Standard tierBeauty and Skincare UGC
A scripted beauty video written inside your cleared claims
1 scripted skincare or makeup video with 2 opening hooks and all three aspect ratios, carrying a 12 month paid media licence on Meta, TikTok and Google. Velena writes it, films it and edits it, and spent eleven months making content for Picsart, an AI creative platform used by well over a hundred million people a month.
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Choose a length to add to your basket
Right tier if the video is going into an ad account. If someone in house will recut the footage, or you need a result shown over time, order Premium. Prices are in pounds sterling and no VAT is added. Nothing is filmed until you approve the script.
What you get
Exactly what is included, and what is not
Usage rights and claims are where beauty content goes wrong months after delivery, almost always because nobody wrote either down at the time. Both are in the table.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Videos | 1, filmed with your product. |
| Length | Your choice of 15, 30, 45 or 60 seconds, priced individually. |
| Formats | all three: 9:16, 4:5 and 1:1, cut from the same shoot. |
| Script | Written inside your approved claims list, confirmed before filming. |
| Hook variations | 2, two openings on the same body. |
| Claims review | Included. We flag wording that reads as medicinal rather than cosmetic before filming. |
| Usage rights | Organic use on your own channels plus paid media rights for 12 months from delivery. |
| Ad platforms | Meta, meaning Facebook and Instagram, plus TikTok and Google including YouTube. |
| Licence term | 12 months from delivery. |
| Creator patch testing | Included at every tier, 48 hours before filming. It protects the creator, and is not a product test. |
| Retouching | None, at any tier. Skin is graded for colour only. |
| Raw footage | Not included. Source files sit on Premium. |
| Before and after | Not at this tier. It needs two sessions, which is Premium. |
| Whitelisting | Not included. Available on Premium. |
| Currency and VAT | Prices are in pounds sterling and no VAT is added. |
| Revisions | 1 full round. |
| Delivery | 7 working days from product receipt, both hooks and every ratio together. |
Why not just generate it
A real person on camera needs no AI label
The cheap alternative is a generated face demonstrating a product it has never touched. Here is the part of that comparison that is not on the pricing table.
- The disclosure sits with you, not the toolMeta, TikTok and the FTC all require advertisers to disclose AI generated people, voices and lip sync, and the label measurably reduces click through rate. Filmed with a real person, none of this meets those definitions, so there is no label to apply.
- In beauty it is not only a compliance pointA generated face cannot show how a formula sits on skin, because there is no skin. Texture is what the category is bought on.
- This is not an argument against the toolsVelena spent eleven months producing content for Picsart, an AI creative platform used by well over a hundred million people a month, much of it edited inside their own product.
Claims discipline
What we will and will not say on camera
Beauty is the most heavily policed category in UK advertising, and a video that gets an advert pulled costs more than the video did.
- We film what the product doesTexture, application, finish and how it wears through a day. All observable on camera, none of it a promise about what will happen to somebody else's skin.
- We script inside your listSend the wording your team has already cleared and the script is written within it. If a line is not on the list it does not go in the video, because unsupported performance claims are the fastest route to a complaint being upheld.
- We flag before filming, not afterIf a requested line reads like a medicinal claim rather than a cosmetic one, you hear about it while it is still cheap to change.
Hooks in beauty
The opening is a problem, not a product shot
In most categories the hook can be the item itself. In beauty the item is a tube, and a tube stops nobody. Two openings are filmed so the ad set has something to compare from week one, and you name the angles in your brief or approve ours before filming.
- 1The problem open
Naming the concern in the first two seconds, in the words a customer would use rather than the words on the packaging. It self selects the audience, worth more here than raw reach.
- 2The texture open
Straight into the swatch. No face, no introduction, product moving on skin within the first second. Nobody can assess texture from a photograph, and curiosity about it is almost involuntary.
- 3The reference open
Skin type, undertone and what else is being worn, said out loud at the start. Unglamorous and consistently effective: a beauty buyer's first question is whether this was filmed on skin like theirs.
