Quotes by Michelle Phan - Page 2

You know how it is in L.A. At times, it's a dog-eat-dog world. There's a lot of sharks. I think with YouTube, we're anti that. We're anti-competitive. We're all about collaborating and supporting.
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Collaborating
Sharks
Youtube
Anti
Supporting
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My dad and I had been close - he called me Tuyet Bang, Vietnamese for 'avalanche,' because of my nonstop energy. I took a lot from him, like being a risk taker, and I know how much he loved my mother.
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Vietnamese
Dad Mother Me
Avalanche
Bang
Nonstop
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Every video I've made has an inspirational message behind it. Since day one, I thought, 'Okay, I want my audience to be, like, Disney members.' So if that's the case, I have to keep everything rated G.
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Inspirational
Okay
Day One
Disney
Rated
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I love Fredorator and what they produce and the storytelling of 'Adventure Time'... There's such a dark, adult underlying theme underneath the whimsical, magical children's aspect of their storytelling element.
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Aspect
Dark
Produce
Storytelling
Theme
Whimsical
Adult
Love Time Children
Element
Magical
Underlying
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I'm grateful that L'Oreal believed in me and helped me bring my dream of creating a beauty brand to life. I'm excited to be working with Ipsy to bring Em home to my community, the original inspiration for the brand.
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Grateful
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Western beauty is considered the dominant beauty in the world. Tall, blond, blue eyes. I always felt a little self-conscious because I wanted to be more Caucasian. I tried to get bigger eyes... I would dress preppy.
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Blue Eyes
Caucasian
Preppy
Self Conscious
Western
Blond
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You need interesting content that entertains or informs - preferably both. You want people to look forward to your posts and come back for more. People want to follow you. They want to hear your words and see your vision.
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Posts
Informs
More People
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When Google reached out to me in 2011, they wanted me to build out their female lifestyle vertical. When they were starting with that initiative, they were giving each production house a million dollars to produce content.
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Dollars
Google
Initiative
Lifestyle
Million Dollars
Vertical
Reached
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My production style is all about imagination. I want my audience to use their imagination when they watch my videos. My goal is for my voice to be that little hope of encouragement in your head when you walk out your door.
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Encouragement
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I am so inspired by the people watching my videos and responding to them. I have learned so much from my community over the years and always love reading their feedback and their own personal stories that they share with me.
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Feedback
Responding
Love Always I Am
Love Community Me
By The People
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If I can find time to play games, it's console gaming. I don't want to be plugged into my phone all the time. I'm waiting for the new Mario Kart to come out, but I've been playing Donkey Kong and Mario 3D World on the Wii U.
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Console
Donkey
Gaming
Mario
Time Waiting World
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My best advice for anyone out there that feels like, 'I don't have a million followers so why should I even give it a shot,' is that it's not about the numbers - it's about the engagement. That's how you can build influence.
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Engagement
Followers
Numbers
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I was 16 years old and wanted to help my mom with the rent. There was a restaurant called China Buffet in Tampa that hung a 'Help Wanted' sign outside, so I went in and ended up hosting every Friday and Sunday for $6 or $7 an hour.
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Friday
Hung
Sunday
Tampa
Buffet
Ended
Hosting
Rent
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Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.
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Comic
Escape
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There's definitely more to me offline than what you see online. Because what I show online is what I want to show to my followers... If I showed everything I did offline, it might not align with some of my other followers around the world.
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Followers
World Me See
Align
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I don't believe in that term 'self-made' - not to be offensive, but I believe everything happens for a reason, every single person you meet. Even if it's one single person giving you advice, that person helped you get to where you're at today.
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Advice
Giving
Offensive
Self Made
Single Person
Term
Today Believe I Believe
Helped
Meet
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All of the development I do is with the help of business advisors who are more like my best friends than just business people. They helped me as I created Ipsy back in 2011, which is a beauty community that ships out sampling bags to subscribers.
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Bags
Development
Sampling
Ships
Advisor
Business People
Helped
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I always secretly loved the art of makeup as a child. I would come up with stories and characters and try on my mom's Maybelline eyeliner when she wasn't home. It was a very old-school pencil - you had to burn the tip to make it smudgy enough to use.
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Makeup
Burn
Pencil
Secretly
Tip
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Success is like a lightning bolt. It'll strike you when you least expect it, and you just have to keep the momentum going. You have to strike when the iron is hot. So for me, I just kept striking and striking to polish out the sword that I was making.
