Hairstylists & barbers
Clients arrive with a reference photo and a vague ask. Vanity separates what is achievable from the styling in the picture, and gives you both a starting brief and a way to set expectations before the chair.
For business
Your customer already knows what they want. They just cannot describe it.
Every barber, stylist, optician and retailer has the same conversation daily: someone arrives with a picture on their phone and no vocabulary for what is in it. Vanity turns that picture into a specific, itemised brief — before the appointment starts.
Applications
Where Vanity fits.
Salons
Offer an analysis as a pre-appointment step or a paid consultation product. It fills a diary gap, qualifies the booking, and gives the stylist a written record of what was agreed.
Clothing retailers
Every analysis ends in product categories with a specification attached — cut, length, colour, fabric weight. Map your catalogue onto those categories and each report becomes a personalised, explained shopping list.
Eyewear companies
Frames are the highest-frequency, most-photographed item most people own, and the hardest to choose remotely. Vanity reads frame shape, weight and colour as a first-class dimension of every look.
Personal stylists
Use it as intake. Arrive at the first session with the client's references already decomposed into silhouette, palette, formality and fit, instead of spending the session extracting them.
Fashion brands
Understand which aesthetics your customers are actually reaching for, in aggregate and in their own words, rather than inferring it from what happened to be in stock.
Grooming companies
Recommendations regularly resolve to a grooming category — product type, hold, finish, routine — with the reason attached. That is a materially better context for a recommendation than a quiz.
Photographers
Photo presentation is scored in every report. Use it as a lead-in to headshot and personal-brand work with clients who already know they want to change something.
How it connects
Built to attach to real products and real people.
Vanity deliberately asks the model for categories rather than brands. That keeps the advice honest — the recommendation is made on what is in the photograph, not on what somebody paid to place — and it keeps commercial matching a separate, inspectable step.
Each suggestion carries a category, whether it is a product or a service, and a specification for what to look for. Attaching your catalogue, your affiliate links, or your local practitioner directory to those categories is a single integration point.
Product catalogues
Match a category and specification against your inventory and return real, in-stock items.
Service directories
Return nearby barbers, stylists, opticians or tailors for service-type recommendations.
Affiliate networks
Outbound links are decorated through a single filter, so tracking stays in one auditable place.
Commerce platforms
Credits, packs and subscriptions all resolve to one entitlement check, whatever processes the payment.
Your own front end
Every analysis is stored as structured data, not prose, so it can be rendered anywhere.
A note on trust
Recommendations stay separate from commerce.
The analysis is produced before any commercial matching happens, and matching never changes what the analysis said. If nothing suitable exists in a catalogue, the advice still stands on its own — which is the only way a recommendation is worth anything to the person receiving it.
Talk to us about a partnership.
Whether you want to offer analyses to your own clients or connect your catalogue to ours, the integration points are already in place.