Influential Vietnamese: Michelle Phan – Make-Up Guru of Youtube
Michelle Phan is a Vietnamese-descent make-up guru of Youtube, current spokesperson for Lancome, and creator of her own beauty product line, IQQU Beauty International. Her art and beauty inspiration began at the early age of five. In an interview with Stephanie Hayes of Times, Michelle recalls a fond memory creating a Halloween mask. Her family was living on food stamps then and was unable to afford princess costumes that her other classmates could. Instead, she made her own mask by creatively using red lipstick to blend a crimson nose center and sketching a face on a paper plate [1] . From here, Michelle Phan learned to make something out of nothing. This artistic creativity was the making of her success today.
Now at the age of 22, she is a self-made businesswoman and beauty coach of Youtube, producing over 81 make-up tutorial videos totaling 119,090,450 views. Her most popular tutorials title, “Romantic Valentine Look”, “Brighter Larger Looking Eyes”, “Makeup For Glasses”, “Mysterious Masquerade Look”, and “Lady Gaga Poker Face Tutorial.” Her acclaimed success and popularity opened her into the spotlight of the fashion industry. Within the last year, Phan brought her talent backstage as a make-up artist for Chris Benz, New York Fashion Week 2009 and Michael Kors Spring 2010 Collection. Her vision also inspired a Canadian doctor and scientist to partner with her in the creation of her IQQU International Beauty skincare line.
Phan’s reputable image in the art and beauty industry has earned her a place in Vogue’s March issue celebrating the top web bloggers and sensations of our current day. Phan stands next to ten other self-made celebrities to share their story of passion, motivation, and inspiration. This was Vogues first-of-its-kind article featuring the fashion blogging world. Other Michelle Phan features include; Seventeen Magazine (August 2009), St. Petersburg Times (August 23, 2009), Sun Sentinel (August 24, 2009), popular blog BellaSuga (April 19, 2009), and Chilean newspaper for her Barbie video.
Michelle Phan stands as a proud Vietnamese American descent. But her story and pursuit of dreams reaches beyond the community to encourage all to never think small, but beyond. In September of 2008, Phan took her career a step further by aiding a charity fashion show, “Fashion for Compassion” dedicated to raising awareness to a Tampa sexual assault case. Her philanthropic work leads an example of a giving and compassionate nature. For Michelle Phan the future only gets bigger and brighter.
Source: St. Petersburg Times.
A Classy Woman -A timeless Valentines Make-up Tutorial:
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I think i saw her Avatar make-up tutorial video somewhere. It was kinda cool… even though I'm a guy haha…
represent!
120,000,000 views?? That’s outrageous!
I am a guy and I hold nothing against her, but after I watched couple of her videos I noticed how unnatural and fake Michelle Phan is! Her voice, her smile is very unnatural. I respect the fact that she’s a self made young lady but still being yourself could’ve earned you double what you achieved now.
i completely agree with you. you have a point and i also do not have anything against her its just something i noticed as well.:)
I notice about that too when I first watch her stuff and later on I read some of her blogs and it’s obivous she isn’t that of a nice person. She made fun of Micheal Jackson before and made a poster about making fun of him and once after he died she said she cried that he died and he mean more than the king of pop to her and blame the joke poster as a school project. She is nothing but a fake and bully.
i don’t like girls who need too much makeup to look decent like Michellephan.I can’t stand the way she fake her voice too.Having a fake girl like that around for 1hr,she would drive me nut!My girlfriend only wears really light makeup and it help her look good in a natural way.So if Michelle doesn’t wear makeup,what does she look like?She always looks like a cake to me,and her highheels…spoken up how short she is.Should she be more real,not all that fake?
Ehhh,Michellephan looks better when she doesn’t smile.Her nose job can be done better than that.All i want to say is after that much makeup,she still doesn’t look beautiful at all.When girls wear too strong makeup with fake lashes,it only make them look cheap,a colorful face like how Michelle wears just makes her look like a clown!Ready for circus,Michelle?Guys who named her beauty queen must have very bad taste about girl’s looks!Hahaha,I’m a guy who won’t let names,pics,vids,sweet talks or makeup fool me!Girls who need that much helps from makeup just simply cuz they’re not naturally beautiful !Hope she won’t talk at all in her vids from now on cuz she sounds trying too hard to be sweet,too phony and boring to both guys or girls.She should read and take comments seriously if she wants to improve her skills.Accept the truth is a big help for improment!(Guys are in where ever we hear there’s pretty girl ,just to look!)
