it's been a while but i'm finally back on the clock and i can't wait until girl defined sees
this look it's me and welcome back to hot or rot and today we'll be reviewing episode 8 the
masquerade ball of canada's drag race season 3. today our canadian queens were challenged to serve
three looks mask for mascara - gender bending drag which... i don't think i'm familiar with;
incog-she-to which honestly was really vague to begin with and not many queens
nailed but turned out to mean something to the effect of not looking like a drag queen
and then revealing to a drag queen and finally a high drag garment they had to construct
there that screams masquerade bell of the ball based on the mask they were assigned
by ms Vivian Vanderpuss and girl i've got one thing to say there were two seamstresses
and three hot glue gun divas and the hot glue gun girls were fighting so we'll be breaking
down all 15 looks from the ball and ranking the queens from rawest rats to hottest hots
so you better buckle up because it's gonna be a bumpy ride and i've already started the fair
can you imagine if i was charging you to watch these it's not like this is fashion photo review
first up and at the bottom of my list tonight we have kimmy couture and firstly i want to point
out the really sweet emotional moment that she had with her mother's video message kimmy's mom
shared that when other people asked her how she accepted her drag queen daughter the answer was
simple she just loves her kids and that's the energy every queer kid wishes their parents had
so she is so lucky and oh my god kimmy looks just like her mother and kimmy's first look in the mask
for mascara category is my personal favorite of her three tonight i like this because it was very
different for kimmy remember we've been seeing tons of brawn panty kind of futuristic mugler
woman type of silhouettes so this was extremely refreshing to see her do her powerful little
runway stomp ben i loved the pants i loved that it was still like in that kimmy couture way that
she likes to wear things where she's showing off a little bit of skin i have the hair both on her
head and facial to meet the brief was stunning this look is hot give me a second look though
i struggled with a little bit she comes out as a blank anonymous profile square that you would
find on an app like let's say Grindr and then she tosses it aside and reveals she's in this
club kid look what she says is serving club kid meets neon colors kissing together and she says
that she's serving versatility which i agree with this look and her first very different
from the communicator runway library catalog that we have seen thus far in the competition
and in that regard i loved seeing this second part of this look however for the brief of incog-she-to
whatever joke or theme she was reaching for i think didn't land the judges on the panel didn't
get it and i still didn't really get it even when she explained it to them the club kid look from
kimmy oh give a hug it's cute but for the category this whole thing was confusing and a little bit of
a rot and finally we have her masquerade book this was inspired by the pink feathery mask that vivian
hands kimmy at the beginning of the episode and zoom in on kimmy's face because that tells you
all you need to know about how she felt about that mask and girl i agree i say that primarily
not because i don't like the color pink i quite like it but i think it's harder to make that hot
pink tone look elegant or belle of the ball if you will especially when combined with bright yellow
hi me this color combo for me was reading tropical lounging by the cabana in the middle
of the summer maybe you're going for a swim and i just did not get masquerade ball at all from this
and it was super super bold of her i might add to basically recreate what chaos got sent home for
in the last design challenge unfortunately for kimmy the only thing this look masqueraded around
as tonight was a rot but i did actually assign a total of 10 flames to each queen's design look to
properly weight this one as being more important in the overall challenge of this ball so i here
for example gave kimmy just one hot flame for the brief and two for the construction i don't think
the shape and silhouette of what she created was bad and second to last my ranking list tonight
i have Giséle lullaby which might be a little controversial i'm curious to know what y'all
thought about her looks Giséle was of our final five here the one of two seamstresses left in
the competition and they were trying to play up this narrative of how much she was helping all
the other queens but there wasn't really a lot of footage of her actually helping the other queens
very much she would give some advice but then not do anything for them which was a great strategy
but i'm saying this to point out it seems like they were trying to over emphasize that she was
just so busy working on other people's stuff that she didn't get to finish her final look
however that didn't seem like the reality at all her first look mask for mascara i don't want the
