3-D printing now allows consumers to produce their own makeup color from home.
According to TIME, the hues are available via links from the United States Food and Drug Administration.
The creator of Mink told TechCrunch Disrupt conference attendees wealth is abundant in the makeup business.
"The makeup industry makes a whole lot of money on a whole lot of bulls-," Grace Choi, a Harvard Business School Graduate said. "They do this by charging a huge premium on one thing that technology provides for free, and that one thing is color."
Choi also said times are changing for the makeup market: consumers now purchase cosmetics with one click of a mouse button versus heading out to purchase the latest products.
"We're going to live in a world where you can take a picture of your friend's lipstick and print it out," Choi said. "The inkjet handles the pigment, and the same raw material substrates can create any type of makeup, from powders to cream to lipstick."
3-D printing has become popular in other areas such as the business sector. McDonald's, for instance, announced plans in November to make happy meal toys with an 8.7 kilogram printer.
"We've all been in McDonald's when you've already got that one and you want to swap it and the only ones they've got are the ones you already have," Mark Fabes, IT director of McDonald's in the United Kingdom told Tech World. "(It would be great) if McDonald's could reprint a toy that was no longer being distributed. For me to put that sort of technology in a restaurant I've got to be very sure that people are able to support it and use it."
The polylactic acid plastic material printer was released in July, and measures 60 by 45 by 60 centimeters.
3-D printing has also helped replace lost limbs from accidents and reconstruct faces.
