Biography of Anastasia Shpagina
Anastasia Shpagina (Fukkacumi) is a YouTube video blogger with a shocking appearance in the style of Japanese cartoon characters - huge glass eyes, brightly colored hair, a wasp waist.
Girl in anime style - blogger Anastasia Shpagina
She gained fame thanks to online video makeup tutorials, amazing transformations through cosmetics into show business stars - Katy Perry, Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus and many others.
Fans call her the goddess of makeup, an Internet phenomenon, a master of the art of transformation, and Anastasia herself, who has more than 2.5 million subscribers, calls herself the Fairy of Flowers.
Other activities
Vlogging is far from her only way of earning money. An Internet star often becomes the face of famous campaigns. Anastasia also makes a good profit from photo shoots, in which she constantly takes part. Once she even managed to achieve success abroad and become the face of popular cosmetics in Germany. She took part in famous programs several times. At the moment she has a lot of creative plans that she plans to implement in the very near future.
Childhood
The future “anime girl” was born on May 2, 1993 in Odessa. Her older brother Roman was 3 years old by that time. At an early age, Nastya was a very shy and modest homebody, practically did not communicate with her peers, and loved to draw alone.
Anastasia Shpagina in childhood
At first, like many girls, she depicted princesses, elves, fairies and other cartoon and fairy tale characters on paper. Then she started using her face as a blank slate and her mother’s makeup instead of pencils.
Anastasia Shpagina at school
During her school years, she remained quite reserved, rarely leaving the house and, partly due to teenage problems with her facial skin, became even more interested in using cosmetics. Her family supported her in this, and her teachers reprimanded her for her inappropriate appearance. But the Odessa native showed character and did not stop doing her favorite makeup, choosing this method of self-expression for herself. But she did not strive to achieve a high level of academic knowledge and excellent grades in school subjects, believing that they would hardly be useful to her in the future. Who was Anastasia Shpagina before becoming famous?
Carier start
With grief in half, she graduated from eleventh grade. After that, she decided to get a job at a local hairdresser in order to earn at least some money. But her peculiar appearance again played a cruel joke on her. Nastya is fired and at the same time new complexes are created. She again became withdrawn and rarely left the house. Gradually, she began to surf the Internet more and more often. There she learned that there are bloggers who can freely implement their ideas and share them with others without even leaving home.
Blogger and makeup artist
After graduating from school, for some time the girl, similar to fairy-tale heroines, worked in a hairdressing salon, turning her main passion in life into a profession.
In 2011, she created her YouTube channel and began sharing with users interesting moments from her life, dreams and fantasies, knowledge in the field of make-up, and demonstrated in videos the stages of creating her unusual doll image. Her original appearance was not perceived by everyone around her with approval and understanding. Sometimes people reacted negatively to her too extravagant experiments with artistic makeup. And the “flower fairy” was fired from her job at the hairdresser solely because of her appearance, which, by the way, she spent at least 3 hours creating in the morning, for which she got up at 5 o’clock in the morning.
Anastasia Shpagina chose an unusual image for herself
But her YouTube videos teaching various makeup techniques were liked by many users. Everyone was especially amazed by how, with the help of cosmetics, she achieved an amazing resemblance to world celebrities: Megan Fox, Johnny Depp, Zoe Sugg, Jared Leto, and the villain from DC comics Harley Quinn. Moreover, while working on the image, she always tried to emphasize her similarity with the chosen hero not only visually, but also with his characteristic facial expressions and behavior. Makeup in the style of Anastasia Shpagina In 2012, information appeared in the press that Nastya’s parents separated, and her father brought another woman to their apartment. On Nastya’s VKontakte page there was also a mention that as a child he raised his hand to her, but later this post was deleted
Nastya Shpagina as Jack Sparrow
During the same period, the foreign press became interested in the extraordinary YouTube artist. An article about her even appeared on the pages of the English newspaper The Daily Mail. In addition, she was chosen as the face of the youth makeup line of the German company YOIDA. And in Russia, along with other bloggers, she became the star of one of the advertisements.
Anastasia Shpagina without makeup
After that, the scope of her activities began to include photo shoots, advertising of various products (contact lenses, cosmetics) and in other countries, including Korea, Romania, Japan, where the appearance of Nastya, who took the pseudonym Fukkatsumi, which means “resurrected” (in addition, this is a translation in Japanese for the name Anastasia), was received with special delight. She became a guest on a number of popular TV shows and various events in the field of make-up and video blogging (for example, VIDEOFAN). Her hobby began to bring her considerable income. In 2016, together with her colleagues Milena Chizhova, Kolya Sobolev and Guram Narmania, she represented the Russian-language segment of YouTube at the largest video blogger forum VidCon, held from June 23 to 25 in Los Angeles. There I got acquainted with the secrets of success of world industry leaders, attended presentations and concerts of musicians who achieved fame thanks to the release of online videos of their compositions.
