Beauty YouTubers Who Were Born Rich

YouTube was created in 2005, but most people didn't think much about it in the first few months following its launch. It wasn't long until the platform started playing host to about 25 million monthly visitors, though. By 2019, the number of monthly visitors had increased massively to an average of 2 billion, according to Statista.

Beauty vloggers didn't take advantage of the new video platform until two years after YouTube's launch (via Insider). That's roughly when they began sharing beauty tips and tricks and makeup tutorials with viewers. This was the origin of the beauty community on YouTube, which, by 2009, had grown to the point that beauty gurus were already reviewing makeup products and starting to make money through the hard work of their content creation.

Fast-forward 10 years later, and the richest beauty YouTuber, Huda Kattan (founder of Huda Beauty), was worth $550 million. Most of her wealth came from vlogging, influencing, and selling products from her beauty line, according to The Richest. However, as much as we enjoy telling and listening to stories of self-made millionaires and billionaires around the world, not everyone has a rag-to-riches story. Some were born with a silver spoon in their mouths. Like in every other industry, not every beauty YouTuber became wealthy from vlogging.

Unlike Kattan, some were born into wealthy families and were loaded before they even began their careers on YouTube.