Let’s cool down,men!She is on Youtube as a fun entertaiment.I enjoy the one she stuck her tongue out to leak…Of course,she’s fake and unnatural and all what u said,but if she changes,it’s not going to be so fun to watch!Leave her alone,we don’t learn make up from her and watch for free,NO COST,NO LOST!
Hey,are u guys Vietnamese like me?I went through the blogs of” Michellphan” is fake and read all the girls comments,i thing this chick is more fake than we know.Man,she’s not an innocent babe at all.I read Vietnamese blog and the guys have a ball in many blogs,i’ll try to search out more for fun.Some guys said her staring eyes and that voice got them to run to the bathroom to masturbate while i see nothing hot about her.Sorry,maybe in Vietnam those guys are too desperated for sex.I’m allergic to fake boops so she’s not all of that at all.I like girls with makeup on but if she abuses it like Michelle,i can’t even feel coming close to that face.Yeah,i do go online if i heard of a hot girl,but with the way Michelle acts,i’d rather go to x blogs than watching her trying to mix things up!If i have to go out with a girl acting like her and wear that much makeup,i will tell her to wipe it off before we go somewhere!One night stand is enough for me with Michell!
I’m a guy and I can’t stomach her. I use to have a crush on her but something about her that completely turn me off. Trust me guys, all girls look hotter online. Look at Michelle Phan before the plastic surgery and pile of makeup she puts on to make herself look good. Not very appetizing.
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Ohhh,what do u really find special in this girl,i don’t know how she became a big deal being so short and fake.I think if more guys come check her out,she got more hit and make mony on youtube.Even i’m a Viet guy,i have to be fair to say : NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT THIS GIRL!I feel that she cleverly lure guys to be curios to see how she looks like to get the countstat running.We all did,right.Her lucky time should go away for many real talent girls,Youtube shouldn’t list the ones she LEAKS and show her kegs all the way up there to cuz guys hitting on as a trick.they should put those to other channels stretch shoes is not makeup.she show about GLOVES like a body show,that’s not makeup, either.I thing this chick will do all for money.She doesn’t look classy at all.
She lies a lot. She claims that she is poor. Boo who. But she goes to the most expensive school, drive a new car, has a pretty nice apartment for a college kid, indulges herself with video games, gadgets, designer clothes and makeup and all this before she ever made it big. I don’t for one minute believe in her sob story that she uses to gain everyone’s sympathy. She doesn’t deserve to be where she is at. Her grammar is horrendous for somebody that went to school and grew up in the states. In the real world she would not make it, and employers would not even look at her twice. She’s a spoil girl that know how to cleverly market herself and use her looks to get what she wants.
She brag a lot about what she has. Before she was popular on YouTube in 2006 she brag about having 3 razor cell phones. She even brag about how cool her school is that it by the beach with great view of the sun set. She brags about what gifts guys gifts her and how expensive it is.
Sarabui, GREAT post! However please provide photo credit into this post.
She’s nothing to be proud about!If she always has to fake and trick to make men has dirty ideas to click on her vids to get where she’s at..Girls who post pics as hers have very low self respect and it’s shown she knew her skills isn’t good so she get helps that way to earn money and get ahead of other real talend makeup gurus.To be fair to say:She doesn’t deverve her place as the best youtube makeup guru with all the dirty tricks she uses to get men’s attention to get high hits.
I’ve found a world wide websites that holds alot of true informations about Michelle Phan,the blog called: RICEBUNNY AKA MICHELLE PHAN IS A ATTENTION WHORE,I had such good laughs and found so many true things about her,That just simply means:DON’T LET THE GIRLS ONLINE FOOL YOU!This blog took me through alot of proofs how Michelle Phan got where she’s at on YOUTUBE while she’s such a plain looking Vietnamese girl.Just search that title to read for fun,man!
Just look at how she jumped from one guy to another and love to take gifts from them to show off on internet,you should know she will dump the boyfriend if another guy offer better deasl.She’s not pretty being Viet girl,I can tell she’s mixed with Thai,Lao or Combodia because she doesn’t look pure Viet.lol.I saw her new Fuck yeah Michellephan,if my girlfriend does that and post breasts and full legs to public like that to call men’s attention,I will know she give a shit about the relationship with me!
Yes,i feel bad that Michelle went too far to advertise herself as a makeup guru.All girls wamt to look attractive but not the ways she expose herself in SOME pictures and under FUCK YEAH MICHELLE PHAN.We’re all Vietnamese and i don’t mean to bash her but what she does to herself is extremely low class!And if you said she doesn’t take her boyfriend seriously for doing that?As a girl,I would say if he doesn’t try to convince or get upset when she posts those pictures then he doesn’t take her body seriously as he’s only using her for some purpose!My boyfriend would talk me out of things like that SO I KNOW HE LOVES ME AND CARES FOR MY REPUTATION!
