Patrick Starrr, born Patrick Simondac on November 11, 1989, is a 36-year-old Filipino American makeup artist who helped open the door for men in mainstream beauty content. He is best known for elaborate, turban-topped tutorial videos and for co-founding One/Size Beauty, the cosmetics brand he launched in 2020 that now sells across North America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. Starrr’s arc, from a retail job at a MAC Cosmetics counter in Orlando to a Forbes-recognized creator with a company of his own, is one of the more concrete business success stories among Los Angeles beauty influencers, a group covered in full in the full list of LA’s biggest fashion, beauty, and lifestyle creators.
He started posting in February 2013, well before “male beauty influencer” was a recognized career path, and built an audience by filming full glam transformations set to pop music, often in bright, jewel-toned turbans. That signature look was never a stylistic accident. Starrr began losing his hair around age 14 and eventually lost all of it, and the head wraps he adopted to cope became a permanent part of his on-camera identity.
By the mid-2010s he was one of the few male creators booked for major cosmetics campaigns, and by 2020 he had turned that visibility into equity in an actual company. That shift, from paid spokesperson to co-owner, is what separates his career from most influencer stories and is the reason trade outlets like WWD and Cosmetics Business still track his business moves years later.
Background: An Orlando Kid in Head Wraps
Starrr grew up in Orlando, Florida, the son of Filipino immigrants Arnulfo and Lenee Simondac, and has described his upbringing as devoutly Catholic. He has said he knew he was gay by around age 12 but felt Orlando gave him little room to express that openly, which pushed him toward makeup as a creative outlet instead.
The hair loss he experienced as a young teenager became a defining, if unplanned, part of his public persona. Rather than hide it, Starrr leaned into head wraps and turbans, and he has said in interviews that he now feels confident going bare-headed but keeps the turban as a brand signature he genuinely loves. He is openly gay and has used his platform to support LGBTQ+-owned businesses, including a 2021 collaboration with Instagram spotlighting queer-owned shops.
How the Platform Started and Took Off
After high school, Starrr worked at a MAC Cosmetics counter, the kind of entry-level beauty job thousands of aspiring artists take every year. What made his path different is that he started filming what he already knew. His first YouTube tutorial went up in February 2013, and the channel grew quickly on the strength of high-energy transformation videos.
Collaborations with celebrities including Kim Kardashian, Katy Perry, and Madelaine Petsch pushed his channel further into the mainstream beauty conversation, and by the late 2010s he was regularly cited alongside a small group of male creators who had broken into an industry that had almost exclusively marketed to women. He picked up formal industry recognition too, winning the Beauty category at the 2017 Streamy Awards and the Fashion category at the 2019 Streamy Awards.
As of 2026, Starrr’s YouTube channel has drawn roughly 520.6 million total views and sits at about 4.79 million subscribers, according to Wikipedia’s cited figures, with an Instagram following of around 4.1 million. Those numbers place him well below the platform’s biggest mega-creators, but they represent a highly monetized, industry-connected audience rather than a purely viral one.
Brand Deals and the Business He Built
Starrr’s most substantial industry relationship has been with MAC Cosmetics, where WWD profiled him in 2017 as one of the brand’s primary artist collaborators the same year he released a MAC makeup line. He followed that with a partnership with Disney to release a “Fantasia”-themed ONE/SIZE makeup collection, and in 2021 he launched his first clothing collection through the retailer Fashion to Figure.
The bigger move was One/Size Beauty itself, which Starrr co-founded in 2020 in partnership with Luxury Brand Partners, a beauty-focused brand incubator and venture fund. The company specializes in setting sprays, powders, and primers, and its hero product, On ‘Til Dawn Mattifying Waterproof Setting Spray, is one of Sephora’s better-selling items in the category. One/Size expanded into Southeast Asia within months of launching and is now distributed in roughly 35 regions worldwide.
| Year | Milestone |
|---|---|
| 2013 | Uploads his first YouTube makeup tutorial |
| 2017 | Releases a makeup collaboration with MAC Cosmetics; wins the Streamy Award for Beauty |
| 2019 | Wins the Streamy Award for Fashion |
| 2020 | Co-founds One/Size Beauty with Luxury Brand Partners; brand expands into Southeast Asia and releases the Disney “Fantasia” ONE/SIZE collection |
| 2021 | Launches his first clothing collection with Fashion to Figure |
| 2023 | Appears in a beauty campaign with Jools Lebron |
| 2026 | One/Size expands into 200 Boots stores in the UK and all 880 Sephora locations across Europe |
Starrr also hosts an interview podcast called Say Yas to the Guest and has served as a guest judge on Drag Race Philippines, roles that keep him visible in entertainment and LGBTQ+ media spaces beyond straight beauty content.
