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We often turn to YouTube personalities for quick hair and makeup demos, but it's truly special when beauty-lovers use their platforms to spread messages of self-acceptance [2] and confidence.

Beauty vlogger Marimar Quiroa [3] is one of these people. The 22-year-old makeup-lover and Zumba instructor was born with a cystic hygroma tumor in her neck and mouth. This has resulted in her using tubes to eat, sign language to communicate, and a hole in her throat to breathe.