A trip down the memory lane of beauty YouTubers

I have been plagued by this memory of a beauty YouTuber, short hair dyed red, with stacked eyeshadow pots. This Youtuber was one of my go-tos whenever I’m looking for makeup tutorial, and while I have some of her videos saved on a playlist, I found out that she set her older videos to “Unlisted”, hence the missing videos from my playlist. I have been racking my brain trying to remember who she is for months, until I found her name mentioned on a several-years-old Reddit post. Let me reintroduce to you: xsparkage, a.k.a. Leesha. Rewatching her videos gave me such a trip down the memory lane, on how and why I love the Beauty YouTube environment at that time, despite all the drama and the mess. It has always been so genuine and less filtered. I remember when the community actually protested whenever they saw a beauty YouTuber using skin filters on their skin, as it gave a wrong impression of how a product works. It was amateur, messy, grainy, not poreless, unprofessional, bad lighting,…