Lauren Riihimaki, Do-It-Yourself specialist on YouTube who posts fashion advice videos to her popular channel LaurDIY. She also runs a blog by the same name. She started posting to YouTube in the spring of 2012 while in college. She surpassed the 1 million subscriber milestone on YouTube in September of 2014. By early 2016, she had earned over 2.7 million subscribers. She has been featured in Seventeen magazine on several occasions. She is of Japanese, Finnish, and Ukranian descent and is from Toronto, Canada. Her ex-boyfriend Baz appeared on her channel in challenge and tag videos. In 2015, she began a relationship with Alex Burriss, AKA Alex Wassabi. On October 13, 2013, she published a video called "Ariana Grande: Hair, Makeup & Outfit Tutorial!" She collaborated with Ben Brown on a video titled "ULTIMATE CANADA VS BRITAIN CHALLENGE! ^[1]