Beauty blogging is one of the most popular trends on the Internet. Channels of girls giving advice on makeup and choosing cosmetics gain millions of views. Among beauty bloggers on the Runet, the record holders for the number of subscribers and fans are, for example, Elena Krygina and Maria Way. Masha is known not so much for her recommendations as for her videos in which she transforms into different stars.

Biography

Maria is the girl’s real name, but Wei (way - English “path, road”), of course, is a pseudonym. Sometimes she jokingly calls herself “Masha the Way.” Information about Masha’s “passport” surname differs. In various public pages dedicated to her, two options are most often found - Shaposhnikova and Kerimova.

The girl hides her age, giving only her date of birth (December 3) and place (Tambov). Some sources say that Masha Wei's age is 21 years old. She often mentions her mother in her videos, but does not disclose her age.

IN school years Masha Wei was fond of philosophy and even participated in competitions scientific works. Later, she wanted to enroll in journalism, but under the influence of her mother she chose the specialty of financier. Now Maria wants to get an education “for the soul.”

Even Masha’s fans don’t know exactly what her height and weight are. Most often they write that she height is 168 cm, and weight is 48-50 kg. The blogger says she “doesn’t weigh herself.” She loves cheese and chocolate, does not deny herself sweets and starchy foods, but despite this, she is in excellent shape. Perhaps a passion for dancing helps with this.

Maria Way and YouTube

The first steps to fame for the future YouTube star were not easy for Masha. Her friends did not support her endeavors, and her mother even advised her to pay attention to more serious things.

At first she recorded videos for a beauty channel, but soon began developing her own, which will soon turn three years old. Masha Wei herself says that she was not at all afraid to make her first videos; rather, she felt a desire to demonstrate what she was capable of. Over time, she began to think critically about her videos and is constantly working to improve them.

Her business card– not a story about cosmetic innovations, but the creation of images. She calls it “makeup transformation.” With the help of cosmetics, Masha turned into Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, Cara Delevingne, Lana del Rey. But Masha also talks about her own skin care secrets and the intricacies of applying makeup. She especially loves winged eyeliner and smokey eyes. She assures that she did her makeup for a long time on a whim, she is self-taught and did not attend any courses.

Her first video was about false eyelashes. Masha talked about how to choose them, how to use them, what nuances and secrets there are.

Maria still wonders why some of her videos are more popular than others. She likes her videos the most transformation into Johnny Depp.

Masha Wei is not suffering star fever. She admits that she reads all the letters and comments, tries to answer them, but she doesn’t always have enough time.

Friends and personal life

Maria Way communicates closely with other popular video bloggers on the Runet. She often appears in videos, and Katya happily participates in Masha’s projects. Katya helped Masha start her blogging career, and soon Maria almost caught up with her friend in the number of subscribers. The girls met at the Reka restaurant, and Masha at first thought that Katya was very modest, but later it turned out that this was not the case at all.

When they remember Katya and Masha, they often mention the name of Sasha Spielberg ( in the photo in the middle). Sasha is also a video blogger, but she is the youngest in this trio. It seems every group dedicated to to young stars YouTube, from time to time, conducts a survey “who is better: Masha or Sasha?”

In her videos, Masha often says that she has best friend Dasha, but there is no information about what kind of girl this is.


They often write that Masha met with the popular blogger Maxim Golopolosov (Max +100500). Now she is credited with an affair with blogger Ilya Prusikin. The young people themselves claim that there is only friendship between them.

Hobbies of Masha Wei

  • Maria often says that she loves to read. In one of the videos, she talks about how she likes Stephen King's stories.
  • She listens to rock music and plays the electric guitar herself. Her favorite bands are 30 Seconds to Mars and Nirvana.
  • Likes to play "The Sims", and the series "Breaking bad"
  • Masha, like many girls, loves cats. She has a white and red cat, Motya, and once she took in five stray kittens that her neighbors brought to her.
  • She has not succumbed to the fashion for piercings and tattoos; Masha rarely even wears earrings. Her favorite jewelry is miniature rings.
  • My daily life Masha demonstrates on Instagram ( icon-instagram/maria__way/), where she already has a million followers.
  • Masha Wei’s credo is “problems, difficulties, fears... they are in our heads. Therefore, we must learn to be distracted at least for a while and truly enjoy life.”
  • On her own channel, she does not want to start intrigues and scandals; her desire is to give positive emotions.

