{"id":26166,"date":"2016-05-28T14:01:47","date_gmt":"2016-05-28T21:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/3d-printed-hair-is-a-thing-and-it-could-change-the-beauty-industry"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:43:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:43:13","slug":"3d-printed-hair-is-a-thing-and-it-could-change-the-beauty-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/3d-printed-hair-is-a-thing-and-it-could-change-the-beauty-industry","title":{"rendered":"3D-Printed Hair Is a Thing and It Could Change the Beauty Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-printed-hair-is-a-thing-and-it-could-change-the-beauty-industry.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Latest on 3D printed Synthetic hair.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Makeup brushes haven\u2019t changed all that much over the last century. Sure, brands have figured out how to create <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allure.com\/beauty-products\/2015\/best-cruelty-free-makeup-brushes#slide=1\">synthetic fibers<\/a> and played around with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allure.com\/beauty-products\/makeup\/makeup-brush\/2014\/mac-masterclass-oval-6-brush-review\">handle placement<\/a>, but otherwise, there hasn\u2019t been a whole lot of innovation, especially compared with the developments we\u2019ve seen in skin care and cosmetics. But that could all change thanks to the creation and testing of 3D-printed hair by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\u2019s Tangible Media Group.<\/p>\n<p>3D-printed hair isn\u2019t technically a new innovation; MIT unveiled the first 3D-printed hair about a year ago. What\u2019s new is that since then, the researchers have explored the exciting possibilities of the technology. In a recently released paper, the Tangible Media Group details the creation of its <a href=\"http:\/\/tangible.media.mit.edu\/project\/cilllia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Cillia<\/em><\/a> program, which allows for the 3D printing of both flat and curved surfaces covered in extremely fine, tightly packed, artificial hairs. What\u2019s so cool is just how small they can make the hairs\u2014as tiny as 50 microns across\u2014giving them the ability to create highly dense hairy or furry surfaces that were previously only possible in nature. And because they can get the hair that small, it allows the company to control a whole bunch of things like the length, thickness, and density of each individual hair that\u2019s printed.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/166604922\" width=\"100%\" height=\"360\" frameBorder=\"0\" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowtransparency=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allure.com\/beauty-trends\/blogs\/daily-beauty-reporter\/2016\/05\/3d-printed-hair-in-the-beauty-industry.html\">http:\/\/www.allure.com\/beauty-trends\/blogs\/daily-beauty-repor...ustry.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest on 3D printed Synthetic hair. Makeup brushes haven\u2019t changed all that much over the last century. Sure, brands have figured out how to create synthetic fibers and played around with handle placement, but otherwise, there hasn\u2019t been a whole lot of innovation, especially compared with the developments we\u2019ve seen in skin care and cosmetics. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50379,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26166\/revisions\/50379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}