Kathleen Fuentes
Kathleen Fuentes
Kathleen Fuentes (born January 27, 1992) is a popular beauty vlogger on YouTube. She is a Style Haul partner and beauty guru known for her YouTube channel KathleenLights. She has accumulated over 4.1 million subscribers.
Early life
Before fame
She created her KathleenLights channel in January of 2013 and accumulated more than 600k subscribers in the channel's first two years.
YouTube Fame
She started her YouTube channel ‘KathleenLights’ on January 26, 2013, and started posting videos on makeup tips.
Initially she struggled to create her own niche.
While her videos were getting views, it wasn’t until ‘Get Ready With Me!
Date Night Makeup ft.
Naked Basics Palette’ published on April, 2013, that she started gaining the attention of viewers.
The video went on to get 1.3 million views and catapulted her to the status of one of the top beauty vloggers.
Some of her more popular videos following that were ‘Unboxing- April 2013 Ipsy Bag- First Impressions- Is it worth it?’, ‘Products I Regret Buying!’, and ‘My MUST HAVE Makeup Products!’ which received thousands of views.
On May 29, 2013, she posted the video ‘The Husband Tag!’ and on July 8, 2013, the video ‘Husband Does My Makeup Tag!’ which received over 1.7 million views each, making them two of the most viewed videos on her channel till then.
Kathleen Fuentes’ videos are characterized by her trying to promote affordable makeup and also to test the claims made by brands.
Collaborations
Kathleen YouTube fame helped Kathleen Fuentes to collaborate with the brand ‘Colorpop Cosmetics’ in 2014.
On November 2014, she released the lipstick ‘Lumiere’ with the brand.
In 2015, her collaboration with them led to the release of two more collections including, ‘Where The Light Is Eyeshadow Quad’ and ‘Where the Night Is’.
The next year she worked with them again to create another lipstick named ‘Lumiere 2’, three ‘Ultra Satin’ liquid lipsticks, and gel liners etc. In 2017, she continued her long-standing relationship with the brand going on to release an extension of ‘Where the Night Is’ collection, named the ‘Aquarius’ bundle.
Kathleen went on to collaborate with ‘Ofra Cosmetics’ in 2015, bringing out the lipsticks ‘Miami Fever’ and ‘Havana Nights’.
She also partnered with ‘Morphe Brushes’ to release a limited-edition eyeshadow palette on October 25, 2016.
The beauty expert also brought out a highlighter palette in collaboration with ‘Makeup Geek’ in 2016.
Trivia
She has a second channel, called Days Of Our Lights, which serves more as a vlogging channel.