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Dior Instagram Filter
Anyone who uses Instagram knows, it’s all about the filters! Dior gets in on the action on the social platform with its first-ever augmented reality experience to highlight its 2020 Dior Holiday Makeup Collection.
What sets this apart from other beauty brands using augmented reality to showcase its products to consumers, is that Dior uses the technology as a face filter, add sparkly, fireworks effects to selfies.
“To see the filter, users need to visit the @diormakeup account on Instagram and click on a link in the biography section that opens the image-messaging app's camera feature,” notesRetail Dive. “The Dior face filter appears in the carousel of AR effects at the bottom of the screen.”
The idea behind Dior’s approach to augmented reality is to capitalize on how people are using social platforms like Instagram, moving past “physical makeup in a world where social media is creating a new form of ‘homoinstagramus’ beauty,” notes the Retail Dive piece.
The colors featured in the face filter are that of the brand’s 2020 Holiday Makeup Collection. Learn even more about Dior’s creative efforts to incorporate augmented reality into its marketing campaigns and how it’s hopping onto some of the latest retail social media trendshere.
Disney and Maleficent Makeup Try-On
As part of its promotion for its film, “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil”, Disney launches a virtual makeup-try on experience (one of the latest retail social media trends) exclusively on YouTube. The way it works is that users have the chance to “transform” themselves into the Disney villain Maleficent while watching a makeup tutorial done by makeup artist Promise Phan, a user with almost 6 million subscribers.
“To promote the "Maleficent" sequel, Disney aims to reach younger audiences who are tuned into online tutorials and more likely to watch video content on their mobile phones than traditional TV,” notesMobile Marketer.