Case Study · Colour Cosmetics & Skincare, India

How a cosmetics brand turned ₹9.23 crore of Meta spend into ₹61.7 crore in revenue.

Average order value around ₹1,000. In one of ecommerce's most crowded categories — where a customer can switch brands for ₹200. Running since March 2021.

Meta Ads Ad Creative Google Ads SEO AOV ~₹1,000
Meta Ads · account summary
● SINCE 2021
Return on ad spend
6.69x
Ad spend managed ₹9.23 Cr
Revenue from Meta ₹61.7 Cr
Purchases
5.24L
Cost / purchase
₹176
Results at a glance

The numbers first.

Figures cover November 2022 to September 2026 and are Meta-reported. The account has run continuously since March 2021.

₹61.7 Cr
Revenue from Meta
November 2022 – September 2026
6.69x
Return on ad spend
On ₹9.23 crore managed spend
5,24,007
Purchases
At ₹176 cost per purchase
15%
Acquisition cost share
Of first-order revenue
8.2 Cr
People reached
In the last nine months alone
2021
Running since
Continuously — and still scaling
The brief

The most crowded shelf in ecommerce.

Indian beauty is among the most crowded categories in ecommerce — discount-led competitors, marketplace undercutting, and a customer who can switch brands for ₹200. This brand came to us in March 2021 wanting to grow sales faster than that competition could respond.

Nobody had run their paid media before, so we started from an empty account with no previous agency's structure to unpick.

Grow sales faster than discount-led competitors could respond.

Before scaling spend

What we found first.

SEO errors were holding back organic visibility, and technical problems were costing conversions once traffic arrived. Paid traffic landing on a site that leaks buyers wastes budget on every click.

We fixed both before scaling spend. We also took over creative production — beauty is a category where the same customer sees competing ads all day, so the creative decides whether the media budget does anything.

Why the order mattered
  1. 01
    Fix the site
    Technical + SEO errors resolved first
  2. 02
    Own the creative
    Production moved in-house with us
  3. 03
    Then scale spend
    Every click landed on a site that converts
The program

How we run the account.

Creator-led prospecting

Makeup artists and beauty creators demonstrate products in their own voice. Each product line gets several creators and several hooks, so no single asset carries the budget into fatigue.

Advantage+ catalog retargeting

With exclusions that stop the account from paying to reach customers who bought last week.

Optimised to ROAS, reported the same way

Campaigns are optimised to return on ad spend, not to clicks or reach. We report the same way.

The number that actually matters

A customer costs a seventh of what they spend.

Return on ad spend describes the account. What decides whether a beauty brand can keep growing is the gap between what a customer costs to acquire and what they spend — before any repeat purchase. In a category where competitors discount to hold shelf space, that gap is what funds growth.

Cost per purchase
₹176
vs
Revenue per purchase
₹1,178
Acquisition cost share of revenue
15%

Across 67 lakh landing page views, 6.04% ended in a purchase. At that volume, small movements in site conversion move crore-level revenue — which is why the technical work came before the spending.

The outcome

₹9.23 crore in. ₹61.7 crore back. 6.69x.

Purchases
5,24,007
People reached · last 9 months
8.2 crore

We have run the account continuously since 2021 — and it is still scaling.

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