Nay Chi Oo (Burmese: နေခြည်ဦး; born Htoo Pyae Sone Myint on 25 January 1992) is a Burmese beauty blogger, actress, model and businesswoman.[1][2] She is best known for her makeup tutorial videos and her beauty blog, "beautybynaychi" on Facebook.[3][4] In 2019, Nay Chi Oo was recognized for her blogging by being featured on The Myanmar Times' "Top 10 Bloggers" list.[5]
Nay Chi Oo | |
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နေခြည်ဦး | |
Born | Htoo Pyae Sone Myint 25 January 1992 Yangon, Myanmar |
Nationality | Burmese |
Other names | Chi Chi |
Alma mater | Cambridge Tutors College University of Bradford |
Occupation(s) | Beauty blogger, model, actress, businesswoman |
Years active | 2017–present |
Height | 5 ft 6 in (1.68 m) |
Spouse | Kyaw Swar Hein |
Parent(s) | Myo Myint Sein Than Than Swe |
Early life and education
editNay Chi Oo was born on 25 January 1992 in Yangon, Myanmar into a military family. She is the eldest daughter of Myo Myint Sein, a former military official, and his wife Than Than Swe, a botanist. Nay Chi Oo has a younger sister, Sein Lae Yadanar, and a younger brother.[6] She attended high school at Practising School Yangon Institute of Education and graduated with GCE Advanced Level from Cambridge Tutors College in 2013, and MSc Forensic Medical Sciences from University of Bradford. While still in university, she has served as Student president of Cambridge Tutors College. She studied MBA at Global MBA University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce.[7][8]
Career
editNay Chi Oo is using the popular social networking website Facebook for her beauty blogger career. In February 2017, she began posting make-up tutorials on Facebook under the page name beautybynaychi. She regularly posts make-up tutorials, make-up first impressions, beauty tips, and product reviews. At the end of the year, she became one of the most popular beauty bloggers in Myanmar.[9][10]
Nay Chi Oo participated as a judge in Make me Beautiful by L'Oréal, a reality make-up contest TV show on selected make-up artists in Myanmar, and also in New Face Actor Choice contest of Kha Thone Lone film production in 2018.[11][12]
Emerging into the spotlight in 2018, she ventured into acting by making her debut in the feature film Yan Thu (Rivals). Starring alongside Nay Min and Wutt Hmone Shwe Yi, her performance as Lay Pyay Nu Thway garnered critical praise, boosting her popularity.[13]
In 2019, she starred in her second big-screen Ae The (The Guest).[14][15][16] She then starred as the female lead in the drama Puyi Tha alongside Tyron Bejay, Cham Min Ye Htut and Khine Thin Kyi.
Brand ambassadorships
editOn 15 February 2019, she was appointed as a brand ambassador for the Vivo smartphone. That was her first time working as a brand ambassador. On 28 February 2019, she was appointed as a brand ambassador for Air KBZ.[17]
Business
editHer family possesses numerous businesses in Myanmar, including Sane Let Tin, one of the country's largest resorts situated in Kyaikto, which is also linked by Burmese military. She holds the position of co-founder at Sane Let Tin.[7]
On 15 November 2018, she launched Your Social Media BFF 2019 year planner book under her own band, Beautybynaychilabel.[18]
Political criticism
editIn the aftermath of the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, Nay Chi Oo stayed ominously silent for the first few weeks after the coup, only responding after her fans requested her to do so. When she did join the protests, it was with an entourage of bodyguards. She became the subject of social boycotts and a social punishment movement due to her association with a high-ranking military family. She tried to donate to a Civil Disobedience Movement Support charity, and the donation was refunded to her, with the organization saying they didn't want her money.[19][20] A number of business brands that have collaborated with Nay Chi Oo have announced the end of their partnership.[21]
Nay Chi Oo shared her perspective on the military coup as someone who grew up in a military family after facing criticism on social media. She expressed, “I come from a military family background. However, I condemn anyone who supports this state rebellion against the will of the people".[22]
On 30 March 2021, she was blacklisted by Myanmar Bloggers Community.[23]
Filmography
editFilm (Cinema)
edit- Yan Thu (ရန်သူ) (2018)
- The Guest (ဧည့်သည်) (2019)
- Puyi Tha (ပုရိသ) (2019)
- Ko Pwar (ကိုယ်ပွား) (2023)
Television series
editYear | English title | Myanmar title | Role | Network | Notes |
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2020 | House with the Dream | အိမ်မက်တွေမိုးထားတဲ့အိမ် | Nay Chi | MNTV |
References
edit- ^ Amanda Lundgren (22 September 2018). "7 Stunning Ladies Who Looks Just Like To All the Boys Star Lana Condor". Clevver.
- ^ Lin Lin Khaing (6 June 2018). "သရုပ်ဆောင် နေခြည်ဦးနှင့် တွေ့ဆုံခြင်း". Weekly Eleven (in Burmese).
