VIRAL VIDEO: Amy Cronin from Coolcorcoran was amazed after getting over 11m views on popular social media App TikTok including a comment from influencer James Charles. Photo: Michelle Crean

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By Michelle Crean

A 17-year-old Killarney girl - who has only been active on social media App TikTok for two months - was this week stunned to get over 11m views on her video as well as a comment from a global beauty influencer.

Yesterday afternoon (Thursday), Amy Cronin, who is preparing to go into Leaving Cert in Killarney Community College, was left speechless when the creative make-up video she posted late on Tuesday night hit 10m views and received 2.6m likes.

However, since the Killarney Advertiser went to print the numbers keep on rising and currently Amy's views are now over 11 million, with 3.4m likes, almost 20,000 comments, and she now has over 102k followers.

Her stunning face design is a take on American Internet personality, beauty YouTuber and make-up artist James Charles who has 21.6m followers worldwide.

Never in her wildest dreams did she think he'd see her video titled 'Day 1 of recreating James Charles looks until he notices me' - and he did almost immediately!

For Amy, the comment was something that she could have only dreamed of.

"Okay well I noticed you and you killed it but can we please pretend like I didn't so you can keep creating looks?" James Charles said.

Amy says when she heard he commented on her personal post she thought it was a joke at first as it's almost impossible that he can find her out of his 21.6m followers.

"I made the video Monday night, it took me two and a half hours to do the make-up," Amy, daughter of Joe and Lorraine, told the Killarney Advertiser yesterday (Thursday).

"I saved it in my drafts and posted it late on Tuesday night before I went to bed and it had about 900 views. Usually I average 1000. I woke up and I was after getting about 20k. I was shocked and saying "Oh my God". There was a lot of comments and the views just kept going up and up. Then I was on TikTok live and people were saying James Charles commented. I didn't know what to say I was speechless."  

Now Amy is hoping to become a make-up artist herself and aims to have his success.

"He has a show called 'Instant Influencer' and people are telling me to audition as I want to be a make-up artist."