Facial simulation software for clinics and med spas

Who this is for

Aesthetic clinics, medical spas, skin clinics and salons whose sale begins with a face-to-face consultation about lines, contour or skin quality.

You do not need a 3D imaging booth, a developer or any hardware beyond the tablet, phone or laptop your team already uses. A single well-lit front-facing photo is enough.

What facial simulation actually is

Facial simulation shows a client an adjusted version of their own photo so a conversation about an area of the face becomes visual instead of verbal. In Face Studio, the face is mapped on the device, then a deterministic 2D shape-and-tone edit is applied to whichever areas you select.

That is the whole mechanism, and stating it plainly matters: there is no generative model inventing a future face, and no clinical model estimating how any treatment would behave on this person. Visual strength describes how strong the illustration is, not a dose, a product volume or an expected change.

The 15 adjustable areas

Each area carries its own visual strength slider with Subtle, Defined and Strong presets, and quick starts group the common combinations — upper-face lines, the eye area, and facial contour.

How a consultation runs with it

1. 1

   Capture consent, then the photo

   A consent step precedes any client photo. Take one relaxed, front-facing photo in even light; the tool reports whether framing, alignment, exposure, detail and expression are usable before you continue.

2. 2

   Select one area at a time

   Pick the area the client raised. Adjust that area alone first — a single change is far more persuasive, and far easier to explain, than fifteen at once.

3. 3

   Compare against the original

   Use the divider or side-by-side view, and hold to see the original at any moment. Zoom to the selected area so the client is looking at the same region you are describing.

4. 4

   Talk about the area, not the outcome

   Map what the client is looking at to the treatments you actually offer, and set expectations verbally. The illustration opens the conversation; your clinical judgement leads it.

5. 5

   Reset or export

   Reset a single area or clear everything to start again. Export a labelled PNG containing the original and the illustration side by side for the consultation record.

Where it fits with the AI facial scan

The 12-metric AI facial skin analysis answers "what is the current state of this skin?" with scored metrics your team can track scan over scan. Facial simulation answers a different question: "which area are we talking about?"

Used together, the scan gives the objective starting point and the follow-up record, while the simulation makes the target area unmistakable in the room.

Photo quality and honest limits

• One face, framed front-on, with a relaxed expression and even lighting
• Strong side lighting, heavy makeup, glasses or hair over the face reduce mapping quality
• Profile shots, extreme angles and very low-resolution images are rejected rather than guessed at
• A 2D shape edit cannot represent muscle response, bone structure or injectable volumes
• Not a diagnosis and not a medical device function — anything clinically concerning belongs with a qualified clinician

Consent, privacy and compliance

Face mapping and rendering happen on the device during the session, and the original pixels remain the source for every render, so nothing is re-derived from a previous edit.

Because a simulated face is easy to misread, every on-screen view and every export is permanently labelled as a simulation. Keep the exported PNG with the consultation notes and avoid publishing simulated images as before-and-after marketing — in most markets, advertising rules treat a simulated image shown as an outcome as misleading.

What it looks like

The screenshot below shows Face Studio in divider view on the fictional demo portrait supplied with the tool: adjustable areas on the left, comparison and zoom controls above the image, and per-area visual strength on the right.

Getting access

1. 1

   Take an Enterprise seat

   Facial simulation unlocks on paid Enterprise seats — the same seats that give each logged-in operator unlimited facial scans under fair use.

2. 2

   Open it under Skin AI tools

   It appears in the Skin AI tools area next to the facial scan, UV skin type and wound tools, and is locked with an explanatory screen on non-Enterprise accounts.

3. 3

   Brief the team once

   Agree the one-sentence framing, which areas you will illustrate for each treatment you sell, and where exported PNGs are filed.

Frequently asked questions