Industry · Haircare and salon products

PPC for haircare and salon brands, judged on profit.

Search, Shopping, Performance Max and Meta for professional and consumer haircare brands. We grow the sales your name alone would not bring, and keep the feed and tracking sound through every platform change.

$7.56MConversion value
$805KAd spend managed
9.40xAverage ROAS
16.83xBest single month ROAS

Live Google Ads data · updated monthly · through September 2026 Google Ads accounts we run, complete months only. Accounts run in GBP; figures converted to USD.

The platforms we work in every day

Google AdsMeta AdsMicrosoft AdsPerformance MaxTikTok AdsAmazon AdsMerchant CenterLinkedIn AdsGA4
What we do

Growth beyond your brand name.

A known haircare brand can look healthy on brand searches alone. The real work is reaching people who search by hair type, problem and product, not by your name.

01Non-brand Search

Searches by hair type and problem

Campaigns built around how people describe their hair: curly, colour treated, fine, damaged, dry scalp. Each ad group lands on the product that answers that search, not on the home page.

  • Brand and non-brand reported apart
  • Ad groups by hair type and concern
  • Weekly search term clean up
02Shopping and feed

Ranges, sizes and refills grouped right

Salon sizes, retail sizes, refills and bundles set up as clear variants with the right identifiers, so Shopping shows the product that matches the search, at the price people expect to see.

  • Sizes and refills linked as variants
  • Product types by range and hair need
  • Merchant Center checked after every site change
03Paid social

The result shown, then sold

Meta and TikTok creative built around the result on real hair: texture, shine, colour that holds. Every hook runs as a test on cost per purchase, and the winners get the budget.

  • Short video and UGC style ads
  • Hooks tested with the same budget each
  • Results read against the store's own orders
From our accounts

Haircare, in numbers.

Two haircare accounts we run. Google Ads data from complete months, clients named by sector only. Accounts run in GBP; figures converted to USD.

Professional haircare

Non-brand Search that outperformed brand

$1.94MConversion value
12.27xBlended ROAS
16.83xBest month ROAS

Brand was 48% of spend, so the account rose and fell with brand demand. We built non-brand Search until it returned 12.16x against brand's 11.82x. November turned $9,145 into $153,955, and the account never dropped below 10x on a full month.

Haircare brand, after a migration

Rebuilt after a migration broke the account

$3,856Lowest month value
7.14xJuly ROAS
8.00xAugust ROAS

The store moved from BigCommerce to Shopify, but both Performance Max campaigns still pointed at the old Merchant Center. Products were approved and in stock but served zero impressions, and monthly value fell from $13,003 to $3,856. After the rebuild came its two best months on record.

Individual results vary. Accounts run in GBP; figures converted to USD. See every account.

What usually goes wrong

Where haircare budgets leak.

Patterns we see in haircare accounts, and why most of them stay hidden in the platform's own reports.

01

An account that lives on brand demand

When brand takes a large share of spend, results follow brand awareness, not the ads. Reporting brand on its own shows what new customers cost, and where non-brand Search can carry more.

02

A migration nobody checked in Google Ads

A new store platform often means a new Merchant Center. If campaigns still point at the old one, products stay approved and serve nothing. Every migration needs a feed and campaign check on the day it goes live.

03

Salon only and retail lines mixed together

Professional products, trade accounts and retail lines need different messages and often different prices. Mixing them in one campaign hides which customers are actually profitable.

04

Resellers and marketplaces on your name

Stockists and marketplace sellers bid on your brand and sell your products. Your own brand campaign keeps your site in front, and Amazon Ads can run alongside where your range sells there.

The first month

The first month, in order.

Tracking and feed first, then the growth beyond brand. Budget only rises once the account can show where it returns.

Week 1

Audit tracking, feed and brand share

Purchases checked against real orders, Merchant Center read, and the brand share of spend measured.

Week 2

Fix the feed and the links

Variants, identifiers and the Merchant Center link behind each campaign checked and fixed.

Week 3

Build non-brand Search

Ad groups by hair type and concern, each landing on the product that answers the search.

Week 4

Scale what sells

Budget moved in measured steps to the non-brand campaigns and products that return most.

Questions

Before you ask.

We sell to salons and to consumers. Can one account do both?

Yes, as long as the two are kept apart. Trade and consumer campaigns get their own targeting, messages and conversion goals, and trade enquiries are measured separately from retail orders, so neither audience distorts the other's numbers.

We are moving to Shopify. What should we check in Google Ads?

Which Merchant Center each campaign uses, that the new feed is linked and approved, and that the purchase tag fires once on the new checkout. One haircare account we took over served zero impressions for exactly this reason. We check it on the day of the switch.

Is spending on our own brand name a waste?

Not usually, but it should be measured on its own. Brand searches convert well because people already want you. We keep brand separate so its strong return does not hide how non-brand campaigns are really doing.

Do you run Meta and TikTok for haircare?

Yes. Haircare suits video because the result can be shown on real hair. We test hooks on cost per purchase, with the same budget each, and read results against the store's own orders rather than the platform's own count.

When is peak season for haircare?

In the professional haircare account we run, the best month was November, around Black Friday and gifting. Budgets rise in measured steps from October, so the bidding has time to learn before the peak, not during it.

Next step

Want these numbers for your brand?

Send a short brief about your brand. A specialist reads the account with read-only access and replies with the three changes we would make first, yours to keep whether you hire us or not.

01You send a short brief about the business.
02We read the account with read-only access.
03You get three changes in writing, yours to keep either way.
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