Asian Makeup Gurus

Until several months ago, the only Asian makeup "gurus" that I could name were two that had been featured at Asian Sirens in the past. Those two ladies being; Elessa, aka Pursebuzz, who actually works in the video game industry and does hair and makeup tutorials as a sideline, and Michelle Phan, aka RiceBunny (pictured at right), who these days, occasionally does tutorials on how to become likenesses of pop icons such as Lady Gaga, Sailor Moon, Snow White, and (one of my personal favorites) a Tim Burton movie character (shown here).

After mentioning these ladies' names to a professional makeup artist friend, she informed me that they are just two of the many Asian girls who have Youtube channels dedicated to hair, fashion, and makeup tutorials, and proceeded to name several more (most included in this entry) right offhand.

The following are just a few of the many Asian makeup gurus on Youtube. I'm not providing links to their channels because I doubt hair, fashion, and makeup vlogs are of particular interest to the readers here, but for those who are interested, a search for "Asian makeup guru" at Youtube will yield plenty of results.

Suzy, a 23 year-old Londoner, is a fashion design major and states "fashion is my passion."

Debra Maye bills herself as "YouTube's Canadian Singing Makeup

Guru,"which is a deserving title since she's good at both.

Teena Kim is a Cambodian-American who lives in Georgia by way of Tennessee and also
does fashion modeling. Even though she lives in  the Southern US, it still caught me
  off-guard to hear an Asian girl let a "y'all" slip out.

Wishing to remain anonymous, this makeup master took one of her tutorials to
 the extreme by demonstrating how to apply Kiss makeup as she transformed
herself into the cutest Asian female version of Gene Simmons I've ever seen.

Although Aubrey has a couple of cosmetic companies as sponsors,
she works as a licensed practical nurse.

Also wishing to remain anonymous (which is too bad, since she has one of the coolest
 user names I've ever heard), this 7/8 Chinese and 1/8 Burmese exotic-looking beauty
 showed off her over-the-top "Weeping Black Widow" makeup (another Tim
Burton-inspired look) for one of her Halloween tutorials.

I noticed Catie is also quite a fan of other makeup gurus on Youtube, as I've caught her
 comments on almost all of the channels of the other ladies featured here. With her assets,
her channel would probably be among the most popular if she were a little less reserved.

In addition to doing makeup tutorials, Cheri works on both sides of the camera
 as a photographer and a model, as shown in the two fairly recent photos below:

Check out her Myspace to get pretty much all of the info on her
that you'll want, as well as links to her other blogs and sites.