Mikayla Nogueira Is Here For TikTok’s 2022 Beauty Trends. Mostly.

Mikayla Nogueira’s got major glow. Even over Zoom on a rainy afternoon, the way she can light up a room — or a laptop screen — is the first thing you notice. The second thing you notice is how much beauty knowledge Nogueira has swirling around in her head. At just 23 years old, she has an unparalleled trove of beauty trends, makeup techniques, and skin care tips filed alphabetically in her brain. Not only does she literally know it all, but she’s willing to share. It’s this warm, welcoming vibe that keeps Nogueira’s followers growing at an outstanding rate — she’s got 14 million followers across TikTok and Instagram, and that number gets higher every day after skyrocketing from zero to 2.8 million in just eight months.

Over the course of our Zoom chat, she speaks at length about how to achieve the latest viral beauty trend on TikTok, twists her laptop to show off her drawer full of rhinestones, and laughs about her love of the 2016 ultra-structured brow. She’s not only one of the biggest beauty influencers on the internet right now, she’s also the most thoughtful, open, and, IMHO, *authentic* personality in the makeup game right now.

Ahead, Nogueira gets candid about TikTok’s biggest beauty trends of 2022, from the ones she loves to the ones she won’t be recreating any time soon.

Fluffy Brows

While Nogueira can create a fluffy brow, she’d prefer not to wear one herself. “I’ve done a lot of tutorials on how to do a fluffy brow, and every single time I do one in a video, the comments section will be all about brows,” she says. “But I personally do not like the fluffy brows on myself. I’m still stuck in the 2016 brow trend,” which in Nogueira’s case means “really, really pigmented.”