Nikkie de Jager

About

Nikkie de Jager-Drossaers (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈnɪki də ˈjaːɣər drɔˈsaːrs]; born 2 March 1994), better known online as NikkieTutorials, is a Dutch make-up artist, model and beauty YouTuber. She gained online popularity in 2015 after her YouTube video “The Power of Makeup” became popular and inspired many other videos of people showing their faces with and without makeup.

== Career ==
De Jager first began uploading videos to YouTube in 2008, at the age of 14, after watching MTV’s The Hills while sick and being inspired by Lauren Conrad’s makeup. She then began searching YouTube for tutorials to recreate the look and was inspired to begin creating her own. After uploading videos for about two years, she enrolled in makeup coursework at B Academy in Amsterdam. She then signed to Colourfool Agency in 2011, and began working as a professional makeup artist.
In the autumn of 2013, she became the head makeup artist for the RTL 5 show I Can Make You a Supermodel with Paul Fisher. De Jager left Colourfool Agency at the beginning of 2014 to work as a freelance hair and makeup artist.
Forbes magazine named De Jager one of the top ten beauty “influencers” in 2017. In 2017, she also won the award…