- Hello everybody!
Welcome back to another season of Whatcha Packin'.
I am Michelle Visage and let's do this.
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- [Michelle] Joining me today is Dahlia!
Dahlia, Dahlia, the broccoli!
- Oh my god.
- We're gonna talk about that in a minute.
We were just talking off camera.
Now, you're from Brooklyn?
But you're really from Michigan?
- Yes.
- [Michelle] You're really a Michigander.
- I'm really a Michigander.
- [Michelle] Right, and you moved to Brooklyn
when you were 17.
- Yes.
- So, you live here now in LA?
- Yeah.
- You moved to LA because--
- You know, tryna be like,
that girl that moves out from her house
and tries to do something new, so you know.
I mean, I did it.
- Are you happy?
- I am happy.
Everybody's like, telling me to move back.
They're like, "Girl move back.
"You know, you got more gigs here."
I'm like, "Girl, I got gigs wherever." (laughing)
- [Michelle] That's it, you're right!
And you're a baby, how old are you?
- I'm 28, I look like a baby baby, but--
- 28's still a baby.
- Yeah. (laughing)
- 26 for me was the first year that I was like,
"Oh my god, I'm an adult."
- Girl, literally.
Like when I turned 25 I was like, "Ugh, (bleep) old."
- [Michelle] Yes!
- Cause they say, when you hit 25,
that's when you're not a like, young gay anymore.
You're just old.
Basically you're dead. - 25 is not old.
- That's what they say. (laughing)
- Wait 'til you're 50.
So, you've got a lot of time.
- Literally.
- And you're gonna enjoy it.
And you got on RuPaul's Drag Race.
Was this your first season auditioning?
- [Dahlia] No, this was my second.
So, I'm happy about that.
- Yeah, that's not a long time that you had to wait.
- Yeah.
- And what did you love about it?
Did you love walking in the Werk Room meeting friends?
What was the experience?
It was a quick experience.
- It was real quick.
- But, it was a fun experience.
Did you like it?
- I had a great time.
I lived for just walking to the Werk Room
'cause it was bigger than I expected it to be.
I thought it was gonna be like, this little wall,
and then you know,
we're just staring into space or whatever.
But it was really cute.
I enjoyed meeting all the girls.
I knew half of them, so, it wasn't that hard to
get used to people. - Did you?
- Yeah. I knew like almost all of 'em.
- Did you?
- I did, 'cause I worked with almost every single one.
All the New York girls, of course I know them.
They're all my sisters.
- Right.
- I knew Gigi beforehand, cause she's my new LA sister.
So, I knew a lot of the girls beforehand.
- That's so funny. - Yeah. (laughing)
I walked in, I was like,
Okay, I know you, I know you.
I've seen the elf before, so I definitely know you.
- And do people tell you when you're in drag,
you have kind of like an Aja vibe?
- [Dahlia] Um, they do tell me that
because we do kinda look similar.
We both have tattoos, we're light skinned, we're tall, so.
We do have like, similarities with our looks.
- [Michelle] She's a little wackier than you are.
- [Dahlia] She's crazy.
- [Michelle] Yup. Her aesthetics's crazier than yours is.
- [Dahlia] Yeah. - But you do more
of a sexy thing than Aja does. - [Dahlia] Yeah, definitely.
- And I love watching you in drag because you are
very conscious of it. - [Dahlia] Uh-huh.
- [Michelle] And I like that.
- [Dahlia] I'm like, too self conscious of it.
Like, always in my head about,
girl this has to be perfect,
this has to be it, and then, you know,
then it gets out of my head if I'm not right.
- Well, because when you do that,
you almost price yourself out a bit, like.
- [Dahlia] Yeah, literally.
- There is no such thing as perfect.
So, you have to - [Dahlia] Exactly.
- go with what's gonna work for you in the moment and stop.
In the competition, I understand you wanting to nit pick
because we're gonna - Right.
- do that too. - [Dahlia] Literally.
- It's a really tough season.
You all are so good this season.
- Right.
- But even down to like, the outfit that you wore
when you went home.
I thought the outfit, the muted colors were beautiful,
but because your skin tone,
they were bringing you down with that hair.
And that headpiece. - [Dahlia] Right.
- The minute you took that little bunny ear thing off,
I went, "Oh my god, that hair's actually really
"beautiful on her."
- Just like a little kitten wig.
- But it was beautiful, the like, the lavendery color.
- [Dahlia] Uh-huh, it was like a little pinky,
purple muted color, yeah. - [Michelle] Yes.
But once you took that off your head it became
a totally different thing.
I remember looking at Ru and going,
"Why didn't she take that off?"
(laughing)
- [Michele] Cause it was so, cause you are really beautiful.
In and out of drag. - Thank you.
- But then the whole broccoli thing happened.
- [Dahlia] I chose to do broccoli, which was
a mistake, clearly. - [Michelle] Right. (laughing)
- [Dahlia] I chose to do (laughing)
I chose her just because I saw the silhouette.
