Our Story

We noticed something
strange about screens.

Not the blue glow. Not the eye strain everyone already talks about. Something slower — visible in the mirror, felt in the skin. The kind of tired that doesn't wash off.

“We were treating the surface.
The damage was coming from inside.”

— The founding insight behind LUMIQ
The Problem

Your screen is an aging machine.

High-Energy Visible (HEV) blue light — the spectrum your laptop, phone, and monitor emit 10 to 14 hours every day — penetrates your dermis deeper than UV rays. It generates free radicals. It breaks down collagen. It disrupts the melatonin signals your skin depends on to repair itself while you sleep.

You apply SPF every morning. You have no defense for this.

And 64% of women don't know it's happening at all.

64%
unaware blue light damages their skin
14h
average daily screen exposure
27m
until eye strain begins on video calls
five work days equals 25 min in sun with no SPF

“Five working days in front of a screen inflicts the same cellular skin damage as 25 minutes in midday sun — with no sunscreen.”

HEV Blue Light Research, 2024

What we believe

Your professional ambition and your personal radiance should never be in conflict.

The modern woman built her life on a screen. Her career, her creativity, her connection — all of it flows through glass and light. She shouldn't have to choose between showing up brilliantly at work and looking her best while doing it. That trade-off was never acceptable. It just went unnamed — until now.

The Solution

We built the world's first ingestible screen shield.

GLŌW is a fast-dissolving oral strip, placed on the tongue and absorbed directly into the bloodstream in seconds — delivering Crocin, the potent antioxidant in saffron, to your retinal cells and skin in real time. While you work. While you're on camera. While you're living the only life you have.

I

Bypasses digestion. Hits the bloodstream in seconds.

Buccal absorption means GLŌW skips the gut entirely — delivering active Crocin at full potency within 15 seconds of dissolving. No first-pass degradation. No waiting.

II

Protects your retina and your skin at the same time.

Crocin crosses the blood-retinal barrier to prevent retinal cell death from HEV light. The same antioxidant properties defend your facial dermis from the collagen breakdown happening right now.

III

Zero friction. One strip. Done.

No water. No swallowing. No adding another pill to a routine you're already tired of. Place it on your tongue and get back to being brilliant. Mixed Berry. 15 seconds. Every morning.

How LUMIQ came to be

Built by women who live
exactly this life.

We weren't researchers when this started. We were remote workers. Dual monitors, back-to-back Zoom calls, a skincare shelf full of serums that stopped making a visible difference. We were doing everything right — and something was still working against us.

The research we found was buried in dermatology journals, not wellness blogs. It told us that the same high-energy visible light we worked under every day was generating Reactive Oxygen Species in our skin — the unstable molecules that break down collagen, disrupt elastin, and cause hyperpigmentation. It told us our screens were suppressing the melatonin signals that let skin repair itself overnight.

"You apply SPF every morning. You have no defense for what happens the rest of your day."

The ingestible beauty industry wasn't talking about it. Eye supplement brands were talking to older consumers worried about macular degeneration — not the 32-year-old marketing director on her fifth hour of Zoom. The gap was obvious, and it was enormous.

So we built GLŌW. A formulation centered on Crocus sativus — saffron — whose active molecule Crocin has extensive clinical evidence as a macular protector, antioxidant, and free-radical scavenger. We put it in a fast-dissolving oral strip because we have pill fatigue like everyone else, and because we wanted it gone from our routine in 15 seconds flat.

LUMIQ is not a supplement brand. It's a precision defense system for the way we actually live. One strip. Every morning. Your glow, defended.

What we stand for.

Precision

Every ingredient earns its place.

We don't formulate for label appeal. Every active in GLŌW has clinical literature behind it and a clear, measurable job to do. Nothing is in there to impress you. Everything is in there to protect you.

Frictionlessness

Wellness shouldn't feel like work.

Our customers are already carrying enough. LUMIQ products are designed to disappear into daily life — effortless, elegant, and always on her terms. One strip. Fifteen seconds. Every morning.

Transparency

Clean labels. Honest claims.

No proprietary blends. No buried ingredients. No wellness theater. What's in GLŌW is on the label — and what's on the label is backed by science. We won't obscure what you're putting in your body.

Modern femininity

Beautiful and sharp are not opposites.

LUMIQ is for women who refuse to choose between being taken seriously and looking extraordinary. We build at the intersection of performance and radiance — because that intersection is where our customers already live.

Our mission

To defend the glow of every woman whose life lives on a screen — with science that works as hard as she does.

LUMIQ exists at the intersection of ingestible beauty and digital wellness — creating the first line of defense specifically engineered for the era of remote work, high-definition cameras, and 14-hour screen days.

Shop GLŌW