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Success
Hot
Iron
Lightning
Momentum
Polish
Bolt
Expect
Least
Making
Strike
Success Is
Sword
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I use sunscreen every single day, even if I'm not going outside in the sun, because I'm near a window. I can always get those UV rays on my face, so I always apply sunscreen on my face and neck. It's like brushing my teeth: I feel weird if I don't apply sunscreen.
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Brushing
Rays
Single
Sun
Sunscreen
Teeth
Window
Weird
Face
Apply
Every Single Day
Near
Outside
Single Day
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So many of my followers who just graduated can't get jobs; they're hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, and they don't know what to do. My dream is to see a new generation of entrepreneurs who are creating and having more meaningful jobs than the day-to-day grind.
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Day To Day
Dollars
Followers
Grind
Meaningful
New Generation
Entrepreneurs
Graduated
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Thousands
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The Manuka honey face mask is another favorite of mine that I actually do. I know there are these people that recommend crazy masks, and I'm like, 'There is no way you're putting that on your face!' But I do put Manuka honey on my face. I take a teaspoon and warm it up.
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Honey
Mask
Warm
Recommend
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When I first started, there really was no beauty guru community. I didn't have the right production resources. I had to learn how to edit. I didn't even have beauty products. I had to go out and buy them myself because beauty brands didn't even know what a beauty guru was.
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Brands
Guru
Edit
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I want to be able to leave behind an infrastructure and a road map for any of my dreamers to follow. So that they can again take care of their family, pursue what they love and live a fulfilling life. Everyone is called, but not everyone answers. I was called, and I answered.
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Fulfilling
Infrastructure
Pursue
Take Care
Life Love Family
Answered
Map
Road Map
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I had a blog and was documenting my life as a college student in an art school. I had a few comments left by a few girls asking if I could do a tutorial on how I did my makeup. I didn't think my makeup was all that special, but I try my best to share whatever I can with my viewers.
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Art School
If I Could
Makeup
Viewers
Life Best Art
Blog
College Student
Comments
Documenting
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Eight years ago, if I wanted to do a YouTube video, I broke out my camera and filmed everything myself and learned how to edit and kind of become a one-woman studio. But we're living in an era now, thanks to ICON, where any creator who is online, they can create in their own space.
Michelle Phan /
Broke
Creator
One Woman
Thanks
Youtube
Edit
Icon
Youtube Video
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I am first a creator, but my ongoing objective is to leverage my personal success to help mentor new and existing talent and further help them achieve their goals. Endemol Beyond shares this vision, and together, we will drive the future of original content for generations to come.
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Creator
Generations
Ongoing
Existing
Further
Leverage
Objective
Shares
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Anyone can wear glitter, even a woman in her 60s. It's all about techniques. Instead of applying glitter all over the face, you can just add a little to the inner corner of your eyes or on your brow bone, or even on your Cupid's bow. It just adds this magical element to your makeup.
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Add
Glitter
Makeup
Eyes Face Your
Adds
Applying
Bone
Bow
Brow
Corner
Element
Inner
Magical
Techniques
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Makeup is no different than clothes and accessories - it's embellishments for your face. And it also gives you creative freedom. You get to have that moment in front the mirror every morning and give yourself self-love. You're making yourself up beautiful, which is essentially self-love.
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Accessories
Clothes
Creative
Different
Makeup
Self Love
Face
Essentially
Front
Gives
Mirror
Moment
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Flipboard is really fun because it's like a digital magazine that lets you curate your favorite things and follow your favorite people. I do Instagram but not Vine. I love Vine, but I don't have time to browse through it. So when I'm on YouTube, I'll look up the 'best of Vine' compilations.
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Digital
Youtube
Love Time Best
Browse
Love Best Time
Curate
Favorite People
Lets
Magazine
Vine
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When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view. I don't believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be, too. We need both - yin and yang.
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Feminism
Point Of View
Yang
Bringing
Celebrated
Yin
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I believe if religion brings you to a sense of peace, that's beautiful. But I also believe if religion's not your thing, that's fine, too, just so long as you're a good person and you find that one thing that leads you to peace and teaches you to have harmony with yourself and other people around you.
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Religion
Fine
Good Person
Harmony
One Thing
Brings
Leads
Teaches
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I was inspired by many teachers when I started my channel, Bob Ross being one of them. His voice was so soothing, almost like hypnosis. He was that great of a teacher, even the casual viewer could learn how to paint from watching his show. Growing up, I just remember him being so mesmerizing on screen.
