Dermaglow · Field Notes

We test our own product, and publish what we find.

Measurements, method and the numbers that didn't flatter us — from the team building the AI skin coach.

Spot by Spot: What's New in Dermaglow

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Green on the Seventh Try

Dermaglow is coming to Android. It's building and signing and landing in internal testing right now — and getting there took seven separate failures, not one of which was in the app itself.

The Breakout Was Real. The Recovery Wasn't.

Two weeks ago I wrote that our Skin Score could see a spot appear but wasn't allowed to say so. We shipped the fixes. Then I broke out for real, scanned every day, and checked every verdict against the pixels.

The Number We Couldn't Show You

I spent a week testing whether our own Skin Score can actually see a spot appear. It can. It just can't say so — and then I broke out mid-write-up, and the app blamed my sunscreen.