Dulce Candy Tejada was born on 20 August 1987, in Zacapu, Mexico, and is a vlogger and YouTube personality, best known for her YouTube channel called DulceCandy87. She became popular thanks to her tutorial videos, and her second vlog channel called DulceCandyTV. All of her endeavors have helped put her net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Dulce Candy? As of early-2017, sources estimate a net worth that is at $500,000, mostly earned through a successful career on YouTube. A lot of her make-up tutorials are based on styles of well-known celebrities such as Lady Gaga and Katy Perry. As she continues her career, it is expected that her wealth will increase.
Dulce Candy Net Worth $500,000
At the age of six, Dulce with her two sisters and mother moved to the US from Mexico, travelling through a river and over a fence to eventually reunite with her father who was working in California. She attended high school in South California, and after matriculating went to join the military. She spent 16 months in Iraq, serving as a mechanic and driver, but during this time, she became inspired to work as a beautician, since makeup was restricted in the army. After going home in 2008, she served as a reservist until 2011.
When she returned to the US, she worked as a mechanic, but eventually decided to take a more on a feminine path, and created a YouTube channel focused on style, fashion, and make-up. She started the channel in 2008 and it has since grown exponentially, helping her net worth increase significantly. She now has over two million subscribers on YouTube and it continues toexpand, ensuring that her net worth will also increase over time. She updates on a regular basis, usually posting two to four videos in a week. Viewership per video also ranges from the tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands. She’s also currently attending a school to learn fashion design, and hopefully earn a degree.
For her personal life, it is known that Dulce is married to Jesse Ruiz who has been featured in her blog, and they have a son born in 2011. She is very popular on social media and has over 25,000 followers on Twitter, and almost one million on Facebook, as well as 1.2 million followers on Instagram. Candy also has a personal website which is updated with her recent YouTube videos. In an interview, she cited singer Gwen Stefani as an inspiration for her interest in makeup. When Dulce revealed how she got into the US, it sparked controversy with some politicians stating that she entered the country illegally, though now she is already a US citizen. Others defended her story, saying how immigrants are a vital part of the US. Many also showed their support through social media, defending her right to be in the country. The immigration issue has been an ongoing debate with the government’s ideas of changing policies on immigration.
