The intimate wellness brand’s latest global campaign, “Faces,” is built around a simple but striking observation. Football remains one of the few cultural experiences where people openly express anticipation, tension, joy, disbelief, heartbreak, and celebration without hesitation. For a brief moment, emotional restraint disappears and instinct takes over.

That idea sits at the heart of SKYN’s long-standing brand platform, “Feel Everything.”

The Insight Behind “Faces”

Modern life often encourages people to manage emotions, filter reactions, and maintain composure. Sport offers a rare exception.

For ninety minutes and beyond, supporters become completely immersed in the experience. Their reactions are immediate, visible, and shared with those around them. Faces tell the story before words ever do.

According to SKYN, those moments of complete emotional investment closely mirror the feelings experienced during intimacy. Both situations involve vulnerability, anticipation, connection, and emotional release.

The campaign explores that parallel in a way that immediately captures attention.

During and after the game: When Appearances Can Be Deceptive

At first glance, the campaign’s close-up portraits appear intensely intimate.
Eyes are closed. Mouths are open. Breaths seem suspended between anticipation and release.
The initial impression suggests moments of personal intimacy.
The reveal changes everything.

These are not intimate encounters. They are football fans reacting to the emotional highs and lows of the tournament.

Created in partnership with award-winning creative agency L&C, the campaign uses this visual tension to draw attention to the emotional honesty that football can create. The expressions captured are instinctive reactions from supporters who have stopped worrying about how they appear and simply allowed themselves to feel.

The Science Behind Emotional Investment

The campaign also references research that points to the physical impact of football fandom.

A 2026 study published in Scientific Reports found that supporters attending matches in person recorded average heart rates that were 23% higher than those watching elsewhere. During key moments, heart rates exceeded 100 beats per minute.

Researchers described this response as “football fever,” highlighting how deeply emotional experiences can create measurable physical reactions.

For SKYN, those findings reinforce the campaign’s central idea: the strongest human experiences are often both emotional and physical.

Why “Faces” Works

Many tournament-related campaigns focus on teams, rivalries, predictions, or results.

SKYN takes a different route.
Instead of spotlighting competition, the campaign focuses on what happens inside the audience. The tension before a penalty kick. The anticipation of extra time. The eruption of joy after a decisive goal. The heartbreak that follows a missed opportunity.

These are the moments supporters remember long after the final whistle.

By framing football fandom through the lens of emotional expression, “Faces” creates an unexpected connection between sport and intimacy without losing sight of either subject.

During and after the game, Feeling Everything Becomes the Story

The campaign will run globally across social, connected TV, and digital platforms throughout the tournament.

What makes “Faces” memorable is its ability to find a human truth that exists beyond football itself. The campaign suggests that some of life’s most meaningful experiences are the ones where people stop performing, stop filtering, and simply react.

Whether that moment comes through sport, culture, or intimate connection, the emotions that stay with people are often the ones they never planned to show.

And that is exactly what SKYN chooses to celebrate.

Credits
Brand: SKYN
CEO: Laurent Faracci
CGO: Gregory Chabidon
VP Global Marketing & Innovation: Marta Toth
Sr. Global Brand Manager: Michele Martinelli

Advertising Agency: L&C
Chief Creative Officers: Rolando Cordova / Gian Carlo Lanfranco
Executive Creative Director: Bruno Franchino
Associate Creative Directors: Juliana Laborde / Sarah Knutson
Managing Director: Gino Cochella
Account Director: Cesar Bellido
Junior Art Director: Lucciana Bedoya
Executive Producer: Paul Cordova

Production Company: Fertil
Director: Santiago Chavez
Executive Producer: Tarek Kahhat

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SKYN Condoms, FIFA 2026, 2026 FIFA World Cup Ads, Condom Ads, SKYN Faces Campaign, Football Marketing, Sports Advertising, Creative Campaign, Emotional Storytelling, Intimate Wellness, L&C Agency, Global Campaign, Brand Strategy.

“A summer holiday is the one time of the year when we can reconnect with our partners, and, of course, enjoy great holiday sex. But even miles from home, our phones and technology can still get in the way.”

Durex invited 6 couples to take part in a Durex social experiment. #DoNotDisturb

Half kept their phones.
Half had them taken away.

Who do you think felt more connected to each other?

At Durex, They believe couples should enjoy less screen time, and more playtime. Take a break from your phones and have better holiday sex.

Brand : Harmony
Advertising Agency: FCB Lisboa, Portugal
Copywriter: Viton Araújo
Art Director: Eduardo Tavares
Creative Directors: Edson Athayde, Luis Silva Dias
Published: April 2015

Serve Marketing, the country’s only all-volunteer advertising agency, developed the campaign titled “Condom Word”. It is part of an on going effort to reduce Douglas County’s skyrocketing STD rates and promote Omaha’s expanded free condom distribution program around the city. The provocative public service campaign will be seen on social media, billboards, bus sides, banner ads and in public bathrooms. It features big words like “love”, “passion” and “share”- all made of assorted condoms. The words are then followed by sentences like “Love. It’s more beautiful without a Herpes outbreak”. Or “Share your love, not a Chlamydia infection.” Viewers are then directed to find out where they can get free condoms by going to GetCheckedOmaha.com

“It’s time we started a discussion about importance of condom use among sexually-active teens and young adults in Omaha,” explains Serve’s Volunteer Creative Director, Gary Mueller. “But in a way that is cool and artful enough that our audience will want to post it on Instagram or share on Facebook or Twitter–all while getting the message out that free condoms are available all over Omaha.”

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Credits
Advertising Agency: Serve Marketing, USA
Executive Creative Director: Gary Mueller
Creative Director / Art Director: Kelsey Barnowsky
Creative Director / Copywriter: Mike Holicek
Typographer: Whitney Anderson
Photographer / Retoucher: Anthony Giacomino
Multimedia Designer: Charlie Marsh
Developers: Fred Ziegler, Genevieve Schweitzer
Social Media: Courtney Kronschnabel, Alex Boeder
Production: Rob Birdsall, Stacey Soden
Account Executives: Heidi Halperin, Matt Larson

Credit:
Tomas Almuna