Maria Wei- a popular blogger and favorite of millions of YouTube users. Wei - no real name girls. Fans are still at a loss to this day, trying to find information about her real last name, since on this moment At the time, only information about her patronymic (Olegovna) is reliably known. There are many unfounded guesses about all this, but Masha herself prefers not to comment on any rumors about her real name.

Maria was born on December 3 in the Russian city of Tambov. But the year of her birth also remains a mystery to everyone. Wei is silent about this information, but many fans think that she was born in 1992, which is very similar to the truth. And this is far from the only secret about Masha. Among other things, she hides the names of her parents. And this despite the fact that in her videos she often mentions her mother.

But, despite such secrecy, many interesting details are known about Masha’s life.

In particular, in the tenth grade she was very seriously interested in philosophy.

She devoted everything she had to her studies free time and even wrote works that allowed her to take pride of place in various competitions. But Masha never managed to enter the faculty that she really liked. This is primarily due to the fact that Wei’s mother dissuaded her from going to study to become a journalist, which she so wanted to become.

As a result, she entered a financial school and became a financier. But the blogger does not consider this profession to be his true calling. Someday she dreams of getting additional education to do exactly what she likes.

Personal life


Also, many fans of her work are probably concerned about Masha’s height and weight. But again, there is no reliable information about this. The girl herself claims that she has never weighed herself in her life, so her weight is unknown to her.

She also does not adhere to any particular style when it comes to clothes. One day she goes to fluffy dress, while the next he calmly appears in public in jeans. She does not follow fashion trends and does not even have tattoos or piercings on her body.

As for Masha’s personal life, everything here is also kept in the strictest confidence. Fans can only guess about who she is currently in a romantic relationship with. And do they exist at all? At one time, there were rumors that she was dating another popular Russian blogger, Max +100500, but this information was never confirmed.

Career


Maria Wei began to get involved in filming videos at a fairly young age. But her family and friends did not support the young girl’s endeavors. They believed that this was a waste of time that would give her absolutely nothing. Friends also mocked this hobby of the future star. They couldn't even imagine how wrong they were. After all, it is thanks to Maria’s videos that the whole country now knows about her. It was through self-belief and hard work that she was eventually able to achieve such great success.

Initially, she recorded short videos for one special channel, which talked about health and beauty. But she did not stay there long, as she soon realized that it would be much easier for her to work independently and independently.

And she made the right decision - by creating her own YouTube channel, she was very quickly able to find a response from viewers and gather an army of fans. It is also worth noting that she runs her own public page on VKontakte, which is the most popular community on the topic of beauty in RuNet. Among other things, Maria can be found on Instagram, Twitter and many other popular social networks.

The YouTube star did not stop there. She dreamed of trying her hand as an actress. And soon she had such an opportunity. She was invited to appear in a video for a popular Russian group. As a result, the video was a serious success and received numerous rave reviews. Masha herself spoke about this experience exclusively in positive terms. She believes it was an important experience that gave her the opportunity to try her hand at something bigger. And this work was far from the last in her acting career. In 2015, it became known that the popular domestic film director Pavel Rumyantsev, who has several commercially successful films to his credit, decided to make a rather unusual film in the horror genre. Rumyantsev invited all the most popular video bloggers of our country to play the main roles. And the main role, as you probably already understood, was played by Masha Wei.

The film was clearly inspired by old slasher films, which typically featured mad masked killers murdering young people. This is exactly the plot that was in “Dislike”. An unknown psychopath locked the bloggers in a mansion and began methodically getting rid of them different ways. Despite such a primitive plot, everything was filmed not without irony. So fans of the genre, as well as fans of bloggers, will clearly appreciate this film. Moreover, Wei is given a lot of screen time there. She in Once again was able to prove that she is talented in everything she undertakes.

Now Masha continues to actively blog on YouTube. The popularity of this girl continues to grow every day. And stop at success achieved or she clearly isn’t going to take a break. She has a lot of creative plans with which she will pleasantly surprise her numerous fans. So don’t forget to follow her updates on one of the social networks.

Maria also has her own store where she sells cosmetics in cute boxes

Maria Wei

The upcoming Russian YouTube celebrity was born on December 3, 1993 in Tambov, Russia. Despite the great curiosity of admirers about the biography of Maria Wei, the celebrity does not talk about her family or other significant information about her personal life. Occasionally, Masha Wei talks about her mother in her videos and repeatedly mentions her late grandmother, who was a Russian language teacher.

