Michelle Phan. For those of you who don’t know who she is, she is presented on the famous YouTube network channel as a Makeup Artist demonstrating creative makeup tutorials and other beauty care techniques. I will start with a brief background and introduction on this young professional makeup artist’s life.
Michelle Phan is a Vietnamese American born to Vietnamese parents in Massachusetts. She was raised by her mother in Massachusetts, California, and Florida after her parents divorce when she was only a child. At the age of 12, Phan began taking an interest in painting with watercolors and oil paints. She creatively did her painting skills self-taught. Phan majored in illustration in college and worked as a sushi waitress before she became a makeup artist guru on YouTube.
YouTube’s network channel features live music, videos, short movie clips, and much more. The famous cosmetic line, Lancome, had asked Michelle Phan to be their video spokesperson on YouTube to create make-up and beauty tip tutorials. Phan is also the owner and creator of a new skincare line called, IQQU. IQQU skincare line has its own website online where customers can purchase products at iqqubeauty.com. As of July 2010, Michelle Phan is rated as the “No. 1 YouTube beauty stylist” on the web. She has made about 100 YouTube videos that have been viewed by fans over 150,000,000! Michelle recently celebrated on a short Youtube video clip for having 1 million subscribers on her famous make-up channel! For those of you who have a YouTube account (Free to join), you can subscribe to her tutorial channels. On her channel, she is best known as “RiceBunny.” She uses her screen name as well on other social networking sites such as Xanga, Twitter, and Facebook. There is also her website, michellephan.com that you can easily access too as well.
Michelle is best known for having her own video style incorporating her voice over basic instructions with music and text subtitles. Many of her famous beauty tutorials include, “Romantic Valentine Look,” “Makeup For Glasses,” Lady Gaga’s Poker Face,” “Seductive Vampire,” "Natural Beauty" (My fave), and much more. Due to her make-up and beauty tutorials on YouTube, it has gained Phan significant press, recognition, and success around the world. Phan may be your average girl next door neighbor or someone you bump into at the grocery store, but at the age of only 23 years old, she has gained popularity amongst millions. Michelle was recently at an Los Angeles opening at the Sephora cosmetic store to offer beauty and make-up tips, chatting with fans including the press, and signing autographs as well. This was the make-up artist's first public appearance live at a very huge event. She also appeared on E! Online network applying make-up on a model for a "Lady Gaga" halloween look.
She has appeared in much famous press such as Seventeen Magazine and Forbes magazine. Many of Phan’s video tutorials include the cosmetic line Lancome and her brand IQQU beauty products. She also proudly does other works as well such as working backstage at various fashion show events, including Chris Benz fashion show during New York Fashion Week in 2009. She had also worked backstage at the Michael Kors Spring 2010 Fashion Collection Event in New York City. Michelle also appeared as a makeup artist backstage for the making of the band, Late Night Alumni’s music video, “Finally Found.” A short video clip of Michelle and the band's singer can be seen live on her make-up channel page. Phan is watched by many YouTube fans everyday for her famous make-up and beauty tip tutorials and has changed many people’s lives with just a click of the mouse.