Yuya (YouTuber)
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Born | Mariand Castrejon Castañeda March 13, 1993 Cuernavaca, Mexico | ||||||||||||
Nationality | Mexican | ||||||||||||
Website | yuyaoficial | ||||||||||||
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Years active | 2009–present | ||||||||||||
Genre | Beauty | ||||||||||||
Subscribers | 24.6 million+[1] (July 2020[2]) | ||||||||||||
Total views | 2.5 billion+[1] (July 2020[2]) | ||||||||||||
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Last updated: July 3, 2020 |
Mariand Castrejón Castañeda (born March 13, 1993), better known as Yuya, is a Mexican beauty vlogger and YouTuber.[3]
Career
Yuya created her YouTube channel, called "lady16makeup," in 2009 after winning a YouTube make-up contest when she was 16 years old.[4]
In March 2016, she was one of seven female YouTube creators who joined the United Nations' Sustainable Development Action Campaign, aiming to "achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls."[5]
Yuya has written two books: Los secretos de Yuya (2015) and Las confesiones de Yuya (2016).[6] She released a perfume called #True in July 2015 and a makeup collection in October 2017.[7][8]
Personal life
Yuya was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. Her given name, Mariand, is a combination of her parents' names, Maribel and Andrés. She has a brother, Sergio, who also has a YouTube channel.[3] Her uncle gave her the nickname Yuya after the Mexican TV character Yuya, la gorda.[4] She was in a relationship with Beto Pasillas, also a YouTuber, but broke up in June 2019.
References
- ^ a b "About lady16makeup". YouTube.
- ^ a b "La biografía de Yuya". Cyzone (in European Spanish). 2017-02-24. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
- ^ a b Rey, Patricia (2015-02-16). "PROFILE: 'Yuya', Mexico's most profitable YouTuber". BNamericas. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
- ^ Addady, Michael (2016-03-02). "Female YouTube Creators Are Joining the United Nations". Fortune. Retrieved 2017-11-22.
- ^ Díaz Zeledón, Natalia (2016-08-19). "La mexicana Yuya alborotó a sus fans más devotos en Multiplaza Escazú". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-11-23.
- ^ "Cyzone presenta la nueva fragancia True". La República (in European Spanish). 2015-07-31. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
- ^ "Yuya ya tiene una línea de cosméticos ¡y estos son nuestros preferidos!". InStyle México (in European Spanish). 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
External links
- Living people
- 1993 births
- People from Cuernavaca
- Mexican YouTubers
- Spanish-language YouTubers
- YouTube Diamond Play Button recipients
- YouTube Gold Play Button recipients
- YouTube channels launched in 2009
- Video bloggers
- Beauty and makeup YouTubers
- Mexican women writers
- 21st-century women writers
- Women bloggers
- Internet stubs
- Mexican people stubs