So, hosted by Derek Blasberg (the platform’s Head of Fashion and Beauty) The YouTube Beauty Festival will premier on our screens on the 14th of May. The virtual summit will include timely panel discussions and informative beauty segments, all with major celebrity guests and YouTube content creators alike. 

What a lineup it is. The festival spotlights celebrity beauty brand owners like Miranda Kerr (Kora Organics), Jessica Alba (The Honest Company), Milly Bobby Brown (Florence by Mills) and Pharrell Williams (Humanrace). Although they will be chatting about generally entertaining and useful information, it will also include “important conversations about amplifying diversity and equality across the beauty landscape.”

Additionally, there is also a chance to tune in to segments such as Ask a Drag Queen with RuPaul’s Drag Race winners Bob the Drag Queen and Monet X Change, the Black Beauty Founder Roundtable with YouTube’s Head of Creators Chanel Tyler and Pharrell Glow, where the founder and musician Pharrell Williams reveals his secrets on how he stays so youthful. Speaking to People.com Blasberg explained:

‘One of the first people I thought of when we were coming up with concepts for this festival was Pharrell Williams. Have you seen recent pictures of this man? He has not aged a day in, like, three decades. What’s the secret to his glow? He agreed to go over his beauty routine with three of YouTube’s top beauty creators, Asia Jackson, Sylvia Gani, and Nailea.’

We’ve never heard a truer word. How has he achieved this Benjamin Button status? We will be tuning in to find out!

Words By Rosina Findlay

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It isn’t just the sheer volume of presents that have to be purchased, but trying to get everyone something they actually want is my main issue with the whole gift buying palaver. And then you have the more specified concerns thrown in such as what in the world you get that distant relative you haven’t seen since you were 5. And finally, there is the biggest conundrum of it all. Secret Santa. Now, it’s obviously all well and good in your little friendship group, I’m talking about it on a larger scale.

I’m talking about the annual dreaded moment when someone in the office has the genius idea to do a huge communal Secret Santa, and every man and his dog’s names are all piled into that god-forsaken hat. Of course, fate decides to place the name of your boss in your palm. The anxiety immediately pulses through your body as you imagine the look of indifference on her face disguised with that counterfeit overly gracious smile as she unwraps the depressingly average bath bomb and pack of Lint Lindor balls combo.

Well, this Christmas, you can tell that feeling of anxiety where to go because we feel it’s our duty to remind you of the divine entity that is going to be your saving grace next time you find yourself knee-deep in this sticky festive predicament; the on-screen holy bible of beauty trends, also known as YouTube. The plethora of reviews about any remotely beauty related product, from the mini facial quartz roller you never knew you needed to eyelash perming kits, and everything in-between – all tried and tested by the prophets, disciples and apostles of the beauty industry: the ‘YouTubers’.

As well as enlightening you with this handy little secret Santa hack, as our good deed for the day we have decided to make it EVEN easier for you and have sieved through endless reviews to find you the top five Secret Santa gift ideas recommended by the YouTubers that we know and trust (Ch-Ching, did somebody say pay rise?!).

Words by Ella Winfield

Graphics by Araceli Alonso

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