According to information from the Internet, which is followed by leading media outlets, Wei's real name is Maria Olegovna Kerimova.

Maria Wei was a successful student at a Tambov school, and later, when the whole family moved to the capital, Masha became an excellent student, receiving gold medal. In high school high school Maria showed interest in philosophy and wanted to get a general philosophical education at Moscow State University, which seemed quite promising to her. Afterwards, Maria Wei decided that she would become a journalist and planned to go to the Faculty of Journalism.


Masha loved to take part in various competitions and olympiads to make sure that this was exactly the specialty to which Wei wanted to devote her life. Probably, such thoughts were facilitated by the fact that at that time Masha began to create the first videos for someone else’s web portal about fashion, beauty and health. As a result, Maria, at the request of her family, enrolled in the Faculty of Economics.

After studying at university and receiving a diploma in finance, Maria Wei did not aspire to work in her profession, since this area The activity turned out to be uninteresting. Masha is thinking about the 2nd higher education, which she will like, but a little later.

Way to success


First video filming Mashi Wei started back in school times, despite the fact that family and friends did not support Maria’s interest. While in high school, Maria Wei began filming videos for someone else’s YouTube channel and, having accumulated skills, decided to implement her plans.

In 2012, while studying at the university, Masha opened a beauty channel on YouTube. The first video posted was a review on how to apply false eyelashes different types. Next came master classes on skin care, choosing cosmetics and other nuances in the field of makeup. Masha chose a fictitious pseudonym, Maria Wei, and made a promise to her mother that her real name would not appear in the video.

Family and friends did not think or even believe that Masha would achieve incredible achievements. But the girl loved her job, and she continued to move forward and develop herself as a blogger. Maria Wei became friends with the gifted blogger Katya Klap, learning from her the art of creating exciting and entertaining videos. Afterwards, she starred in a video with Katya and, in addition to lessons on makeup techniques, began recording videos about her personal life, leading a VKontakte group, and testing herself as a blogger-columnist.

If you don’t know how to quickly promote a channel on YouTube, take the example of Masha Wei. The rapid promotion of Maria’s channel was facilitated by the highly informative content, beautiful design with the introduction of cool memes, easy and simple presentation of the material.

One of Maria's most famous works was a four-minute video explaining young girls' love of taking selfies. More than 8 million people watched it.

Despite the fact that Masha short stature, only 168 cm with a height of 48 kg, it did not stop her from earning the title of “sex symbol of the Russian Internet.” Long and beautiful hair, a delightful smile and a direct style of communication did not leave network users indifferent, who awarded her the prestigious title. Masha earned the title of “sex symbol of the Russian Internet.”

Popularity helped Masha test herself as an actress. Maria Wei appeared in the video for the song “Tsok-Tsok” by Anton Rival and Dmitry Vlaskin. Then she starred in the video “Happiness” by the group “Nerves”.

In 2015, Maria was made an offer to host a program on the CTC Love TV channel, aimed at a teenage audience. At the same time, Maria Wei demonstrated her acting talents by starring in the role of a selfish girlfriend. Masha Wei, together with innovators Valeria, Nastya Smirnova and Zaur Gazdarov, hosts the LoveStyle program, where she tells viewers about the latest fashion trends and showbiz scandals. In the same year, Maria earned the “Golden Button” from YouTube management, since the number of subscribers to Masha’s profile exceeded 1 million people.


In 2016, Maria was invited to star in leading role movie "Dislike". Nastya Akatova, Diana Melison, and Oleg Gaas also starred. The film, shot in the style of trash horror, earned mixed comments from viewers. For example, Interfax believes that this is an “encouraging movie for young people,” but according to blogger Dmitry Larin, the film turned out to be mediocre and makes you sick.

A year later, Maria Wei took a sudden break. After Masha explained her absence from the network, as it turned out, she began to receive serious threats, which forced the girl to hide from the public eye.

Plastic

In 2017, Maria Wei again came under a barrage of criticism because of her own statement about the naturalness of her beauty. The scandalous blogger caught Masha lying, mentioning that Wei, in one of her videos, admitted that she had plastic surgery and used lipolytic injections. However, before the statement, Maria quickly deleted this video.


After watching the archived videos, it turned out that Maria Wei actually had plastic surgery on her chin and upper lip. Looking at the photo of Maria Wei before and after plastic surgery, you can see that her face has really changed.


Maria Wei looked like normal before plastic surgery beautiful girl, but after plastic surgery, she turned into a rubber doll, users say.


