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EUR 110bnEuropean cosmetics retail, 2025Cosmetics Europe
893Minternational arrivals to Europe and the Middle East, 2025UN Tourism
85%of euro-area in-store card payments are contactlessECB, H2 2025
+18%Mastercard cross-border assessments, to $12.0BMastercard 10-K, FY2025

The partnership

Three partners, one sale. Each does what it already does best.

PulpoAR
The software

AI skin analysis, live try-on and the shopper experience on the machine and the mirror. We also source and build the hardware.

mastercard
The point of sale

Tap to pay on every unit, card-linked offers and loyalty, and the payment insight we measure together.

Retail partner
The product

A leading beauty retailer in the region, such as Sephora, Faces or Ulta Beauty, or a global beauty partner that already works with Mastercard. It supplies the shelf and the stock.

The screen earns between sales.

Every unit is also a media screen inside the store or the mall. Retail media in MENA reached USD 434M in 2025, up 18.1%, the region's fastest-growing ad channel (WPP Media, June 2025). Three placements brands can buy:

Idle-screen ads

When no one is shopping, the screen plays brand ads that invite the next shopper to try.

Sponsored try-on

A brand pays to be the first look a shopper tries on the screen.

Sponsored recommendation

A brand's product is the featured pick after the skin analysis.

Closed loop, ad to tap. The ad, the try-on and the Mastercard payment happen at the same screen, so brands see which ads led to a sale. Each unit also counts passers-by anonymously, body only and nothing stored, the way digital billboards are measured.

Why Mastercard

Cross-border volume

Visitors pay with cards from home, so each sale feeds Mastercard's fastest-growing assessment line.

Brand at the point of purchase

"Powered by Mastercard" on the machine, the mirror and the receipt.

Loyalty at the tap

Card-linked offers and the retailer's programme earn on the same purchase.

Shopper and audience insight

Anonymous data on who passes, what they try, choose and pay for, by market.

Pilot in Dubai. Scale across EMEA.

A 90-day pilot with a leading regional beauty retailer: a few vending machines in malls or at DXB, and mirrors on store counters. Visitors from every EMEA market pass through Dubai, so the results travel.

The ask: scope the pilot with us.

Retailers in viewSephora, Faces, Ulta Beauty, Boots, Watsons, Al Tayer beauty halls. Alshaya (Ulta, Boots) already issues the Aura card with Mastercard.
We measureTry-on to purchase, average ticket, visitor-card share, offer redemptions.
Then scaleTake the winning format to other EMEA markets with Mastercard's local teams.

See it working.

Two formats, one tap. Both demos run PulpoAR's live software, step by step.