BoutineLA Babe Mikaela Lafuente Holds Her Own In the Social Media Sphere | @mikalafuente
Mikaela Lafuente is from Argentina
Mikaela LaFuente is a Los Angeles based model and influencer. Maria Mikaela Lafuente was born on June 8, 2002 in Buenos Aires and is bilingual, fluent in both Spanish and English. She is five feet six inches tall and one hundred and twenty six pounds. She has a curvy physique, defined by her hourglass 34-26-36 measurements. She is a gorgeous brunette, with big, warm, beautiful brown eyes. Her beauty is both classic and impactful and is combined with a relatable personality. Mikaela used to be an ice skater from the age of nine, until a sports injury when she was thirteen abruptly put an end to that. It was giving up ice skating that pushed her in the direction of content creation.
Mikaela models swimwear, and is known for her @mikalafuente instagram, where she has more than one million followers. She is one of the most stunning swimwear models and influencers, with her high glamour aesthetic. Mikaela started to create content in February 2021, when she first started to post on Instagram. Part of Mikaela’s visual identity is that of a swimwear model and her partnership with BoutineLA is representative of that. Mikaela is a brand ambassador and swimwear model for BoutineLA.
The brand partnership between any swimwear brand and Mikaela is characteristic of its growth, wherein influencer led editorial campaigns are part of its brand appeal. Collabing with influencers and models, is at the heart of the Boutine LA brand. The Los Angeles based swimwear brand is known for its minimalist design, which highlights the natural lines of the body. BoutineLA, which was established in 2012, is all about the minimalist design that priorities bold silhouettes and is a curated, influencer led, swimwear label. BoutineLA is all about body confidence, emphasizing curves and is fit forward, making it the embodiment of beach style. From the mix and match triangle top bikinis, cheeky bottoms to skimpy, string bikinis, BoutineLA is all about style.
Mikaela’s modeling for Boutine LA elevates the swimwear, focusing on cut, fit and silhouette, which are the focal points of the brand. She is a sought after model, Mikaela promotes the activewear and swimwear of the brand. Mikaela’s brand image consists of swimwear editorials and high impact swimwear campaigns. Her @mikalafuente instagram account, serves as a visual diary and portfolio. It is all about lifestyle, travel and modeling. Both relatable and aspirational at the same time, her content is more like curated fashion editorials, than casual posts. She is active on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok, where she has millions of followers. She has over four million followers to her @mikaalafuente TikTok with over ninety seven million likes.
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Sharing about her home country of Argentina, Mikaela celebrates dancing to a song in Spanish while wearing a soccer jersey from Argentina in a recent post. She retains cultural identity as an influencer whilst expanding her influence globally. She wears a soccer jersey from Argentina captioned “El major pais del Munro,” or the best country in the world. Sharing clips with Bryce Hall as well as lifestyle and dance videos via TikTok. With fame and notoriety came issues like married Ye, or Kanye West slipping into her DMs, wanting to spend time with her. Sharing the interaction in a since deleted Instagram post, where Ye asks her if she wanted to hang out and listen to his new album.
Mikaela called him out for it, saying it was highly inappropriate and he then deleted all the messages. She is currently dating TikTok star Bryce Hall. According to People magazine, Hall “Is the sweetest human being ever,” she shares “He doesn’t like showing it, and we both get lots of comments like, ‘Oh, you shouldn’t treat her like that,’ because we joke a lot…..but he’s actually really, really, really sweet.” They first met on Instagram when Bryce Hall had messaged her “hey” with two eye emojis. The couple shares their relationship by posting together often. Mikaela, walked the runway of Miami Swim Week which aligns with her work as a brand ambassador for Boutine LA. Mikaela participated in the ‘Black Tape Project,’ during ‘ Miami Swim Week Powered By Art Hearts Fashion at the Fontainebleau Hotel on July 07, 2023 in Miami Beach, Florida.
Art Hearts Fashion brought together the top influencers, taste makers and content creators to present the latest fashion trends, top designers as well as emerging brands. The ‘Black Tape Project’ Is all about minimalist design with the spotlight being on the shape of the body. Mikaela rocked the runway, walking in a black tape look which highlighted every curve. The project blends performance art and fashion. The tape sculpted and defined her natural curves, transforming her body into a living canvas. Mikaela brought her A game as she positioned herself as a model who can command both the digital and runway spaces. In July of 2023, she was a must watch as she walked the runway during New York Swim week.
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Mikaela walked at the Evita X Elizabeth & Co. show, which was shared to her instagram. She rocks a black cut out bikini with metal hardware, lighting up the runway. Mikaela brings the fire, as she models a glitter pink lantern string thong bikini from the Boutine LA collection, in a behind the scenes video on her YouTube channel. The triangle top highlights her curves as Mikaela models the bikini in a pool. The thong bikini bottoms are everything. Mikaela films her first ever YouTube video, a Boutine LA and Coachella ‘Week in L.A. vlog,’ on her @MikaLafuente YouTube channel. This was Mikaela’s most watched YouTube video as a content creator. She takes every one on a tour of the Boutine LA studio, showing “where we shoot,” “in a week in my life” style vlog. Mikaela does her makeup in the backdrop of the studio as she gets ready to shoot. Pointing out the dressing room where the models do their makeup. The models are trying on fits from Boutine LA’s newest collection of swimsuits.