In the spring, Maria Wei introduced young fashionistas to the new release of makeup cosmetics #BeautyBox from Faberlic. After Masha used cosmetics from this company in one of her lessons, she was made the face of this brand. She actively began to assure and convince her subscribers to use this cosmetics, because it can transform people beyond recognition.

Recently, blogger Masha Wei was invited to a State Duma meeting, where other bloggers were supposed to give their advice on improving life in the virtual and real world. However, none of the popular bloggers accepted these proposals, except for an adherent of the “Big Russian Boss” channel and the daughter of the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, Elizaveta Peskova.

Personal


The sex symbol of Russian YouTube Maria Wei, as she is often called in the media, is not married. She carefully hides hints of love affairs from fans. According to fans, Wei was in love with Max Golopolosov (known as Max +100500) and Ilya Prusikin (Ilyich from the Little Big team).

One day, Maria Wei mentioned a guy named Sasha, with whom she attended various concerts. Back in 2015, Masha published a video in which Alexander appeared. In this video, Alexander did makeup for Masha. Wei explained that she used to be close friends with Sasha, but the friendship gradually grew into a relationship.

Maria Wei loves the work of Stephen King, thrillers and horror films, classic literature she likes it too. Maria has a cat named "Motya" who lives with Wei's parents. But the dog named “Totoshka” lives with Wei. For a long time fans were interested in the question of what kind of music Maria Wei likes. As it turned out, Masha gives her preference to rock, she likes such groups as “Nirvana” and “Breaking bad”. Love for rock taught Maria to play the electric guitar. As you can see, there is no limit to Maria Wei’s work.


Maria Wei's friend Daria

Who is Maria Wei friends with today? She has a best and devoted friend named Dasha. Her friend's name was mentioned multiple times in Wei's video. Masha Wei was also close friends with blogger Katya Klap. However, according to rumors, Masha betrayed Katya. After Clap broke up with her boyfriend, Maria Wei tactfully appropriated him for herself.

Today Maria Wei runs a page on Instagram; 5 million people follow her profile. Masha regularly takes part in various photo shoots and posts photo reports on her account.


Almost all of Masha Wei’s photos turn out bright, juicy and interesting. Followers appreciate Wei's art of posing and reward her with thousands of likes and hundreds of flattering comments.


Maria Wei and Selena Gomez


Maria Way (MWaytv) is the virtual name of a Russian woman from the cohort of “opinion leaders,” as popular people are called today Russian video bloggers. Her real name is Maria Olegovna Kerimova (according to other sources, Shaposhnikova).

In 2015, she joined the ranks of YouTube Gold Button award winners, given to channels with 1 million followers. In 2016, the blogger starred in the horror film “Dislike.” By September 2017, her subscriber audience had grown to 3.8 million.


During the same period, she and other leading representatives of the Internet community were invited to Russian State Duma to the meeting of the “Council of Bloggers”. But both she and her colleagues (Katya Klap, Yuri Dud, Sasha Spielberg, Wylsacom, Nikolai Sobolev, etc.) ignored the initiative of the country’s legislative branch.

Childhood

The future Russian-language YouTube star was born in Tambov on December 3, 1993. The girl prefers to hide information about her parents and many other personal information.


It is known that in high school she was interested in philosophy and was thinking about receiving a philosophical education at Moscow State University, which seemed quite fundamental to her. Then she decided that she would enter the journalism department, participated in various competitions and olympiads to make sure that this was the profession to which she wanted to devote her life. Perhaps this decision was facilitated by the fact that during this period she began to record the first videos for one of the sites about beauty and health on YouTube and think about creating her own channel.


She studied “excellently” and graduated from school with a gold medal. Her grandmother, a former teacher, was especially happy about this circumstance. But, in the end, Maria followed the advice of her family and chose to enter not journalism, but the Faculty of Economics, as one of the most prestigious and in demand.

Development of creativity

In 2012, while a student at the Faculty of Economics at Moscow State University, Maria created her own beauty channel on YouTube. The first video published was a review on how to apply false eyelashes various types. It was followed by master classes on skin care, selection cosmetics and about other subtleties from the field of makeup.

One of the first videos on the Maria Way channel

Neither family nor friends believed in the success of her endeavor. But she loved this activity, and she continued to move forward and develop as a blogger. Masha became friends with a talented colleague Katya Klap, adopting her skill in creating exciting videos that are interesting to viewers. Then she appeared in joint videos with Katya and, in addition to lessons on the art of makeup, began making videos about her life, running a public page on VKontakte, and trying herself as a blogger-columnist.


