Mykie
Mykie (born November 1, 1989), is a makeup artist and YouTuber. On her YouTube channel "Glam&Gore" she posts beauty and special effects makeup tutorials along with challenges, stories, and ghost-hunting expeditions. She was named Beauty Vlogger of the Year at the 4th Annual NYX Cosmetics Face Awards in 2015. Early life. Mykie was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She got her start into special FX makeup by working as part of the cast in a haunted house. She moved to Los Angeles after graduating film school to work on movie sets. Career. YouTube. Mykie started her YouTube  channel Glam&Gore in 2014, uploading her first video on April 15, 2014. Between freelance jobs, she posted her makeup and makeup tutorials online to build up a portfolio, through doing this she grew an audience, with 700,000 subscribers in the first year and a half. As of 2021, Mykie no longer uploads regularly to her YouTube channel. When she was uploading regularly, one of her most popular videos was using drug store make up to transform herself into Squidward from SpongeBob SquarePants. The difficultly for this challenge was to find cheap items that would her to achieve Squidward's head  shape. Viral marketing. In the lead up to the release of the film Suicide Squad, promotional photographs of the characters were released and the tattooed Jared Leto as the Joker raised questions as to where the tattoos had come from. Mykie and Chase Langley created and released photographs of the character Harley Quinn tattooing the Joker with Mykie portraying Harley Quinn in the photographs. Several media outlets picked up the photograph, speculating whether the picture was authentic. Mykie later revealed that the photo was fanart in the video "Harley Quinn Makeup Tutorial from the new Suicide Squad movie & Joker Fan  Art". In March 2017 Mykie made a tutorial for a look inspired from the Death Stranding video game. The look was so realistic that when an image from the tutorial was released before the full video tutorial was uploaded, it was believed to be a leaked image of actress Emma Stone joining the all-male cast of Death Stranding. In the comments of the tutorial Mykie responded to the speculation about the blurry picture "We didn't call it Emma Stone or a leak, other[s] did and we didn't add any context, but yes that's a picture from  this shoot." NYX FACE Awards. Mykie was named Beauty Vlogger of the Year at the 2015 NYX FACE Awards, more than 2 million votes were cast throughout the competition and 3,000 original entries were made before 30 semifinalists were selected. Each of the semifinalists created looks inspired by three challenge themes and the top 6 finalists were chosen through rounds of public voting. Controversies. In June 2016 the photo messaging application Snapchat appeared to be copying several artist's work, including a make-up look that Mykie had created a year earlier, and using them in Snapchat filters without credit . Following this Mykie became an advocate for other artists faced with similar problems, and attempted to work with Snapchat to sort the issues out. Snapchat added additional layers of review for designs to avoid similar situations in the future. In April 2017 Mykie uploaded a satirical video titled "Re-Accommodated Makeup Tutorial - Inspired by United Airlines," this makeup tutorial received backlash on social media as the tutorial outlined how to achieve a bruised and bloodied look similar to the appearance of the doctor who was dragged off United Airlines flight 3411. In October 2020, Spankie Valentine aka SWOOP, a black  YouTuber and former friend and collaborator of Mykie, uploaded an exhaustive video exposing Mykie’s history of making homophobic and racist statements in both public and private. Private text messages were shown in the video to substantiate the accusations along with public Tweets, YouTube videos, and Instagram posts. Mykie later apologized for her behavior on her Instagram story.