Top 5 South Asian YouTubers

Kaushal Beauty

Kaushal started her YouTube career at the end of 2013 and now she has more than 2 million subscribers and still growing every day. She has become an inspiration for many young brown girls as she showcases that you can do what you wish as long as you work hard and follow our dreams.  She is a Gujrati, born and raised in London. Kaushal is a brand ambassador for L’Oréal and was also part of the Prince’s Trust called “We Are All Worth It”, which provides confidence-building workshop to help young self-doubt people. She also worked with well-known brands like Urban Decay, NYX, Maybelline, Kiehl’s and many more.

Sharifa Easmin-Kabir

Sharifa is Bangladeshi-American YouTuber, who just doesn’t make makeup videos but also makes videos to entertain people. She started her YouTube career in 2014 and now has over seventy thousands subscribers. Her Bangladeshi looks that she creates during the Bengali New Year as well as desi bridal and guest look including recreating Bollywood looks, attracts many viewers. She was also featured in Vogue India in 2016. She also spoke about arranged marriage on her channel, which increased her subscriber numbers as she explains how it is not what the typical definition of it is like.

Nabela Noor

Nabela is also a Bangladeshi-American YouTuber, with over 500,000 subscribers. Although she’s always getting body shamed and called abusive names, she never let that allow her to stop following her passion. Her channel consists of makeup, skincare, fashion as well advice videos to encourage others to be happy with however they are. Nabela and Seth is another YouTube channel of her with her husband, with more than fifty thousand subscribers. She also uploads vlogs and videos which are related to desi culture.

Deepica Mutyala

Deepica is a Telugu-American YouTuber from LA. She has over 200,000 subscribers. Her video focuses on beauty hacks and product reviews. In February 2018, she launched Tinted, which is a digital community concentrated on representing “all the shades in between”. Tinted encourages people to feel beautiful and confident in their own skin.

Arshia Moorjani

Arshia is Indian-American YouTuber from New York with more than 200,000 subscribers. Like many other YouTubers, her channel consists of beauty and fashion videos of budget friendly items. What makes her channel a little bit different than others is that, she makes brown skin girls feel beautiful. This is really important nowadays, as social media usually portrays fair skinned or skinny girls are the only ones who are beautiful. Arshia also her own website called, Love being chic.