SHUFFLE

Multi-tools platform for hair testing
Volume - Frizz - Motion

The SHUFFLE is a modular tress-testing platform for your hair care products. Various attachments can be easily installed on a light-weight frame, allowing the user to test a wide range of visual parameters for your hair swatches with a single instrument

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Shuffle

Overview

Crammed with years of optical R&D experience and feedback from cosmetic testers, the Shuffle consists of a collapsible frame that can be fitted with various attachments, allowing the user to measure a wide range of visual parameters using a single system. Those parameters includes :

  • hair volume
  • hair frizz
  • hair motion

Laboratories looking to expand their research and cosmetic testing capabilities without breaking the bank or cluttering their space with bulky equipment now have a solution, a cosmetic Swiss-army knife.

Key features

  • 2D Volume & Frizz measurement
  • Attachments available for additional parameters
    • 3D Volume & Frizz (BOLERO 360)*
      * limited to round, regular, high-density swatches
    • perturbation assessment (HOP)
    • motion assessment (HULA)
    • straightness & alignment (RUMBA)
  • Compatible with Humidity Box size L (except with RUMBA attachment)
  • Time-lapse measurements
  • Analyze images and provide data including Volume, fly-away, evolution along swatch length, swatch length, etc.
  • Software and computer included
3D Bulk and Fly-away (BOLERO 360)*

* limited to round, regular, high-density swatches

Oscillation analysis (HULA)

SHUFFLE Attachments

TRIO / WIDE (default)

For 2D hair volume and frizz

This attachment can hold three hair swatches at the same time and enables simultaneous measurement of 2D bulk and fly-away-frizz on up to three tresses or one large tress, including time-lapse capability.

hair volume

BOLERO 360

For 3D hair volume and frizz

This attachment consists of a software-controlled motor synchronized with the camera to image the entirety of a hair tress from 36 angles, reconstructing its shape at every angle, and providing a 3D reconstruction

hair frizz

HULA / HOP

For hair motion testing

This attachment consists of a calibrated motor which swings a tress back and forth, allowing the visual analysis of hair movement and hair perturbation, including time-lapse capabilities.

hair motion

RUMBA

For hair straightness & alignement

This attachment is put on the camera side and consists of a red illumination and 2 motorized circular polarizers with a controller box. It allows for the acquisition of orientation images.

Brochure / Specifications

User Manual (1.60)

User Manual (2.0)

References

Quantifying Visual Aspects of Hair

Authors: Trefor A. Evans (TRI-Princeton)
Publication: Cosmetics & Toiletries | Year: 2018
Description : Authored by one of the industry's leading independent hair scientists, this article explicitly details using the BOLERO imaging system (ancestor of the SHUFFLE) to quantify frizzy fly-away fibers. Furthermore, it validates the methodology of the HULA attachment by describing the use of a modified oscillating instrument to track and quantify dynamic hair motion.
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Analyzing the movement of a hair swatch using video and image analysis: A promising technique for exploring the dynamic properties of hair

Authors: A. Galliano, M. Lheur, R. Santoprete (L'Oréal R&I)
Publication: International Journal of Cosmetic Science | Year: 2015
Description : This is the foundational L'Oréal research paper that established the exact methodology later commercialized as the HULA attachment for the SHUFFLE. It proves that mechanically oscillating a hair tress and tracking its movement via video analysis accurately translates to the consumer perception of "bounciness" and dynamic vitality.
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Meet the Anti-frizz Durable Shape Challenge

Authors: M. Hopkins Hatzopoulos, M. Bon, S. Neplaz, D. Mechineau, J. Cazette
Publication: SOFW Journal | Year: 2023
Description : Published in the highly respected German scientific journal SOFW, this study explicitly utilizes the BOLERO system. It provides independent validation of the machine's ability to track and quantify how increasing environmental humidity directly leads to increased measurable volume and frizz.
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Bridging Consumer Perceptions and Technical Measurements: Assessing Hair Straightness and Alignment with Optical Imaging

Authors: Murielle Mason, Thomas Davies, Susan Ayton, Paul Cornwell
Publication: 24th International Hair-Science Symposium, HairS'25 | Year: 2025
Description : A landmark independent study that directly bridges the gap between lab data and consumer claims. The researchers used the RUMBA instrument's polarized light scanning to prove that the machine's objective Straightness (S) and Alignment (A) coefficients correlate directly with consumer panel perceptions of "frizziness" and "straightness" across multiple global demographics.
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