Copy Editor & Brand Strategist

Words
that sell.
Brands
that stick.

Beauty Fashion Cosmetics D2C Copy Brand Voice Editorial

London-based. 12 years in beauty & fashion.
Medik8, Condé Nast, Dove, MAC, Nykaa — and counting.

Radhika Sen
Copy Editor & Brand Strategist
✦ London
12+
Years in Beauty
30+
Global Brands
Vogue
GQ
CNT
Condé Nast
Brand VoiceCopy EditingCampaign MessagingTone of VoiceBeauty EditorialFashion CopyD2C StrategySEO ContentProduct NamingBrand StrategyBrand VoiceCopy EditingCampaign MessagingTone of VoiceBeauty EditorialFashion CopyD2C StrategySEO ContentProduct NamingBrand Strategy
About Radhika

London’s beauty girlie with 12 years of receipts.

Medik8
Dove
Nykaa Beauty
MAC Cosmetics
Condé Nast
The Body Shop
KIKO Milano
Nivea
Kay By Katrina
L’Oréal
Kérastase
Estée Lauder

I’m a copy editor and brand strategist specialising in beauty, cosmetics, and fashion — with 12 years of building brand voices that feel distinct, human, and made to last.

My core is D2C beauty e-commerce: defining tone, writing consumer-focused copy that converts, and building brand language that holds across every channel. Most recently as Digital Copy Lead at Medik8 UK.

Before that: Condé Nast India (Vogue, GQ, CNT), The Telegraph India’s luxury lifestyle titles, and freelance work across Dove, MAC, KIKO, Nykaa, and more.

I care about writing that’s actually good — not just strategically correct. The kind that makes a reader stop scrolling and think: this brand gets me.

“Dopamine drives desire. Norepinephrine fuels tension. Together, they create attention — and the best beauty copy does exactly that.”

What I Do

Copy that earns its place

01

Brand Voice & Tone of Voice

From principles to full playbooks. Built to scale across channels — without losing what makes you, you.

02

Beauty & Fashion Copy

Product pages, campaign headlines, launch copy, email, social. Consumer-focused and SEO-enhanced.

03

Copy Editing & Sub-editing

Manuscript-level editorial rigour: consistency, register, flow, fact-checking. For anything that has to be right.

04

Campaign Messaging

Naming campaigns, building messaging hierarchies, writing the words that define a launch.

05

Brand Naming & Positioning

Product names, brand names, sub-brand architecture. The foundational language decisions done right the first time.

06

Social & Multimedia Storytelling

Story-led product conversations built for platform context. Social copy grounded in brand voice.

Where I Work

My five worlds

Beauty
Primary Focus
Skincare, makeup, haircare — luxury to mass market. D2C e-commerce, editorial content, and campaign copy.
Fashion
Active
RTW, accessories, brand storytelling. Seasonal campaign copy to full brand identity language systems.
Cosmetics
Active
Colour cosmetics, formulation brands, ingredient-led narratives. Where science needs to be made irresistible.
Wellness
Active
Fragrance, lifestyle, personal care. The crossover between beauty and wellbeing.
Luxury
Background
Fine dining, travel, jewellery, high-end brand voice. Grounded in years of Condé Nast editorial.
Selected Work

Some of what
I’ve built

Full portfolio available on request

Brand Voice
Digital content strategy & tone of voice for D2C skincare
Medik8 UK
Editorial
Features, brand partnerships & promotion stories across three CNI titles
Condé Nast — Vogue, GQ, CNT
Campaign Copy
Consumer-facing launch campaigns & product narratives
Dove · Nivea · L’Oréal
Brand Strategy
Full brand voice architecture for cosmetics launch
Kay By Katrina / Nykaa
Naming
Product range naming, concept writing & launch copy
MAC Cosmetics · KIKO Milano
Events
Event copy: Vogue Beauty Awards, Vogue Wedding Show, GQ Man of the Year
Condé Nast India
“A skilled content professional with a rare ability to define a brand’s tone from the inside out. Radhika doesn’t just write — she thinks strategically about what a brand needs to say and why it matters.”
Brand Director · Leading Beauty Group
How I Work

Four things I actually believe

01

Language is brand infrastructure

Tone isn’t a style choice — it’s structural. The words a brand uses shape how it’s understood and remembered.

02

The brief is a hypothesis

What’s stated is rarely the whole thing. I diagnose what’s actually going on before writing a single word.

03

Beauty deserves rigour

This industry shapes how people see themselves. It deserves writing that takes that seriously — real craft.

04

Fewer clients, better work

I work with a small number of projects at a time. Depth of attention is what you’re actually hiring.

Get in Touch

Let’s make
something brilliant

Available for brand strategy, copy editing, campaign work, and tone of voice projects. I take on a select number of new projects each quarter.

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