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Function of Beauty

Function of Beauty is a direct-to-consumer beauty and personal-care brand built around personalization, best known for quiz-driven customizable hair care (shampoo and conditioner) and skin and body products formulated to an individual profile. The company sells online through a Shopify-hosted storefront. Its customer-facing programmatic surface is therefore the Shopify commerce platform: a live hosted Storefront MCP server at /api/mcp (product search, cart, policies, product details) and the Shopify Customer Account API exposed through OpenID Connect discovery on the company domain. Function of Beauty was added to the API Evangelist network as a GGV Capital portfolio company and enriched from its public discovery surface.

Function of Beauty publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Beauty, Personal Care, and Personalization.

Function of Beauty’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, signup flow, authentication, and 10 more developer resources.

18.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2
AccessSelf serve
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyConsumerBeautyPersonal CarePersonalizationE-CommerceShopifyDirect to ConsumerMCP

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scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2
Composite quality — 18.2/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.8 / 20
Access Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 6 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Function of Beauty Storefront MCP

Live hosted Shopify Storefront MCP server on the Function of Beauty domain, exposing product catalog search, cart management, store policy/FAQ lookup, and product detail tools o...

MCP Servers 1

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Security Posture 2

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Function Of Beauty Authentication

openIdConnect/oauth2 · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Function Of Beauty Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Function Of Beauty Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

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Operate 2

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Commercial 2

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Company 2

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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: function-of-beauty
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/function-of-beauty.png
name: Function of Beauty
description: 'Function of Beauty is a direct-to-consumer beauty and personal-care brand built around personalization, best
  known for quiz-driven customizable hair care (shampoo and conditioner) and skin and body products formulated to an individual
  profile. The company sells online through a Shopify-hosted storefront. Its customer-facing programmatic surface is therefore
  the Shopify commerce platform: a live hosted Storefront MCP server at /api/mcp (product search, cart, policies, product
  details) and the Shopify Customer Account API exposed through OpenID Connect discovery on the company domain. Function of
  Beauty was added to the API Evangelist network as a GGV Capital portfolio company and enriched from its public discovery
  surface.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/function-of-beauty/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- ggv-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Beauty
- Personal Care
- Personalization
- E-Commerce
- Shopify
- Direct to Consumer
- MCP
apis:
- name: Function of Beauty Storefront MCP
  description: Live hosted Shopify Storefront MCP server on the Function of Beauty domain, exposing product catalog search,
    cart management, store policy/FAQ lookup, and product detail tools over JSON-RPC 2.0.
  humanURL: https://functionofbeauty.com/
  baseURL: https://functionofbeauty.com/api/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - E-Commerce
  - Shopify
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/function-of-beauty-mcp.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/function-of-beauty-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/function-of-beauty-scopes.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://functionofbeauty.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://functionofbeauty.com/pages/faq
- type: Support
  url: https://functionofbeauty.com/pages/contact-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://functionofbeauty.com/blogs/news
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://functionofbeauty.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://functionofbeauty.com/policies/terms-of-service
- type: SignUp
  url: https://functionofbeauty.com/account/register
- type: Login
  url: https://functionofbeauty.com/account/login
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/function-of-beauty-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/function-of-beauty-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/function-of-beauty-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/function-of-beauty-scopes.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/function-of-beauty-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/function-of-beauty-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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