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Avenue — Visual Content Studio
// 00 — Beauty · Skincare · Wellness · Cosmetics · Lifestyle

We handle your visual content.
Every month.

Publish-ready stills and motion for beauty, wellness, cosmetics and lifestyle brands — every format, every placement, every month. Our in-house studio and hybrid production system scale the way traditional production cannot, without the agency overhead or a freelancer's ceiling. Every deliverable signed off by a senior creative.

16+
Years in beauty
post-production
LA · Dallas
Operating
globally
99%
On-time or
early delivery
2000fps
In-house slow-motion
capability
Hero campaign imagery
Detail — stills
Urban Decay Cosmetics (L'Oreal)LululemonHourglass CosmeticsNEUTROGENAMorphe 2TATCHAPat McGrath LabsMelt CosmeticsSunday RileyMorphe BrushesGlamGlow (Estée Lauder)Dr. Brandt SkincareReal TechniquesSmashbox Cosmetics (Estée Lauder)R.E.M. Beauty (by Ariana Grande)Urban Decay Cosmetics (L'Oreal)LululemonHourglass CosmeticsNEUTROGENAMorphe 2TATCHAPat McGrath LabsMelt CosmeticsSunday RileyMorphe BrushesGlamGlow (Estée Lauder)Dr. Brandt SkincareReal TechniquesSmashbox Cosmetics (Estée Lauder)R.E.M. Beauty (by Ariana Grande)
// New client? Send your brief — we respond within 24 hours.
Let's go →
// 01 — What we do

Beauty Production.
Pick your scope.

We make premium stills and motion as an ongoing monthly production service, and project-based campaigns and eComm refreshes, all with visual style direction that keeps everything on-brand. Built on 16+ years in commercial beauty production.

// 01.1

Ongoing
Monthly Content

Monthly content set

Your content calendar, filled every month. Product and beauty visuals for social, web, and ads — planned around your brand's visual language and 12-month content goals. Onboard once, no monthly re-briefing required.

  • Traditional & hybrid production
  • Social stills & reels
  • Product video
  • Ad variations at scale
  • Monthly organized file delivery
// 01.2

Campaigns, Ads
& eComm Refreshes

Campaign

Launch-ready creative without the production drag or per-asset costs. Full campaign suites, PDP refreshes, and bulk format, language and placement variations — built faster than traditional production allows.

  • Product launch campaigns
  • PDP & eComm image suites
  • Swatch, macro & lifestyle visuals
  • Bulk ad variations (Meta, Google, Amazon, Pinterest)
  • Seasonal & promotional content
// 01.3

Rebrands &
Visual Style Direction

Brand visual system

Your brand's visual language, built to last. We create a research-led visual direction and photography style to match your audience's aesthetic world. Then use it to run a full product imagery overhaul for cohesive on-brand imagery across your entire website.

  • Photography style guide: lighting direction, color grading, mood & composition references
  • Yours to keep, and use with any vendor or creative team
  • Full image library rebuild
  • Option: Website redesign for your new visual style
// 02 — How we're different

More presence,
without more spend.

One shoot multiplies into stills, video, ads, and variations across every channel and placement. No per-asset cost. No production drag. Months of on-brand content from a single approved direction.

Product shot
// 01 — Product shot
Editorial hero
// 02 — Editorial hero

One visual direction,
resized and adapted.

3:4 Social Post
3:43:4
Instagram, Facebook feed post
9:16 Story
Instagram & TikTok Stories
9:16 Animated Variation
Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Short
PDP Image
PDP1:1
Product detail page
Ad Variant
AdAd
Meta, TikTok, Pinterest, Google Ads
16:9 Website Banner
Banner
Hero banner, website header
Email Header
Email
Campaign & promotional email
// 04 — Monthly Packages


Set up once.
Post all year long.

One approved direction becomes every format and placement you need, month after month — same visual language across every channel. Each tier covers more volume, more formats, and more placements. Upgrade anytime, or add a standalone project when the moment calls for it.

// Step 01 — Onboarding
Annual Creative Direction

At onboarding, we map the full year around your product categories, SKUs, platforms, and approval chain. Direction is locked before anything is produced — so every month runs from a plan, not a brief.

// Step 02 — RESEARCH
Research-Led Planning

Every concept is grounded in visual trend research and your product category insight. What we produce is on-brand and timed to what your market is responding to.

// Step 03 — Production
Full End-to-End Production

One point of contact. No monthly briefs. Two revision rounds. We produce, edit, and deliver organized, publish-ready files — you sign off at onboarding once, we handle the rest.

// Step 04 — Repeat
Scheduled Delivery & Dedicated Support

Same team. Same system. Delivery timelines agreed at onboarding and held every month. We keep everything on track — nothing slips, nothing needs chasing.

