Hourglass Cosmetics/Makeup Longevity/email teardown

For a Look With Longevity

How Hourglass Cosmetics built this send — a makeup longevity email shipped as product hero on Friday at 5am, carrying a full-price send (no offer). Below is HappyCohort's field-by-field extraction; the original creative is rendered at the end.

From: Hourglass CosmeticscampaignPreheader: “Explore our makeup-extending formulas ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏ ͏
Offer
Full price
Voice warmth
0.45
Sent
Fri · 5am
Format
Product hero
How this send compares
  • When Hourglass Cosmetics does discount it averages 15.7% off 5.0 points shallower than the set average of 20.7%. This send itself carries no offer.
  • Voice warmth 0.53 for Hourglass Cosmetics vs 0.69 across the set — a cooler, more clinical register than the average competitor.
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Message & creative

Message theme
Makeup Longevity
Creative format
Product hero
Secondary: Mixed / modular
Secondary theme
Ingredient Efficacy
Hero headline
Five-Star Staying Power
Emotional appeal
aspiration
Calendar moment
Evergreen
Not tied to a seasonal window.
02

Offer

Mechanic
No offer
Full-price email — no discount or incentive.
Depth
Promo phase
Not a promo
No offer in the email.
Promo code
Auto / none
Minimum spend
None
Urgency
None
03

Voice & tone

Warmth0.45
ClinicalWarm
Formality0.75
CasualFormal
Reader focus0.60
“We”“You”
Expressiveness0.40
RestrainedExuberant

Reading grade 8.0 — the approximate US reading level of the body copy.

04

Call to action

Primary CTA
“SHOP NOW”
Destination
Collection
Links to a category or a grid of products.
Verb framing
Shop / Buy
Direct buying words — 'Shop now', 'Add to bag'.
CTA count
21
Multi-CTA layout
Primary destination URL
ctrk.klclick.com
No UTM tagging detected
Tracking domain
ctrk.klclick.com
ESP fingerprint · Klaviyo
05

Deliverability posture

SPF
None
DKIM
Pass
DMARC
Pass
Policy: quarantine
One-click unsubscribe
Supported (RFC 8058)
Unsub scheme: both
From alignment
Misaligned
Domain: subdomain
Footer hygiene
postal address, preference center
06

Send timing

Day
Friday
Local hour
5am
Send type
campaign
One-off campaign
07

Claims & products

Claims extracted
  • Conceals redness and evens skin toneefficacy · unsubstantiated
  • Formulated with mineral-based broad-spectrum SPF 15ingredient · substantiated
  • Absorbs oil to balance skin and control shineefficacy · unsubstantiated
  • Delivers a soft-focus effectefficacy · unsubstantiated
  • Instantly absorbs oil and reduces shineefficacy · unsubstantiated
  • Airbrushed, blurred finish lasts all dayefficacy · unsubstantiated
  • Leaves an invisible, naturally flawless finishefficacy · unsubstantiated
  • Blurs appearance of fine lines, pores, and wrinklesefficacy · unsubstantiated
Products featured
  • Veil Mineral Primerbestseller
  • Vanish Airbrush Primer
  • Vanish Airbrush Pressed Powder
  • Veil Soft Focus Setting Spray
  • Veil Translucent Setting Powder
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The creative

The original email as it rendered in the inbox. Shown for reference and sandboxed — it is not part of the indexed analysis above.