Nikkie De Jager

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Nikkie de Jager is a Dutch makeup artist and beauty vlogger who is best known for her YouTube channel NikkieTutorials. She gained popularity in 2015 when she uploaded a YouTube video titled The Power of Makeup, which went viral and prompted various other famous personalities to show their faces with and without makeup set side by side.Once in 2008, she spent the whole day watching MTVs The Hills, an American pseudo-reality television series and got inspired by the beauty of the American actresses Audrina Patridge and Lauren Conrad who were the protagonists of the show. Thereafter, she decided to copy their Californian beauty and pursue a career in cosmetology.As she was obsessed with Lauren Conrads eyeliner, she began searching YouTube for tutorials to recreate the Lauren Conrad look and came across Sandy Golds Wake Up and Makeup video. In an interview, she said, I saw Sandy Gold and she did Wake Up and Make Up, and she literally filmed herself getting out of bed to do her makeup to look like Lauren Conrad. I was obsessedSo I found this entire world of beauty gurus doing tutorials, which was really small back then. Thats when I started practicing, going to the drugstore, getting stuff and thats where it all began.Eventually, NikkieTutorials became the most subscribed and most-watched beauty channel in The Netherlands, and she got contacted by the makeup artist Pascale Tesser who was then teaching makeup at B Academy, Amsterdam.In 2010, she enrolled herself in a makeup course by Pascale Tesser at B Academy. Later, she also pursued the Hair on the Set: Level 1 Course at B Academy.In 2011, she joined Pascale Tessers Colourfool Agency and worked as a make-up artist for various television series like Hollands & Beneluxs Next Top Model, Miljoenenjacht, and The Face. She also worked for fashion magazines like Marie Claire, Linda, Talkies, and Fashionista.To achieve supremacy in hairstyling, in 2013, Nikkie pursued a course at WE-R Agencys Hair School. Later, in the same year, she became the head-makeup artist for I Can Make You a Supermodel, a fashion reality series.In 2014, she left Pascale Tessers Colourfool Agency and became a freelance hair & makeup artist.In 2015, she gained popularity with her YouTube video The Power of Makeup in which she painted her half face with makeup and left the other half bare. The video aimed at proving that makeup is just for fun and that using it has nothing to do with hating your natural face or having low self-esteem.In 2016, she collaborated with Too Faced Cosmetics and launched a range of products inspired by The Power of Makeup video, which included a black stretch marker, a liquid liner, an eye shadow palette, etc. Later, she also collaborated with other cosmetic brands like Ofra and Maybelline.