mask i don't want the mascara i don't want the boat that this sailor came off of she says she's
giving a little john paul gautier fantasy which i see the nod too however i think the execution
was not great this reads as three completely different looks that she's just haphazardly put
together and the fact that there's no cohesion between these three very different garments she
has on her body really was distracting me i did not know where to go and she did meet the gender
bendy brief of this category but she appeared to have left her taste at home this look is a fact
look what i just remembered i had oh my god Kiki Kannibal eat your heart out and her incognito look
was also a bit of a shipwreck for me and that's mostly because it was bizarre and confusing more
than it was anything else she comes out as curious georgina or something i don't know she's narrating
this like shy schoolgirl type of character who doesn't know where she's at or what she's doing
sounds like me every day of my life and then she reveals to be a drag queen and firstly
let's go ahead and give the girls some kudos some praise maybe even a letter grade a for how
the transformation occurred on the runway but the two looks for me just weren't my favorite
things it felt like neither were fitted properly and kind of like Kimmy i was also missing the why
so no i didn't like these looks but i can respect the design artistry that went into executing this
type of transformation so i will give this a very soft gazelle as someone who has been doing super
well on the runways this season so it did surprise me to see her lack of attention to detail on these
first two looks but does she get the redemption with her seamstress skills in that final look kind
of yes and kind of no she walked out and i was gagged gooped bound and chained i was shook and
shaking and crying she is the main event of the masquerade party from at least the waist up for
meeting the brief of masquerade ball i gave this look all five hot flames but in the other part
of my evaluation tonight i gave the construction only two because that's the magic of seeing the
wow factor from the waist up wears off as she walks down the runway you start to see that the
bottom half is quite plain and not just plain but extremely unfinished there's not a hem in sight on
the bottom of this dress skirt and it's literally like tattered and falling apart as she walks down
the runway she is creative though i'll give her that because i think she tried to play that off
by leaving her slipper to do a little cinderella moment thing making an odd possibly how cinderella
at the stroke of midnight has her dress turned back into the tattered rags that it once was
miss Giséle thought she was clever overall this look is hot but in the construction category it's
a wrap and next up we've got vivian vanderpuss who receives a beautiful message from her dad
telling her that she is gonna win this drag race 100 no one tell him it was a beautiful video and
vivian here being the last other seamstress in the competition i also had high hopes for but pitter
patter let's get at her and break these looks down mask for mascara this was interesting in
fact so interesting that i really fell in love with the look it was giving a little
house on the prairie judy garland wizard of oz meets dungeon in the nightclub i liked how she
contrasted those really soft pastel colors with a material and cut and silhouette that is typically
a little more risque i did not at all agree with the judges going so hard on this one i think
she deserved a little more credit here this look was hot her incognito look though i think will
be very divisive among people she goes from as she says being peter pastrami to tina how do you
say that tagliatelle i don't know how to say that my italian grandma rolling in her grave
anyways vivian had a whole three-course meal of a story of who these characters were and
how they were transforming but girl i wasn't into it the chef look was just a shelf look just like
my taxi driver look is just a taxi driver look i wouldn't wear it on the rupaul's drag race
runway the only thing i was getting from what she was doing on the runway was ratatouille to
cloudy with a chance at meatballs but i didn't know why but because the construction was good
and the reveal happened and she had two different looks i'm going to give her looks in this category
a safe hot and for her final look she creates a masquerade ball garment that is inspired by
the beautiful black and silver mask and because i know how creative and interesting of a drag
performer miss vivian is as we've seen on the show i was a little disappointed when she came out in
this outfit and i think brad said it best while he was walking through and talking to the girls
in the work room he told vivian she needed to look like the guest of honor not the performer of the
party but actually though i wouldn't say this look was either of those things it was more a waiter
at the party serving hors d'oeuvres it's always a bold choice to do a pant or a suit especially
a three-quarter calf pant the crotch was a little too low the cut on the calf was not