I think Michelle is not so skillful to be a makeup artist because she only do ok on her own face and most girls can do better and more natural than her!Lancome only see the hit count and believed she can sell whatever she advertised.Yes she could,but not anymore because she is too greedy to keep the value of her words so if you check all the blogs,you will see all the comments about how greedy and dishonest she is.Business people all need trusts from clients but she ruined it.Be a successful woman isn’t as important as a kindhearted and honest person,the way she changes in relationship show me she doesn’t take anything serious.She just moved in with a boyfriend last November but changed for another guy in March and moved to La now.and i can see she still hasn’t stopped looking for men’s attentions by posting all those cheap pictures to show us that she doesn’t have confidence in career without the help of showing guys her body for extra support because they go on her twitter to flirt with her.She ruined herself,because i’ve seen all complaints about her and she posts old compliments to cover up!Being a Vietnamese woman,i hope she stop making men think all women need to do the same to be successful!Anyway,.I think her makeup style don’t suit Lancome products!
Michelle Phan is all for the money after being known as a YOUTUBE popular makeup guru.The girl seems to look up too high about herself as she is the hottest celebrity,i can tell you that the public and her subscribers have been very disappointed toward her attitute for trying to run too fast to get there with her…short legs!hahahahaha…She hasn’t learned how to be real famous:The audience and fans put you there so they can bring you back to where you start anytime if you make them feel fed up with your behavior.She’s not all that much as she praises herself all over the internet.Sorry to say this,but other makeup gurus are more beautiful,natural,classier and polite in their speech and acting with better make up technics.Michelle Phan is full of fake as a big scam in every area of her life.Just like,she only post compliments and hide all complaints.YOUTUBE shouldn’t grade them with the number of hits because hitting her vids doesn’t mean we all like and agree in what she shows.
wow, all of you guys have issues.
how can you insult somebody so much without even knowing her? it’s so disgraceful of what all you guys have to say about michelle. i mean yea, i watch her vids and i think she’s a beauty. you guys should think about what you write before posting it up because it can really hurt someone like say michelle. she’s a successful young women, and what about you guys. well it’s obvious that you guys are low people because your criticizing a person who has everything that you guys don’t so ha in your face. sheesh. the last thing she needs is a bunch of critisizers.
yea, bring on the mean cmmts for me.
Well I’m a girl a I don’t know her in person but judging from what she write in her blogs she is a liar and a hypocrite. She made fun of Michael Jackson by creating a joke poster of him and once he died she said he mean more than the king of pop to her and she cried because he died. And she blame the joke poster as a school project. This mean it’s not her fault that she ever made fun of him because the school made her do it. Bullshit. This bitch is evil. She try to make people think she is deep by saying a few heart felt words but she is a fucking liar. Also she does brag a lot about shit she has and act poor at the same time. How is it not obvious she is fake.
The truths always hurt someone when said!For Michelle Phan,she is a bad influence for young girls,what THISLADY expects ppl having to say about her?Fraud business by using her young subscribers and fans’ trust to sell them bad products from Thailand without FDA approval and encouraged them to use serious prescribtion drugs is not something for anyone to be pround about.She does all what ppl said so THISLADY should just read it and know when a comment is written,it should be honest and true!I’m sorry but i have to agree with them about her in many things they said.
How is she such an influential Vietnamese-American when she acts like she’s Japanese 99.9% of the time?
True true. I never once see a video of her doing anything vietnamese related. Alway Japanese from Japanese inspired make up and beauty tips to Japanese music constantly playing. for her Asian pride video everything was Japanese related from katana sword, sake to sushi. Where is the Vietnamese pride.
LOL ren!
I didn’t realize she was that popular till I saw her on Yahoo with the illegal circle lens. I don’t know. But something about her comes across as fake. I don’t really know her but I’ve followed her blog in the past. She did some false advertising for Erabelle. She deleted all the commercials she did for them. She got a lot of heat for that since she did not try the product but promoted it anyways and misled her viewers/subscribers to believe that she did. I think she’s a pretty girl and that’s what made her popular. Might as well write a post for Tila Tequila as well.
okay, so yea, i know lots of you guys disagree with me. i don’t get it, why are you guys so disapproving of her? her IQQU brand make up that she came up with is fda or whatever it is approved. the doctor that she worked with is a canadian dermatologist. so before you start saying anything stupid towards me saying that im an idiot or whatever you guys should check your resources. if you don’t like her then don’t watch her and criticize her work idiots. simple as that.
oh, and what’s with this fraud business thingy? like i care.
