Adira Studio · Ad creative for DTC skincare, haircare and supplements

Brief on Monday.
Ads on Wednesday.

A one-person finishing studio for DTC skincare, haircare and supplements. Ten concepts, each tested five ways — graded, typeset and cut for every placement. No account manager, no revision queue.

Start a project or send the brief

Why two days

Anyone can generate. I finish.

Raw AI output is a commodity. What you are paying for is the layer on top: the grade, the grain, the type, the crop for each placement. That layer is what makes a frame look like your brand instead of a prompt.

An agency turns a brief in two weeks. Adira Studio turns it in two days, and turns your notes around the same day, because there is no one between you and the person doing the work.

RUNE hero frame: matte black tub on dark stone, the raw generation

One matte black tub, a scoop, a glass of water. Twelve finished ads: graded, typeset, cropped 4:5 and ready to go straight into an ad account.

RUNE ad: I replaced four bottles with this.

NOCT hero frame: amber bottle glowing as the light rises

Amber glass, one drop, low light. The product carries the frames, one person carries the routine, and the light stays low so the feed reads as one brand.

NOCT clip: dropper releasing a drop of amber serum

NOCT clip: amber bottle on a marble counter in morning sun

NOCT clip: amber bottle alone on a white counter in morning light

NOCT clip: woman talking to camera in her kitchen

NOCT clip: woman talking to camera by a window

NOCT clip: hand reaching for the amber bottle on a bathroom shelf

PLUME hero frame: mist bottle spraying cold white against the dark, wide

Frosted glass, steel cap, cold light for the product and warm light for the bedroom. The mist is the promise, so the mist gets the light.

PLUME clip: frosted bottle turning on a dark set as the light arrives, wide

PLUME clip: mist bottle spraying cold white against the dark, close

PLUME clip: condensation on the frosted glass, close

PLUME clip: flat lay of rosemary, chamomile, aloe and lavender on bone

PLUME clip: hand holding the bottle on white linen

PLUME clip: mist settling over long hair, backlit

PLUME clip: frosted bottle in window light on a bedside table

About

Ethan Kinder

I'm Ethan Kinder. I run Adira Studio on my own, from Durban, South Africa.

I started behind a camera — product photography and video, learning how a bottle has to be lit before it looks like something anyone would want to own. That is where the craft came from: composition, colour, and the patience to keep working a frame until it is actually finished.

Then I moved into social content and paid campaigns, and learned the other half of the job. A beautiful frame that doesn't stop the scroll is worth nothing. What matters is the hook in the first second, the reason to keep watching, and the line that turns interest into a purchase.

Adira Studio is both of those in one place. I know what makes an ad look expensive, and I know what makes it sell. And because it is just me, the person who understands your brand is the person doing the work — no brief handed down a chain, no two-week wait.

The difference

Why not an agency

No account manager.: You brief the person who does the work.
Two days, not two weeks.: Brief Monday, ads Wednesday, revisions same day.
Finished, not generated.: Graded, typeset and cut for every placement.
One queue.: Nothing waits behind a bigger client.

The offer

10 concepts, each tested five ways.

Day 0

The brief lands. I send back my questions the same day and start.

Day 1

Generate, select, grade. Type goes on. Crops get cut for each placement.

Day 2

Ten finished concepts in your inbox, five variants of each, ready to test. Notes come back the same day.

Pilot

$1,500 · one-off

20 assets in 10 days
Static, video and UGC-style
One angle-and-hook map for the brand
No contract
Sold once per brand, never twice

Start with a pilot

Core

$2,500 / month

~50 assets a month, delivered weekly
Static, video and UGC-style
Ad account review twice monthly, winners rebuilt into variants
3-month minimum, then month to month

Start with Core

Scale

$4,000 / month

~80 assets a month
Weekly delivery and weekly call
Full creative ownership of the account
Quarterly hero shoot, filmed properly

Start with Scale

Start with the pilot.

It is sold once per brand. Decide on Core or Scale from the results.

The studio

I finish.

Every brief runs the same way. Day one, questions go back the same day and ten concepts reach a raw frame by evening. Day two is the finish: the grade, the label composite, the typography, five cuts of every concept for every placement.

Nothing ships raw. A frame that cannot be finished to the standard of the ads on this page does not go in the folder. Notes come back the same day, and the next round is finished again, not generated again.

The proof

Left is the generation. Right is the ad.

The model gives you a picture. What goes in an ad account needs a crop for the placement, a headline that survives the feed, and a grade that matches the other forty-nine assets. That layer is the job.

Finished ad: My cupboard, before and after.

The teardown

Free either way.

A teardown of your current ads and your three closest competitors: where the category is testing angles you aren't. Yours whether or not you buy.

Contact

Send me the brief.

Product, audience, deadline. If I can hit it, I say so the same day.

ethan@adirastudio.com

Came from an email? Just reply to it. Or use the form

Brief on Monday.
Ads on Wednesday.

Anyone can generate. I finish.

Daily greens, on the counter where it gets used.

A night serum that only comes out after dark.

Volume you can see leave the bottle.

Ethan Kinder

Why not an agency