The Fifth Annual NYX Face Awards

Elizabeth Ruvalcaba, Staff Writer

For five years now, NYX cosmetics has hosted a competition to find the beauty vlogger of the year.

The competition began in April via video submissions from all over the United States and Canada. Nyx then chose 30 people to move onto the first round which was a fairytale theme. The contestants had to upload their videos to YouTube and for a week, the public voted for which 20 people would move onto the next round. For the second round, contestants had to paint their faces to look like an anime character. Another week of voting, only twelve contestants moved onto the third and final round of Youtube videos. The challenge they faced was to create an optical illusion with makeup. Finally, the last six contestants were flown to Los Angeles to showcase their final video in front of an audience.

This year, the NYX face awards was on August 20th at the Novo in downtown Los Angeles. The line to get into the event started at three PM and the door opened at five PM. After waiting two hours in line, there were two options. You could go upstairs and wait for the show to start or play games downstairs and potentially win make up. After all was set up, the show officially started at 7:15 pm.

Many things occurred during the show. To warm the crowd up, a band named Chloe x Haley performed. After the performance, the host, Kandee Johnson introduced the six contestants and played their videos. The contestants were CosmobyHailey, Alexa Poletti, Laura Sanchez, Brianna Fox, Pom Berry, and Rawbeautybykristi. The show went into intermission for voting while a drag queen named Alyssa Edwards preformed. Then, each contestant received an award for a special quality their video contained and the Beauty Volgger of the year was crowned.

The night ended with everyone being escorted downstairs to receive a goodie bag. The contents of the bag were skin care products, custom hair ties and nail wraps, Lips products from NYX themselves and a $25 target gift card. I would recommend this event if you like makeup and have patience to wait. The free gift is also a plus.

If you would like to know who won or watch the live preformances, go to nyxfaceawards.com or their account on Youtube.