Melissa Matos
Instagram Star
Dominican-American beauty influencer and professional makeup artist whose increased social media clout has allowed her to do promotions and brand collaborations. She has earned over 210,000 followers on her Instagram account melissamat_
She attended Belleville High School in New Jersey, graduating in 2011. She then graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in graphic design and arts in 2015.
She took makeup courses with Mario Dedivanovic, Priscilla Ono, Tatti Bueno, Alcantara Makeup and others.
She was born in the Bronx, and raised in the Dominican Republic until the age of 12. She returned with her parents to the United States to reside in New Jersey.
She has done makeup for Clarissa Molina, Francisca Lachapel and Caroline Aquino.