Michelle Phan

Michelle Phan feels like a genuine pioneer to me, not just another beauty creator. She turned a YouTube tutorial channel into an actual business, founding and owning EM Cosmetics rather than simply lending her name to someone else's product. That's the move I always look for: the leap from influence to ownership. What I find telling is the 2017 relaunch of the brand, because relaunching is hard and unglamorous in a way that the original viral fame never was. Coming out of a Tampa Bay tech high school to building a cosmetics company, she basically wrote the playbook a generation of creators now follows.

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Name (English)

Michelle Phan

Name (Japanese)

ミシェル・ファン

Reading

みしぇる・ふぁん

Born

April 11, 1987 (age 39)

Origin

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Occupation

YouTuber / businessperson / make-up artist / television producer / beauty YouTuber

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rabbit

High school

Tampa Bay Technical High School

University

Ringling College of Art and Design

• Official sitehttps://michellephan.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/michellephan/
• Xhttps://x.com/ricebunny
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle%20Phan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q384960

Tags

• Massachusetts
• YouTuber
• businessperson
• make-up artist

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.