I bought the Foreo UFO 2 in October 2025. I have used it, in the seven months since, approximately fourteen times.
The device is, on its merits, beautifully made. The thermal cycling works as advertised. The sheet-mask integration is clever. The app is, by skincare-device standards, polished. None of these things are why it lives in a drawer in my bathroom.
It lives in a drawer because the problem it solves — the problem of sheet masks taking too long and being too messy — was not, for me, a problem.
I should have known this before I bought it. I had used sheet masks perhaps eight times in the previous year. I do not have a particular fondness for the format. I do not enjoy the sensation of cold serum running down my neck. The reason I bought a $459 device to make sheet masks faster and less messy is that I wanted a piece of skincare technology to feel like it was changing my routine, and the UFO 2 looked the part.
This is the trap of high-end devices. They are sold as solutions to problems most people do not have, but the photography and the language make you want to have the problem so you can buy the solution. There is a particular kind of beauty consumer — and reader, this was me — who responds to the pitch of "professional facial at home" not because she actually wants a professional facial at home but because the idea of being the kind of person who has one feels attractive.
I gave the device an honest test. Two months of three-times-a-week use. Catalogued before-and-after photos. Tracked changes in texture, hydration, fine lines under the eyes. The results were, charitably, marginal. My skin looked roughly as it would have looked if I had spent ten minutes patting in a serum without the device. The thermal cycling felt nice in the moment and produced no measurable change after.
Compare this with the Omnilux Contour Face, which costs AU$595 — more, not less — but which has actual clinical evidence behind it, has been independently tested in dermatology trials, and which produced a visible change in my skin texture at the six-week mark. Same category, more money, completely different result.
The lesson is one I have learned six times in this job and apparently need to keep learning. Devices are worth the money when they do something topical skincare cannot. They are not worth the money when they make a routine you do not particularly enjoy slightly more enjoyable.
If you are considering the UFO 2 and you genuinely love sheet masks, you may genuinely love this device. If you are buying it because it photographs well, save yourself $459 and buy the device that actually changes your skin.