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Noore L’Atelier × AIIMS Group | Skin & Beauty Atelier UAE Case Study
Noore L’Atelier × AIIMS Group

Shimmer. Scent.
Skin Transformed.

Launching a UAE luxury beauty brand’s Instagram debut and Shopify store, shot on the white sand of Nikki Beach Dubai.

Dubai, UAE Shopify Development Photography Social Media Management Beauty & Ecommerce
About the Client

A strong product. No digital home yet.

Noore L’Atelier is a UAE luxury beauty brand crafting shimmering body pastes, creams and oils infused with oud, musk and vanilla. Three signature shades, Crème Champagne, Golden Sands and Soleil Lumière, turn skin into a luminous canvas.


The product was ready. The brand had a name, a fragrance identity and a loyal early following. What it didn’t have was a website to sell from, a photography library to sell with, or an Instagram presence to introduce itself to the UAE market.


AIIMS Group was brought in to build all three from the ground up.

The Challenge

Launching a brand with nothing to point to yet.

Noore L’Atelier was starting its digital presence from zero. Every touchpoint, the store, the imagery and the Instagram debut, had to be built at once, and had to feel premium from the very first post.

No ecommerce store

No Shopify build, no product pages, no gift set bundles and no way to sell online.

No photography library

No product stills, no lifestyle imagery, nothing to populate a store or a social grid.

No social presence

This was Noore’s Instagram debut. Zero existing content, zero visual identity established online.

Three shades to differentiate

Crème Champagne, Golden Sands and Soleil Lumière each needed their own visual identity within one cohesive brand.

UAE market positioning

The brand needed to read as accessible luxury: premium, but not out of reach for its target audience.

Everything, at once

Store, content and social all had to launch in step, not staggered one after another.

Our Approach

One brand story, told across every channel.

AIIMS mapped the full scope across Shopify, photography and social before a single shot was taken, so every asset served the same identity: warm, sun-drenched, sensorial and quietly luxurious.

Shopify Development

Homepage, product pages, collection pages, gift set bundles and a UAE-optimised checkout.

Website Copy

Product descriptions and homepage messaging written in the brand’s own sensory voice.

Two Photoshoots

An in-house product shoot, then an agency-produced lifestyle shoot at Nikki Beach Dubai.

Social Media Management

Instagram profile setup, content calendar and the brand’s first batch of posts and reels.

Creative Direction

A single colour and mood palette carried through props, website design and social templates.

Brand Refinement

Every new asset built to match and elevate the identity Noore had already started.

Nikki Beach Dubai

How the shoot day unfolded.

The lifestyle shoot was built around light, not a clock. Every phase of the day had its own lighting condition and its own content objective, so nothing shot was a filler frame.

7:00 AM · Setup

Arrival & location prep

The team arrived early to scout the exact spots at Nikki Beach: cabana setup, prop arrangement and product placement, locked in before talent arrived.

8:00 AM · Golden Hour

Product & skin close-ups

Early morning light catching the shimmer in the body paste like nothing else. This window produced the most editorial close-up content: product on bronzed skin, shimmer catching the sun, the texture of the cream against sand.

10:00 AM · Lifestyle Block

Movement & candid shots

Beach walks, cabana lounging, applying product in a natural ritual. The goal: authentic lifestyle imagery that never feels posed.

12:00 PM · Peak Light

Reels & video content

Bright midday light for reel formats: application sequences, product reveals, shimmering skin in ocean water. Slow-motion shimmer, sound-on content built to drive saves and shares.

2:00 PM · Flat Lay

Product flat lay & gift sets

All three pastes styled together on sand, linen and the Kabuki brush. Clean, editorial, no clutter, intentional negative space, these became the feed hero images for the launch grid.

4:00 PM · Golden Hour Pt. 2

Magic hour portraits

Late afternoon glow, the most cinematic content of the day. Talent glowing in warm light, the ocean behind them. These images carried the launch: soft, radiant, exactly what the brand promises.

The Shopify Store

Built to convert. Styled to feel like the product.

noorelatelier.com pairs a luxury look with a fast, frictionless shopping experience. Mobile-first, UAE payment gateways, and a free-delivery threshold built in from the start. The homepage headline reads exactly as the brand sounds: “Hydration, glow and scent in one ritual.”

Noore L'Atelier Golden Sands shimmering body paste product photography Noore L'Atelier Soleil Lumiere shimmering body paste product photography
Behind the Shoot

On set at the Dubai skin & beauty shoot.

Footage from the AIIMS Dubai studio and beach shoot day, produced across an in-house mini-studio setup and the Nikki Beach location.

Outcomes

A full digital debut, delivered.

Every deliverable was built to launch together: the store went live, the photo library was ready, and the brand had its first Instagram-ready content in hand.

Shopify store livenoorelatelier.com, homepage through checkout
3 products launchedCrème Champagne, Golden Sands, Soleil Lumière
2 photoshoots deliveredIn-house product shoot + Nikki Beach lifestyle shoot
280+ images producedFull library across product, lifestyle and social formats
UAE primary marketPositioned for local launch ahead of wider expansion
Instagram debut readyProfile, content calendar and first posts and reels live
Guide

Luxury beauty ecommerce, questions and answers

How do you launch a luxury beauty brand on Instagram from zero?

A luxury beauty brand launches on Instagram by pairing a premium photoshoot with a clear visual identity, a defined colour and mood palette, and content pillars built around the product ritual, the transformation and the lifestyle the brand represents.

Why is Shopify a good fit for a UAE beauty ecommerce brand?

Shopify gives UAE beauty brands a fast, mobile-first storefront with local payment gateway support, gift set bundling, and a clean foundation for SEO and conversion, without the overhead of a custom-built platform.

How many photoshoots does a new ecommerce beauty brand need?

Most beauty brands launching from scratch need at least two shoots: one controlled studio or in-house shoot for clean product and packaging detail, and one lifestyle shoot in a real setting to build the emotional, aspirational side of the brand.

Why choose AIIMS Group for a beauty brand’s digital launch?

AIIMS Group helps beauty and ecommerce brands launch and scale through Shopify development, photography and video production, and social media management, all aligned to one brand identity from day one. Read more about our approach in Global HALO Marketing™ and our brand transformation services.

What’s Next For The Brand

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The Team Behind the Work

Small team. Every asset accounted for.

Reem El KudorAccount Manager
Victoria RangelContent Creator & Photographer
Looking Ahead

The store is live. The content keeps going.

With the Shopify store live and the photo library delivered, Noore L’Atelier’s Instagram is now in an ongoing content cycle, publishing from the 280+ image library built across both shoots and growing its following in the UAE market.

What’s next

Ongoing social content publishing, monthly performance review, and continued growth of the Instagram audience ahead of wider UAE market expansion.

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Noore L’Atelier × AIIMS Group · Dubai, UAE · 2026

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