// Tier 01
Essentials
Stills-focused monthly production

For growing brands posting consistently, and running paid ads. Send your product shots, or ship your product to our studio.


Up to 20 unique final stills/month
Up to 30 still & 3 animated variations for PDP + Social + Paid Ads
Onboarding fee waived
2 revision rounds included
Direction lock before production
Organized file delivery
One Senior Creative from onboarding through every delivery
Retouching included
Monthly fee starts at
$2,799/mo

Need to customize the number or type of deliverables? Let us know.

Get started
Most popular
// Tier 02
Product Studio
Stills + motion, 2 product shoots/year included

Product-centered monthly production for brands with an active social schedule and paid ad campaigns.


2 x In-Studio Shoot Days (Product) /year included
Up to 30 unique final stills/month
Up to 50 still & 5 animated variations for PDP + Social + Paid Ads
1 x Campaign/year - versioning from approved assets
Onboarding fee waived
2 revision rounds included
Direction lock before production
Organized file delivery
One Senior Creative from onboarding through every delivery
Retouching included
Monthly fee starts at
$3,799/mo

Need to customize the number or type of deliverables? Let us know.

Get started
// Tier 03
Beauty Studio
Stills + motion, beauty & product shoots included

Beauty-centered monthly production kicked off with a beauty and a product shoot. Customized scope, maximum output.


2 x In-Studio Shoot Days (Beauty & Product)/year included
Up to 30 unique final stills/month; wider creative range with a mix of model/beauty and product shots
Up to 100 still & 10 animated variations for PDP + Social + Paid Ads
1 x Campaign/year - versioning from approved assets
Onboarding fee waived
2 revision rounds included
Direction lock before production
Organized file delivery
One Senior Creative from onboarding through every delivery
Retouching included
Monthly fee starts at
$6,499/mo

Need to customize the number or type of deliverables? Let us know.

Get started

Need an eComm refresh, a campaign asset multiplication, or a rebrand? See // 05 Project-Based Services.

// 05 — Project-Based Services

Project work.
When you need it.

Order as a standalone service, or add to any monthly tier when you need it. Produced traditionally, versioned and multiplied through our AI-assisted production system to maximize your ROI. Every deliverable is reviewed and signed off by a senior creative.

Production mode Human Traditional shoot-based production
Hybrid Shoot foundation + AI versioning and multiplication
AI AI-built from your product shots
Campaign
// Product Campaign

Campaign or Product Launch

Versioning from controlled campaign assets: hero images, supporting stills, animated visuals, and bulk ad variations. We use our hybrid AI production system to extend approved shoot assets, product imagery, or existing campaign materials into platform-ready social, web, and ad formats — without rebuilding the campaign from scratch.

✓ 1 Campaign/year included in Monthly Tiers 02 & 03

Standalone service from $3,299
*One-time add-on from $2,499
Hybrid AI
eComm & PDP Refresh eComm
// Growth & Scale

eComm & PDP Refresh

A full product imagery overhaul: PDP, multi-angle, and lifestyle sets, color-matched to brand spec across your catalog. Available as a traditional shoot, or a hybrid build from existing assets and clean product shots.

Standalone service from $2,499
*One-time add-on from $1,299
Hybrid AI
In-Studio Shoot Day Production
// Product Campaign

In-Studio Shoot Day

A full 1-day production shoot for hero and campaign imagery. Included in Product and Beauty Studio monthly tiers. Avenue crew, creative direction, and full post-production included. Studio rental, talent, hair & makeup billed separately. What a shoot day fee covers →

✓ Included in Monthly Tiers 02 & 03

Beauty · standalone from $5,999 / day
Product · standalone from $3,499 / day
Human
  • *Lower rates are for monthly clients with brand context, library, and direction already in place.
01 — Thinking

No brief? No problem.

No fully developed visual identity? We get it. Not many growing brands have that. We build the brief for you: art direction, moodboards, visual language. All research-backed and aligned with your business objectives → approve it once, we'll do the rest.

02 — Locked Direction

No revision spirals.

Direction is locked and signed off before anything is produced. We don't describe the visuals we intend to make → we show you actual moodboards built from your products and your visual world, so your team can review and approve before we begin.

03 — Production

One shoot, every format.

A single approved direction multiplies into every format and placement you need — social, web, email, ads. Always fresh, always on-brand, no per-asset cost. Our proprietary hybrid production system allows us to scale the way traditional production cannot.

04 — Delivery

Publish the day files land.

Files named correctly, sized for every platform, in a folder your team can use immediately — no hunting, no reformatting. Every deliverable reviewed and signed off by a senior creative before it reaches you.

// Beauty · Wellness · Lifestyle

Your visual content, handled. Every month.
We align with your brand's visual language, product categories, and content goals at onboarding — then deliver on a fixed schedule, month after month. Consistent, publish-ready premium visuals your team can use the day files land.

