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The U.K.’s Lauren Luke is a YouTube celebrity. Luke’s instructional makeup videos have received over 34 million hits—that’s more than Barack Obama, National Geographic or even CBS News. The 27-year-old started an eBay business selling makeup. After receiving a number of questions from buyers about how to use the makeup, Luke began making videos to answer them. She doesn’t know how to edit the videos and says that her success is due to the fact that she’s not a person that other women feel threatened by.  A little over two years ago, 27-year-old Luke was working evenings as a telephone dispatcher for a local cab company, hating the hours and missing her 10-year-old son.
Now she's a YouTube sensation with a cosmetics line due in stores worldwide at the beginning of April, and a book being published in October. All this from an idea started in her bedroom in Tyneside, England.
Luke, a single mother living with her mother and sister, decided the time had come...
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