This is what 3 YouTube beauty gurus are like IRL

By Jessica wakeman

June 30, 2016

By Jessica wakeman

June 30, 2016

We *love* watching YouTube beauty tutorials to learn all about chroming, contouring, non-touring and baking our makeup (OK, still not totally sure what that one is). Almost as fun as the beauty tips are the hella entertaining beauty gurus teaching us their skills.

So we were fascinated by this thread in Reddit.com/MakeupAddiction about YouTube beauty gurus IRL — in some cases, when they were learning their craft as makeup artists (MUA) before they were famous.

While there were a few negative stories (probably similar to anyone’s experience with a MUA, to be honest), here are three folks who sound super-sweet and talented IRL as well as on the interwebs:

Patrick Starrr

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Reddit user seeyourchic ending up hiring a MUA who had Patrick Starr an assistant — before he was YouTube-famous, that is — and said he was “super professional” and “did a great job.”