16+ Years in beauty production
// 06 — Case Studies

Premium visuals.
Delivered on a schedule.

View all work →
Monthly content set Ongoing Content
// Client
Monthly Visual Production, 50+ Assets / Month

Stills, reels, and ad variations on a consistent monthly cadence across social, web, and ads.

Coming Soon →
Full Visual Rebrand Rebrand
// Client
Full Visual Rebrand + eComm Refresh

New visual language, packaging direction, and full eComm asset rebuild.

Coming Soon →
Launch Campaign Campaign
// Client
Launch Campaign, 120 Ad Variations

Hero campaign, 10 assets × 12 variations each — delivered in under two weeks.

Coming Soon →
PDP Overhaul eComm
// Client
PDP Overhaul, 40 SKUs

Hero, swatch, detail, and lifestyle imagery — color-matched to brand spec across all products.

Coming Soon →
Urban Decay Cosmetics (L'Oreal)LululemonHourglass CosmeticsNEUTROGENAMorphe 2TATCHAPat McGrath LabsMelt CosmeticsSunday RileyMorphe BrushesGlamGlow (Estée Lauder)Dr. Brandt SkincareReal TechniquesSmashbox Cosmetics (Estée Lauder)R.E.M. BeautyUrban Decay Cosmetics (L'Oreal)LululemonHourglass CosmeticsNEUTROGENAMorphe 2TATCHAPat McGrath LabsMelt CosmeticsSunday RileyMorphe BrushesGlamGlow (Estée Lauder)Dr. Brandt SkincareReal TechniquesSmashbox Cosmetics (Estée Lauder)R.E.M. Beauty (by Ariana Grande)
// New client? Drop your brief — we respond within 24 hours.
Send your brief →
// 07 — About Avenue

Built on 16+ years in commercial beauty production.

Avenue is female-founded and led visual production studio for beauty, skincare, wellness, cosmetics, and lifestyle brands who need high-quality visuals at scale, month after month, without the overhead of an agency or the inconsistency of rotating vendors. We work with brands that have outgrown DIY content or have been burned by agency overhead and junior team quality drift. Our clients come to Avenue because they want a senior creative who knows their brand, a system that delivers reliably, and visuals that they are proud to publish. The team behind the work is small, vetted, and consistent. Avenue shoots out of Dallas and Los Angeles with a fully equipped in-house photography and film studio, and high-speed slow motion equipment up to 2000fps. We operate globally.

// Founded & led by

Julia Kuzmenko McKim

Senior Production Lead & Founder
Commercial Beauty Photographer & Retoucher · Los Angeles

Avenue was founded by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, a commercial beauty photographer and retoucher with over two decades in the profession, and 16+ years of production credits including Pat McGrath Labs, Sunday Riley, Urban Decay, Hourglass Cosmetics, and many more.

Julia is formally trained in Commercial Photography in Melbourne, Australia, and MIT-certified in Applied Generative AI. She is the founder of Retouching Academy, whose Beauty Retouch panel is used by over 20,000 creative professionals worldwide.

Avenue started as the post-production team behind Julia's large-scale shoots for elite beauty brands, originally built out of necessity to handle the volume and standards those clients demanded. Over time it grew into its own entity, taking on brand clients directly. Still, Julia reviews and signs off on every account personally.

// Controlled & Supervised

How we use AI

Our proprietary hybrid production system is built on standards that governed our work long before AI was accessible — rigorous attention to detail through all stages of commercial beauty production that had no room for error.

Today we leverage AI at specific, controlled points in our workflow: market and trend research for visual direction development, moodboarding, scalable asset variation, and versioning acceleration.

It does not replace traditional production and creative judgment. It helps us do more of the work we're proud of, faster. Every deliverable is reviewed and approved by a senior creative before it leaves our desk.

We formally disclose our AI use to every client, and strictly follow brand safety standards: no misleading before/after representations, no implied medical claims, no fabricated product performance.

// 08 — Contact our senior production lead

Connect now.
Thank yourself later.

If your brand isn't seen enough, or your visuals aren't stopping the scroll — your bottom line already shows it.

Tell us about your brand, what you need, and your volume. We respond within 24 hours — no pitch, no pressure, just a straight conversation about whether we're the right fit.

Send your brief →
// Based in

Los Angeles · Dallas

Serving beauty, wellness & lifestyle brands globally

// What happens next

We review your brief, take a look at your current visual assets and reply within 24 hours. No commitment required.

You'll hear from

Julia Kuzmenko McKim

Senior C & Founder
Commercial Beauty Photographer & Retoucher · Los Angeles

Or reach the team directly

inquiries(at)avenueretouching.com
// 09 — FAQ

Questions
answered.

