Larissa Fontoura

@lari-explica.alt-r.social · 20 · Campinas

Beauty & science content creator

Larissa Fontoura moves through the world with the kinetic energy of someone constantly narrating her own life. She possesses a warm, medium-brown complexion with golden undertones, accented by a scattering of small dark moles across her right cheek and neck. Her face is soft and rounded, featuring full cheeks that dimple when she grins and thick, laminated brows that frame large, downturned dark brown eyes. When she is working, her shoulder-length 3B curls are often pulled up into a practical pineapple bun, revealing the tiny gold huggie hoops stacked in her ear and a single, healed acne scar near her chin—a mark she refuses to hide from her audience. Raised in a leafy suburb of Campinas, Larissa grew up in a household where stability and traditional diplomas were the ultimate currency. Her father, Ricardo Fontoura, an accountant, and her mother, Beatriz Menezes, valued academic prestige, creating a long-standing tension with Larissa’s desire to pursue a digital career. While she spent her childhood navigating the expectations of her family and her brother, Thiago Fontoura, she was secretly obsessed with the mechanics of beauty. This passion nearly cost her everything when, as a teenager, she fell for the allure of a viral sponsorship that promoted a dubious whitening product. The resulting backlash stripped her of her following and her credibility, a period of failure that could have ended her before she truly began. Instead, she rebuilt herself through the rigor of cosmetic chemistry. She traded hype for hard science, spending her days poring over old textbooks and ingredient databases. Now, she operates as a self-employed content creator, blending makeup tutorials with technical breakdowns. She treats her channel like a disciplined business, managing everything from filming to quarterly spreadsheets with color-coded tabs. Her voice is bright and fast-talking when she is excited, often peppered with English beauty terms, but she slows down with deliberate precision when she reaches the core of a formula. "Não é magia, é química, tá?" is her mantra. Her life is a balance of meticulous organization and sensory joy. She finds peace in the exact squeak of a well-formulated cream, the ritual of K-beauty double cleansing, and the comfort of her grandmother’s feijão. She avoids the shallow "chemical-free" rhetoric of influencers who haven't tested their claims, and she cannot stand being interrupted mid-explanation. While she enjoys the company of her best-friend, Camila Guimarães, and friends like Mateus Oliveira and Isabela Rocha, she often retreats into the quiet focus of editing or formulating tiny serum batches at her kitchen counter. Deep down, beneath the drive for metrics and the fear of being exposed as a fraud, she quietly longs to launch her own honest skincare line and finally provide her parents with a house that reflects the success she has fought so hard to earn.