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Zoella: The Only Youtube Vlogger You Need This Holiday Season

This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at U Mass Amherst chapter.

As you prepare to journey into the wonderful world of gift giving, Christmas parties, and holiday home decor, you might be feeling overwhelmed. However, I have a little something to ease your mind and increase your holiday spirit: Zoella, the wildly successful Youtube vlogger. Now I know most Collegiettes love to watch Youtube vloggers for beauty and style tips, but they can provide us with so much more than that. 

With finals just coming to a close, we’ve been too busy to get into the Christmas spirit. Much worse, most of us haven’t even had time to think about what to gift our friends and family. Zoella has switched gears this month to spread holiday cheer through her videos featuring plenty of holiday gift guides, Christmas decor, beauty tips for the upcoming parties you’re sure to attend, and much more. If you don’t have the time to sit down and enjoy a jolly Christmas movie, at the very least I encourage you to watch a few of these videos! No one likes getting home just days before Christmas and feeling like it crept up on you. Zoella has two accounts that she is using to spread enough holiday cheer that you’d think she’s an elf: Zoella and MoreZoella. You can subscribe to her account to bask in the glory of 24 days of Zoella and Vlogmas.

Go ahead and indulge!
 
This first video I chose will teach you how to perform the most beautiful wrapping job of your entire career as a novice gift wrapper, I can promise you that. Her ideas are incredibly creative and even more aesthetically pleasing. Some of the options will take a little more time, but if you enjoy expressing your creativity and have the time, you will love those ideas!
 

Zoella dedicates this video to showing you holiday-inspired homeware, clothing, and accessories that she recently purchased. She even provides where she bought all of her goodies so that you can use her video as more than just inspiration, but also a gift guide! Keep in mind that some of the stores she shops at are only in the UK, so surf the web for online options or simply watch it for the ideas.

Speaking of gift guides, here is the one she filmed this year! It is a luxury gift guide so some of the items may be a little above your budget, but probably not your parents’. If you like something, snag it for your Christmas list. 

This video is an instant favorite! It features a ton of Christmas sweaters that she has acquired in order to make the video. She is thoroughly obsessed with sweaters and Christmas so it was like the pinnacle of her wardrobe shopping sprees. Watch it for sweater inspo or even gift ideas.

You may want to save this video for the night you finally go home for break or during that first week because as Zoella states, it is a “proper, thorough, pamper session. I feel like it is good for your body and mind.” We all know we’re going to need some of that after a stressful semester. Honestly, you deserve this, please watch and enjoy. 

Finally, if this video doesn’t get you into the holiday spirit, I don’t know what will! She presents a list of wonderfully cheerful and absolutely necessary Christmas must-sees. If you need a couple of movies to watch to help you feel a little more festive just before Christmas, you can’t go wrong with her top pics.

I hope you enjoy the videos and her vlog as much as the rest of her 3 million followers! She is the ultimate Christmas elf and here’s a quote to prove it:

“Why not make everything I own festive? I feel like the guy from the Skittles ad where everything he touched turned to Skittles, I feel like I’m that but the Christmas equivalent where everything I touch turns Christmasy!”

 

Videos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

Junior Psychology Major at Umass Amherst '17
Contributors from the University of Massachusetts Amherst