The Jools Lebron Fallout
Starrr’s connection to Jools Lebron took on a very different meaning after their 2023 beauty campaign. In 2025, Lebron publicly accused Starrr and One/Size of blacklisting her from the beauty industry and said that a serious health incident she experienced while working with the brand was not handled as she expected. Those claims circulated widely online, but they were allegations from Lebron rather than independently established findings, and Starrr’s side of the dispute should not be presented as settled fact.
The fallout became more significant in 2026 as Lebron discussed the personal cost of her sudden rise to fame. In a May 2026 interview with The Guardian, she described an online feud with Starrr and said that she subsequently lost brand opportunities and was dropped by her management. The same reporting connected her wider struggles to the pressures of sudden internet fame, substance abuse and the collapse of business relationships.
The episode is relevant to Starrr’s profile because it shows the increasingly complicated relationship between established beauty founders and the creators who enter the industry through viral fame. It also means the 2023 Lebron campaign should not appear in Starrr’s career timeline without acknowledging the dispute that later surrounded their relationship.
Why He Matters as a Male Beauty Creator
Starrr’s significance is less about being first and more about staying power. Male creators in beauty have often been treated as a novelty booking or a single viral moment, but Starrr built a decade-plus career and then converted it into brand ownership rather than just brand sponsorship. That distinction matters in an industry where most influencer deals end at a paid post.
He has also been explicit that gendering makeup at all misses the point of what he does for a living, framing his work less as a statement and more as simply a job he is good at. It is a quieter version of advocacy than some creators perform, but it has lasted: he has kept booking major campaigns and building a company for more than a decade in an industry that still skews its marketing heavily toward women.
Current Status: Running a Global Beauty Brand
Heading into the second half of 2026, One/Size is in what its own brand president has publicly called its best year of product launches yet. According to the brand’s international retail expansion, covered by Cosmetics Business in January 2026, the company has posted triple-digit international sales growth every year since 2023, and it used early 2026 to roll into roughly 200 Boots stores in the UK and all 880 of Sephora’s European locations. The UK is now described as One/Size’s largest market outside North America.
Starrr remains the face of that expansion, and he continues to appear at beauty and fashion industry events, including the Daily Front Row’s Fashion Los Angeles Awards in April 2026. His Forbes profile, last formally updated in 2022, ranked him 14th on that year’s Top Creators list and credited him with hundreds of millions of YouTube views and campaigns with L’Oreal and MAC. Whether he appears on Forbes’ 2026 Top Creators list specifically could not be confirmed from available sourcing, so that detail is flagged here rather than stated as fact.
What is confirmed is that One/Size has moved well past its influencer-brand starting point. It is now a company with its own brand president, its own ambassador roster of professional makeup artists, and retail placement that puts it in direct competition with cosmetics houses that have been around for decades, which is a rarer outcome than the beauty-influencer-turned-founder pipeline usually produces.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Patrick Starrr’s real name?
His legal name is Patrick Simondac. He has performed and posted content under the name Patrick Starrr since he began uploading YouTube videos in 2013, and it has become his professional identity across every platform and business venture he runs.
How old is Patrick Starrr?
He was born on November 11, 1989, in Orlando, Florida, which makes him 36 years old as of July 2026. He is the son of Filipino immigrants Arnulfo and Lenee Simondac and was raised in a Catholic household.
What is One/Size Beauty and does Patrick Starrr own it?
One/Size Beauty is a cosmetics brand Starrr co-founded in 2020 alongside Luxury Brand Partners, a beauty industry incubator and venture fund that owns the company. Starrr is its co-founder and public face, not its sole owner, and the brand specializes in setting sprays, powders, and primers sold at Sephora and, as of 2026, Boots in the UK.
Is Patrick Starrr still active on YouTube?
Yes. As of 2026, his channel has roughly 4.79 million subscribers and about 520.6 million total views, and he continues to post alongside running One/Size and hosting his podcast, Say Yas to the Guest. His exact current net worth is not independently verified and is not included here to avoid stating an unconfirmed figure.
