House Of Skincare
Educational Aid
This project is an adaptation of the original House of Cards designed by Charles and Ray Eames in 1953.
House Of Skincare is your ultimate guide to navigate the complex world of skincare. Each card unveils the secrets behind common skincare ingredients. The face models for this projects were sourced through Pexels.
Software Used
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop
Research
The project started with a research on ingredients that are commonly found in skincare products. For this, I browsed through Nykaa’s top selling products. I also referred to social media posts to gain insight on what ingredients and products are generally promoted by beauty influencers.
Process
After finalising the the content, I started working on the visuals for the cards.
Route 1
The idea was to have digitally painted illustrations of skin issues. To give a spin and move away from the conventional issues, I tried showing Greek Gods with acne, dryness, etc. This approach did not work out.
Key Learning
The output didn’t do justice to the requirements of the project. I realised that since the cards act as an educational aid, showing skin issues on marble Greek Gods seemed off and didn’t make it relatable to how skin really is.
Route 2
For the visuals, I realised what best does justice to the project needs is real skin. To incorporate this in my project, I sourced model faces from Pexels and manipulated them in Photoshop.
Another challenge was that most skincare ingredients come in a liquid form but are transparent. To solve for this and add it as an element to my cards, I illustrated flowy liquid patterns in colors of skin.
Just how skincare is applied in multiple steps as layers and has different liquid consistencies, I decided to vary the opacity of the illustrations and also stack them.
To further spruce up the cards, I decided to play around with typography and layouts.
I took advantage of the fact that there’s no one-single-side to read the cards from. Hence, the decision to play around with the layouts made perfect sense.
Result
Final set of cards stacked up.