masquerade ball and i think she missed a huge opportunity to really lean into those
design elements that she started off with like the asymmetrical shoulder and coattails so for
her two point category they gave me the brief two flames so kind of a rot and the construction three
because i don't think the fit was perfect and i do think she missed some opportunities with the
design elements but she did still make a blazer and pants that's had hems and looked finished and
next up a lovely first alternate in our rankings tonight we have jada shada hudson and i'll be
honest girl i was nervous i was sweating boots because i love this queen but that last design
it was revolutionary it was truly one of a kind her first look mask for mascara she comes out
she says she is giving a pimp daddy from the bronx and loved everything about this look the stoning
on this pinstripe suit phenomenal and i loved how she was fully playing into this character it is
a ball and she is giving us ball culture she's giving us the realness of the character that she
is giving she had surprises and little gags at the end of the runway she showed off her grill and i
love this look at first sight because it reminded me of the penguin character from the tim burton
batman movies when he's in his pinstripe suit and he's got that like umbrella weapon thing and maybe
that wasn't a reference point in the design of this outfit at all and she just was a pimp daddy
from the bronx which is great and this look is her second look though was not so much a blockbuster
as her first she comes out carrying a mirror in a black ballerina tutu kind of dress and then this
look has a reveal never would have guessed it it reveals to a mirrored dress and again what
the hell was this runway category supposed to be i don't even know if i can blame her for this or
any of the queens for this category because all of them were just so different and strange but this
look considered as incognito or transforming into a drag queen none of that really makes any sense
at all and for this looks transformation message to be so lost in translation the two individual
looks needed to at least be show-stopping and they really weren't but i will say jada had so
much fun on the runway and that's the thing about jada she is oozing charisma but mirror
mirror on the wall this look is a rod and thank god nelly she comes to this finish line strong
this masquerade ball dress is very simple but it is very in brief she's the show look at this tool
thing wrapped around her body she says look at me and that beautiful black and gold pattern shawl
coat thing that she has created to drape over the dress in the back a great contrast to the plain
black color of the dress and matching the mask very well and as we know she is not necessarily
a seamstress she did after all so this dresses head-hole clothes the first time around but let's
give the congratulations this girl deserves for making this simple look look so elegant i also
want to shout out the cool little hoop skirt thing that she did at the bottom of her dress
very neat the one thing i would have changed about this look which the judges pointed out was her
choice of fabric for the base of the dress it was a jersey knit and there was no shine or sheen to
it but again she had enough other design details integrated into this garment that definitely
made up for that fact so in both categories i gave miss jada four hot plans and the very
tippity top of our rankings tonight we have miss fiercalicious girl she has had the best runways
of this entire competition hands down book closed gates locked and tonight was no exception and the
funny thing again the thing i love about watching miss fiercalicious she knows how to make good tv
she knows damn well that she's gonna be able to turn out a cute dress for the masquerade ball for
example however she's seen asking every judge and every contestant will you make my dress will you
make my dress i'll give you five thousand dollars if you make my dress like this girl is playing the
long game psyching the other [ __ ] out anyways let's get into the looks mask for mascara this is
beautiful this is an homage to Mathu anderson who if you'll remember was a long time collaborator
with miss rupaul charles herself back in the day Mathu was doing rue's looks for drag race and one
day he mysteriously disappeared and there are tons of rumors online believe what you want to believe
some say he is dealing with an illness some say that him and rue had a falling out and some say he
just simply wanted to live out of the limelight what the truth is we may never know Mathu is a
queer icon that played in this gender bindi space a lot himself and to see fierce do this homage
to Mathu in such a beautiful way i just think it shows fierce is thinking about a lot more than she
lets on and importantly is delivering references and cultural moments in a ball thank you this look
is hot but if you aren't feeling toasty from that look check out this next one incogcito the way she
ate this ball up the way she ate this the way she ate those balls she has her first look at