One face, stated honestly
What a single creator can and cannot show you
- The skin type is said on cameraCombination, dry, sensitive, whatever it is on the day, so a viewer with different skin can weigh the demonstration instead of assuming it transfers.
- One shade is not a shade rangeIf the product comes in twenty shades, a video filmed in one evidences the formula, not the range. We say which shade and undertone are worn, because guessing at undertone in the edit is how a shade looks wrong on a phone that is not ours.
- When the honest answer is more than one videoA range built on inclusivity is not evidenced by a single creator, and we will say so rather than sell you a video that quietly undercuts the campaign it belongs to.
How it works
Order to delivery in four steps
- OrderPick your length above and it goes straight to your basket.
- Brief and scriptSend your order number, brief, approved claims and ingredient list through the contact page. We reply within one business day, then write the script and both hooks.
- ShipPost the product by tracked delivery to High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire. Patch testing begins on arrival, filming once the script is signed off.
- ReceiveBoth hooks and all three ratios arrive together within 7 working days, by Google Drive.
Ordering from outside the UK
How this works if your product ships from abroad
We work with beauty brands worldwide, and this range needs the real product in shot. This is what an overseas buyer needs before ordering rather than after.
- The clock starts on arrival, not on orderSend it by any tracked international service to our High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire address. The working days quoted run from the day it reaches us, so add your transit time when planning a launch date.
- Mark it a commercial sample and pay duty at your endWe cannot clear a package held at customs, and one held long enough delays the shoot. Cosmetics must meet UK import rules before posting.
- Aerosols, alcohol and nail products travel by roadMost couriers restrict them by air, the usual reason a beauty parcel arrives late.
- Sealed, full size and in dateDecanted samples in unlabelled pots cannot be filmed, and an item expiring during the shoot window cannot go on skin. Assume it does not come back.
- What you are chargedPrices are in pounds sterling and no VAT is added. If you are ordering from outside the UK your card issuer sets the exchange rate, and anything due in your own country is outside our invoice.
The two things that decide the tier
Raw footage and platform reach
Two rows separate this tier from Premium, and the licence term is not one of them.
Raw footage
The finished cut and both hooks. The unedited takes cannot be added after a shoot has been delivered.
- No unedited takes
- No re-cutting into fresh adverts later
- Included on Premium
- Decide before filming, not afterwards
Advertising rights
Organic use on your own channels plus paid media rights for 12 months from delivery. Across Meta, TikTok and Google, at any spend and any number of campaigns.
- Meta, meaning Facebook and Instagram, plus TikTok and Google including YouTube
- Any spend, any number of campaigns
- Not the platforms outside those, which sit on Premium
Before you order
The terms, in plain English
The full terms and conditions govern every order. These five change what you do next.
- We make content, we do not test productsVelena Lifestyle is an advertising agency, SIC 73110. We do not manufacture, formulate, test or certify any product, and nothing in our process is a safety assessment, a regulatory review or claims substantiation. Responsibility for the product stays with the brand that places it on the market. Section 2.1.
- Nothing is filmed until the script is approvedWe confirm the brief, the approved claims and the script with you in writing before anything is recorded. What happens to an order that does not go ahead is set out in Section 7.
- Some categories we decline outrightGambling, adult, cryptoasset, political, tobacco and vaping, weapons and prescription medicines. Alcohol, supplements, CBD, weight management, financial products and clinics are case by case. Tell us at enquiry rather than after paying. Section 6.
- The claims are yoursYou hold the evidence behind every claim and you are the advertiser if one is challenged. We flag anything that reads as a medicinal rather than a cosmetic claim before filming.
- What the licence does not allowNo resale or sub licensing to another brand, no separating Velena's image from the delivered video, and no using the content to train an artificial intelligence model or to generate a synthetic likeness. Those restrictions outlast the licence itself. Section 11.
Compare
The other beauty packages
Same creator on every tier. What changes is the script, the hooks, the reach of the licence and whether the raw footage comes with it.
