Pinterest Is Bringing Skin Tone Ranges to Its iOS App

It began beta-testing the feature last April

The skin tone ranges Pinterest began beta-testing last April are being added to its iOS application.

The feature was a collaborative effort by Pinterest’s technical team and its inclusion and diversity team.

Pinterest said nearly 60 percent of the top 100 search terms for skin-related topics on its platform in 2018 involved a tone—such as dark, pale and olive skin—as women sought to narrow down their results to products and ideas that were best-suited for them.

Over the coming weeks, people using the Pinterest iOS app to search for makeup and hair ideas will see a palette with a range of skin tones to help them narrow their searches, and Pinterest said more options will be added to those palettes.

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Pinterest said billions of beauty Pins have been saved to its platform, and beauty is one of its most-searched categories.

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