Jaclyn Hill: My Role Model

It all started with Jaclyn Hill. I found Jaclyn’s channel when I was watching a tutorial for winged eyeliner when her video popped up in the recommendation list. Her thumbnail intrigued me, so I watched it. Her video was a different take on how to apply winged eyeliner, which I was trying to master at the time.

Her voice, her style, her everything pulled me in forever. That day I binged watched all of her videos, and I learned more and more about her. That was the day that my obsession became real. Everything that she talked about, I wanted. Most of the products I bought when I was first starting off were based off of her.

When Jaclyn’s channel started growing, I saw no change. Many youtubers let their subscriber count, and the money, get to their head and change their personality. But Jaclyn is 100% genuine, which is why I love her so much.

What really amazes me is how someone with her past can influence so many people. Jaclyn was extremely poor after high school. She married her husband, Jon, at the age of 19. She would tell stories about how they would literally only have a stick of butter and cheese in her fridge. She always told herself that it was only temporary and that things will be better. She would say, “I want to that Michael Kors purse, so someday I will. Just not today.” And now that she can afford what she has, just by putting herself out there on youtube, inspires me so much.

Jaclyn is extremely successful from youtube. So many companies have reached out to her, good and bad, and she let’s her subscribers know the bad. She doesn’t lie for the money involved, which is hard to find in beauty youtubers. But then a company like Becca Cosmetics reaches out and asks to collab (which is the greatest thing in the world, BTW). Jaclyn created her own highlighter called Champagne Pop, which my lovely boyfriend, Brandon, bought for me just because he knew how much Jaclyn and beauty means to me <3 Anyways, Sephora sponsored this collaboration, which is crazy because it’s Sephora and what makeup lover doesn’t love Sephora?

If somebody can go from having an empty fridge to having their face on a wall in Sephora and still be the same person inside and out, that is saying something about their character. Jaclyn is truly a role model; lifestyle and beauty wise, I want to be like her.