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Basic -
PremiumPremium
from £325 per video
3 hooks, raw footage, before and after, whitelisting, all platforms
View Premium -
Best valueBundle, 3 videos
£549 for all three
3 Standard videos, 6 in total hooks, three angles tested
View the bundle
All four side by side on the beauty and skincare UGC packages page, finished work on the beauty UGC portfolio, other categories on the UGC portfolio hub.
Featured UGC portfolio
Beauty first, then the rest of the range
Every category is on the UGC portfolio hub.
Bespoke
A full range, or an ongoing beauty retainer?
Some beauty briefs do not fit a package: a whole range in one session, a launch with a fixed press date, or a monthly retainer feeding an ad account. When that is the shape of it we scope the work rather than pushing you into the nearest tier.
Quotes are prepared individually. Send us the shape of the problem and we come back with scope, timings and a fixed figure, usually within one business day.
- Full range or collection shoots
- Launches with a fixed press date
- Monthly retainers for ad accounts
- Higher volume than three videos
- Subscription beauty boxes
Client reviews
What clients say, word for word
“Velena was a pleasure to work with, she worked solely with the brief provided and was even ahead of her deadline. The content produced was clean, professional and on brand. We would love to work with Velena again in the very near future.”
Lauryn Middleton, Social Media Manager, Smirk. Client testimonial, October 2023.“Velena is truly one of our standout creators at Picsart. She consistently brings fresh, innovative ideas to the table and is always tapped into the latest trends. What we especially love is how seamlessly she incorporates AI into her content in a way that feels natural and engaging.”
Kaline Tchamitchian, Senior Social Media Manager, Picsart. Google review, 5.0.“Velena Lifestyle have been a breath of fresh air for our social media accounts. Their professionalism and knowledge have supported us massively.”
Sean Thompson, Head of Marketing, Snaptrip Group. Google review, 5.0.Every review is reproduced word for word. Read them all on the reviews page.
Who you work with
One team, from the first brief to the last hand off

Velena Nikolova
Co-Founder and Creative Director
Velena leads the filming and the edit, so the idea and the execution never pass between strangers. A lifestyle creator with 13,000 Instagram followers, featured in Women's Health. More on the about page.

Dragos Nistor
Co-Founder and Business Strategist
Dragos runs the brief, the schedule and the delivery, and is on camera for couple and male led work. Named a LinkedIn Top Entrepreneurship Voice in 2024. More on the case studies.
Questions
Before you order
12 months from delivery, on Meta, TikTok and Google, at any spend. That is the same term Premium carries, so upgrading is never about buying more time. Premium removes the platform limit and hands over the raw footage.
You are, as the advertiser, which is exactly why the script is written from your approved claims list rather than from performance promises we invent. We flag any requested wording that reads as medicinal rather than cosmetic before filming, but the substantiation sits with the brand that holds the evidence.
No, at any tier. Skin is graded for colour only, which means white balance and exposure so the product reads its true shade. Never smoothed, blurred or reshaped, in the edit or in camera, and no beauty filter on the lens. Filtered skin in a skincare advert removes the only evidence the advert had.
No. Velena is a real person and she is the one on camera and behind it. There is no AI disclosure label to apply under Meta, TikTok or FTC rules, and no platform can reclassify the creative later. She has produced content for Picsart, an AI creative platform, so this is not a position against the tools.
No. You receive the finished cut, both hooks and every ratio. The unedited takes sit on Premium and cannot be added after a shoot has been delivered, so it is worth deciding beforehand if an in house editor will want them.
Why it works
Standard in practice
What a twelve month term is actually for
Beauty creative rarely fails in week three. It fatigues in month four, and the useful question is what happens after that. A year covers the whole life of a creative: the test, the scale, the rebuild into a second angle, and the seasonal rerun when the same product sells again at Christmas. It also removes the admin of tracking expiry dates across an ad account with forty live assets.
Want a second opinion before you order? Send the campaign, the launch date and the claims you can evidence and you will be told plainly which tier to buy, including when it is a cheaper one.
Scripted, 2 hooks, every ratio, 12 months of ad rights
Pick your length at the top of the page and it goes straight to your basket.







