mask

The tech behind Noble Panacea comes courtesy of Nobel Prize-winning chemist Sir Fraser Stoddart. The brand’s patented Organic Super Molecular Vessels (OSMV) are an ingredient delivery system that is 10,000 times smaller than a skin cell. The tiny capsules are made from biodegradable carbs and fatty acids that can transport skin care actives into the depths of your skin. The newest product in Noble Panacea’s range, The Chronobiology Sleep Mask, pumps exfoliating polyhydroxy acid (PHA), collagen-boosting retinol, hydrating hyaluronic acid, and a blend of moisture-sealing oil into the skin at staggered times while you snooze. The formula works like this: Between 11 p.m. and 2 a.m., skin will be purged of damaging free radicals and dead skin; between 2 a.m. and 4 a.m., the repair process takes place; and at 4 a.m., skin is nourished with hydrating and soothing actives. Pretty impressive compared to the average nighttime moisturizer.

SpoiledChild

Backed by consumer-tech company Oddity, SpoiledChild is a new wellness brand with serious smarts behind it. The company created an adaptive machine learning engine called SpoiledBrain, which sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, and the artificial intelligence system uses hyperspectral technology that can detect 31 wavelengths that are invisible to the human eye. What these wavelengths can do is analyze skin and hair features, detect facial blood flows, monitor heart rate, and create melanin and hemoglobin maps. The tool also consists of data that’s been collected from 25 million users on Oddity’s tech platform. This info helps inform what consumers’ main goals, concerns, and pain points are in the skin and hair care spaces.

After you complete an online profile, your information is combined with SpoiledBrain’s findings to pair you up with the exact product for your skin or hair. “SpoiledBrain analyzes trillions of potential combinations of user profile attributes to arrive at the best multicategory product match for each user in real time,” explain Suzanne Fitzpatrick and Laura Sluyter, co-general managers of SpoiledChild. “It is able to continuously collect additional data and use that to train and improve the algorithm both for existing and new products.” The tech goes even deeper. So whether you’re looking to smooth out wrinkles or get your hair growing, with this technology you’ll have a near customized formula to meet your needs. Products this advanced sound like they’d come with a hefty price tag, but Fitzpatrick and Sluyter note that because their model is so hyper-specific, they are able to offer formulas that range from $45 to $75.

iO10 Toothbrush

If one area of the beauty and health industry has taken on a whole new shape, it is oral care. Consumers have become very aware of their oral health and hygiene practices. Tapping further into that thinking is Oral-B’s latest iO10. The innovation sports an advanced real-time health coach built to monitor your brushing accuracy, pressure, time and coverage, all designed within the toothbrush’s charging base. For Oral B, this takes oral care to a whole new level, featuring over seven different modes of cleaning and pressure sensor to assess the health of the gums and when you are brushing incorrectly. They have also released a further two brushes to their iO10 series that is more budget-friendly, with slightly fewer modifications but equally as resourceful. 

Beauty Fridge

Attending the show IRL this year was a new start-up, Beautigloo. Flying in from Paris, the Co-Founder and CEO, Clara Lizier, introduced a beauty fridge that harnesses the intelligent thermal system designed to keep your beauty products’ temperature and optimal environment. Alongside a patented cryo stick, the brand is positioning itself by prioritizing the care and longevity of our beauty products by regulating the temperatures and efficacy. 

L’Oréal Colorsonic

Dyson set the bar incredibly high for hair tools, but L’Oréal’s latest is applying pressure. If you’ve ever been brave enough to try a box of at-home hair dye then you’re familiar with how messy the whole process can be — not to mention a huge margin for error that comes with it. Ask any colorist how many color corrections they’ve done in their day and guaranteed the answer is plenty. This is where Colorsonic comes to the rescue.

The handheld device does all the messy work for you. The tool works alongside an app where you choose your preferred color from a list of 40 options. From there you apply a cardboard cartridge into the device and a custom mixer mechanism blends just the right amount of developer and color inside the tool. The device then dispenses the hair color right into your roots through an oscillating nozzle of bristles that move in a zigzag pattern so that the dye is evenly distributed. Pure genius.