LookTake
Try anyone's makeup, outfit, or hairstyle on your photo
Details
- External ID
- 47132684
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- LookTake
- Website domain
- looktake.io
- Launched
- Feb. 24, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.38207547169811323
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hi HN, I'm Taemin. I built LookTake, a social platform where users share beauty, fashion, and hair looks, and anyone can "Take" that look onto their own photo using AI.I worked at a game company in Korea doing AI research — graphics, vision, and image generation. I built the in-house image gen service there. While reading generative AI papers, I came across virtual try-on research and had a realization: people will eventually shop by seeing products on themselves, not just browsing photos of models. I started experimenting on weekends. The early results were rough, but promising enough that I left my job.The core technical challenge: when you use image generation models to transfer someone's look onto another person, they either lose your identity or drop the style details. You ask it to transfer a specific makeup look and it gives you a completely different face, or an outfit loses its pattern and texture, or the hairstyle comes out flat. A prompt-only approach just isn't precise enough.So I built a multi-stage pipeline — object detection, inpainting, and several other steps — to preserve your identity while accurately transferring style details.Unlike preset filters or brand catalog try-ons, users share styles from their own everyday photos and anyone in the community can try that look on themselves with one tap. It works across three categories: beauty (makeup transfer), fashion (outfit try-on), and hair (style and color).I launched in the US and Korea about a month ago. Still early and plenty to improve — would love honest feedback. Does the try-on quality feel convincing?Demo: https://youtube.com/shorts/mDLkiV3D4rI iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/looktake-share-style-with-ai/id67... Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.looktake.ap...
Enrichment
- Theme
- virtual try-on and ai fashion styling
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- virtual try-on for makeup and fashion
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial While building a social app with file upload is easy, fine-grained virtual try-on/transfer (swapping makeup, hair, and clothing onto target photos) requires specialized computer vision and diffusion inpainting pipelines.
What it would actually take: A production implementation requires fine-tuned diffusion models (e.g., Stable Diffusion XL / Flux with custom ControlNets, IP-Adapter, or specialized virtual try-on architectures like IDM-VTON) paired with facial landmark detection and clothing segmentation models (e.g., SAM). It needs GPU cluster orchestration (Triton/vLLM) to deliver low-latency inference while preserving user identity and high-resolution garment/hair texture fidelity.
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Competitors
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Launched 118 days after the earliest competitor.
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