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Sephora India social media campaign by Yellow
Yellow / Social Media / Sephora
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Five years on, Sephora India's social speaks in Yellow's voice, from Fenty Beauty's India debut to the seasonal campaigns the calendar can't do without.

Client
Sephora India
Duration
2020 to present
Scope
Six surface areas, end to end
Engagement
Multi-year, AOR
00 Brand Introduction

A global beauty house, shaped for the India-market scroll.

Sephora arrived in India with one of the strongest beauty brand systems in the world. The work isn't to translate it. It's to make the India market recognise itself inside it. A voice that feels native without losing the global house style.

Yellow runs the social engine across six surface areas. Brand launches, Fenty (with Fenty ki Haveli), MILK, Rare, Kylie. Content innovation across AI and CGI. The Holiday Sale broadcast. Retail and community moments. Topical campaigns around the cultural calendar. Celebrity-led brand campaigns.

Below, the work, by surface.

Sephora India · Fenty ki Haveli
The Work, by surface06 chapters
01 Brand Launches

The headline work.

Every major product launch on Sephora India comes through the social system first. Each one a campaign in its own right, each one extended across the cultural moments where it fits.
01.1 · Fenty Beauty

Rihanna's house, in India.

The marquee launch. Main launch reels and the launch carousel system, two cultural extensions, Fenty × Diwali and Fenty × Christmas, and the flagship moment: Fenty ki Haveli, the campaign that gave Fenty an Indian house to live in. Built in two halves, a CGI world of imagined rooms and imagined light, and shot reels of how that world appeared in the feed.

Main Launch · Hero Reel
Main launch. The reels.Reels
Main launch. The carousel.Carousel
Fenty × Diwali.Cultural extension
Fenty × Christmas.Cultural extension
Fenty ki Haveli. The flagship, paired as built. CGI on the left, shot reels on the right.3 rooms · CGI & Shot
CGI · World-build
Shot · The Reel
CGI · World-build
Shot · The Reel
CGI · World-build
Shot · The Reel
01.2 · MILK Makeup

Clean cult, introduced.

The MILK brand introduction to the India market. Main launch plus the Jelly Tint launch as its own beat.

02 Content Innovation

AI, CGI, and the in-house engine.

Where Sephora India experiments. The newest media disciplines, brought into the brand language. Two tracks, AI and CGI as one combined craft, and the in-house content cadence that turns out work week after week.
02.1

AI & CGI films.

Generative AI and CGI brought into brand storytelling. Product reveals, packaging hero films, brand-environment renders, and the cultural-extension launches where a physical shoot doesn't scale.

Perfume ASMR
Textures
World Environment Day
Mother's Day
Valentine's Day
Mega Brand Sale
Beauty Pass
02.2

In-house content.

The weekly rhythm. Trend reactions, founder spotlights, range deep-dives, all produced in-house alongside the brand calendar.

03 Holiday Sale

The sale, as a brand moment.

Sephora's promotional calendar is treated as broadcast, not as markdown. The holiday window gets a full campaign system, built so the discount reads as a celebration, not a clearance.
03.1

Holiday Wishlist.

The set-up. The build of want before the sale opens. Gift edits, range curation, the carousel system that turns a season into a list.

Holiday Wishlist 1Wishlist
Holiday Wishlist 2Wishlist
Holiday Wishlist 3Wishlist
Holiday Wishlist 4Wishlist
Holiday Wishlist 5Wishlist
03.2

Holiday Season Sale.

The broadcast itself. Hero films, range KVs, in-app carousels, the end-of-year sale window held as a cultural appointment, not a markdown.

Holiday Season Sale 1Season Sale
Holiday Season Sale 2Season Sale
Holiday Season Sale 3Season Sale
Holiday Season Sale 4Season Sale
Holiday Season Sale 5Season Sale
04 Retail & Community

The floor as the brand.

The store and the community work that anchors Sephora India culturally. House of Sephora moments. The Sephora Squad community. New store openings turned into campaigns.
04.1

House of Sephora.

The cultural-host moments. Pop-ups, community events, founder appearances. The brand stepping out from the catalog and into the room.

04.2

Sephora Squad.

The community programme. Creators, makeup artists, beauty editors recruited into the brand orbit. Built so the social content moves outside the brand's own channels.

04.3

New store openings.

Each store opening gets its own campaign system. Build-up carousels, opening-day hero, in-store activations, community drops.

05 Topical Campaigns

The calendar, in red ink.

The cultural moments turned into brand appointments. The dates the feed circles in red. Four flagship campaigns across the year, each one a creative system in its own right.
05.1

Diwali · Cards Night.

The Diwali campaign anchored on India's most social ritual, the cards night. A community appointment turned into a creative system, complete with invites, in-room moments, and the morning-after carousel.

05.2

Chocolate Day.

Valentine's week, day three. The brand showing up at the tonal moment that lives between Rose Day and Propose Day. Editorial styling, gifting cues, the brand voice tuned to the micro-occasion.

05.3

Perfume Day.

An industry appointment turned into a brand moment. The Sephora fragrance bench staged as theatre, storytelling reels, founder cuts, the catalogue as a cultural object.

05.4

International Men's Day.

The men's grooming and skincare conversation, taken on directly. The brand's most expansive customer-base reframing, told through portrait carousels and category-led films.

06 Faces & Series

Faces that carry brand weight.

The campaigns and content series built around the faces a beauty audience already trusts. Brand × celebrity partnerships and the Sephora franchise series, masterclasses, GRWM, look-creation, the Sephora Bag. Extended brand worlds, with culture at the centre of the editorial frame.
06.1

Tara Sutaria × Bobbi Brown.

The Bobbi Brown India face campaign. Editorial-styled, restraint-first, built so the make-up reads first and the celebrity follows. The Bobbi codes intact, the India audience addressed directly.

06.2

Sonam Kapoor × Lancôme.

The Lancôme India brand moment with one of the country's most considered style figures. A campaign that earns its luxury register through styling, light, and pace, never through volume.

06.3

What's in my Sephora Bag.

The Sephora franchise series. Creators and faces opening their bag to the camera, product reveal, personal context, brand voice carried through the everyday register.

06.4

Beauty Masterclass.

The teach format. Experts and creators walking through technique, product, and the principles behind the look. Editorial pace, classroom register.

06.5

Get Ready With Me.

The GRWM cut, Sephora-coded. A face, a mirror, a kit. The brand showing up in the format the audience already trusts.

06.6

Making a Look with Sephora.

The signature look-creation series. Six films across the franchise, direction, technique, product, applied. Built so the brand reads as the studio, not the catalogue.

A global house, made local.
Without losing the house.
Sephora × Yellow · operating principle