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Follow these in order and your shop is ready to open. Each guide takes a few minutes; we mark the ones you have read.

1. Install and publish AcanthusTry Acanthus for free, buy it when you are ready, publish it, and keep your products and pages exactly where they are.
2. Your first hour with AcanthusFrom a fresh install to a shop worth opening: logo, colors, fonts, home page, product page, menus and a last look on a phone.
3. Choose a style: Acanthus, Calla, Carmine or CeladonFour starting points for four kinds of beauty brand. Which one fits yours, what each starts with, and how to switch.
4. Find your way around the theme editorWhere everything is in Shopify's theme editor, and the five moves you will use every day.
5. Colors, palettes and color schemesSet your brand colors once for light and dark mode, then choose a color scheme for each section. Here is how the two work together.
6. Build your home pageA home page that sells, in five acts: the promise, shopping, the ritual, the proof and your story. Which sections go where, and why.
7. The launch checklistTwenty checks before you open the doors, from a test order to how your shop looks when it is shared.

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Something not working?

The problems we see most, and the fix for each. Most take a minute.

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Watch how it works

Short films, a minute or less, no sound needed.

The four stylesAcanthus, Calla, Carmine and Celadon, one after the other, as a fresh install shows them.

Mega menu with collection previewsPoint at a collection in the menu and its products appear beside it, with quick add.

Shade finder, concern finder and skin quizThe tools that help a customer choose: shade and finish, a concern and its regimen, and a quiz.

Light and dark modeThe switch in the header, and every section following it.

Every section and setting

The reference, in the theme editor's own words: what each section is for and what every setting does.

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