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Skincare shot without retouching, with 60 creators showing their own skin on day one and day thirty.

Case study · 03 / 06
Campaign · Creators · Paid social

Bare Faced.

2.4×return on paid social
Pell SkinBeauty · 2024
12 weeks, plus a 30-day filmUK, Germany, Nordics
Client
Pell Skin
Sector
Beauty
Markets
UK, Germany, Nordics
Channels
Campaign · Creators · Paid social
Timeline
12 weeks, plus a 30-day film

Pell makes a barrier serum that takes thirty days to show. We let sixty people show it on their own skin, with nothing retouched.

The challenge

Nobody believes a skin ad.

Pell's customers told us they assumed every skin shot was edited. The serum's results are real but slow, and a 30-day product is hard to sell in a three-second feed. The brand needed proof people would trust, at a cost it could scale.

A bare-faced woman filming herself on a phone propped on a bathroom shelf
Day one, filmed at home. Every creator shot their own before and after.

The idea

Day one and day thirty.

Bare Faced cast 60 creators with real skin concerns, from rosacea to post-acne marks, and asked each to film the same mirror shot on day one and day thirty. We cut nothing but length, retouched nothing, and put the raw files on the brand site so anyone could check.

A woman with rosacea and no make-up laughing in soft window light
Close-up of freckled skin as a dropper releases one drop of serum
Campaign still, unretouched, and the serum in close-up.

What we made

A casting-led creator programme run like a production, with usage agreed up front and one shot list for all sixty.

  • Casting and contracts for 60 creators
  • Day 1 and day 30 film series
  • Raw-file library on the brand site
  • Paid social with creator whitelisting
  • Weekly live Q&A with a dermatologist

Twelve weeks in

2.4×Return on paid social
60Creators, nothing retouched
+44%Repeat purchase at 60 days

It was the first campaign our own team believed. Customers quote the creators back to us by name.”

Serum bottle with a red dropper and a falling dropNadia HaddadBrand director, Pell Skin
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