{"id":368650,"date":"2021-11-17T23:27:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tiktok-catfish-queen-reveals-beauty-transformation-secrets\/"},"modified":"2021-11-17T23:27:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T20:27:49","slug":"tiktok-catfish-queen-reveals-beauty-transformation-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tiktok-catfish-queen-reveals-beauty-transformation-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"#TikTok &#8216;Catfish Queen&#8217; reveals beauty transformation secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#TikTok &#8216;Catfish Queen&#8217; reveals beauty transformation secrets<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>She\u2019s\u00a0<em>pretty<\/em>\u00a0tricky!<\/p>\n<p>Self-crowned \u201cCatfish Queen,\u201d known to her over 121,700 TikTok fan-tribe as Gemluva Beauty, is reaching royal heights of viral infamy owing to her jaw-dropping drab-to-fab beauty transformation videos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love catfishing,\u201d Gemluva, real name Patricia Lichtenberger, 47, told The Post. \u201cI can transform myself from a Mexican-Hispanic to a white woman if I want to,\u201d the online makeup artist added with a chuckle.<\/p>\n<p>For the Kansas-based mom of four, \u201ccatfishing\u201d \u2014 the act of luring a person or group of people into a falsified state of familiarity by creating a fake online look or persona \u2014 means she strategically structures her TikToks, some of which have amassed over 2.4 million views, to begin with unflattering images of herself without makeup or tamed tresses.<\/p>\n<p>Then \u2014 after giving herself an off-camera, three-hour makeover using cosmetics she buys at Walmart for $50 to $100 monthly \u2014 Gemluva ends her posts with eye-popping footage of her glamorized mug framed by a smoking-hot hairdo.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"573\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/catfish_01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=573\" alt=\"Lichtenberger, known online as Gemluva, uses makeup she buys at Walmart to transform into a raving beauty on TikTok.\" class=\"wp-image-20176277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/catfish_01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1146 1146w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/catfish_01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=860 859w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/catfish_01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=573 573w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/catfish_01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=287 286w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/catfish_01.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\"\/><figcaption>Lichtenberger, known online as Gemluva, uses makeup she buys at Walmart to transform into a raving beauty on TikTok.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">TikTok\/@gemluvabeauty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI love shocking people,\u201d she laughed, noting that her favorite skin-smoothing trick is to slather her face in the <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sephora.com\/product\/one-size-by-patrick-starrr-turn-up-base-buttersilk-concealer-P473741?%24deep_link=true&amp;emtc2=039abb40-b67b-4f6e-9367-2e00b160d16d&amp;emcampaign=20210809_CS_Social_Stars_NonAppUser_1429SM_BAU&amp;emlid=1543ed1997d74205b53c478d1cd6a839&amp;emaid=20210809_CS_Social_Stars_Melt_Cosmetics_NonAppUser_seg%20-%202021-08-06&amp;ematg=&amp;emcid=77339578&amp;promo=&amp;om_mmc=ppc-GG_10837436072_110396092207_dsa-939539274428__463296851420_9004408_c&amp;country_switch=us&amp;lang=en&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiA7dKMBhBCEiwAO_crFIrdgbnUEfVJFjFeJEu1K6P4-Sd1Uuo9P6sfQO3_0VJZHfoFWHwyWxoCk4EQAvD_BwE&amp;gclsrc=aw.ds\">One\/Size Butter Silk Concealer by Patrick Starrr<\/a>, which retails online for $25.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the best when I post my videos and people see me without makeup, then they see me with it and think I\u2019m a completely different person,\u201d she continued of the rejuvenated and youthful look her face paint provides. \u201cThey think I\u2019m my daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gemluva credits her daughter, Pamela, 22, with empowering her to continue broadcasting her beauty overhauls despite the vicious attacks she regularly receives from digital trolls.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-tiktok wp-block-embed-tiktok\"\/>\n<p>\u201cPeople say really nasty things about my face and my teeth,\u201d said Gemluva, referencing hateful comments like \u201cyou\u2019re so ugly\u201d and \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with your face? Did you have a stroke?\u201d penned by bullies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year, during the pandemic, l got really depressed from the constant backlash and criticism,\u201d she added. \u201cPlus, I\u2019d been diagnosed with fibroids. I was losing a lot of blood and taking all these medications, and I ultimately became anemic, which caused hyperpigmentation blotches to form all over my face.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"569\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/catfish_04.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=569\" alt=\"Gemluva says after she giver herself a three-hour makeover people mistake her for her 22-year-old daughter.  \" class=\"wp-image-20176279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/catfish_04.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1138 1138w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/catfish_04.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=854 853w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/catfish_04.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=569 569w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/catfish_04.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=285 284w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/catfish_04.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 569px) 100vw, 569px\"\/><figcaption>Gemluva says after she gives herself a three-hour makeover people mistake her for her 22-year-old daughter.  <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">TikTok\/@gemluvabeauty<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>But even in the face of a medical and emotional crisis, Pamela refused to let Gemluva ditch her dream of building a beauty positivity platform for herself and other women.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy daughter always encourages. She says, \u2018Mom, you\u2019re such a beautiful person and I\u2019m so proud to have you as a mother,\u2019\u201d Gemluva gushed. \u201cThat\u2019s what keeps me going.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And to her haters, the cosmetics sorceress says, \u201cNo one is going to stop me from being my beautiful and loving self. If you don\u2019t like it, don\u2019t watch my videos.\u201d\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Self-crowned \u201cCatfish Queen,\u201d known to her over 121,700 TikTok fan-tribe as Gemluva Beauty, is reaching royal heights of viral infamy owing to her jaw-dropping drab-to-fab beauty transformation videos. \u201cI love catfishing,\u201d Gemluva, real name Patricia Lichtenberger, 47, told The Post. \u201cI can transform myself from a Mexican-Hispanic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":368651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/11\/Patricia-Lichtenberger.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[119497,57401,105123,5047,70623,4976,47912,71285],"class_list":["post-368650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-11-17-21","tag-beauty","tag-catfish","tag-health","tag-makeup","tag-social-media","tag-tiktok","tag-viral-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/368651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}