Everything you may want to know before starting. If something's missing, shoot us an email.

Monthly tiers are ongoing production on a steady cadence (stills, motion, and ad variations every month). Project-Based Services (// 05) are scoped, one-time engagements (a shoot, a PDP refresh, a rebrand, etc.) that can be attached to any tier whenever you need them, for example around launches or seasonal promotions, at a discounted fee because we already have your brand set up.

Yes. Project-Based Services are available as standalones or as discounted add-ons for our ongoing clients. That said, we are equally as thorough whether you need ongoing work or a one-off project.

A shoot day covers photography fee, creative direction, and post-production of the session. Studio rental, models, and other on-set talent — hair and makeup, styling, catering — are booked and billed separately. We'll help line everything up so nothing falls through the cracks.

1-Day Beauty Shoot · Los Angeles

We typically shoot beauty in Los Angeles, where the talent pool for beauty-specialist models, makeup artists, and hairstylists is unmatched. Our network — over a decade in the making — includes artists who specialize in creating the hydrated, luminous skin tones that skincare campaigns demand, as well as precision color specialists for macro lip and eye work. The team operates in any configuration, shoots efficiently, and aims to get everything right in camera to minimize post time.

1-Day Product Shoot · Dallas

Our Dallas studio is equipped for product stills, brand film, and high-speed slow motion up to 2000fps — available for every production.

For any in-studio product photography — at onboarding or a later shoot — you ship your product to Avenue ahead of the session.

We'll provide clear instructions on what to send, how much, and where, with enough lead time to plan around it. Once the shoot wraps, products can be returned or held for future sessions, whichever you prefer.

No. If you have it, we will use it as the base for our working style guide. The Brand Photography Style service is for brands that don't yet have a defined photographic style, or want one built properly before content production begins.

The deliverable of the standalone service is a detailed guide covering photography, lighting, treatment, textures, model casting direction, retouching instructions, and the granular details that make your brand photography recognizable. Once approved, it's yours — use it with any creative vendor until your next rebrand.

It depends on the deliverable and the production mode of your choice. Our workflows use AI at specific, controlled steps — market research, ideation, storyboarding, generating variations of approved traditionally captured and retouched images, and producing moodboards during the direction phase.

Real photography is still the foundation, AI extends what those shoots can produce: more formats, more variations, more platforms from the same creative session.

Every deliverable, regardless of how it was produced, is reviewed and approved by a senior creative before it leaves our hands.

We strictly follow brand safety standards: no misleading before/after representations, no implied medical claims, no fabricated product performance.

Beauty, skincare, wellness, and cosmetics brands, operating DTC with a growing retail or eComm presence, who have a marketing team but no dedicated production partner — an experienced visual creative professional with a trained eye and a skill set to produce high-quality visuals.

They typically come to Avenue because:

  • They have outgrown DIY content
  • They have been burned by agency overhead and junior team quality drift
  • They need a visual production partner who thinks like a brand insider, not a vendor
  • They want to onboard once and receive publish-ready visuals monthly without managing production themselves

They are buying:

  • Reliability and consistency — same visual language, same team, every month
  • Senior creative access without agency overhead
  • A system that scales without per-asset cost
  • The confidence that every deliverable has been reviewed by someone who has been shooting and retouching for years for Pat McGrath Labs, Sunday Riley, Morphe and Urban Decay

Not every brand is at the stage where ongoing visual production makes sense, and we'd rather be honest about that upfront. Avenue is not the right fit for:

  • Brands in their first years without a visual identity. If your brand direction, color system, and visual language are still being defined, the foundation needs to come first. If you don't yet have your brand visual identity developed, we can offer you our Brand Photography Style service before anything is produced.
  • Enterprise brands with large in-house studios. If you have a fully staffed internal creative team and production infrastructure, you likely need execution support rather than a studio partner. That is a different kind of engagement.
  • Brands primarily seeking influencer marketing or paid media management. Avenue produces the visuals. We do not run media buys, manage creator relationships, or handle social strategy. If those are the primary needs, a full-service marketing agency is the better fit.
  • Brands who ask for misleading before/after representations, implied medical claims, or fabricated product performance visuals.

If you are a growing beauty, skincare, wellness, or cosmetics brand with a real product and a real need for consistent, high-quality visual output — that is exactly who we built Avenue for.

Prices listed are starting points. The final cost depends on your brief — what needs to be produced, how many SKUs or assets are involved, and how many versions are required across various placements. Send us your brief and we will return a detailed scope and cost. Once agreed, everything is confirmed in writing: what is covered, what is not, and exactly what you will receive.

Each project includes two revision rounds, confirmed in writing at the start. We use structured approval checkpoints throughout production so that most sets are approved after a quick first round with minor revisions.