Write the brief.
A single sentence carries plenty, such as "Skincare creators with sensitive skin in Croatia for a barrier cream launch." This prompt is enough on its own, but a longer brief works even better and ensures a more precise matching.
Find and Hire Beauty Influencers Whose Reviews People Believe
Beauty audiences have seen more sponsored content than any other, and they can spot a paid endorsement in about two seconds. What still works is a creator whose skin, hair, or concern matches the product. Describe what you're launching and Hypefy finds those creators.
Tell us about your product and meet the creators who can demonstrate it credibly.
Discovery Tool
Describe the product and who it's for. The tool looks across Instagram and TikTok and returns beauty creators that fit the brief. Your email opens the list.
How the Influencer Search Works
The beauty influencer search goes through three stages.
Read the matches.
The tool works out which beauty creators suit the product, weighing what they post, what their audience cares about, and how their content lands. Nothing is hidden before you choose.
Keep the list.
Add your email and the shortlist stays on your account.
Why Brands Choose Hypefy
Matching for skin type, tone, and concern.
Beauty is the category where a generic match fails most visibly. A retinol serum needs creators who talk about ageing skin. A foundation launch needs a shade range represented by the people demonstrating it. A curl cream shown on straight hair convinces nobody. Semantic Selection reads that level of detail out of your brief and scores creators against it, so the shortlist reflects the specific audience the product is for. Filters can't reach this far, because skin type and hair texture are not fields in a database. The result is a set of creators for whom the product makes sense on camera.
Priced on what the content returns.
Beauty rates are inflated by production quality more than by results. A creator with studio lighting and a polished grid can charge multiples of what a smaller, more credible account asks, and still shift fewer units. Smart Pricing works from the engagement and reach a creator's recent content brought back, so what you pay is tied to performance instead of how expensive the feed looks.
Live discovery across Instagram and TikTok.
A sign-up database only contains creators who filled in a form for it. In beauty, that gap is especially costly, because the accounts building trust around a specific concern, whether that is rosacea, textured hair, or acne, are rarely the ones chasing brand lists. Hypefy goes straight to Instagram and TikTok each time a brief is submitted, so the field it draws from is whoever is posting and growing that week.
The Work That Follows the Match
A shortlist is the beginning. Hypefy handles the brief, the outreach, the rate, the review of content before anything publishes, the payment to each creator, and the reporting once it is done, with a member of our team reachable the whole way through.
Content review matters more in beauty than almost anywhere, because what a creator claims about a product carries regulatory weight.
The search is free. You pay only if and when you launch your campaign. You specify the budget that covers all the steps of campaign launch, and we add no fee on top of it.
BriefingOutreachRatesContent reviewPaymentsFinal report
What Makes Beauty Influencer Marketing Different
Beauty was the first category influencer marketing really worked in, which is why it's now the hardest to do well. Five things separate it.
Audiences Are the Most Advertising-Literate
They have watched a decade of sponsored routines, and they read a post for what it leaves out. Blanket praise reads as paid. Creators who mention what a product does not do, or who it will not suit, consistently outperform pure endorsement, and briefs that leave room for honest assessment perform better than briefs that script the verdict.
Demonstration Is the Product
Texture, finish, coverage, and how something wears over eight hours cannot be described, only shown. That places short-form video far ahead of stills. Across nearly 4,000 beauty posts run on Hypefy, TikTok carried a median engagement rate of 5.17% against 1.64% on Instagram, and produced more total reach from around two thirds of the posts.
Matching Reaches the Individual
Most categories need audience fit. Beauty needs the creator's own skin type, tone, hair texture, or specific concern to line up with what the product addresses, because the audience is watching the product work on a person and judging whether that person is like them.
Claims Are Regulated
Actives, dermocosmetics, and anything touching a medical claim carry real constraints on what can be said. Reviewing content before publication isn't an optional nicety in this category, and campaigns that skip it eventually pay for it.
Beauty Rewards the Long Relationship
A skincare product needs weeks before a creator can say anything credible about results, and routine-based content compounds as an audience sees the same product reappear. One-off posts work for launches, while sustained partnerships work for repeat purchase, which is where beauty makes its money.
Brands Already Running Campaigns With Hypefy
NIVEA, Eucerin, dm drogerie markt, Philips Beauty, Skintegra, and Orbico Beauty run their beauty campaigns through Hypefy.
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NIVEA campaigns across four markets
43M+
People reached by NIVEA campaigns
100M+
People reached across beauty overall
900+
Beauty creators worked with
For example, NIVEA has run 129 campaigns so far through Hypefy across four markets, reaching over 43 million people.
Beauty is the deepest category on the platform. Campaigns in skincare, cosmetics, haircare, and personal care have together reached over 100 million people across ten markets, working with more than 900 creators.
The consistent finding across that work is that creators matched to the specific concern a product addresses outperform larger creators matched only to the category.
Find Your Beauty Influencers Now
Describe the launch and see beauty creators whose skin, hair, and audience match what you are selling.
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Beauty Influencer FAQs
Start from the product and the concern it addresses, then look for creators whose own skin, hair, or routine makes them a credible demonstrator. Audience relevance matters, but in beauty the creator's own profile matters just as much.
The tool on this page is the shortcut. Put the launch into it and matched beauty creators from Instagram and TikTok come back within a couple of minutes.
Creators with a specific, credible territory get the best results. An account built around sensitive skin, textured hair, or mature skin converts far better for a product aimed at that concern than a general beauty account many times its size.
Honesty also outperforms enthusiasm here. Creators whose audiences trust them to say when something didn't work carry more weight when they say something did.
Both matter, and they do different work. Our own campaign data puts TikTok's median engagement rate at roughly three times Instagram's for beauty content, and TikTok drove more total reach from fewer posts.
Instagram still holds the saved routine, the detailed carousel, and the content audiences return to when they are ready to buy. Most beauty launches run across both, weighted toward video.
Quotes vary enormously and track production quality more closely than results, which is how beauty budgets get spent badly.
Smart Pricing sets each rate from the engagement and reach that creator's recent posts returned, so the fee reflects delivery. Searching costs nothing.
Smart Pricing handles it, working backward from what a creator's last posts returned in engagement and reach.
In a category where a single launch can involve dozens of creators, pricing each one against measured delivery instead of an asking rate changes what the whole campaign costs.
Hypefy finds beauty influencers on Instagram and TikTok, queried live when you search.
Because nothing comes from a closed sign-up list, the creators building trust around specific concerns are included alongside the established beauty names.
No. Once the shortlist is agreed, the platform covers the outreach and negotiation, claim approval on every piece of content, creator payment, and the final report.
In beauty the approval step alone justifies it, because product claims have to be checked before a post publishes rather than explained away afterwards.
It depends which gap you're filling. Agencies are bought for creative thinking and for people to carry the work. Hypefy is the layer underneath, letting a beauty team keep launches in-house while matching, outreach, rates, claim approval, payment, and reporting all sit together.
Beauty brands running multi-market launches usually find the in-house route works out cheaper, since the cost does not scale with every extra market. Agencies handling beauty clients often sit on Hypefy themselves.
It takes a few minutes to get the shortlist.
Going live depends on the brief, the creator set, and how much claim review the product needs, but with outreach, rates, and approvals sitting together a beauty campaign can be live within a couple of days.
Build in more time for products making performance claims, since content review is the step that protects you.
