Over the past couple months I’ve been pretty hooked on watching Trixie Mattel on YouTube. I have always been fascinated with makeup videos and reviews and first impressions for the past seven or eight years. Trixie does such a funny and interesting take on that through her career of drag. Because I’ve been obsessed with her videos I thought it was only appropriate to start watching Rupaul’s Drag Race. 

Now, I have heard of this show for years. I follow drag queens on social media and have watched multiple drag shows in person. However, I had never gotten around to watching the Drag Race. But about four weeks ago, I decided now was the time. I pulled up Hulu, clicked on season 10, and began watching.

When I told you I became immediately hooked.

Oh my god.

I am so utterly addicted to that show. 

It’s so good. I can’t believe I’ve never seen it before. The makeup. The fashion. The camp. The drama. The jokes. The community. The queerness. The TRANSFORMATION! I love all of it. It is truly all of the things I love: gay people, fashion, makeup, and comedy, all wrapped into one show! The new season just came out, and after I finish my current season, you best believe I am going to watch the latest season and form so many opinions. (Update: I watched the first two episodes of season 16 and Dawn is my current favorite!)

All of this is to say, I had to try drag makeup of my own. I’ve wanted to try drag for a while. I was inspired by Trixie, and a lot by Chappell Roan. She does her own drag makeup and is heavily inspired by queens, and I really loved how she does drag as a feminine person. 

So, here’s how the process went down:

I gathered inspo pics. I was inspired by Chappell, Trixie Mattel, Blair St. Clair on season 10 of Drag Race, and Phoebe Bridgers in drag from one of the boygenius shows. 

Then, I started. 

I layed down a ton of moisturizer, primer, and setting spray. I put on the most foundation I’ve ever used, contoured my face, and heavily applied concealer. After all of that I set it all with powder, then began contouring with a hot, hot pink. I added hot pink blush and contoured my nose with pink. I did a big winged out pink eyeshadow look with thick black liner and glitter. 

I originally wanted to leave my brows alone because I didn’t have a glue stick to block them, and I didn’t want to try to take off all the glue. So instead I filled them in as normal because the look needed it. I applied highlight and false lashes (it was a lot harder than I thought), and finished with a pink lip. 

This was a trusting process kind of experiment. At first I thought it all looked really messy, and I was questioning my makeup skills for a moment. I’m a pretty good makeup artist myself, but I was worried this style of makeup wouldn’t carry over. However, I persevered, and added finishing touches of glitter and more glitter, and everything pulled together beautifully. 

Then I had to take a picture of my work, standing in the bathtub in my parent’s bathroom for the best lighting with a tripod and self timer. Plus, I documented the whole thing. I filmed my application process because a moment like this needed to be remembered. Who knows if I was ever going to do it again?! Turns out I did it again. I even bought some more makeup for it. It was so much fun the first time I was planning different looks from the moment I finished. 

Miz Cracker came to drag race with a book full of pictures of her past looks for inspiration, and I think that would be so cool to make with the drag looks I create to see the improvement and how many different looks I can create. 

It also made me feel really confident and proud of my queer identity. It was cool to be a girl doing drag, and it was cool to feel so confident in such a crazy look. Plus, I felt like I was doing a cool thing being an ace drag queen, because sometimes the queer community is caught up in celebrating queer sex that people forget you can be queer and never have sex. 

Watching a show where everyone is queer and queerness is celebrated is really awesome. It makes me feel closer to the queer community and gives me hope for a more accepting world. The queens on the show are spreading so much queer joy. 

I filmed the process of my drag look super casually, and ended up putting it on YouTube. Back in the day, I was really into making YouTube videos, but I haven’t posted in about a year. I decided this one would be fun to upload, so if you’re a reader who has never seen me this could possibly be a jumpscare. I also feel like I can communicate way better through my writing, and simply talking to a camera makes me either feel really fun and myself, or like someone who has never formed a sentence in their entire life, so take the video with a grain of salt. Anyway you can watch it here: Video! 

Okay that’s all I have! If you’ve watched the latest season of Drag Race please let me know I need to know all the thoughts and opinions.