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Teacher
Bob
Casual
Growing Up
Hypnosis
Mesmerizing
Paint
Soothing
Voice
Teachers
Channel
Screen
Viewer
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If you go on my Instagram, you're not going to see the same content you'll see on my YouTube. Instagram has become the new magazine. It's much more editorial and about perfect moments that are captured. Snapchats are funny, real moments that you want to share. On YouTube, it's more structured, more storytelling.
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Captured
Youtube
Editorial
Magazine
Structured
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As one of the first creators on YouTube, I've been fortunate to sit in the front row, witnessing the remarkable evolution of digital media. The experiences and knowledge I've been afforded are invaluable, and I'm excited to take that skill set, together with Endemol Beyond, to build a reliable, reputable business.
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Digital
Fortunate
Invaluable
Youtube
Afforded
Creators
Reliable
Reputable
Row
Skill
Witnessing
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I am passionate about finding undiscovered and talented artists. I want to help those artists get to the next level and provide existing artists with a new way to reach fans. I wanted to partner with the Cutting Edge Group because they share my vision and have a proven track record in innovation in the music business.
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Cutting
Cutting Edge
Innovation
Music Business
Proven
Share
Track
Track Record
Vision
Artists
Business Music I Am
Talented
Edge
Existing
Finding
Group
New Way
Partner
Proven Track Record
Reach
Undiscovered
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As my YouTube following grew, I was soon earning as much from advertising revenue as from waiting tables, so I quit my job. My boss thought I was crazy, which just made me more determined. In 2012, four years and 200 videos later, my channel was so successful that Google offered me $1 million to create 20 hours of content.
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Advertising
Boss
Determined
Earning
Following
Google
Revenue
Tables
Youtube
Channel
Offered
Quit
Videos
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Seven years ago, in my first semester at college, the professors handed out MacBook Pros. With mine, I filmed a seven-minute tutorial on 'natural makeup' - just me, my laptop, and a cup of coffee. When, a week later, it clocked 40,000 Web views, I knew people were connecting with it, so I kept going. That moment changed my life.
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Changed
Coffee
Connecting
Makeup
Professors
Semester
Seven
Views
Years Ago
Life Moment Me
Cup
Handed
Laptop
Mine
Pros
Web
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I love liquid eyeliner - it's just easier. It doesn't melt, fade, skip, or smudge. It's tougher to use because it's not as forgiving. The brush for my em michelle phan Scribble Calligraphy Liquid Liner was inspired by a calligraphy brush, so you can get a very thick or thin line, depending on how you flick it. I use it in Tattoo Black.
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Easier
Forgiving
Liquid
Skip
Tattoo
Thick
Brush
Depending
Fade
Flick
Melt
Michelle
Scribble
Tougher
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Every day is different. I am constantly creating, whether that be for my own YouTube channel and social networks or my businesses like FAWN (For all Women's Network) - a women's lifestyle network on YouTube that I founded/produce; em michelle phan (my cosmetics line with L'Oreal); or Ipsy (a beauty sampling service I co-founded in 2011).
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Cosmetics
Lifestyle
Sampling
Youtube
Channel
Michelle
Network
Social Networks
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Growing up, before my mom would cook our rice, she would rinse the rice out and pour it out three times. And after the fourth pour, she'd pour it into a little bowl, and she'd rinse her face with that. It's known to help whiten the skin and nourish it because essentially inside the water you have all the essential nutrients from the rice.
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Fourth
Nutrients
Rice
Bowl
Essential
Nourish
Pour
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I glance through the pages of all the top magazines every month just to see if there are any colors that are trending. I'll also go on Instagram and look at the 'popular' page to see what people are liking, what's cool. I'll check it at different times of the day; for example, if it's really late in L.A., you'll see a lot of posts in Asia.
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Asia
Different Times
Magazines
Pages
Posts
Month
Check
Colors
For Example
Glance
Liking
Page
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Just like hair frames our face, brows frame our eyes. I see so much potential in harmonized beauty whenever I see a woman who's not filling in her brows, and I just want to go in with my brow pencil and just be like, 'Filling in eyebrows, OK, done - look in the mirror and be inspired.' That's one of my pet peeves, but beauty is subjective.
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Beauty
Pet
Eyebrows
Filling
Inspired
Subjective
Brow
Eyes
Frame
Just Be
Mirror
Pencil
Whenever
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