Changing into a classic BoutineLA string bikini, with a triangle top and thong bottoms, Mikaela shows the changing room of the studio, with the season’s collection of bikinis in a rainbow of colors. She is excited about her first YouTube video, as it is her voice reveal. Taking the viewers into the room where the magic happens in the studio. She models the black bikini in a “sneak peek of the new collection”. Mikaela takes a selfie in the mirror as she models the same style of bikini, in a ravishing, fire engine red color. Next, Mikaela tries on an elegant white bikini with a twist tie halter top and thong bottoms, as she checks her fit in the mirror with a fellow Boutine LA model. She tries on an sequined, lilac, two piece backless tank top and miniskirt set. Which is perfect as a beach cover up. The blue and white graphic backless high cut, one piece swimsuit that she tries on next for the photoshoot is everything. Mikaela’s rounded silhouette is complimented by this swimsuit. The cut fits her just right, balancing shape and elegance.
The scarlet, triangle top g string bikini is giving siren as she smolders in this fit. A lilac two piece string bikini with the matching sarong, features a ruched top and is proportionate to the thong bottoms. The slinky satin green bikini compliments her honey coated complexion. The green bikini can also be worn with a cover up. Mikaela’s pose is intentional, self aware, confident, coming together to create her unique visual identity. After the photoshoot, she grabs coffee with her fellow models and takes her followers along for the ride, as she gets ready to vlog from Coachella. Doing a quick GRWM in the back seat of the car, lamenting how ‘hard it is to be a blogger’ Mikaela confides how she has not selected her outfit yet. Dropping her camera many times in a way that is authentic and which makes Mikaela so relatable to her followers. They get to the hotel and finish getting ready on the patio of the restaurant.
Mikaela goes for the graphic, inverted cat eye make up with glitter, a hot pink string bikini and white lace tunic cover up with a brown leather belt, brown cowboy boots and a black fedora, as she checks into the hotel room with her friends. After the fit check, Mikaela and her friends pile onto the golf cart to go to the festival. Bouncing around events and scouting the scene, while they soak up the atmosphere, until they find the event that they want to attend at Coachella. Grabbing some Yerba Mate from the vendor along the way. Checking in for day two at Coachella as she takes in the rides and vibe. On the third day they spend at the hotel pool to shoot some content, in Boutine LA bikinis of course, before taking in the bands during third night of the festival. She notably saw Big Sean and Snoh Allegra perform live, sharing in an Instagram post. She parties with her friends at the end of the festival as she closes out her vlog.
Flying to Buenos Aries, Argentina with a lay over in Miami as there are no direct flights from Los Angeles. Mikaela’s next adventure is a week in Miami, Florida in her characteristic, lifestyle vlog. Her trademark, candid and relatable personality as she leans into a diary style vlog format, makes the viewer feel a part of it. Arriving in Florida on her flight from Buenos Aries, Argentina, Mikaela shares the view from her hotel room. She takes in the runway show at Miami Swim Week, after which Mikaela and her friends go to the Socialista club in Miami, capping off the night. Mikaela then gives a tour of her hotel, as she sunbathes poolside in a peach bikini. with her drink. The glamour and the outtakes of a week spent in Florida is captured in her immersive and authentic vlog. She makes an avacado and bagel toast with her friend as they get ready to shoot in matching, brown string bikinis on the beach in an engaging bts.
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The next night of Miami Swim Week was all about body positivity, with curve models and models of all shapes and sizes participating. She shoots in a white Boutine LA string bikini in the life guard tower. In a variation, she then changes into a green bikini for a photoshoot on the white sandy beach. She vlogs her trip to Ibiza, Spain in her travel vlog in Spanish. Documenting her struggles at the airport in Ibiza during a check in snafu, in spite of how beautiful the airport is. Taking in the fireworks display on the patio of the hotel as she takes her viewers on a tour, Mikaela spends the next day sunbathing poolside, in a black Boutine LA thong bikini. The breathtaking view from the hotel as she then sails the azure waters on a yacht, before hitting the clubs and sampling the legendary night life.
Attending, a Halloween event in Los Angeles is a vlogging highlight for her YouTube channel. Dressed in a black, sequined high cut bodysuit and tight high boots with a black bunny mask. She and her friend Sophia does a GRWM as the strategically applies fake blood to her body, getting into character, as she and her best friend hit yet another Halloween party, in Los Angeles. In one of her most viewed TikToks, with close to four million engagements, Mikaela dances in a multicolored string, thong bikini as she lip syncs to ‘Soleao’ by Myke Towers. She is associated with Maxim model Sky Simpson, whom she shares a picture with on her instagram. Mikaela is currently studying advertising, which is reflected in her content strategy. Mikaela credits running and boxing for maintaining her bodacious physique as well as walking for mental clarity. She enjoys riding riding motorcycles and has a license and talks about it often as one of her hobbies.
