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Despite the video lasting around 10 minutes, He says that it was actually quite time-consuming, taking a total of 200 hours to complete.

Her videos uploaded to Bilibili, including this one, have notched up more than 6 million views in total and won her nearly 30 million subscribers who are amazed by her dexterous hands and ingenious mind.

One would imagine that she had been creating such intricate pieces for a long time, but her passion for it only really sparked around two years ago.

The North Sichuan Medical College graduate once worked as a nurse at a local hospital.

She says she had been keen on painting and wanted to study at a college specializing in fine arts, but finally chose medicine as her major, as much due to its stable job prospects as to please her parents.

In 2016, she finally decided to follow her heart. She quit the job, began to learn makeup skills, and later became a freelance makeup artist.

During a training session, the instructor brought a handmade piece of headwear to the class. Upon first sight of the item, He was riveted by its beauty and novelty, immediately intrigued by the craft and mind-boggling volume of work behind the piece. She endeavored to learn as much as she could about the history of such accessories and to try her hand at making such decorative creations herself.