The promotion of Masha’s channel was also facilitated by the fact that her videos captivated viewers with the simplicity of the material, interesting design using Internet memes, the presence of self-irony, and high information content.


After graduating from university, she did not work in her specialty, but continued to do what she loved on the Internet. Gradually she managed to win hearts huge number users - about 3 thousand people subscribed to her channel every day.


Particularly popular among her works was a four-minute video explaining girls' addiction to taking selfies. It was viewed by more than seven million users.

How do girls take selfies?

Viewers also really liked the videos demonstrating her transformations into famous people using makeup, which the girl called “makeup transformations.” Among the looks she tried on were Johnny Depp, Megan Fox, Rihanna, Kim Kardashian and Cara Delevingne.


In 2015, she was invited to become a presenter on the cable channel CTC Love, aimed at a young female audience. At the same time, she showed her artistic abilities by playing the role of a selfish girlfriend of a young man (played by Dmitry Vlaskin, familiar to viewers from the TV series “Fizruk”) in the video of the humorous rap duet “Successful Group”, created by Eldar Dzharakhov and Sasha Tileks.

Successful group - Tsok-Tsok (Maria Wei and Dmitry Vlaskin)

A year later, Masha could already be safely called not only a video blogger, but also an aspiring actress - the first domestic film “Dislike” was released, where she made her debut in the central role. According to the plot, a group of young bloggers (in fact, the actors played themselves - in addition to Masha, it starred Anastasia Akatova, Diana Melison, Oleg Gaas, Alexander Panin and Evgeny Dakota) arrives at a luxurious cottage for a promotional event, but falls into the trap of a maniac.


The film, shot in the trash horror genre, received mixed reviews from the public. For example, according to Interfax, this is a “cheerful youth movie,” but according to blogger Dmitry Larin, it is “a mediocre, shameful vomit.”


Together with other famous video makers, including Stas Davydov, Ilya Prusikin, Ruslan Usachev, Maria participated in the video blogger festival “Vidfest-2016”, held in the Northern capital. In the company of Sasha Spielberg and Pasha Mikus, she advertised Sberbank’s youth services.


Personal life of Maria Wei

The sex symbol of Russian-language YouTube, as she is sometimes called in the press, is not married. According to fans, she had affairs with Maxim Golopolosov (known as Max +100500) and Ilya Prusikin (Ilyich from the Little Big group). In one of the interviews, the girl mentioned her young man named Alexander, with whom she often went to rock concerts. In addition, she intrigued subscribers by publishing a video entitled “My boyfriend does my makeup.” Note that the video appeared on the Internet in 2015 - the situation has probably changed since then.


Popular Tambov resident - amateur tasty food, while she claims that she does not go to the gym, but loves to dance to any music - this replaces her physical activity in the gym. She likes the work of Stephen King, thrillers and horrors, and classic literature also appeals to her.

She loves her cat Motya, who lives with her parents, and her dog Totoshka, who lives with her, the TV series Breaking bad, the group Nirvana, and knows how to play the electric guitar.

Maria Wei shows her apartment and dog

In 2016, she quarreled with Katya Klap. According to all-knowing fans, the cause of the quarrel was Katya’s boyfriend. Allegedly, a classic situation occurred - Katya broke up with her boyfriend, and Masha, having shown herself not to be the best side, “appropriated” it for herself.

Maria Wei now

The Internet star actively promotes herself as a model and advertises cosmetics and fashion accessories of world brands. In April 2017, she presented the spring-summer collection of the American company Claire's. It included earrings, bracelets, varnishes, cases for mobile phones, cosmetic bags, as well as souvenirs and gizmos dedicated to the Hello Kitty brand Kitty and the Minions - cartoon servants of Dracula and other villains.


In May, fashionistas learned from her about a new series of #BeautyBox makeup products from Faberlic. She became the face of the collection, gave a make-up lesson using this cosmetics, assuring her fans that this was an absolute must-have that could make them irresistible.

In the summer of the same year, Maria became the heroine of the cover of Cosmopolitan Beauty magazine and spoke on its pages about how to become a popular video blogger. She could also be seen on the TNT channel and on the O’STIN YouTube channel as one of the hosts of the “Style in 90 Seconds” project. She gave advice regarding the combination various items toilet and clearly demonstrated this.