Style According to ASICS, You Don’t Need Skincare — Just Move
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According to ASICS, You Don’t Need Skincare — Just Move

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Anna Frattini

In an era of ten-step routines, expensive serums, and over-edited content, ASICS launches a simple provocation: the most authentic glow isn’t purchased. It’s earned by moving your body.

“Get The Glow” is ASICS’s first campaign with a beauty dimension, built entirely around post-workout faces. No filters, no products, no retouching — just real people, including ASICS athletes, photographed minutes after a run, a match, or a training session. More open expressions, flushed skin, that specific confidence that only comes after physical exertion.

The campaign arrives at a moment when the obsession with radiance is at an all-time high. Online searches related to glow have grown by 43% compared to the previous year, while social media conversations about how to achieve it instantly have exploded by 375%. Women dedicate an average of 22 minutes a day to skincare — more than 136 hours a year — and the global skincare market has reached 162 billion dollars. 74% follow morning and evening routines made up of numerous steps.

In this landscape, ASICS enters the conversation with an alternative answer. The brand’s research shows that just 15 minutes of movement is enough to improve mood and positively impact mental wellbeing, making people more positive, more self-confident — and more radiant. According to ASICS, glow isn’t something you apply: it’s something you feel.

Also lending her voice to the campaign is professional tennis player Zeynep Sönmez, who shares how sport has always been a central part of her life and how movement has the power to make you shine from within. What makes the initiative interesting isn’t just the message, but the category ASICS chooses to enter. Positioning itself within the beauty debate — and doing so by dismantling it from within, not by adding products but by subtracting filters — is a countercultural move. Creative, direct, and in a market saturated with aesthetic promises, decidedly against the grain.

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Written by Anna Frattini

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