So, I thought it was gonna be a silhouette
that was kind of big.
Like, I didn't know it was a headpiece.
Cause I saw it sitting on the floor,
so I thought it was just gonna be like this
big top and the slim waist.
I was like, "Ooh I wanna be her."
Just because of that.
And then we did our script and did everything,
and then I saw it, and I was like,
"Oh bitch, this is a (bleep) headpiece."
It's only gonna be downhill from there.
- Dying.
- [Dahlia] You just (bleep) yourself over.
- [Michelle] It's so funny, cause you're like
so beautiful in this broccoli with those big hands.
- [Dahlia] Uh-huh, the big hands,
the big boobs, those nipples, girl.
- [Michelle] Yes!
- [Dahlia] That was looking crazy,
the bodysuit was so scrunchy and messy looking,
so I was like, "Let me look a little messy,"
and then I was like, "Okay I'm just gonna go for it."
- So funny, you know and it tells me
what a good sport you are.
- Girl I had an amazing time even though it was short.
- [Michelle] It was short,
now that you're in with the family,
you're part of RuPaul's Drag Race family,
there's gonna be plenty of things for you to do,
you're gonna be out there working,
people will laugh every time broccoli comes up.
- Girl (laughing)
- What would you have done in snatch game?
- Jeffree Star was my number one,
and then my second one was Cardi B
- Oh wow.
- Those are my two like, top ones.
And then I also had the ASMR girl, you know the pickle lady?
- Uh huh.
- [Dahlia] That was my third option.
- That's hilarious.
- Let's talk your beautiful fashions.
- Okay.
- Now who made this gorgeous gown?
- This is by one of my favorite designers ,
he does a lot of my costumes, Juan Chavez, from L.A.
- [Michelle] Beautiful.
- [Dahlia] It's you know my little black,
classy gown, you know, I'm not too classy, but,
you know I don't feel classy.
- Who you talkin' to, you talkin' to me?
(laughing)
Right, and this gorgeous piece.
- [Dahlia] Very Gaga inspired, Judith, you know,
I wanted to go for, you know, very me,
but not me at the same time.
- [Michelle] Right, I think it's
really fun, regal, different.
(laughing)
This is how you cover up a bodysuit well.
- [Dahlia] Girl, literally.
(laughing)
- And this one's really fun,
see this is House of Aja, all the way.
- [Dahlia] Yeah, this is very House of Aja,
very Kawaii, you know anime.
I wanted it to be very something that was still me,
but more campy.
- [Michelle] Right.
- [Dahlia] 'Cause I don't do camp, I do it here and there
and I want to do very big and bold in that one.
- [Michelle] But you know sitting here with you
in this form, I think you could do camp
and do it well, I think you're really fun.
- Yeah.
- [Michelle] I think you're funny, I think you're sweet,
Aja's really crazy, so to be in that house.
- [Dahlia] Yeah.
- I feel like you get the jokes.
- [Dahlia] Oh yeah definitely,
it's literally the craziest environment you'll ever be in
with all of us all at once, girl you would get annoyed,
and you would just, but you would also have fun with us.
- I'm used to kids like you, are you kidding me?
I grew up around you kids.
- We're just drama, literally drama.
Starting drama for no reason, and living drama, all day.
- [Michelle] At least you admit it.
(laughing)
I wish you could've stuck around longer, but really,
you got a gift here with the broccoli, I'm not kidding.
(laughing)
- The brocc - oli!
- I'm not kidding, you're gonna be doing appearances
in that damn broccoli suit.
- I just wanted to wear them shades and just sit there like.
- Hilarious!
- Just being a bitch.
- You do realize you're gonna have to wear
that broccoli outfit to the finale.
- Girl, I know, they're gonna make me wear it everywhere,
every time I go out.
Girl maybe I'll do a glammed up version of broccoli outfit.
- Listen, if you get a broccoli head piece
that doesn't weigh ten pounds.
- Girl, just a little, a little petite one, you know.
- You could do it, I'm not kidding.
- [Dahlia] Give a head a lettuce moment.
- Yeah exactly, and a broccoli.
- [Dahlia] And a broccoli girl.
- Its gonna be your thing, and I think you should own it.
- Oh my god, imma run with it.
- I can't give you enough credit for being a team player,
it's pretty freakin' awesome.
You are an amazing, gorgeous drag queen, Dahlia Sin.
- Thank you babes.
- [Michelle] Wasn't long enough.
- I know.
- But there's always next time.
- Girl just put me in the background, I'll be a tree.
(laughing)
- Just put me in the back.
- Amen!
How do we find you on social media?
Dahlia Sin, Dahlia_Sin on Instagram.
Dahlia Sin on Facebook, Dahlia Sin on Twitter,
Dahlia Sin on Grindr, girl find me.
- Scuv.
(laughing)
- Prowler growler.
- Prowler growler (laughing)
- Okay, all right, thank you so much sweetheart.
- Thank you for having me.
- Of course, and thank you for joining me
for another episode of Whatcha Packin',
I will see you next time.
Bye.
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