Laura Lee (born September 1, 1988) is an American make-up artist, YouTube creator and blogger.
She first began posting make-up looks on Instagram before creating her channel on YouTube in 2013, where she posted make-up tips and reviews.
Lee has collaborated with several makeup brands, such as Too Faced Cosmetics, MAC Cosmetics and Benefit. Towards the end of 2017, she promoted her future make-up brand, Laura Lee Los Angeles, and two palettes between that year and 2018.
She was known for her friendships and collaborations with other creators in the YouTube beauty community, including Manny MUA, Gabriel Zamora and Nikita Dragun, and was also involved in drama with fellow creator Jeffree Star, which was dubbed "Drama-geddon" by various commentary and drama channels on YouTube in 2018.
In the same year, tweets dating from 2012 surfaced which showed Lee using racist and derogatory language. Lee released an apology video which didn't initially address the situation, causing her to release a second video which was heavily criticized due to many finding it to be insincere, with common complaints including her monetizing the video and appearing to cry for most of the video but not visibly shedding tears. As a result, she lost over 300,000 subscribers and several sponsorships over the course of one week, and the video has since been considered one of the worst YouTuber apologies of all time.
In 2020, Lee announced the launch of her second company as well as a clothing boutique named Nudie Patootie.
