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[air whooshing]
- Hi, I'm Hungry the local bug lady.
Welcome to my charming Berlin life.
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So this is the face that I'm going to be doing today.
I'm very excited about this.
It has this beautiful organic nose piece
that you can just take out whenever needed
and it just has a general very drowsy sleepy vibe,
but with a bit of color to it.
First I'm getting rid of my brows.
Boop.
So I'm just doing my foundation routine.
I grew up in a very pretty part of Bavaria, I suppose,
which is just, it was very shielded, very Catholic.
Whenever I could I would just start dreaming of different
things, different worlds.
In early school the teachers would always just tell
my parents that I'm a dreamer, not being too present
when it came to actually learning about maths
or things like that.
When I was a kid, I didn't really experiment
that much on me.
It was mostly just drawing monsters I suppose
and drawing creatures.
It never occurred to me that I could just turn myself
into anything I drew or anything I thought about.
So right now, I'm just doing a light
contouring and highlighting.
My parents were very involved with the church in our town
so at one point I was also an altar boy for a while.
The whole ceremony of a mass was always
very performative, very strong.
The rich embroidery on the garments.
All of these things, I always just found very fascinating.
The Catholic church then definitely was one
of the reasons I left Bavaria
because the whole Catholicism and all the strict rules
that come with it and all the discrimination
that comes along with organized religion
are just things I didn't want in my life anymore.
Berlin was a good escape for me for that.
I'm gonna start going in with the grease paints
and the mapping out of the face.
Where this is from what I picked up
from in my studies, basically from my life drawing class
to just kind of see the proportions
of the thing you're working on.
As I'm working on my face, I just try to use
the paint brush to see where things line up,
if they're on the same level,
and just using that as a helper for symmetry.
I do know my face more than I should.
It doesn't help me knowing
that it's not perfectly symmetrical.
But it helps for my work.
Doesn't help for my self imagery
cause I know that it's not perfect
and it could be perfect.
Now I'm gonna go in with the black
to really create the eye illusion.
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I always wanna see how it moves, how it would react
if I pose, if I do different, if I squint.
If the line would still make sense
in an emotive way.
Basically this is my full eye illusion at this point.
I'm gonna add more details,
like I would drag down my pupil, diagonally,
and then just slant my eyes out more.
So it's just a very wide eye
and if I'm putting the lenses in,
this is supposed to just be the blank space
with the lashes and then this is all eye.
So now that the eyes are roughly done,
I'm gonna go in with grease paint to add color to it.
Hungary really appeared out of a very impulsive
idea to just try drag.
And I was always very into the idea
of being otherworldly and very bizarre looking.
Over time, it became more organic and more animalistic,
just delivering more of an insect vibe overall.
Hungary definitely evolved along with me.
So at the beginning, when I started,
I was also kind of fresh to Berlin
so it was very much the vibe I thought was right for Berlin.
It was just right for me.
As I became more aware of my actual interests
that weren't necessarily linked to the city or the scene,
I think that's when Hungary
actually took a very different route.
Pretty early on, gender wasn't really
a topic for me anymore.
Especially not in my drag.
I didn't really want to have those strong boundaries
on myself with a thing that I could be so free with.
So in my drag, I always tried to stay away
from everything being so binary
because I felt it was just so much stronger
if it was just this standalone character
or object or creature.
At one point, my work was just so far
from what I had originally known as drag.
I didn't find drag to be fitting anymore in that sense.
I just thought it, describing it as distorted drag
because it made more sense to me to drag your eye out
and make it bigger or make it weird.
It was just something that I created for myself.
I never realized that anyone else would even
relate to that term for what they do
and where they take their drag or their work.
Ooh, ah.
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So the color is done and now I'm gonna go in
with some gold paint to map out
where the glitter's gonna go.
Symmetry clearly is beautiful to me
and it is just a very immediate way
of expressing perfection.
To have the skill to get things symmetrical,
more or less symmetrical.
They see the symmetry, so they see this is symmetrical,
this has a very technical aspect to it
so they appreciate it just for that first
and then they try to question
would they consider it beautiful
in what they usually would see as beautiful,
like what would the standards of beauty apply
beyond what they know
and that I always found quite interesting.
In preparation for a fashion week gig,
I went to Cantlook Market and hunted down the one store
that still had Halloween lenses and I put them in
and I just kept staring at myself
because it was just such a face opening moment.
I felt like I could do so much more with it.
So I'm gonna add glitter, lashes, and that should be it.
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Back in school I briefly did some research
on camera surveillance and how you could prevent it
or how you could confuse the cameras
and started working with the idea of hiding the nose.
I noticed that the earliest when none of the face
filters would work on my face
when cameras didn't really see my face anymore.
It has gotten better, which is a bit scary.
Cameras do tend to track me now.
It's not like I can hide looking like this,
but it is actually claiming more attention
than just being undercover.
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These are just lashes I cut up
just to frame my eye illusion
to be a bit more understandable as an eye.
I'm just gonna add the mouthpiece.
And now that it's all completed,
I'm going to work on my outfit
and I'm gonna get ready to take myself out for dinner.
This is it.
I'm dressed as a successful 80s business woman
with my statement shoulders, a bit of teased hair,
and my sensible court shoes.
And I'm gonna take myself out for a schnitzel.
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One of the first words that I learned
the meaning of in Berlin was just irrelevance.
A lot of the reactions I get
are just not relevant to my life,
they're just not relevant to who I am,
to what I do, and to my story.
[patrons chattering]
I kind of manage to just separate it from making an impact
to people that I care about and then to not care
what the irrelevant people
necessarily say or how they react.
It's always the community you need around you
and I'm very lucky to have found mine here.
[laughing]