Anastasia Shpagina's nose before and after surgery
In 2020, Anastasia became a victim of unsuccessful plastic surgery at the Parada clinic in St. Petersburg. Since childhood, the girl had a complex about the shape of her nose and decided to correct it surgically. After the operation, the nose stopped breathing, the scars did not become smaller after the recovery period, and the clinic refused to save the situation. Anastasia Shpagina on the “Let Them Talk” program When the girl spoke about her sad experience on her blog, she began to receive threats. Nastya decided that the surgeon Timur Nugaev, who performed rhinoplasty on her, was threatening her. The surgeon and his victim met face to face in the program “Let Them Talk”, but did not reach a consensus.
Emergence of a YouTube channel
Immediately after this, back in 2011, she decided to create her own YouTube channel. Even though she was only seventeen years old at that time, she still managed to do this. She started telling people how to apply unusual makeup. Thanks to cosmetics alone, Anastasia transformed beyond recognition. It was then that people learned about her famous doll image.
Looking at her photographs, it is difficult to believe that this is a living person.
She managed to achieve this result thanks to the support of her best friend, whom she met on the Internet, as well as thanks to the support that appeared online after the release of her first videos. She could not even imagine that she would eventually be able to achieve such stunning success.
The greatest success was enjoyed by her videos with transformations in which, thanks to makeup, she achieved an amazing resemblance to such stars as Lana Del Rey, Justin Bieber, Magan Fox, Johnny Depp and even Jared Leto. The result was simply phenomenal.
Personal life of Anastasia Shpagina
The favorite of fans of anime culture is in no hurry to start a family - she is not married and does not have a serious relationship yet. Previously, according to unofficial information, she had an affair with musician and blogger Ruslan Tushentsov (CrazyMegaHell).
Anastasia Shpagina and Ruslan
After the “Let Them Talk” program that took place in May 2020, where Andrei Malakhov accused her of imposing his opinion on fans, Ruslan showed nobility towards the girl. Namely, he published a video in her defense, and then, in response to the presenter’s rude reaction to his video (a statement that the blogger’s “ass would be on fire”), challenged him to a Versus rap duel.
Blogger Anastasia Shpagina
Nastya is fond of esoteric literature, is a fan of spicy dishes, horror films, extreme sports and everything that goes beyond the ordinary. She leads a healthy lifestyle - she doesn’t drink, doesn’t smoke, and loves sports. The fragile doll was not afraid to make a rope jump from a 35-meter-high bridge.
Personal life
Not much is known about Anastasia’s personal life. The girl is not married, no children. In the recent past, she met with the musician of the band CrazyMegaHell, Ruslan Tushentsov, who stood up for the girl after Andrey Malakhov’s program “Let Them Talk” aired.
In addition to her professional passion for makeup and make-up, Nastya reads esoteric literature, watches horror films, and loves spicy foods. The girl is looking for moderate extreme sports in life, so she goes in for active sports and did “rope jumping” from a 35-meter height.
Nastya Shpagina now
In 2020, Nastya was among the 500 guests of the large and positive festival of YouTube bloggers “VideoHeat”, which took place in Kyiv on May 20-21.
Its participants included her fellow millionaires, including Agnia Ogonyok (Russian Federation), Stas Davydov (Latvia), Maryana Ro (Russian Federation, Japan), Alena Venum, Zhenya Belozerova (Ukraine). She continues to create in the beauty style, inspired by similar works of well-known bloggers and makeup artists in Internet circles: Boston native Michelle Phan, who has 8 million subscribers, Promise Phan from Kathmandu with a 5 million subscribed audience on YouTube. The petite Odessa resident has not yet managed to reach such heights, but she has already managed to gather a fairly impressive army of supporters who want to understand the secrets of the style and beauty of their idol (by 2020, more than 2.5 million). Her earnings from her main activities on YouTube video hosting alone, according to the WhatStat service, reached five thousand dollars a month.
Interesting Facts
- Even in her school years, Anastasia realized that she would never drink alcohol or nicotine. She leads a healthy lifestyle to this day, thanks to which she managed to achieve such an ideal figure.
- Despite the fact that she became famous thanks to photographs and videos in which a significant amount of makeup was used, she is not shy about posting photos online without makeup.
- Her height is 158 cm, while her weight is only 39 kg.
- She is a big fan of foreign horror films.
- In music, he prefers the work of Marilyn Manson.
