- Today,
what are we doing today?
- We're gonna be getting all dolled up in drag makeup.
- Drag makeup for a week
actually. - For a whole week.
- Jesus Christ.
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- I'm excited, I'm stoked.
- I'm excited to learn because I'm like not good at it.
(both laughing)
- My makeup process already is a bit lengthy.
I'll say it can take 15 minutes
to 30 to maybe?
- And you think that's a long time?
There are drag queens who probably spend a good hour.
- (gasps) I don't have that kind of commitment
in the morning. - Am I crazy?
- Two-- - Three?
What! - I'm like drag makeup
is not-- - I'm supposed to do that
for a week?
- Like drag makeup takes time.
- I don't have that kind of commitment.
- I'm versed in the world of drag makeup,
but I am still very much a baby queen (laughs),
and like I will look at some queens,
and I'm like ooh, I am nowhere near there.
- If you're like a baby queen,
then I'm like a primi queen.
- Mm-hmm, - Woo.
- you're still swimming in that, nevermind. (laughs)
- Hello, my name is Amber Crane.
I am a drag performer here in the Los Angeles area.
I've been doing drag for about nine years,
I started in Orlando, Florida and I've been doin' it
here in Los Angeles for about three.
Here I am gonna be guiding some fabulous people
into a drag makeup formation.
Drag makeup is to the extreme,
bigger lashes, glitter, bolder lips.
The highlight, the contour is insane.
Bigger hair, drag makeup is lights, camera, action.
So let's start with our face.
We're gonna do foundation. - Okay.
Love.
- So for drag you do need a full coverage foundation.
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- Wipe,
- Mm-hmm. - dab a little,
and then-- - Powder.
- Powder with - Brush off, repeat
at least two to three times.
- this? - Yes.
- I've been told the steps, and I'm still nervous.
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- So what comes after this?
- You're gonna draw on your brows.
We're gonna start from scratch,
so you're gonna have to pencil,
so you're literally gonna be drawing a new eyebrow.
- Okay.
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- Are they twins?
Are they sisters?
Or are they like cousins?
- They're cousins, (Ryann laughing)
but you have to complete the right one.
- Right, right, right.
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- So next, since we already have on our foundation,
we're gonna highlight.
So with your highlight,
if this is your brow, you're gonna outline it
with that highlight.
- See I do this step, this I know.
So to bake this
here, do I do here too?
- I do my T-zone,
so you do here, - Okay.
- Here, and then
especially here. - And here, got it.
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- So while you're baking,
you can go to your eyes.
- Okay. - Okay.
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- [Amber] Now your, actually where your brows were,
that's gonna be your crease.
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So now that eyes are done,
we're gonna apply some falsies, some eyelashes.
- Okay.
- Lashes are on, it is time for some lips.
- Muah.
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- You guys look amazing,
like y'all are beat. - Woo!
- Yes! - Y'all look really good.
- So so proud, I've never looked this good.
- You look really good.
- Thank you.
- You look fetching too even with the like,
like you look really pretty.
- My God my makeup routine has gone from 30 minutes
to a full hour and a half.
- Thank you, mm,
I'm so excited about this.
- Thank you. - Y'all look so good.
- I'll just be sitting here minding my business,
and then I'll catch a glimp of this.
- Okay, how do I look?
- Amazing. - Thank you.
- Your nose is like so different,
like it's like super tiny, pointy, like
it's really cute. - Do I look like a woman?
- You don't need to look like a woman,
you look beautiful, that's what you look like.
- [Ryann] Thank you.
- Time for me to come out of this beat.
So girls always talk about how satisfying it is
to take off their strips.
I already tooK this one off,
and it was not satisfying.
Ew,
oh my God, ew.
That hurt, ooh, I lost one.
Ooh, girl.
Yo, it is really 6:00am,
and I am wakin' up to do my makeup.
This is ridiculous,
I have Ryann here.
- Mm-hmm baby, we gotta get up.
(mutters) money, make that money,
money ain't gon' make you, okay?
- I am tired.
I'd rather not be doing my makeup,
I'd rather be sleeping.
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- We woke up this morning.
- Heyo.
Oh, I still got my little head thing on,
but at least it match. - You do, it looks good.
(Destinee laughing)
How late are we now?
- [Destinee] An hour and a half, two hours?
- It's okay.
- It's 8:45 in the morning right now,
and you look this fresh.
(Destinee laughing)
You're just setting the bar for all of us,
(Destinee laughing)
and we are failing.
- [Destinee] No!
- Today's much more you.
- [Destinee] Yeah?
- Yeah.
- [Destinee] I didn't even have to say it, you knew.
- [Ryann] Hi!
- I was like, "Who is this person?
"Oh it's in drag, that's Ryann."
(both laughing)
- [Destinee] What do you think of this look?
- I like the purple,
I think it brings out your eyes.
- I'm feeling a little self conscious today
about my makeup.
I just don't like that I'm not,
I don't like when I'm not good at things,
and I feel like I am really really bad at makeup.
I feel like there are definitely parts of drag
where I'm like oh yeah, I got this.
Like I can practice the dance, I can practice
the lip syncs, I can practice makeup
but I feel like I just don't currently
have the steady hand.
I know what I wanna do,
but I just don't think it translates.
And it's just been a little discouraging
'cause I wanna be good.
- I fucking love it.
- Yeah? - Yeah, you should just
rock this (beep).
(mutters) Purple, you know purple stands for royalty?
- [Destinee] Amen.
