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#01 / 11 · Case · Hair accessories

Soa Hair

40% conversion at launch. ×3 average basket. 200K organic views with no ad spend.

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#02 / 11 · Le contexte

Before the Lab

Soa Hair didn’t exist yet. No brand, no community, no website, no product launched. Just a founder with a sharp idea and a product designed for kinky hair, in a sector saturated with bland talk about “textured hair”.

#03 / 11 · Le défi

Launch a brand with no budget, no network, on a taboo subject.

Test the appetite of a niche market while laying down a story strong enough to exist without ads. Not create another product. Bring out a brand people were waiting for without knowing it yet.

#04 / 11 · L'approche

The protocol we applied

We probed the emotional terrain around kinky hair — what gets silenced, what gets ignored, what gets pushed away. We took the angle nobody else took. We deployed a companion-brand, from the site to social.

  • Reveal
  • Calibrate
  • Deploy
#05 / 11 · Le moment de bascule

The 2000s R&B bet.

In a sector dominated by “clean beauty” codes — minimalist white, sober typography, polished photography — we took the exact opposite. The world of 2000s R&B: softness, care, sensuality, warm light.

Not an aesthetic choice. A strategic one. 2000s R&B is the era when an entire generation first heard that one could be soft, proud, powerful, and oneself, all at once.

Soa Hair isn’t a product brand. It’s that conversation resumed.

#08 / 11 · Measured results

Four months after the communication launch. September to December 2025.

  • 40%Conversion rateAt launch
  • × 3Average basketvs initial estimate
  • 200KOrganic views€0 media budget
  • 2 wksBefore first saleswith no ads
First messages Ivanna received
  • Thank you.
  • We needed this.
  • Keep going.

, Soa Hair community, first weeks post-launch

#09 / 11 · L'effet marque

Already seen as the safe place for afro hair.

The traction of the first months let Soa Hair design a real product line — new products aligned with what the community asked for. A brand that didn’t wait to have the means to take its place. It started with meaning.

#10 / 11 · Credits
Workdosestrategic direction, art direction, production

Cas accompagné de bout en bout selon notre protocole en 3 phases.