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Kandee Johnson is a makeup artist and YouTuber, who has amassed a $3 million net worth through different business ventures including vlogging, makeup, and advertisements. Kandee is best known for sharing beauty videos on her self-titled Youtube Channel and as a judge on the beauty show How Do I Look. From her early life as a professional makeup artist, to her current career success, here’s Kandee's journey to accumulating a net worth of $3 million.
Kandee is an animal lover with a pet cat, her favorite colors are white and red, and her hobbies include reading, writing, singing, and photography. She rose to fame as a YouTuber, social media influencer, and has become a prominent makeup artist and wardrobe stylist for film and television shows. She established herself as one of the best beauty gurus in the business, and inspires bloggers, vloggers, and influencers by sharing her story detailed below!
9 Early Life & Inspiration
Kandee was born and raised in Los Angeles, California and graduated from high school before enrolling in courses for makeup and beauty. In an interview with The List, Kandee shared her beauty inspirations, "I think my beauty icons are all from the '40s and '50s. I love Jane Mansfield, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn Monroe—all those women with classic beauty where they just looked elegant and beautiful all the time. Those are my favorites."
8 Career Beginnings & VH1
After beauty school, at the age of eighteen, Kandee started working professionally as a makeup artist on the VH1 reality show titled, I Love the '80s. She also worked as a wardrobe stylist for commercials and TV shows and as a celebrity make-up artist for TV shows, commercials, celebrity appearances, and movies. Kandee became known for her exceptional work with colors, and established a name for herself in the industry working with different television shows and movies.
7 Blogging & Magazine Features
In 2008, Kandee began writing blogs about motherhood before branching out into beauty and style, which eventually led to her work being featured in magazines. In 2009, Kandee began publishing blogs about makeup, fashion, and beauty that would eventually lead to establishing herself as a makeup guru and beauty influencer. She also received recognition in fashion magazines and newspapers, including Cosmopolitan, Elle, Glamour, AOL, Yahoo, Nylon, Self, and was featured on the covers of many.
6 Kandee’s YouTube Channel
In 2009, Kandee launched "the happiest channel on YouTube", which is her creative adventure through makeup tutorials, beauty, hairstyles, health, fitness, lifestyle, decorating, and fashion. Her debut video on YouTube was “How To Clean Make-Up Brushes” and the most viewed on her channel is “Glitterati Lip Tattoo & Lip Word Tattoo”. Kandee says, “Through my videos, I hope I am able to bring much happiness and love to you all as you have brought to me!”
5 Kandee’s YouTube Experience & Advice
Kandee shared her YouTube experience and advice, "Make sure that you're starting YouTube because you want to help people, because you want to entertain people, not because you want to get free products or you want to be YouTube famous. And then just always talk like you're talking to your best friend or your sister. When you start thinking, 'I have to act cool,' you're not likable, and you're not relatable. You're just being weird."
4 The Make-Up Industry
Kandee has created legendary looks, transforming herself into Snow White, Wonder Woman, and Edward Scissorhands using makeup alone. She won a Streamy Award for a Princess Jasmine transformation with Kim Kardashian. Kandee’s Instagram page has generated popularity for her makeup transformations, wherein she turns herself into Gwen Stefani, Miley Cyrus, Megan Fox, Angelina Jolie, and more. She has also worked and collaborated with various leading brands in apparel, fashion, and makeup including Too Faced, Sinful Colors, Straye Heat, and many others.
3 Too Faced Collaboration
Too Faced CCO, Jerrod Blandino said, "Kandee mixes, like, 18 things to do one lip thing and she has all these crazy-cool recipes that I don't even get. I'm always like, 'What did you mix? How did you do it?!’ … So, I thought, why don't we do it together?!" Jerrod and Kandee created each product in the collection to streamline the glam process for people by incorporating Kandee’s beauty hacks with her must-have products
2 The Entertainment Industry
In 2003, Kandee had a role in the small independent film Five Beans, which won Best Nevada Film at the Reno Film Festival/GAMMA Indiefest. Since then, Kandee has appeared on The Late Late Show with James Corden and was hostess of the NYX Fine Artistry of Cosmetic Elites Awards. She also voiced Mandy Sparkledust in the Dreamworks film Trolls (2016) and was invited as a judge on How Do I Look and Glam Masters.
1 Future Plans
Kandee revealed that she feels “invigorated and re-inspired,” and wants to create new types of videos guided by fan suggestions, including challenges, collaborations, and vlogs. She also mentioned working on a book that will serve her greater mission in life “to add positivity, hope, fun, and inspiration to your life.”
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