In 2015, the year she turned 27, while working at a salon in Cheongdam-dong after a stint on MBC’s special makeup team, she started makeup broadcasts on AfreecaTV and YouTube at a customer’s urging. At the end of the year she won a special award at the AfreecaTV BJ Awards.
The breakthrough yearIn 2016, the year she turned 28, she posted a photo of herself made up as Sunmi, who was then promoting “Why So Lonely,” and her makeup recreating Sunmi’s look drew attention and made her known as a Sunmi look-alike. That year she joined On Style’s Get It Beauty as a panelist and was named an individual category winner at the Korea Brand Awards.
Her “Gashina” cover makeup video for Sunmi, posted in 2017, passed 1.4 million views in a week. In November, a photo of her made up as Jang Chen from the film The Outlaws drew attention.
In 2018, she appeared on MBC’s Radio Star and revealed that her birth name was Lee Ye-ji. In May, she released the digital single “E.N.C” and debuted as a singer.
In 2019, she appeared on MBC’s Sister’s Salon. In 2020, she appeared on Olive’s Food, Bless You 2 and released the track “Naega Aneun Geudae.”
In 2021, she made her first appearance on KBS1’s Jinpum Myeongpum and, six years after she began broadcasting, posted her first YouTube Q&A video. In 2022, she won at the Brand Customer Loyalty Awards and signed a broadcasting business deal with Esteem Entertainment.
In 2023, she launched the beauty brand Two Slash Four as its CEO and donated to the Green Umbrella Children’s Foundation through Risabae Art. In 2024, Two Slash Four raised an investment round, and she appeared in Netflix’s The Influencer.
In 2025, Two Slash Four entered Olive Young’s online mall. In April 2026, the year she turned 38, she released the new song “Spectrum.”
Risabae (born 1988) started makeup broadcasts on AfreecaTV and YouTube on Jul 14, 2015, the year she turned 27, and became known on Jul 29, 2016, the year she turned 28, when a photo of herself made up as Sunmi drew attention and she was called a Sunmi look-alike. She debuted as a singer in 2018, the year she turned 30.
Ages are by calendar year (the year minus the birth year), birthdays aside.