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A curly-hair care brand turned an underserved Indian hair routine into products, consultations, and a creator-led sales channel.
₹1.2 crore the following financial year · later ₹15 crore revenue
Teach the routine before asking for the sale: founder consultations surfaced the smaller trial size and packaging changes that became core to the product line.
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Anshita Mehrotra started Fix My Curls after struggling to find curly-hair products in India. She researched ingredients, worked through eight sample rounds over roughly six months, and launched a five-product routine. The brand built an Instagram audience before launch, then used direct messages, organic posts, consultations, and later Meta ads to turn interest into orders. The founder says the company received 30 purchases in its first month and generated ₹40 lakh in its first year under her mother’s company; the following financial year reached ₹1.2 crore. Customers pushed the company to sell products individually and offer 50 ml trial sizes, which became a hero format. Later, creator affiliates reportedly contributed about ₹2.5–3 lakh in a month when total monthly revenue was around ₹10–12 lakh. The founder also describes scaling through marketplaces and a website, reaching ₹15 crore revenue, and later improving margins. These are founder-reported figures, not audited financials.
For a niche haircare brand, the first buyers usually come from the people who already recognize the problem, not broad beauty advertising. Fix My Curls built an Instagram feed around curly-haired consumers before the product launch, then reached out directly to people who shared that identity.
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Data credibility: Founder interview. Revenue, inventory spend, affiliate contribution, customer counts, and valuation statements are self-reported and unaudited. The transcript states revenue figures in Indian rupees; no currency conversion is applied.
Fix My Curls started by selling a five-step routine priced at ₹4,000, while the founder answered questions directly through Instagram and consultations. The first month produced 30 purchases, according to the interview.
A beauty flywheel strengthens when customers help improve the offer and then share the result with people facing the same problem.
Early consumer brands can spend months making inventory before demand is clear. Fix My Curls’ founder describes six months of research and formulation, with ₹12 lakh invested in inventory, then an early period of organic Instagram activity and customer conversations.
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