Mariand Castrejón Castañeda, better known as Yuya, was one of the first Mexican influencers to succeed on YouTube.
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Currently, she continues to be one of the content creators with the most followers on social networks.
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Yuya is currently 29 years old and enjoys her stage as a mother with her partner Siddhartha, but do you remember what she looked like in her early days on YouTube? Here we show you.
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Do you remember what he looked like in his early days on YouTube? Here we show you.
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Mariand Castrejón Castañeda was born in Cuernavaca, Morelos.
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Her name comes from the union of the first letters of her parents’ names: Maribel and Andrés.
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The youtuber has said that everyone calls her Yuya because that was the name of a television character and her uncle began to call her that because she was plump as a child.
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Yuya opened her YouTube channel in 2009 under the name lady16makeup.
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According to the influencer, she uploaded her first video to participate in a makeup contest where the prize was a set of brushes, however, she lost it.
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At that time she was 16 years old, but she did not give up and decided to continue uploading videos with makeup tips.
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Later he changed the name of his channel to Yuya and began to tell his followers “beautiful”, his tone of voice and simplicity made him win several fans.
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In 2014 he released his first book called Yuya’s Secrets and in 2015 he released Yuya’s Confessions.
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In 2017 Yuya launched her first makeup line called ‘Dancing Together’ in partnership with Republic Cosmetic.
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In 2018, Yuya received recognition on the Las Vegas Walk of Stars.
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Yuya currently has 24.9 million subscribers on YouTube.
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On Instagram he has 17.2 million followers.
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Thanks to his popularity, his brother Sergio, known as ‘Fichis’, launched his own YouTube channel and also became an influencer.
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Yuya has stopped focusing only on makeup videos and also shares vlogs, recipes, tricks to take care of plants, among other topics.
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