Working with Canadian dermatologist does not mean her iqqu products is FDA approved. Also her iqqu products is made in Thailand. Have you ever heard of a good skin care product made in Thailand. Most high end products are made in u.s. Canada, japan, europe. Thailand isn’t very tight on safety regulation. For the price she is offering for her products you can spend it on high brands that is fda approve and with high reviews by loyal customers for many years. Also a better return policy because you can’t return her stuff if you open it even if it gives you hives and break out in rashes.
This Lady,if u said don’t like her don’t watch her.I want to say to u if u don’t like it don’t come back to read this blog.we have the right to disapprove her as a Viet talent cuz she’s a scam in many false infomation she gave to ppl even about herself.if she has a mixed sister at that age then her mother didnot stay single to raise her as she claimed.she doesn’t know a real talents are everywhere and your family situation is not asked or need to be cared for so lying about it helped her to get ppl support then found out she didn’t deserve it.
This Lady,if u said don’t like her don’t watch her.I want to say to u if u don’t like it don’t come back to read this blog.we have the right to disapprove her as a Viet talent cuz she’s a scam in many false infomation she gave to ppl even about herself.if she has a mixed sister at that age then her mother didnot stay single to raise her as she claimed.she doesn’t know a real talents are everywhere and your family situation is not asked or need to be cared for so lying about it helped her to get ppl support then found out she didn’t deserve it.
She’s not that pretty as you see her Lancome pics that showed the truth about her skin,she pile up white powder on her face while her neck is dark skin,lousy trick!She really is a bad influence for her subscribers and viewer.Thislady,are u a lady?I know u’r not!
It’s sad that she advertised herself so much more than a Viet girl with such a low knowledge like her but dare saying anything as long as she make money.She shows off so much that ppl feel throw up look at her and listen to what she says about herself now.I think This Lady is Michell Phan or her boyfriend wrote that comment.This lady should know that i don’t have to know her as a friend,just know her through what SHE SAID AND DONE is good enough for me to see she’s exactly how many ppl commented about her all over the internet.Nobody has to feel bad when they speak up the truths that provided by her own mouth that became false and lies.She is an evil woman who fools the young girls to get reach.Her fame now is known in a bad ways so why do we Vietnamese be proud of and have nice things to say about.
She’s not deserved those recognation cuz she did nothing but advertised herself to be known.She does not have makeup talent but drawing her face in different weird ways to get attention so ppl curious and want to see what she does.Lancome’s pics answered her skin and all the scares and nasty large pores and pimples she has.She’s the first Viet scam girl who spread lies and dangerous products,she also gave bad advices to the young girls around the world about the use of drugs in illegal ways.She exposes her body to call men attentions so she deserves all those comments wrote by those viewers,it’s not their faults because she invites them to see her body in bed as sex advertisements.She is a low class woman for being a facial makeup guru on youtube.I have never seen anyone who lies as much as Michelle Phan.
Michelle isn’t honest and she shows herself and over advertises to make herself sounds more famous than she really is.I don’t trust her act and her voice sound too pretending, she always tries to expose her body in pictures to call male’s attention while we knew she is very short and her body is fake that it makes her look like she has kids.I think after read these comments she will change and post different pictures but her images and reputation are already damaged.I can’t see any attractive thing about this girl as she already showed too many tricks and lies to make money.Lancome has chosen an unnatural beauty model and spokesperson, and through the pictures they posted that brought their products down for how bad her real skin is.The wild makeups she shows are only to watch for fun but i think no girl should wear those crazy makeup looks.I’m a guy who clicked on to see how she is because i was attracted by her pictures then found nothing much about her to be impressed!
Not because she’s Vietnamese that we all have to rave about her when she’s nothing but tricks!She’s not talented and naturally pretty even after she uses alot of tricks for her picture and vids to look that way.She’s a slutty girl who show her dirty looking pictures to call attention to get ahead of other real talents.This Lady needs to know she got all the same comments all over other blogs!I really feel upset with her attitute and how greedy and material extravegant she shows off on her own with all kinds of money she makes with bad stuffs she sells to young ppl.She is a scam!
http://gurugossip.omgforum.net/trash-a-guru-f1/michelle-s-stupid-lie-t709.htm
Someone posted how she lied about being poor.