How Olaplex Scaled Personalized Discovery Across Three Markets

One guided quiz across the UK, US and Australia, turning routine building into a single on-brand experience that lifts order value and wins first-time customers.

48%
Higher AOV Than Store Average
88%
First-Time Customer Orders
70%
Quiz Completion Rate
71%
Orders With Recommendations

About Olaplex

Olaplex is a professional-grade haircare brand built on patented bond-building technology, sold direct to consumer and through retail in more than 100 countries.

As the brand scaled its owned storefronts across the UK, US and Australia, personalization became an opportunity to guide shoppers through a technical, results-driven range and land each one on the right routine, without a stylist in the room.

IndustryProfessional Haircare
Established2014
MarketsUK, US, Australia
PhilosophyScience-led bond repair and foundational hair health

Guiding Shoppers, Consistently, Across Three Storefronts

Rolling out guided discovery across three markets surfaced several problems at the same time.

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A Technical Range, No In-Store Guide

Shoppers arriving cold had to self-diagnose hair type, damage level and goals across a results-driven catalog, with no stylist to point them toward the right regimen.

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Three Markets, One Experience

Each storefront needed the same guided logic and on-brand feel while respecting local catalogs, so the experience could not fork into three disconnected quizzes.

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Routines, Not Product Lists

Customers needed structured, buildable routines to translate their results into a daily practice, rather than a flat list of individual products.

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Performance That Was Hard to See

Without a unified view across markets, it was difficult to tell whether guided discovery was moving order value and acquisition, or simply adding a step.

Olaplex guided hair quiz entry point showing hair texture selection powered by Tangent AI

Olaplex's guided hair quiz entry point, powered by Tangent AI

One Guided Quiz, Deployed Everywhere Olaplex Sells

Tangent deployed a single guided quiz across all three storefronts, mapping every answer to a structured routine and a personalized set of recommendations.

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Multi-Market Quiz Architecture

One quiz framework deployed across the UK, US and AU storefronts, keeping logic and brand experience consistent while adapting to each market's catalog.

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Structured Routine Mapping

Every combination of hair type, concern and goal maps to a clear, buildable regimen, so shoppers leave with a routine rather than a list of products.

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Intelligent Recommendation Logic

Quiz answers drive a tailored product set for each shopper, surfacing the right bond-building steps in the right order.

Elevated Recommendation Storytelling

Results pages educate as they guide, turning quiz answers into a routine each shopper can understand and act on with confidence.

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Unified Performance Visibility

Quiz engagement, recommendation adoption and order value tracked consistently across all three markets in a single view.

Numbers That Tell the Story

An Outsized Contribution Across Three Markets

Quiz-driven orders are a small slice of total volume, yet they pull well above their weight on revenue, carrying a materially higher AOV than the store as a whole.

7%
Of Total Store Orders
Share of all store orders that came through the quiz.
10%
Of Total Store Revenue
The same orders contribute a larger share of revenue.
48%
Higher AOV
Quiz-driven AOV runs well above the full-store average.

Personalization That Lifts Every Order

When shoppers act on their recommendations, order value climbs, and the quiz consistently brings new customers into the brand rather than re-serving existing ones.

23%
AOV Uplift
Orders with recommendations versus orders without.
71%
Recommendation Adoption
Share of quiz orders that included personalized recommendations.
88%
First-Time Customers
Quiz orders that came from customers new to the brand.

Personalized Discovery, Built to Scale Across Markets

Guided discovery does not just add a step, it changes the economics of the order. A shopper who completes the quiz and follows their recommendations spends more, is far more likely to be new to the brand, and contributes revenue out of proportion to their share of orders. Deployed once and running across the UK, US and Australia, Tangent turned personalized routine building into one of Olaplex's most valuable paths to purchase.

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