"If you really want to build out that community, you have to be willing to let [viewers] get to know you as a person and not as a creator or a makeup artist or all these characters I turn myself into," Sydney says, although she herself has not been as vocal about her struggles with anxiety and depression on her channel. "That's something I'm trying to get more comfortable with this year."
And as creators who both have histories of personal health diagnoses ? Sydney with ulcerative colitis and Taty with premature ovarian failure ? they also believe it's important to be vocal about their illnesses as well as showing that these symptoms don't make them who they are or get in the way of them achieving their dreams. "People don't think that we could be struggling as much as everyone else if they look at us," Taty says. "With any illnesses, invisible or not, people assume we're victims and we're not ? we're victors."
