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More of our conversation with YouTube Star and Samsung partner, Molly Burke.<\/p>\n
You talk a lot about fashion and beauty on YouTube and Instagram.\u00a0 As someone with a visual impairment, how do you learn about makeup and fashion and what suits your style?\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n For me, it\u2019s not about how something looks.\u00a0 I love the process of getting up and doing my makeup.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a chore to me.\u00a0 I love playing with new products and feeling the textures, testing new formulas out.\u00a0 Time for self-care isn\u2019t selfish, it\u2019s part of emotional health for me.\u00a0 Doing my skincare routine, putting on makeup, picking out my clothes feels like my meditation.\u00a0 Fashion is all about the fabrics, the textures, the shape, what suits my body shape and skin tone, not just what works on a model.\u00a0 I really enjoy all of that.<\/p>\n How do you apply makeup so professionally?<\/strong><\/p>\n Just a lot of practice!\u00a0 I remember the first time I tried putting mascara on, I was probably about 11, and I came down to kitchen where my parents were cooking dinner and they both burst out laughing.\u00a0 It was literally down my cheeks \u2013 all over my face.\u00a0 (Laughs) When I had no friends, I had a lot of time to watch YouTube tutorials and listen to the girls say there is this kind of colour and it is good to put here and put mattes in the crease and not shimmers and it gave me all of the tools, techniques and ideas that I needed.\u00a0\u00a0 I just practiced and learned and picked up product after product.\u00a0 I would work with makeup artists.\u00a0 When I really got into makeup, my Mom would take me to the MAC Counter and have them professionally colour match me.\u00a0 They taught me about using the right products and the proper placement.<\/p>\n Being a YouTuber and an Instagrammer, you are reliant on technology.\u00a0 How do you use technology in your daily life?<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s funny, a lot of my followers even get confused and wonder how I can post on Instagram.\u00a0 It\u2019s funny to me \u2013 it is 2019, we have smart fridges, we have robot vacuums \u2013 we have come a long way.\u00a0 Of course, these companies have thought about disabled people and how to make technology accessible to us as well.\u00a0 Of course, I use Bixby (Samsung\u2019s virtual assistant) like a lot of people do.\u00a0 I also use something called Voice Assistant which is a program that Samsung has created that reads out everything on the phone that you need to know.\u00a0 I just roll my finger over the phone and it tells me everything that is under my finger and using finger taps, I can do everything that everyone else can do.\u00a0 Even if I take a selfie, it will tell me \u201cface in frame\u201d or \u201cblurry\u201d.\u00a0 It explains where to move the camera, what to do and even if I want to take a photo with someone else, it will tell me \u201ctwo faces in the frame\u201d telling me what I need to know.<\/p>\n How did the partnership with Samsung come about?<\/strong><\/p>\n Casey Neistat was one of the first big creator to believe in me.\u00a0 He had over eight million subscribers when I met him and I had 67,000.\u00a0 We probably had a three-minute exchange and he told me that he wanted to work with me.\u00a0 He gave me his email address and I thought, he\u2019s not going to reply but I thought, let\u2019s take a chance, why not.\u00a0 I sent him an email and less than 20 minutes later, he invited me to his studio in New York.\u00a0 I think that to date, I\u2019m the only creator that he has done a full collaboration with (on both my channel and his).<\/p>\n He is a huge Samsung supporter and has worked with them on a number of campaigns. After filming, we chatted and he asked what he could do to help me and that he believed in what I was doing.\u00a0 He thought Samsung would be a good fit for me and he could introduce me.\u00a0\u00a0 I ended up meeting with them and then bumping into them at festivals and then I met the Samsung team again at an event where Casey was speaking.\u00a0 I ended up becoming friends with Team Samsung, even traveling to their HQ in South Korea to meet with their mobile accessibility team. \u00a0I told them that the ten-year anniversary of me going blind was coming up and that I wanted to celebrate.\u00a0 A lot of people don\u2019t think that having a disability is a positive thing \u2013 in fact many think it is the worst thing that can happen to us.\u00a0 I like turning that on its head and saying that it is a good thing.\u00a0 Let\u2019s celebrate it.\u00a0 Samsung partnered with me on a ten-part series and helped my track this ten-year journey.\u00a0 I opened up more about it than I ever have before.<\/p>\n Samsung\u2019s message is do what you can\u2019t and that\u2019s what I try to do every day.\u00a0 I think that this is the perfect alignment and now my audience even tells me to \u201cdo what you can\u2019t\u201d.\u00a0 They just love the phrase.\u00a0 It is so empowering when all you have ever been told is you can\u2019t, you won\u2019t, you shouldn\u2019t and all of a sudden, this huge company is telling you that you can.<\/p>\n You are a living, breathing example of the #DoWhatYouCant mindset.\u00a0 You have jumped out of an airplane, gone cliff diving, spoke in front of huge crowds many times over.\u00a0 What is next on your bucket list?<\/strong><\/p>\n Everyone keeps asking!\u00a0 I was hoping to do Edgewalk (CN Tower) while I was here [Toronto] but it\u2019s too cold, but hopefully next time.\u00a0 I\u2019m an adrenaline junky for sure.\u00a0 I\u2019m a really good hybrid of the total girlie-girl and the let\u2019s go in the mud, let\u2019s get dirty, let\u2019s go camping, jump off a cliff girl too.\u00a0 I like to live in the moment.\u00a0 I am taking it day by day but there is a lot of big stuff coming.\u00a0 I\u2019m someone who likes to dream big and think that the sky is the limit.\u00a0 The worst thing that will happen is if you fail and if you fail you learn a lot, so it\u2019s not really a fail.<\/p>\n You inspire so many people.\u00a0 Who is your inspiration?<\/strong><\/p>\n My mom has been one of my biggest supporters.\u00a0 She has gone through so much and held everything together for everybody.\u00a0 I find her strength and her positivity is what has trained me to be so strong and positive in my own life.\u00a0 She has been a huge inspiration to me.\u00a0 Aly Raisman who I have been lucky enough to get to work with is just a fearless woman who speaks up and speaks out and doesn\u2019t sit back.\u00a0 I know how hard it is to talk about painful, vulnerable moments for a living and dragging up the past.\u00a0 Getting to work with her and develop a friendship with her has been great.\u00a0 Iskra Lawrence, again a woman who is unapologetic about being herself.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t care that she isn\u2019t a double zero, she believes that she deserves a space in the modelling industry.\u00a0 She doesn\u2019t believe that she should be called plus sized \u2013 she believes that she is here, proud and a beautiful woman and her body is ok.\u00a0 I love that, she is really inspiring to me and helps me embrace and love the body that I am in.\u00a0 I look to so many women like Ellen DeGeneres and Oprah Winfrey who I looked to during my childhood as minorities who broke ground for their communities in the entertainment industry.\u00a0 They brought so much voice and strength to those communities and even to YouTube.<\/p>\n Follow Molly on Instagram @mollyburkeofficial and click here<\/a> to watch more of her YouTube Channel.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"