#WhatsYourVibe Honest Beauty TikTok Campaign

Influencer Campaign Management

Obviously gifted Gloss-C lip glosses to 22 TikTok creators and built the brief from their ideas, reporting 389,367 views for Honest Beauty's launch.

389KTotal views
1,173Total clicks
7.5%View-to-follower ratio
389,367Total views

About the campaign

Honest Beauty needed awareness and purchases for its Gloss-C lip gloss launch on TikTok, where content that looks like conventional product advertising underperforms and audiences scroll past anything that reads as an ad. A unified campaign theme also pulls against the individuality that makes creator content work, so Obviously started from the view that the creators themselves, not the brand, were the best source of ideas that would stay native to each feed.

Obviously gifted a set of Gloss-C lip glosses to 22 mid-tier and macro TikTok creators, then ran a pre-campaign idea request before finalizing the brief and built the #WhatsYourVibe theme around the strongest concepts. The creators published playful, interactive videos teasing the new colours, each execution held together by the shared hashtag without a uniform script.

Sourcing creator ideas before fixing the brief kept content native to each feed, the mechanic the agency credits for reach beyond follower counts. All activity ran on TikTok. Obviously reports 389,367 views, 1,173 clicks and a 7.5% view-to-follower ratio across the 22 creators; every figure is self-reported with no client, press or platform verification, and with 1,173 clicks against a stated purchase objective the commercial impact cannot be assessed.

Case in 60 seconds

Honest Beauty needed awareness and purchases for its Gloss-C lip gloss launch on TikTok, where content that looks like conventional product advertising underperforms.

Content works on TikTok when it fits each creator's existing feed, so the creators themselves are the best source of campaign ideas.

Ask gifted creators for campaign concepts before finalizing the brief, then build the #WhatsYourVibe theme around the strongest ideas to tease the new Gloss-C colors.

Obviously gifted 22 mid-tier and macro TikTok creators a set of Gloss-C lip glosses, ran a pre-campaign idea request, and briefed playful, interactive #WhatsYourVibe videos.

The agency reports 389,367 views, 1,173 clicks and a 7.50% view-to-follower ratio across the 22 creators. No figures are independently verified.

Strategy Breakdown

The primary strategy-learning section — interpretation, not a press-release summary.

TikTok users reached through mid-tier and macro beauty creators, extending beyond the creators' own follower bases according to the agency's view-to-follower figure.
TikTok audiences scroll past content that reads as advertising; branded posts that do not match a creator's usual feed feel out of place on the platform.
Beauty launches compete in a crowded creator feed, and a unified campaign theme pulls against the individuality that makes creator content perform.
Honest Beauty supplied the new Gloss-C product and a unifying hashtag while ceding creative direction to ideas sourced from the creators themselves.
Creators propose stronger, more authentic concepts when consulted before the brief is fixed, keeping each video native to its feed while still on theme.

Creative & Execution System

Assets & channels

  • Creator-produced TikTok videos
  • #WhatsYourVibe branded hashtag
  • Case-study film embeds on the agency site

Partners

  • Obviously (agency)
  • 22 mid-tier and macro TikTok creators

Participation mechanic

  • Product gifting of Gloss-C lip gloss sets
  • Pre-campaign idea request (RFP) to creators
  • Unified branded hashtag theme

Creator role

  • Campaign ideation before the brief was finalized
  • Native short-form video production teasing the new Gloss-C colors

Results & Evidence

MetricValueResult typeConfidence
Total views389,367reachAgency reported
Total clicks1,173trafficAgency reported
View-to-follower ratio7.50%efficiencyAgency reported

Why Obviously's strategy worked

  1. 1

    Sourcing creator ideas before finalizing the brief kept content native to each feed, the mechanic the agency credits for reach beyond follower counts.

  2. 2

    A single hashtag theme held 22 independent creative executions together without forcing a uniform script.

  3. 3

    Gifting mid-tier and macro creators is a light-touch structure that still produced 389,367 reported views for a product launch.

  4. 4

    The reported 7.50% view-to-follower ratio suggests TikTok's algorithm distributed the content past the creators' own audiences, consistent with the native-content strategy.