- So you like,
you walkin' in here like a queen.
- [Destinee] You like it better than yesterday's?
- Way better than yesterday.
I don't know what happened yesterday.
(both laughing)
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- So here is the final look.
I added like a blue lipstick,
and I put like a tan nude-ish color in the middle,
I don't think you can really tell.
But I think I did pretty good,
this took two hours.
- I'm walking down the street to work,
and normally I feel super confident in my drag,
but for some reason right now
I just feel a little like uh,
everyone keeps looking at me.
- Gael, how are you feeling about this one today?
- I like it.
- Yeah?
- I like it. - Okay.
- Blue, I like blue because it reminds me
of the ocean.
- Oh. - You know what I mean?
- [Ryann] I tried something different,
it's a little dramatic.
I think I went overboard. - I see, I see what we did.
- [Ryann] I think I did better at blending.
- Okay.
- [Ryann] No?
- No you did.
- I am sitting here trying to edit this video,
and all I can see
are the bottom of these lashes,
and it makes me so so
so sleepy.
Like I'm just like.
- [Ryann] Hi.
- Ooh, green goddess.
- Mm-hmm. - Oh my God!
- [Ryann] And look at the ombre lip,
that's my favorite part.
- Yeah, no you know,
I wish you had a green lip too though.
- I don't have a green,
- That's okay. - but yeah,
but that's what I thought, I was like
damn, I wish I had green. - But green and purple
look good. - Yeah!
- I like the glitter pop!
- [Ryann] Thank you thank you.
- Oh my God! - Yeah!
- As far as like feeling confident,
I wouldn't really say that I am.
Like the very thing that I was afraid of
going into this
is what has been like my biggest fears.
Everybody's looking at me,
I'm getting attention from everybody.
But yeah, I'm excited to see how tomorrow goes.
I don't think I'll revisit gluing down
my eyebrows just 'cause your girl can't spend
two hours beating her face every morning.
Can't, I can't function, I can't do it.
- So we're mid-day.
I feel a lot more confident now.
Like the more I wear drag makeup,
the more people are like, "Oh this looks good!"
And it gives me like a little bit of a confidence boost.
I finally feel like I've landed this blend,
like I feel like my face kind of looks more like me.
- Oh! - Hi.
What do you think of today's look?
- I love it.
- Yeah?
So you've seen me everyday this week.
- I have.
- How do you feel about my face today?
- I like it.
- Yeah?
- It's like a sunset, - Oh.
- like you can't really describe it.
You just have to look at it and see.
- Oh you're really not done. (laughs)
- I know.
I left my setting powder.
- Your setting powder, what setting,
the white one?
- Yeah.
- Oh dang.
So what are you tryna,
you're doin' this look?
- Oh no, I'm just watching Drag Race. (laughs)
I don't know what I'm gonna do,
I just wanna be cute.
- So this is the first time
that I feel like my makeup looks really good.
I don't know, but just something about today.
I was away from Destinee,
I just started doing it on my own,
and I really like how this turned out.
- Wow, dramatic.
- [Ryann] Thank you, I thought so.
- It's very good, yeah.
- Okay, we're bold today.
- [Ryann] I felt more confident in today.
- Okay, I like the addition of this lower lash.
- [Ryann] Same.
- It's fun.
- [Ryann] It is, it is heavy, and I keep crying.
- So it's about halfway through the day,
and so far everybody really likes this look.
I was never into doing makeup really like this,
but this makes me think I just might.
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Okay, so I know I've done the purple and pink
look before, but I figured I would redo it,
and try to make it a little more drag.
So I added glitter,
I added a bottom lash,
and I added a major nose contour, look at her.
- So I brought out my pussycat wig for this look,
and also my, the first outfit I ever wore
in drag, yes ma'am.
- I've decided to challenge myself
a little more for the last day.
It's a Saturday,
so I have nobody to really like just walk up to
and vlog, and I'm very comfortable
going like this into the office,
but out into the world is still very scary for me.
So I'm going to run all my errands with this look
looking like that.
- Yes,
oh my God look at her,
ooh she is serving.
- I really feel like the glitter pop here is nice, no?
- Oh yeah, oh I love that.
You're like sexy auntie, you know?
- Yeah, mm-hmm with a little bit of chest hair.
- Exactly, but she's not with the family.
So this is what she does on the weekend.
- I caught people staring
which is exactly what I was trying to avoid.
But you know what, we're here,
we're here and being bold,
and we're here being drag darling.
- You know, I just really feel that these lips
are on point,
I brought that eyebrow down from earlier.
It's like everyday I got a little bit better
at doing makeup, and doing drag makeup.
- I just left the auto shop to get my car battery.
I walked in there, handled my business,
and nobody said anything.
It wasn't until I brought up my makeup
that they were like, "Oh, I just thought
"it matched your nails."
And I was like, "Okay."
- I didn't know what this week would be like,
and I remember at the beginning of it
I felt very much like
I didn't know if I was gonna be good at it,
I still don't think that I'm like phenomenal at makeup.
But I definitely will look at my makeup now,
and feel so much more confident,
and honestly wearing it made me feel more confident.
- I'm really proud of how far I've come throughout the week.
The first day I was very very scared to leave the studio,
now I'm out running errands when on day one I was actively
avoiding just going into Walgreens.
- I remember going into the beginning of the week
I definitely thought I was gonna give up drag
'cause I was like maybe I'm not good at makeup.
And I feel like that part of me is past,
as RuPaul says, "We're all born naked and the rest is drag."
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