Lighted Makeup Mirror Product

Overview

A lighted makeup mirror solves a lighting problem, not a mirror problem. Makeup applied under a bathroom’s overhead fixture is judged under one colour temperature and shadow pattern, then seen outdoors or in an office under another. This mirror puts a ring of high-colour-rendering LEDs around the glass so the face is lit evenly, from the front, at a chosen colour temperature — the same logic as the tungsten-bulb mirrors of theatre dressing rooms, executed with LEDs.

Light quality

The LED Ring carries 72 emitters on an annular Annular LED PCB: alternating Warm White LED (3000 K) beads at 3000 K and Cool White LED (6000 K) beads at 6000 K. Driving the two groups at different duty cycles mixes any correlated colour temperature between them, so the user can check a look under warm evening light, neutral, or daylight without leaving the seat. The emitters are specified at CRI ≥ 90 because colour rendering is the whole point: low-CRI LEDs render reds and skin tones poorly, which defeats foundation matching.

Ring geometry does the shadow control. Light arriving from a full circle around the face fills in from all directions at once, so there are no nose or brow shadows of the kind a single overhead source casts. The Opal Diffuser Ring, an opal ring in front of the LEDs, blends 72 discrete points into one continuous band — important both for evenness and because bare SMD LEDs at close range are uncomfortably glary. The Ring Frame clamps PCB and diffuser against the housing.

Mirror optics

The Mirror Assembly pairs two kinds of glass. The main Plane Mirror Glass is back-silvered float glass, flat to give an undistorted 1× image of the whole face. For detail work — brows, liner, tweezing — a 10× Magnifying Mirror insert snaps onto the main glass via three Magnet Mounts. It is a concave mirror of short focal length: held within its focal distance (about 10 cm at 10×) it forms a magnified upright virtual image. The steep curvature that buys 10× also means the image distorts and flips beyond that distance, which is why magnifying mirrors are usable only close-up. A Mirror Backing Plate stiffens the glass and protects the silvering, and the Trim Bezel finishes the edge.

Touch dimming

Control lives on the Touch Dimmer Board. A capacitive pad behind the front surface — the Touch Digitizer — registers finger position through the housing plastic, so there are no buttons to trap powder and no mechanical switch to wear. The Microcontroller reads the pad and generates two PWM channels, one per LED group, switched by a pair of Power MOSFETs: sliding adjusts brightness from 10 to 100%, and a tap-and-hold crossfades warm against cool. PWM runs at a frequency well above flicker perception, since visible flicker in a mirror used inches from the eyes would be immediately objectionable. A small Setting Memory Capacitor keeps the controller alive across unplugging so the last brightness and tint return at power-on.

Stand and power

The Stand Assembly is a weighted foot and a U-shaped Support Yoke carrying the mirror between two Friction Hinges. The hinges are preloaded to hold any angle through 180° of tilt without a clamp knob — the mirror stays where it is pushed. Stability comes from the steel Base Ballast Weight in the Base Foot: with the centre of mass kept low, the mirror cannot tip even tilted fully forward, and the Non-Slip Base Pad keeps it planted on a polished dresser.

Power is USB-C at 5 V through the USB-C Port, from any phone charger or the supplied Power Supply. A 2,000 mAh LiPo Cell managed by a BMS Board makes the mirror cordless for around five hours at full brightness — longer at typical settings — so it works at a dresser with no outlet nearby. The BMS provides the usual lithium protections: over-charge, over-discharge, and short-circuit cutoff.

Typical use

At 600 lumens from a 200 mm ring, illuminance on a face 30 cm away is in the range of 1,000–1,500 lux — comparable to a brightly lit retail counter and several times a typical bathroom. Daily-use pattern is a few minutes at a time, so the battery supports roughly a week between charges in cordless use.