Top 10 Best NikkieTutorials Videos

During the 2017 Holiday season, Nikkie gave all her followers some great tips on how to achieve the perfect look to wear to a Christmas or New Year’s Eve party. The holidays are a special time for a variety of reasons, but for makeup enthusiasts, it’s also an opportunity to up the glitz and glam of your look. Nikkie doesn’t hold back, achieving a final effect that is both timelessly elegant and refreshingly current. Of course, it features a matte red lipstick, but what makes this look stand out from other holiday makeup tutorials is the glittery liner that she uses, which we definitely wanted to try for ourselves after seeing her do it!

A popular format for beauty YouTuber videos is to have a guest make an appearance to do the guru’s makeup for them. All the better if it’s someone totally inexperienced but close to them, like a friend or family member. The results are usually hilarious, and it’s fun to get to see a total newbie attempt to figure out the right products and techniques. Nikkie’s boyfriend Rick made his first appearance on her channel for this 2015 video. While he doesn’t really have any idea what he’s doing, the end result is...well, ok it’s not great. But it certainly is fun to watch!

In case you didn’t get just what a big deal NikkieTutorials’ channel is, this video where she gets Snoop Dogg to narrate while she does her makeup should help put her popularity in context. For this tutorial, she serves up a pretty basic look (by her standards at least), but the entertaining part is that, rather than getting Nikkie’s own voice over, we get Snoop presenting to us instead. He may not be an expert on makeup, but that unmistakable voice is seriously soothing as he attempts to explain each step of her routine. Does he know what all the different products are called? Absolutely not. But that’s part of what makes the video so charming.

Nikkie is known for an over-the-top glam look, but she has a few tricks up her sleeves when it comes to costume makeup as well. Without a doubt her most impressive Halloween look to date has been this one, where she manages to transform into a terrifying demon with pulled back skin. Of course, the part of her face that looks normal is done up with a glittery eye and full lash - because this is Nikkie and she wouldn’t have it any other way. She has also done other great costume looks, like her pop art Spider-Man and her comic book-style Wonder Woman.

Today, NikkieTutorials is one of the biggest makeup channels on YouTube, but of course she wasn’t always the major influencer that she is now. In 2016, she decided to take a look back at her first-ever YouTube video, which had been published eight years earlier. We get to see her reactions as she judges her former self and yes, we cringe along with her for many parts of it. But that’s part of what makes Nikkie so endearing, she’s not afraid to look back and poke fun at herself! She also makes an attempt to recreate her first look, although she can’t help but update it with all the new skills and techniques she’s learned over the years.

There are a lot of channels that you can go to inorder to to learn useful everyday makeup tips, but that’s not really what NikkieTutorials is known for. Let’s just say natural looks aren’t exactly her thing. But every once in a while she does offer up a tutorial to help you with your day to day routine. In this particular video, Nikkie teaches her followers how to make sure their makeup stays put all day, which is really useful for events and special occasions. If you’re looking for more videos on how to perfect your routine and fix common makeup issues, be sure to check out her vid on ensuring that your under eye concealer doesn’t crease!

Fans of Nikkie’s channel are familiar with her “Power of Makeup” concept (more on that later), but viewers were truly blown away when she managed to get Kim Kardashian to make an appearance on the channel to have her makeup done. Nikkie does a flawless half face on the reality TV star and social media personality, showing just what a few products can do. We’re used to seeing the Kardashians all glammed up, but this is a fun behind-the-scenes look at the process. And Kim is by no means the only celeb that Nikkie has worked with: she’s also done videos with famous faces like Drew Barrymore, Jessie J and Jeffree Star.

Nikkie started her YouTube channel when she was just 14 years old, so she has clearly been interested in beauty from a young age. That being said, she’s clearly come a long way, as evidenced by this fun video in which she challenges herself to do her makeup like she did in high school. Even if she had better makeup skills than the average teen, trends were different and some of them were definitely regrettable. She cringes her way through applying thick layers of foundation, with her hands in a shade that is much darker than it needs to be, and also draws on a terrible arched brow. The dark smudge of eyeliner on her bottom lashline, however, is something we can all relate to.

One of Nikkie’s most popular series is her “Full Face Using Only...” concept, where she challenges herself to create a makeup look using a particular type of product. She has done a full face using only lipstick and using only highlighter, but it was a real blast seeing her create such a beautiful effect with nothing but makeup marketed to kids. It just goes to show that you don’t have to spend a lot of money on fancy products or designer brands to look incredible. In fact, maybe all you have to do is raid your younger siblings’ rooms!



Before we unveil our top pick, here are a few honorable mentions.

CONTOUR LIKE AN INSTAGRAM PRO! (2016)

BYE MAKEUP! GET UNREADY WITH ME! (2017)

MAKEUP ROULETTE CHALLENGE feat. JAMES CHARLES! (2018)

How to Apply Lipstick Like a PRO ∙ 101 (2014)

NO MIRROR MAKEUP CHALLENGE! (2015)

Our number one pick has to go to Nikkie’s most viewed video, and the one that made her seriously famous: “The Power of Makeup”. The concept behind this video is Nikkie’s frustration that people were giving a negative connotation to the idea of wearing makeup. She wanted to reframe the narrative and show just how much fun makeup could be . . . and show off how much it can do. She blows viewers away by making up one half of her face and leaving the other half bare, resulting in a truly astonishing end result.