Yuya (YouTuber)

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This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Castrejon and the
second or maternal family name is Castañeda.

Yuya

Yuya in 2014.

Personal information

Born Mariand Castrejon Castañeda

March 13, 1993 (age 24)

Cuernavaca, Mexico

Nationality Mexican

Height 1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)

Website yuyaoficial.com

YouTube information

 lady16makeup
Channel

Years active 2009–present

Genre Beauty

Subscribers 20+ million

(November 2017[1])
 Total views 2+ billion
(November 2017[1])

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Subscriber and view counts updated as of November 22, 2017.

Mariand Castrejon Castañeda (born March 13, 1993), better known as Yuya, is
a Mexican beauty vlogger and YouTuber.[2] Yuya has one of the most-subscribed YouTube
channels in the world. She is the most popular YouTuber in the beauty and style category, and
the most popular YouTuber in Mexico, with more than 20 million subscribers.[3][4] It was estimated
that Yuya earned 41,000 USD per month in 2015.[5]

Contents
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 1Career
 2Personal life
 3References
 4External links

Career[edit]
Yuya created her YouTube channel, called "lady16makeup," in 2009 after winning a YouTube
make-up contest when she was 16 years old.[6]
In March 2016, she was one of seven female YouTube creators who joined the United Nations'
Sustainable Development Action Campaign, aiming to "achieve gender equality and empower all
women and girls."[7]
Yuya has written two books: Los secretos de Yuya (2015) and Las confesiones de
Yuya (2016).[8] She released a perfume called #True in July 2015 and a makeup collection in
October 2017.[9][10]

Personal life[edit]
Yuya was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico. Her given name, Mariand, is a combination of
her parents' names, Maribel and Andrés. She has a brother, Sergio, who also has a YouTube
channel.[2] Her uncle gave her the nickname Yuya after the Mexican TV character Yuya, la
gorda (Fat Yuya).[6]

References[edit]
1. ^ Jump up to:a b "Yuya YouTube Channel statistics". socialbakers.com.
2. ^ Jump up to:a b "La biografía de Yuya". Cyzone (in Spanish). 2017-02-24. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
3. Jump up^ "Top 100 YouTubers sorted by Subscribers". Socialblade. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
4. Jump up^ "YouTube most subscribed beauty channels 2017". Statista. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
5. Jump up^ Ives, Nate (2015-04-15). "What a YouTube Celeb Pulls In". Ad Age. Retrieved 2017-
11-23.
6. ^ Jump up to:a b Rey, Patricia (2015-02-16). "PROFILE: 'Yuya', Mexico's most profitable
YouTuber". BNamericas. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
7. Jump up^ Addady, Michael (2016-03-02). "Female YouTube Creators Are Joining the United
Nations". Fortune. Retrieved 2017-11-22.
 8. Jump up^ Díaz Zeledón, Natalia (2016-08-19). "La mexicana Yuya alborotó a sus fans más
devotos en Multiplaza Escazú". La Nación (in Spanish). Retrieved 2017-11-23.
9. Jump up^ "Cyzone presenta la nueva fragancia True". La República (in Spanish). 2015-07-31.
Retrieved 2017-11-23.
10. Jump up^ "Yuya ya tiene una línea de cosméticos ¡y estos son nuestros preferidos!". InStyle
México (in Spanish). 2017-10-27. Retrieved 2017-11-23.

External links[edit]
 Yuya on Youtube

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