Nikkie de Jager Height, Age, Boyfriend, Family, Biography & More

Some Lesser Known Facts About Nikkie de Jager

• Nikkie de Jager is a Dutch makeup artist and beauty vlogger who is best known for her YouTube channel ‘NikkieTutorials.’ She gained popularity in 2015 when she uploaded a YouTube video titled ‘The Power of Makeup,’ which went viral and prompted various other famous personalities to show their faces with and without makeup set side by side.

• Once in 2008, she spent the whole day watching MTV’s The Hills, an American pseudo-reality television series and got inspired by the beauty of the American actresses Audrina Patridge and Lauren Conrad who were the protagonists of the show. Thereafter, she decided to copy their Californian beauty and pursue a career in cosmetology.

• As she was obsessed with Lauren Conrad’s eyeliner, she began searching YouTube for tutorials to recreate the Lauren Conrad look and came across Sandy Gold’s ‘Wake Up and Makeup’ video. In an interview, she said,
  

  I saw Sandy Gold and she did “Wake Up and Make Up,” and she literally filmed herself getting out of bed to do her makeup to look like Lauren Conrad. I was obsessed…So I found this entire world of beauty gurus doing tutorials, which was really small back then. That’s when I started practicing, going to the drugstore, getting stuff — and that’s where it all began.

• Later, Nikkie started filming her own makeup tutorials and uploaded them on her YouTube channel ‘NikkieTutorials.’ Although the initial videos uploaded on her YouTube channel failed to impress the audience and received very few views, she did not give up on her dream of becoming a beautician and signed up for a makeup course. In 2008, she uploaded her first YouTube video, “Makeup Tutorial; My first official Look for YT.”

• Eventually, NikkieTutorials became the most subscribed and most-watched beauty channel in The Netherlands, and she got contacted by the makeup artist Pascale Tesser who was then teaching makeup at B Academy, Amsterdam.

• In 2010, she enrolled herself in a makeup course by Pascale Tesser at B Academy. Later, she also pursued the Hair on the Set: Level 1 Course at B Academy.

• In 2011, she joined Pascale Tesser’s Colourfool Agency and worked as a make-up artist for various television series like Hollands & Benelux’s Next Top Model, Miljoenenjacht, and The Face. She also worked for fashion magazines like Marie Claire, Linda, Talkies, and Fashionista.

• To achieve supremacy in hairstyling, in 2013, Nikkie pursued a course at WE-R Agency’s Hair School. Later, in the same year, she became the head-makeup artist for ‘I Can Make You a Supermodel,’ a fashion reality series.

• In 2014, she left Pascale Tesser’s Colourfool Agency and became a freelance hair & makeup artist.

• In 2015, she gained popularity with her YouTube video “The Power of Makeup” in which she painted her half face with makeup and left the other half bare. The video aimed at proving that makeup is just for fun and that using it has nothing to do with hating your natural face or having low self-esteem.
  

• In 2016, she collaborated with Too Faced Cosmetics and launched a range of products inspired by “The Power of Makeup” video, which included a black stretch marker, a liquid liner, an eye shadow palette, etc. Later, she also collaborated with other cosmetic brands like Ofra and Maybelline.

• In 2017, she made her television debut with the Dutch game show ‘The Big Escape’ in which the participants compete with each other in order to get out of the so-called escape rooms.

• Thereafter, she appeared as a participant on various reality TV shows like Wie is de Mol? (2019), Weet Ik Veel (2019), Thank You For The Music (2019), etc.

• In January 2019, Nikkie de Jager became the first-ever global artistry adviser for Marc Jacobs Beauty, a high-end cosmetic brand.

• In 2019, she uploaded a makeup tutorial video with the popular American singer Lady Gaga to promote her makeup brand Haus Laboratories, a vegan and cruelty-free cosmetics brand.

• In August 2019, she got engaged to her boyfriend Dylan Drossaers who proposed to her while they were on a vacation in Italy.
  
• In May 2020, she co-hosted the show Eurovision: Europe Shine a Light. In August 2020, Nikkie De Jager launched her own eyeshadow palette in collaboration with the cosmetic brand Beauty Bay.

• In 2020, she was the winner of the Dutch reality television game show Wie is de Mol? (2020).

• In July 2020, in a YouTube video, Nikkie de Jager proclaimed that she will be the next Dutch goodwill ambassador of the United Nations.