I didn’t get a university degree and worked in a department store instead, now I’m worth £6.5m
MAKEUP mogul Jamie Genevieve is sitting pretty after it was revealed she is now worth £6.5million.
The 30-year-old, from Glasgow, has amassed 994,000 subscribers on YouTube and 1.3million Instagram followers over the years as an influencer.
She was working on a beauty counter at Debenhams in Glasgow when she first started posting on social media.
The beauty pro – real name Jamie Grant – eventually quit her shop job to focus on her social media channels full time and travels the world promoting herself and her products.
In 2020 she launched her own beauty brand Vieve, which promotes veganism and cruelty-free products.
And after becoming a mum to baby Romy in May, it was back to work just eight weeks later for the dedicated entrepreneur.
But all of the hard work is paying off.
Latest accounts for Jamie Genevieve Limited, which documents her influencer earnings, show she has funds of more than £920,000.
And with just £175,000 owed to creditors within a year, it leaves Jamie with shareholder funds of £744,565 – more than double last year’s figure of £305,797.
New figures also show that reserves in Jamie’s make-up company Vieve Ltd have have jumped from £1.2million last year to £5.7million this year, after the mum sold a minority stake.
That means the total value of her two companies has soared from £1.5million to £6.5million over the past 12 months.
Speaking about her success, Jamie said her path proves you don’t need a uni degree to get what you want – or to make your parents proud.
She said: “If you really, really want it, and you work really, really hard – you’ll get it.
“I really believe that. I think that circumstances obviously come
into play but if it’s something that you love and you’re willing to work really, really hard at it there is no reason that you can’t have it.
“I think when I was growing up I was constantly told by my parents that Icould do anything that I wanted.
“And that didn’t mean, you know, be president.
“It meant I could do anything that I wanted. There was nothing that wasn’t good enough, it really was about me and who I am and what I want.
“So you know, never did I feel like I was letting anyone down by not going to university or, you know, by being like a makeup artist.
“There’s I’m sure a handful of people that would be disappointed that their daughter had chosen to be a makeup artist.”
She added: “I really, really wanted to have my own brand for like almost 10 years before I actually did it and it definitely wasn’t handed to me.
“I had to work really hard for that to happen.
“There are things that helped me along the way, namely you all [viewers], but you know it was not in my path at all.
“I had to kind of make it for myself. I had to make that path for myself.
“So if you really really want it and you’re willing to work really, really hard there is no reason that you can’t get what it is that you want.”