Melanated Skin Image Datasets

Melanin-aware skin data for more accurate skin-health and beauty technology.

To improve how technology understands and serves melanated skin by supporting the development of more accurate, responsible, and inclusive skin-health and beauty tools.

Melanoir Labs provides structured, melanin-rich skin imagery and documentation to support model development and evaluation in skin-health and beauty technology, with a focus on acne, hyperpigmentation, texture, and tone variation on deeper skin tones.

• Licensed esthetician and medspa owner with 10+ years treating acne and hyperpigmentation in melanated skin.
• Consultant, educator, and published expert on skin of color for brands and industry platforms.
• Translates clinical skin patterns into structured data, annotations, and training frameworks.

• Beauty-tech platforms — improve shade matching & analysis
• Health AI teams — strengthen dermatology model evaluation
• Product teams — reduce bias in classification and recommendations

We create melanin-rich, standardized skin imagery with consistent capture protocols and annotation guidance designed for model training and evaluation.

Focus areas:

• Acne (inflamed + non-inflamed)
• Post-inflammatory hyperpigmentation (PIH) + erythema (PIE)
• Texture and visible tone variation
   

AI is only as good as the data it’s trained on—and melanin has been underrepresented in many skin datasets. Melanoir Labs exists to help teams improve accuracy, reduce misclassification risk, and build more inclusive skin-health technology.