celebrating her heritage in cape verdean culture with an african dress she says she's giving
gorgeous village girl off to the marketplace this look is stunning the pattern the colors
the silhouette that she has created here and what the hell does this dress have anything to do with
incognito i have no idea i was even more confused when i saw the reveal but in the reveal she turns
into josephine baker who quick history lesson is regarded as the most famous black female star in
the world ever she was an american born performer who expatriated herself and made a career for
herself over in europe primarily in france the look that miss fierce is doing an homage here to
is her famous bananas look and this was a regular part of her performances which apparently evolved
over time to have like spiky pieces on it i'm sure you're starting to see the metaphor of what the
bananas might represent and how these relatively salacious performances were used to subvert the
male gaze and liberate herself not only as a woman but a black woman in a world that was and sadly
often in many places still is very much against anyway she's iconic this was her banana look this
is fierce doing the banana look it's a beautiful homage a beautiful look and such a gag to go from
like cape Veridian culture to josephine baker so props to you mama this look is hot now let's move
into her final look overall it is very simple but very elegant as far as meeting the brief though is
this as opulent as i expected masquerade ball garment to be not necessarily i want a little
more show and high drama from this because i was getting a little more rich socialite goes
to a charity event than i was truly masquerade i ended up giving fierce four hot flames in both
the construction and meeting the brief categories because she was so close on meeting the brief and
the construction while she didn't really i think push herself like she could have she delivered a
look that was arrestingly beautiful on the runway and she added some really nice delicate details
like the chains on the back of her dress that she also added to the mask she literally said this
mask is boring i'm gonna spice it up love that and hey she's come a long way from that hemorrhoids
dress this look is hot! So, fiercialicious takes the win this episode which i agree with she's at
the top of my list her looks were phenomenal but in the bottom two though we have kimmy and
vivian now kimmy i expected she was at the bottom of my ranking list as well across her three looks
but vivian was closer to the middle for me i mean like one point away from being tied in the bottom
with Giséle for me but still i think she had a slightly better showing overall than Giséle
vivian's downfall though i think from the eyes of the judges tonight was mediocrity nothing she did
across her three looks was necessarily interesting groundbreaking or different so in contrast though
while her first two looks were not very good had a third look that was at least at first glance
breathtaking the most opulent thing on the stage it was a shame that the bottom half was
not finished but what she created in the top half was arguably better than any other complete look
and i think that execution is ultimately what kept her out of the bottom so vivian and kimmy
lip sync to control alt delete which i reacted to along with the runways over on my patreon
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short of it is kimmy is a great dancer i mean good god vivian though i think held her own
the reason kimmy won in my eyes was she gave a more dynamic performance while vivian kind of
did the same one two three while having a tight lip sync throughout the entire song overall say
i enjoyed this ball miss pierce definitely made it worth watching but i was a little confused about
how we ended the episode and where the season is going next it sounded like brooke was saying
the queens next week are going to fight for the crown as final four but it's only episode nine and
there's also going to be a tenth episode so that could mean that they have a reunion scheduled as
one of those i don't know what's going on there and now the moon she's all been waiting for
hottest in the master mascara category i'm going to give it to miss fierce incogcito ms fierce
and the masquerade the thing is if i had to wear one of these looks i would wear Giséles... period!
but i would ask her to finish the garment of course so if they were presented like they were
presented unfinished tattered on the bottom and stuff i probably would go with miss fierce's look
which was complete if maybe a little too simple so i'm gonna give it to miss fierce and i also asked
my patrons over on patreon.com to vote on their hottest hots they've chosen miss fierce like i
did for the first two categories and then Giséle lullaby for the third but let me know what y'all
thought down in the comments below who should have won been in the bottom two gone home etc etc
wait wrong season that's all i've got for you today and i'll end with an extra special shout
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