With over 4,000 products in the market, choosing the wrong ones hurts your skin and wallet.

Our community makes sure your face card never declines.

VAIN connects you to the right products without needing totext the group chat, push through overwhelming crowds, or do late night searches for whether serums go on before or after toners.

We want to know you as a person so we can recommend products based on your individual needs, wants, and worries.

How it works

1

Diagnostic

Tell us who you are and what skin concerns you're struggling with. Are you acne prone? Get blackheads? Have you not updated your skincare routine since those Proactiv commercials? We want to know it all.

2

Recommendation

Now that we're besties, we’ll recommend a handful of products that are just right for you. No need to buy every product on Alix Earle's linktree. You're not Alix Earle and that's okay!

3

Connection

Connect with friends and our community to see what products they’re swearing by. Sift through your friends' bathroom cabinets from the comfort of your own home.

4

Purchase

Get what you need, when you need it, directly from us.

Try it out

About the Team

  • CEO, Co-Founder

    In 2020, Vanessa's lockdown obsession became taking better care of her skin but she had no idea where to start. She’d text her friends, scour social media, and spend hours researching her endless options only to buy products that either made her break out or caused allergic reactions. Her skin and wallet were tired. Wanting to make the process of buying skincare products easier not only for herself, but for everyone around her - VAIN was born.

  • CTO, Co-Founder

    Saranya began her career in trustworthy AI at Harvard, researching interpretability and fairness in algorithmic decision-making, before spending three years as a data scientist at Goldman Sachs. She is now pursuing her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon, with collaborations at IBM Watson and Scale AI. As CTO, she's building VAIN's AI system to deliver the kind of personalized, trustworthy recommendations that actually work for your skin.
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