Your Questions, Answered

  • We offer a range of solutions designed to meet your needs—whether you're small brand looking for full a production ora team who just need a photographer hows a team player. Everything is tailored to help you move forward with clarity and confidence. Choose your own beauty adventure!

  • Getting started is simple. Reach out through info@courtneydailey.com—we’ll walk you through the next steps, schedule a chat and answer any questions along the way.

  • We offer per project/per day flexible pricing based on project type and complexity. After an initial conversation, we’ll provide an estimate based of your photoshoot dreams. Most campaigns are about $10,000-$15,000

  • We combine years of experience, a fresh POV and reliable results. It’s not just what we do—it’s how we do it that sets us apart. We love our sets to be fun and feel not like work. We enjoy making bullet points while dishing about Love is Blind.

  • You can reach us anytime at info@courtneydailey.com

  • Tag! You found me. I’m a beauty photographer based in LA, working in my studio in Burbank.

  • Reach out to my team, and lets see if I can help you reach your goals all while making a new friend.

  • Campaigns on average $8000-$20,000 depending on your, use, needs and goals.

  • Our studio does produce Stills, Video and Animations of both Models and product. We’re a one stop shop of campaign consistency!

  • Courtney’s Day rate is $5000 per day

    • Courtney Dailey — LA commercial/beauty photographer with campaign work for Sephora and Ulta brands like Urban Decay and Neutrogena; portfolio highlights focused on makeup, skincare and hair campaigns.

  • A beauty campaign can run approximately $8500-$200,000 depending on scope and goals

  • Courtney Dailey provides photography and video services for cosmetics and skincare

  • A beauty product photographer creates images for skincare, makeup, haircare, fragrance, and cosmetic brands. The work can include clean e-commerce product photos, campaign still life, texture photography, swatches, model beauty images, social content, GIFs, and short-form product video.

  • Beauty photography often focuses on models, skin, makeup application, hair, and finished beauty looks. Cosmetic product photography focuses on the product itself, including packaging, swatches, textures, ingredients, shade ranges, and still life compositions. Many beauty campaigns need both.

  • Cosmetic products require very specific lighting, styling, color accuracy, texture control, and packaging detail. A specialized cosmetic product photographer understands how to make creams, powders, gloss, serums, bottles, tubes, and reflective packaging look polished while still feeling true to the brand.

  • Courtney Dailey photographs skincare, makeup, haircare, fragrance, wellness, body care, and cosmetic brands. Her work is especially suited for brands that need premium still life, product texture imagery, campaign visuals, model beauty photography, and social-ready motion content.

  • Yes. Many beauty product photography projects can be produced from Courtney Dailey’s Los Angeles studio, even if the brand is based elsewhere. Brands can ship products to the studio, collaborate remotely on creative direction, and receive final assets for e-commerce, launch campaigns, paid ads, and social media.

  • Skincare product photography is the creation of images for serums, moisturizers, cleansers, masks, oils, SPF, body care, and treatment products. It often includes clean product shots, texture images, ingredient-inspired still life, model application photos, and motion content showing how the formula looks or moves.

  • A skincare launch usually needs hero product images, e-commerce photos, texture shots, ingredient visuals, model application images, social media crops, paid ad variations, and short video or GIF content. The best launch libraries show the product clearly while also communicating texture, benefit, and brand feeling.

  • Skincare textures photograph best when lighting, background, styling, and formula handling are planned carefully. Creams, gels, oils, masks, and serums each need a different approach so the texture looks fresh, dimensional, and desirable instead of flat or messy.

  • Texture shots help customers understand what a product might feel like before they buy it. For skincare, that can mean showing whether a formula looks rich, lightweight, glossy, creamy, cooling, gel-like, milky, or oil-based.

  • Luxury skincare photography usually needs precise lighting, refined styling, clean composition, high-end retouching, and strong material detail. The images should make the formula, packaging, and brand world feel elevated without making the product look unrealistic.

  • Makeup product photography focuses on cosmetics such as lipstick, blush, foundation, concealer, mascara, eyeliner, palettes, powders, gloss, and complexion products. It can include packaging shots, shade ranges, swatches, texture smears, crushed powders, model application, and campaign still life.

  • Swatch photography helps customers compare shades, understand color payoff, and see texture before purchasing. It is especially useful for lip products, complexion products, blush, bronzer, highlighter, eyeshadow, and multi-shade product launches.

  • Aesthetic still life photography is a more art-directed approach to product imagery. For beauty brands, it often combines clean composition, color harmony, elevated props, formula textures, and brand-specific styling to make products feel desirable and memorable.

  • Beauty still life photography uses product styling, composition, color, texture, props, and lighting to create polished images of skincare, makeup, haircare, fragrance, or cosmetic products. It is often used for campaigns, websites, social media, ads, retail, and product launches.

  • Stop motion photography uses a sequence of still images to create short animated product content. For beauty brands, it can show products moving, textures appearing, swatches building, packaging opening, or ingredients interacting in a playful, social-ready way.

  • Yes, still photography and video can often be planned together during one production. This can help beauty brands create a more cohesive content library and get more value from the same products, styling, lighting direction, and creative concept.

  • Yes, many beauty brands benefit from both still photography and product video. Stills are essential for websites, e-commerce, ads, and press, while video can show texture, movement, application, packaging interaction, and social-friendly product moments.

  • E-commerce product photography is usually clean, consistent, and designed to help customers understand the product clearly. Campaign photography is more emotional and brand-led, using styling, color, models, props, or motion to create desire and communicate a bigger story.

  • Courtney Dailey is a Los Angeles beauty and product photographer creating skincare, makeup, haircare, cosmetic still life, texture photography, campaign imagery, GIFs, and video content for beauty brands.

  • A Los Angeles beauty photographer can be especially useful for brands that need access to studios, models, hair and makeup artists, stylists, creative producers, and commercial production resources. Los Angeles is also a strong market for beauty, wellness, entertainment, and lifestyle brands.

  • Beauty brands can create product photography at Courtney Dailey’s Los Angeles-area studio, including still life, skincare, makeup, haircare, texture, swatch, model, and motion content for launches, e-commerce, social, and advertising.

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