12 African Beauty Bloggers & YouTubers You Need to Follow Right Now!
The days when people worldwide looked to the most famous celebrities for fashion and beauty tips are long gone. Now we just turn search up on YouTube and follow the advice of our favorite or the most famous YouTubers.
African YouTubers and beauty bloggers are among the most incredible beauty influencers in the whole world. These brown-skinned beauties are practically worshipped by almost every person who follows them for the quality and valuable content they regularly post on their YouTube channels, Instagram feeds, and blogs.
We have listed below and given an overview of the most famous African YouTubers from all over the world that you need to follow.
Let's check them out!
1. Jackie Aina:
Jackie is one of the most popular YouTubers and bloggers in the beauty industry. Jackie has always despised that some brands are reluctant to provide for people of color, and she has never hesitated in voicing her frustrations and opinions.
She is known for giving out helpful skincare, fashion, and makeup tips through her hilarious YouTube videos while also giving honest reviews of brands that lack in their product offerings for people of color.
Jackie Aina built her empire of nearly 1.8 million followers due to her patient, yet sassy nature and consistent uploading of videos for almost five years.
2. Nyma Tang:
This melanin-rich beauty has a South Sudanese heritage and is currently based in Texas. Nyma Tang won the hearts almost immediately after starting her YouTube channel with her relatable conversations and sweet nature. Her honest product reviews are admired and followed by her subscribers as she doesn't hesitate to express her disappointment with certain brands that offer limited foundations and concealer shade ranges.
Nyma often tests out the darkest concealer and foundation shades made by various brands to see if they align with her skin tone via a series on her channel known as "The Darkest Shade."
If they don't, the series is considered an essential reminder of how underrepresented people with darker skin tones are in the beauty industry.
3. Shalom Blac:
Shalom, a beautiful woman and a burn survivor, shows her love for makeup, beauty, and art on her famous YouTube channel to connect with her 1.2 million YouTube subscribers.
Her confidence in how she carries herself gives strength and courage to many burn survivors who watch and look up to her. Shalom also rocks a bald head look, and we are so here for it!
4. Peakmill:
Peakmill is owned by an African beauty whose name is Khadijat Sanni. She reviews hair care products and wigs and shares valuable hacks and tips with her following of millions that make any wig look chic and hot.
5. Chanel Ambrose:
Ambrose dominates the plus-size beauty industry. This African YouTuber constantly sends out her support and love to single mothers who need mental strength and motivation. In 2015, she launched her immensely successful makeup line.
6. Uwani Aliyu:
Uwani is a beauty artist who is popularly known for her YouTube channel's content. She began her YouTube channel at the beginning of 2010.
This beauty guru has gained immense popularity for her themed fashion, hair, and makeup tutorials, along with lifestyle vlogs. This African beauty influencer is well known for her fabulous makeup tutorials, skincare rituals, and fashion tips.
7. Ronke Raji:
This African beauty is a Nigerian hair, lifestyle, and beauty influencer whose attention to detail is unmatched. She began her first blog way back in 2011. She values quality over quantity.
This breathtaking makeup artist had caused quite a stir on social media alongside her husband when their photos from a gorgeous fashion shoot went viral on the internet. She has also been featured on Essence, Black Girl Long Hair, Insider, BuzzFeed, and Bellanaija.
8. Dimma Umeh:
Chidimma Umeh is famously known as Dimma Umeh. She is a Nigerian fashion, travel, beauty, and lifestyle content creator whose Youtube channel is one of the most viewed in Nigeria, with around 24 million views and 390,000 subscribers. She started her YouTube channel in 2012.
She reviews popular retail and fashion brands such as Fenty, Maybelline, Amazon, Asos, Dolce & Gabbana. Her YouTube videos range from shopping hauls and makeup tutorials to travel vlogs and Q&As.
9. Nikki Perkins
This melanin-rich beauty is a Sudanese-Australian lifestyle blogger and model. Nikki started her journey as a model, but her interest in makeup and fashion made her start a social-media career.
She regularly uploads product reviews, makeup tutorials and hauls, and related fashion content on her YouTube channel. Her channel presently has over 306,000 subscribers.
She has explained her struggles and efforts, on her blog, in finding makeup specific for her skin shade in Australia with no luck. So she was extremely excited to find a Fenty Beauty shade that matched her perfect skin flawlessly.
10. Mihlali Ndamase:
This beauty influencer originally started her career as a model at age 14; her passion for the fashion and beauty industry led her to beauty blogging. She has the most YouTube subscribers in the South African beauty vloggers category, and it's easy to see why.
Mihlali Ndamasehas a social media darling who knows precisely how to create and explain her makeup looks. She's also got a great personality! She has always been honest about her skin health journey, which is not always easy.
11. Toni Olaoye:
Toni Olaoye is a makeup artist known for her self-titled YouTube channel, with over 480,000 subscribers. She has gained popularity for her vlog entries, themed makeup tutorials, and challenge completions.
She also works as a freelance make-up artist for welfare cosmetics.
She is well-known for her trademark dramatic looks, and no one has ever seen anyone achieve doll-like makeup looks as fast as this stunning Nigerian beauty blogger.
12. Cynthia Gwebu:
Cynthia Gwebu is a South African beauty blogger. Her videos have a unique superiority that keeps her fans interested and the audience coming back. She's worked with lots of great brands over the years. She often giveaways products on her YouTube channel.
Now all you have to do is tune in to their unique content and be graced with valuable knowledge about the beauty world!
Let me know in the comments if you follow any of them or if there are any African bloggers you recommend.
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