- ^ Nay Min Phyo (25 August 2018). "ရေကူးဝတ်စုံနဲ့ ရိုက်ကူးရမယ့် အခန်းပါတဲ့အတွက် အကြီးအကျယ်ဝိတ်ချဖို့ရှိတယ်လို့ နေခြည်ဦး ဖွင့်ဟ". The Myanmar Times.
- ^ Khin Swe Thet (22 January 2018). "ပွဲတွေမှာ ဘေးကလိုက်ပါကူညီသူ နှစ်ဦးအကြောင်း ရှင်းပြတဲ့ နေခြည်ဦး" (in Burmese). 7Day News.
- ^ "Top 10 : Bloggers". The Myanmar Times. 6 September 2019.
- ^ "ပ႐ိုဂ်ဴဆာ တေယာက္အေနနဲ႔ ညီမျဖစ္သူကို ပံ့ပိုးေပးမယ့္ ေနျခည္ဦး". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). 17 February 2019.
- ^ a b "Impressive Academic Records of Myanmar Celebrities". Myanmar Youth Empowerment Opportunities. 7 November 2017.
- ^ "လူမှုကွန်ရက်ပေါ် ပျံ့နှံ့ခဲ့သည့် ဓာတ်ပုံများနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ သရုပ်ဆောင် နေခြည်ဦးကို မေးမြန်းချက်" (in Burmese). Democratic Voice of Burma. 12 March 2018.
- ^ Yu Phyu Han (9 July 2018). "နှာခေါင်းပြင်တာနဲ့ မျက်ရစ်ဖော်တာတွေကို ဗီဒီယိုရိုက်ပြီး တင်ပေးမယ့် နေခြည်ဦး" (in Burmese). The Irrawaddy.
- ^ "ဝတ်မှုံရွှေရည်နဲဲ့ အတူ ရုပ်ရှင်ရိုက်ကူးနေတဲ့ နေခြည်ဦး" (in Burmese). Aunty May. 28 February 2018.
- ^ "Loreal ရဲ့ Make me Beautiful ပြိုင်ပွဲမှာ အကဲဖြတ်ဒိုင်အဖြစ်ပါ၀င်ခဲ့တဲ့ နေခြည်ဦး" (in Burmese). Aunty May. 25 September 2017.
- ^ Khin Swe Thet (24 August 2018). "သရုပ်ဆောင်ရွေးပွဲမှာ နေခြည်ဦး ဒိုင်လုပ်ဖြစ်တဲ့အကြောင်းရင်း" (in Burmese). 7Day News.
- ^ Yu Phyu Han (19 February 2018). "Beauty Blogger နေခြည်ဦး ပထမဆုံး ပါဝင်သရုပ်ဆောင်တဲ့ "ရန်သူ" ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကား" (in Burmese). The Irrawaddy.
- ^ "ရွှေထူး၊ ရွှေမှုံရတီ၊ နေခြည်ဦးတို့ အပြိုင်သရုပ်ဆောင်ထားသည့် "ဧည့်သည်" ရုပ်ရှင် (နမူနာ)". Democratic Voice of Burma (in Burmese). 24 May 2019.
- ^ Khin Swe Thet (5 June 2018). "ရုပ်ရှင်တွေကြည့်ပြီး သရုပ်ဆောင်ပညာ လေ့လာကြိုးစားနေတဲ့ နေခြည်ဦး" (in Burmese). 7Day News.
- ^ "ရွှေထူး ရွှေမှုံရတီ နေခြည်ဦး တို့ သုံးဦးရဲ့ ပထမဆုံး တွေ့ဆုံကြရမဲ့ "ဧည့်သည်" ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ကားကြီး". Myanmar Famous Stars. 29 May 2018.
- ^ "Market share expected to grow by 15% this year". Eleven Media Group. 7 March 2019.
- ^ Chit Poe (29 December 2018). "၂၀၁၈ ဟာ၂၀၁၉ အတွက် အကောင်းဆုံးဖြစ်လာဖို့ အခြေခံဖောင်ဒေးရှင်းလို့ နေခြည်ဦး ပြော" (in Burmese). The Irrawaddy.
- ^ "The Death of Myanmar's Celebrities". The Irrawaddy. 7 July 2021.
- ^ "Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent". Frontier Myanmar. 14 February 2021.
- ^ UKyaw (3 March 2021). "နေခြည်ဦးနဲ့ လက်တွဲ လုပ်ဆောင်ခဲ့တဲ့ စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းများ လက်တွဲဖြုတ်". The Irrawaddy (in Burmese). Retrieved 2 March 2023.
- ^ "နိုင်ငံရေးဖြစ်စဉ်အပေါ် စစ်တပ်အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းမှာ ကြီးပြင်းခဲ့သူ နေခြည်ဦး ရေးတဲ့စာ". The Irrawaddy. 3 February 2021.
- ^ "နေခြည်ဦး၊ Dr. Laurel တို့အပါအဝင် ဘလော့ဂါ ၁၁ ဦးကို အမည်ပျက်စာရင်းကြေညာ". DVB (in Burmese).