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- Hi guys, welcome to sunny Scotland.
This is a hoarders guide to Glasgow
with me, Scara Wood.
So let's get our hands dirty.
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Today, we're going to be doing kind of hyper real,
super natural big eyes, big lips, big nose,
big everything kinda look.
First step is we need to get
all my hair outta the way so I'm gonna do that.
I like to try and make myself kinda look like a doll,
like one of those creepy porcelain ones,
that kind of rounding out of the face.
The bigger the things around you are the smaller you look.
Like wearing oversized clothes
makes you body look smaller
and like having big eyes makes your head look smaller.
To play with this sort of idea of feminine
and petite and baby-like.
So I'm gonna start by cleaning my face
and then we're gonna put on some foundation.
Really love that it runs in family to get
an insanely red face.
We're gonna get rid of that right now.
So I grew up in Northern Ireland.
I think I was always like artistic,
or just read as like queer.
But artistic.
And it was really funny 'cause I went to an all boys school.
Because it's Northern Ireland, they didn't really
think they needed to have a rule about makeup
'cause it was like no one would've wanted
to wear it anyway.
I would put a full face of white foundation on
and then use a makeup wipe just to rub
out the dark bags under my eyes.
So I looked as unhealthy as possible.
I did have friends, whenever I was a teenager.
But I think I struggled to find
people who were interested in the same
things as I was, for the most part.
So I spent a lot of time on the internet.
It's really part of this queer millennial experience
to find your sense of identity and belonging online.
So next I'm going to start mapping onto my face
where I want to do features later.
I guess I started experimenting with drag
whenever I moved to art school.
I think a lot of it was because I studied
fashion and textiles, which I kind of always thought
that was what I wanted to do with my life and my career.
I didn't really enjoy it.
I didn't particularly enjoy sewing that much.
I was in it because I wanted to make
haphazardly constructed garments for myself
and not have to really worry about like,
the industry or being sellable.
So then I started playing with makeup more
and like actually wearing makeup to look
like a different person as opposed to a dead person
with big eyebrows.
And I needed an outlet.
Drag performance sort of offered that.
But yeah, I much kind of prefer putting on makeup
and maybe performing a sad song to a quiet room
of like five people.
It was like five years ago I was diagnosed
with borderline personality disorder.
And a big part of that, for me, was sort of like
a disrupted sense of identity
and not really knowing who I was
and feeling like I didn't really exist.
And it was kind of like a weird time mentally.
And I sort of find that a lot of that
was related to like my love of historical stuff
and historical costume because in contrast
to the present moment where everything is changing
around you and like, you have to deal with
being an ever changing person.
But I love history because, it's already happened.
Historical aesthetics functioned for me for a while
as a stand in for a solid sense of who I actually was,
like identity wise.
I got diagnosed around the same time
as I came out as a trans-person as well,
which was a really fun couple of months.
I identify as a trans woman.
But also as gender non-conforming.
And I think understandably,
a lot of people find that confusing.
They sort of think like, well how can you be trans
and gender non-conforming?
If you're transgender, you're conforming to a gender.
But really mostly what I mean by that is
that I'm trans because I identify as something
I wasn't assigned at birth.
But I don't necessarily see that as a reason
why I should have to behave a certain way.
Just the act of like not medically transitioning,
or not feeling the need to pass as a cis-woman,
is an act of gender non-conformity.
So, next step we'll go in
and draw in the waterline, the waterline.
W'vve got a big tear duct today.
That's fine.
Usually what I do now is, we'll kind of start
to do a shadowy shading thing just around the whole eye.
If I make this stupid face like,
it allows you to stretch out.
Rome wasn't built in a day, it was built
over a series of really unfortunate makeup looks.
That was close.
Swatches!
I guess not only the makeup but also the way
that I dress, whenever I'm like, doing these looks
and stuff is to kind of self-infantalize.
I think I'm uncomfortable with the sexualization
of my body because to be sexual is to be
gendered a lot of the time.
And that's not comfortable for me I think.
I think the de-sexualized baby doll
is born out of that need to be like,
no I'm just like a baby, I'm just a child.
Leave me alone.
I never got a girlhood the first time around
so I'm gonna dress like a toddler in my mid 20s.
So I think we're getting somewhere.
Now I'm probably gonna go in with a darker color
just to really emphasize this like depth.
Ooh she is uneven!
Okay, now let's crack into these brows.
I don't have any eyebrows.
I shave my eyebrows off because obviously
it provides for sort of room to play with
whenever you're doing makeup like this.
And it's a lot less preparation time.
Plus my eyebrows were just not a very nice shape.
Now we're going to just line the eye with black
and maybe start drawing on some lashes.
So I usually do a full set.
And I used to just not wear any lashes on top of these
but sometimes if I'm feeling fancy,
I'll put a pair.
So we wanna cover everything.
And we're gonna draw ourselves a new lip shape.
Sometimes you just catch sight
of yourself doing this like [groaning].
So I'm just gonna use what was left of that color
that I mixed up on my hand and add in
a little bit of a darker brown.
And we're gonna just go over those lines.
Final step for the lips is the highlights.
Do them as if they're catching those ridges
that you naturally have on your lips.
Okay now that we look suitably insane,
let's do the nose as well.
It's the only thing that seems to be missing here right?
We wanna take my reasonably pointy nose
and make it kind of a little bit more round.
We're gonna do the eyes, finally.
So today I think, we'll go for maybe a nice bluey,
greeny, tealy eye color.
There are some moments in this where
I just kinda go like, what now.
I don't know.
I feel like I'm always very reluctant to like
call myself a performance artist because
there is that part of me that is like,
who do you think you are?
You're just putting makeup on
and dancing in front of people.
You're not an artist.
That's just something you need to drown out
and not pay attention to.
I know I was saying earlier that like
the importance of being self aware
and not getting too ahead of yourself.
But also like, you need to know what you desire.
And you need to know that like yeah, it's like,
just because you're scared of getting laughed
at for taking yourself too seriously,
if you feel it, if you genuinely feed entitled,
to, you know the world would really
benefit from me doing this.
I would really benefit from doing this.
But I go to exhibitions all the time
where people have been paid so much money
and given so much space to exhibit the same thing
over and over again and they're not saying anything.
So if you've got something to say,
you should have a place to say it.
I am now just gonna do all of the highlights on the eyes.
So, highlights on the iris, do the start shape
that I'm gonna do on the pupil.
So that is our nice, subtle eye highlight finished.
Very subtle, very realistic.
We've also dome some on the cheeks.
I think the next logical step would be
to put in my contact lenses.
Which is a big of a messy process.
So I'm gonna do it off camera because
I'm a very refined young woman.
Perfect.
Okay, so now, top lashes first.
Or should we do bottome lashes first?
Let's try our best to match it up.
Okay.
I think we're done here.
Let's go find the perfect outfit
to compliment this stunning makeup look.
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This is the final look.
I think it's gonna transition me really smoothly
from day to night.
We're wearing the exact same silhouette I always wear,
which is this nice big shape eliminating
baby doll puff ball.
And I've paired it with these nice little pumps
that came to me in a dream.
So I thought I would make them.
I can keep the time in six different country's.
I feel like this outfit's only missing one thing,
so I'm gonna take you to one of my favorite
little hidden gems in Glasgow to pick up
the perfect pair of earrings.
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Love it!
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I might just stay here.
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