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= Patricia Bright = Patricia Bright (born February 4, 1987) is a British beauty YouTuber and entrepreneur.

Early Life
Patricia Bright, née Otegwu, was born on February 4, 1987 in Battersea, London. Bright is of Delta Igbo heritage with her Igbo name, Onyebuchi, meaning “Who is greater than God?” In the late 1980’s, Bright’s mother moved from Nigeria to London and became a naturalized citizen whilst her father was a Nigerian international student working towards a printing technology degree. Shortly after meeting, her parents welcomed her into the world, along with her sister eighteen months later. In 1993, Bright’s father was deported from the United Kingdom due to him not applying for permanent residency following his student visa’s expiration. This left her mother to adapt into the role as the sole provider for her family.

Patricia Bright’s mother worked as an office cleaner during the untimely extradition of her husband. Her mother refused to leave Bright and her sister home alone so they too would accompany their mother to work at four in the morning to clean offices before primary school. In an article by the Daily Mail, Bright explains that her and her sister would “vacuum, wash the dishes and wipe down surfaces” and keep it a secret in fear “that they might take [their] Mum away as well as [their] Dad.” Her mother, with only a secondary school education, began training as a nurse while she worked as an office cleaner. Bright and her family lived in multiple council houses where they had numerous encounters “with racists, being attacked by a neighbour’s dog and the daily struggle of living in dodgy locations.” When Bright’s mother qualified as a nurse, she bought their first home from the council in 1997. In 2002, her mother sold her home, bought a new one, and began investing in properties. It wasn’t long before she created a portfolio with ten properties, “grinding – the only word for it – her way to success.”

Career
At age fourteen, Patricia Bright’s first job was earning money through commission delivering kitchenware catalogues and subsequent orders door-to-door. Including this on her curriculum vitae helped land her jobs in retail at sixteen years old, explaining it helped her with her organization skills, customer service skills, and financial management experience. After graduating from the University of Manchester with a degree in accounting and finance, Patricia’s networking skills helped land her an internship at the leading investment bank, Merrill Lynch in London, England.

YouTube Career
In 2010, a year before getting her job at Merrill Lynch, Patricia Bright created a YouTube channel and began vlogging under the alias BritPopPrincess. In an interview with Glamour Magazine, Bright explains “[she] started vlogging in the bathroom of [her] shared house, whispering to the camera on top of a shoe box.” She began with posting videos on beauty hacks and fashion products, and eventually shifted to creating make-up tutorials. By 2013, she realized she was making enough money from her YouTube channel and resigned from her job as a business analyst consultant at Merrill Lynch to concentrate on growing her channel full-time. Her channel consists of reviewing make-up products from various brands such as L’Oréal, Kylie Cosmetics, Too Faced, Fenty Beauty, Nars, MAC, and Bobbi Brown. In addition, she has content ranging from advice videos, motherhood focused videos, try-on hauls featuring brands such as Fashion Nova and Misguided that have curated over 3 million views a video, and much more. Her channel’s success is credited to her “warm persona, witty catch phrases and genuineness." Bright has more than 2.5 million subscribers and is estimated to be earning over £200,000 a year. She was the first Black female YouTuber to reach 1 million subscribers in the United Kingdom.

Collaborations
Patricia Bright has a portfolio of lucrative partnerships with highly regarded brands such as Coca-Cola, Nike, and MAC Cosmetics. On August 5, 2018, Bright partnered up with MAC Cosmetics to release her very own, limited edition self-titled lipstick. The matte lipstick was available at Selfridges, MAC Freelancing stores, and MAC online. In an article by Black Beauty & Hair, Bright explains that the lipstick was a throwback to the 90’s “where lots of strong powerful women were in the mainstream wearing iconic browns." She also starred in a campaign with popular brand Bobbi Brown in early 2018. She worked alongside Olivia Palermo where the two were followed around New York, NY documenting what made them smile during the day.

Book
Patricia Bright is a published author as she released her debut book entitled Hustle & Heart on February 7, 2019. The book was written and narrated in audio form by Bright with help from the team at Harper Collins. Hustle & Heart shares her journey to YouTube success with raw advice on how to make it in the business world. In an interview with Metro, she described the book as a sort of therapy for herself through documenting her whole story from beginning to end “but also realizing that there’s still so much more [she] want[s] to add."

Personal Life
Patricia Bright met her husband, Michael when she was nineteen and he was twenty-one years old. Her husband, a South African born Mancunian, practices as a physiotherapist in London, England. The two married on March 25, 2012 at The Orangery in Kensington Palace and documented the moment on her YouTube channel. On April 11, 2016, Bright and her husband welcomed their daughter, Grace, in what she described as a “very emotional experience” that “didn’t happen as [they] expected." Bright also documented this intimate moment in a YouTube video that has reached over 1.6 million views on her separate vlog channel called Britpoplife Vlogs that has over 370 thousand subscribers.

Cosmetic Advocacy
Patricia Bright has always been vocal about her decisions to undergo cosmetic surgery. She admitted to getting a breast augmentation in 2015 after she was criticized by her subscribers. Bright condemned the fact that people blindly criticize those who go under the knife. Those against her surgeries thought it was “hypocritical because [she] always talk[ed] about self-love and confidence, but [she doesn’t] think cosmetic surgery changes that in the slightest.” Due to her subscribers being disappointed in her decisions, she covered up her enhancements. But, she has since then chosen to embrace them and stay true to herself. After giving birth to her daughter, Bright also got liposuction and shared her experience in a YouTube video in 2018.