100% Cotton. 0% Ick. Cotton authority beats viscose with a towel joke.
We build beauty brands from the inside of culture.
We turn what people already say about beauty into brand positioning, campaigns and commerce. The same idea carries from the first film to the product page.
Born from the brand, not adapted to it, every idea moves through every expression of the brand so the work feels unmistakably yours, wherever people meet it.
From the inside out we turn authenticity into a creative advantage. We respect legacy and speak in the now. Fluent in emotion, allergic to clichés.
Larissa Vaz and Luisa Fedrizzi
Proof
Suave Brand Relaunch
A brand relaunch across film, social, product pages and Times Square, with purchase intent up 22 points among women who saw it.
Goovi
A founder-led Italian brand translated for the US: brand fundamentals held intact, expression rebuilt so Goovi launches sounding native instead of imported.
Q-tips
A century of cotton authority brought into a new beauty category, with a launch built around what touches your face.
What it takes to start
- The first step
- The Shopper Read: what your audience already says, across reviews and social, every quote traceable, before any brief.
- From you
- The challenge, the marketing roadmap for the year, the markets that matter, and the brand book if there is one. We need nothing else to start.
- From us
- A shopper read of your category, a positioning wedge, and a first set of creative ideas, signed by the people who will stay on the build.
- How you pay
- Per deliverable inside the system, at a set quality bar. The system compounds: each asset launch teaches the next.
Disciplines inside the studio
Beauty
Every category has a language its shoppers already speak fluently. Most brands answer in a different one. The work starts by reading the first and refusing to publish anything in the second.
Hair. Skin. Cotton. Colour. Different shelves, same starting point: the audience.
The market
Beauty doesn’t belong to brands alone anymore. People learn ingredients before they learn taglines. They trade routines, decode claims, invent language, make products famous and decide what a brand means long before a campaign can tell them. That makes having a clear brand more valuable than ever. The opportunity is in the space between what a brand believes, what people need from it, and what culture is already doing with it. That’s where we start.
What we build
We turn audience truth into positioning, creative platforms and connected brand worlds, then carry them across campaigns, launches, social, creators, commerce, packaging, identity and content. Sometimes that means repositioning a brand. Sometimes relaunching one. Sometimes creating the idea that makes the strategy real. For Suave, it drove a full relaunch, with purchase intent up 22 points among women who saw it. For Nexxus, it held across six years and three cycles of brand strategy.
The layer we occupy
We work between brand strategy and the thousand places a brand has to show up. Our job is to find the idea strong enough to hold the whole system together, and specific enough that it could only belong to you. Then we stay close to it, from the hero campaign to the eighty-eighth asset. From a cultural insight to a product claim. From the first articulation of the brand to the page where someone decides to buy it. Strategy, creative and execution stay connected, so scale doesn’t flatten the idea and consistency doesn’t turn into sameness.
What you get
Senior thinking that stays inside the work. The people who uncover the audience truth help shape the positioning, and the people who build the platform stay close as it becomes campaign, content and commerce. No strategy handed off and diluted downstream. No brand world that disappears after the hero film. You get a team built to understand beauty deeply, connect the whole system, and make work that feels unmistakably yours wherever the audience meets it. Led by Larissa Vaz and Luísa Fedrizzi.




We’re not here to add more content to the conversation. We build brands people want to bring into it.
Selected work.

Built on a founder’s voice. Rebuilt for a market that didn’t know her.
21 SKUs, 327 final assets, one system
There's more to it. A brand relaunch that moved the numbers.
Purchase intent up 22 points

Becoming the word for a category does not mean owning the conversation.
85 SKUs, 800 PDP tiles, 22 retailers
Six years, one salon icon reawakened.
Clients
Suave · ChapStick · Q-tips · St Ives · Goovi · Nexxus · TRESemmé
What we do
- Brand strategy and positioning
- Masterbrand stewardship
- Audience, shopper and cultural intelligence
- Category and competitive strategy
- Creative platforms and big ideas
- Messaging architecture
- Product naming, claims and storytelling
- Identity, packaging and brand worlds
- Campaign and launch systems
- Creator and social strategy
- Regional and global rollout
- Full-funnel content ecosystems
- Film, photography and CGI
- Commerce systems: PDP, ecomm and D2C
- Testing, learning and iteration
- Integrated toolkits and production
- Production: craft that holds at the hundredth asset
Contact
Write to us
hello@matter-energy.com
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Matter+Energy
MATTER+ENERGY is part of FLAGCX, the largest independent creative services network born in Latin America.
The people you meet make the work. No pyramid between you and the craft: we took the pyramid out and put instruments in its place.
Built to stay.
Something worth making?
Talk to the people who’ll make it → hello@matter-energy.com


