look at this yeah I [ __ ] got it hi my
name is gonna exchange from RuPaul's
Drag Race and we're here and my weight
closet now listen before I show you my
wigs you get all of them my gig don't
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wigs are very important to any drag
persona because a wig has a lot of
character a wig is what type of even if
you're gonna be that day I'd let me
start with the hair and then I figure
out what the rest of the opposite of
being because it away can make or break
a look now look at this goodtime girl I
like to call her shanterrica she was
your are a freshman sophomore year in
college but she would not write you up
was she caught you I mean she was a cool
down check lots of girls are weird
natural hair drag and I'm like I love it
I think that your hair is beautiful so I
have lots of natural variations look at
the top mom isn't it ridiculous girl
when I had this on my head you cannot
tell me it's not sprouting from my scalp
okay
this is giving you Jada Pinkett in the
matrix niobe realness this is Courtney
or Ashley or Kelsey or Mary Kay see this
like messy little top nah but mom look I
put this on what you wants to feel fun
and frilly I'm gonna have cocktails with
the girls
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if you watch RuPaul's Drag Race you know
what this wig is this is my promo here
for all-stars for I wanted to do
something fun something that I thought
that no one else would do and I'm very
very very very very very very very very
inspired by Grace Jones is integration
Jones is a style icon in every sense of
the word my wig guy Donald Couture can
literally create any hair and we got
this I see pompadour fantasy-like on
Versailles I've had to look at this wall
of weeks you can send a couple kids to
college limit with all this gear up in
here here here oh my god nice photo
series here up in here
thank you refinery okay look at this
wall you're looking at someone's tuition
I would guesstimate $50,000 my most
expensive way today is $1,500 it is a
full lace human here moment and it's
about 60 inches long
let's just give me a little share to be
a little scissor
RuPaul Andre Charles won season 10 okay
thank you for wearing pussycat way and
pussycat leagues or as some people call
them bus driver wigs are typically very
short wigs you could just pull it off
your purse and it looks the same on this
fine every time have a slew of bus
travel wigs and I love them giving you
the NeNe Leakes fantasy look at this
throw way up honey I don't know so this
is the wig I'm gonna be putting on today
but I have my final so I went to this
track competition called cattle call in
New York City at therapy bar hosted by
peppermint and you had to be in dry for
the sing so I went down to Mac got me a
cold liner and a ruby wool lipstick girl
and you cannot tell me I was not the
prettiest I was like oh this was
actually really fun and the one thing
led to another I started going out more
sort of doing more competitions and I
started working a lot in New York City
you know what surprisingly my furnace
Twigg ever in drag was actually pretty
good one and I hadn't no idea what I was
doing but it was this like nice lace
front now I looked a mess but the wig
was fierce and after I like learn more
about drag I like added subtraction
because I mean it was pretty ball headed
now for the children at home before you
want to start investing in wigs know
this they are expensive okay so she for
dracula's lots of drag here is custom
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I've had lots of strong powerful women
in my life so that's what my Trek is
very inspired by I perform pieces that
speak to women's empowerment often I
feel the need so again to not just wear
long silky straight hair that's so
boring and so vanilla I like to do
natural hair I like to do things to show
the beautiful kaleidoscope that all
different women have some women have
kinky here I'm gonna have curly hair
straighter I like to do every single
type of hair and make it look pretty
that is what my drag is really inspired
by because that's what I saw growing up
to me that's what makes my drag I think
special
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RuPaul's Drag Race has become this very
amazing and beautiful show and it's
becoming very prominent in pop culture
there are so many people of color where
people of color getting their stories
told with RuPaul's Drag Race being a
drag queen of color has definitely
presented its challenges to me I've been
called everything in the book for no
good reason people shaming me for
wearing afro shaming me for wing braids
and box braids I'm like those are again
those are beautiful hair sauce
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black women have definitely been
instrumental in injecting Wigga tree
into pop culture growing up in America I
was not proud to be black because I was
taught through TV and through magazines
and do all that stuff that being black
was not something that was fierce not
until our early twenties when I left
college it was where as a walk Imani I
was like everything I love wake it up
look in the mirror see my skin it was
just an epiphany I had one day so that's
why in my dragons trying to do that so
much by wearing lots of African prints
and wearing natural hair and just doing
things to accentuate the black
experience and how that has changed my
life and how it has made me a much more
informed adult and a human being
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what I want people to take away from the
money exchange experience is how proud
and how unapologetically myself and
black
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