- Hey beauties.
It's me, Sasha Velour,
quarantined international drag queen extraordinaire,
and tonight I would like to invite you to go to bed with me.
(bright music)
My favorite part about drag is sometimes removing it
at the end of the night.
Yes, drag is uncomfortable,
actually, all gender is uncomfortable.
High femininity in particular,
you got your lashes, your itchy wig, your tight clothes.
It's a really great feeling to then free yourself
and peel it all off at the end of the night.
Plus, I love a transformation (gasps)
and this is one that I do just for me.
Let's get to it.
I actually am gonna remove my earrings for this. (laughs)
If you learn one thing from my video today,
take your makeup off.
If you hear one thing I say,
it's this, you must remove your makeup
at the end of every night.
I have talked to some drag performers who do not,
it is the essence of my beauty routine.
You can use whatever you want.
I always like to use a little
Telesis Extra Strength Adhesive Remover.
There is some extra strong beauty products on my face.
I usually go in with a little makeup wipe, Sephora Rose.
And what I do is I will go into all the areas that have,
I don't know if you can tell, but I have
some heavy makeup application on this face.
So I'm gonna to go in and I just sprayed directly
onto this and then I'm just gonna wipe it off.
It's gonna get scary.
And I do this so that I don't then smear this
into the rest of my face any more than I need to.
And a little up here
even though I did actually cover my eyebrows,
so that is gonna take a little water on you, I think.
(gasps)
There, I'm done.
Let's go to bed.
You can use cold cream,
I'm gonna get a little further
and then I'm gonna talk to you.
Also, didn't even realize I still have these on.
(laughs)
Now I'm gonna spray this all over my face
and kinda get real nasty.
Okay, I actually have makeup back here as well so.
You can use cold cream, coconut oil,
whatever works for you.
Go cheap, dish soap.
No, I don't recommend that.
The person who taught me the most about skincare
and all of that is definitely my mom.
She had two products,
Ivory Bar Soap and Neutrogena moisture.
And she would wash her face and then put moisturizer on.
And she was like,
"Sasha, good skincare is literally as simple as that.
"You gotta clean your face every day,
"and then you put new moisturizer on."
Thankfully, since becoming a drag queen,
I've learned that you can use very, very expensive products
and that that does absolutely nothing
but it does help you experience your full fantasies
which we always support.
Makeup off, makeup off,
that's the first step, take your goddamn makeup off.
There we go.
You can see my brows.
I cover my eyebrows with spirit gum.
Hey, first I used alcohol to get all the oils out
then spirit gum, glue stick, and a setting powder.
And it makes a nice little piece of pottery
over your eyebrows that you can paint a new face,
more feminine face on too.
It is a technique that has been used
by femme performers since the dawn of time.
I'm just gonna say that I don't know.
Since my eyebrows are still completely
covered in this glue-like substance
that allowed me to paint over them,
I'm gonna go in with a little
virgin unrefined coconut oil to remove that.
I have tried every product and none works as well as this.
And I literally just go in
I do go in with my washcloth
and get that into the eyebrow and really rub it in.
It's gonna take awhile.
And then I just really go in there.
Let it go chaotic.
I'm gonna take a little more and put on my eyes as well.
Use very hot water in my little sink
(speaks indistinctly) just clean that out.
(water rippling)
Not too bad.
(water rippling)
Yes it's my hair, I'm gonna go take a shower.
(giggles)
Yeah, I need one.
Okay, I'll be right back.
(exclaims)
(exhales)
(laughs) Great shower.
I actually cheated while I was in there
and used a little bit more soap.
A little, I want to get really, really clean.
Like I said, first step, remove your makeup.
Use a little Ceramic Slip Sunday Riley Cleanser.
Okay, next up before my face even dries,
in fact, get a little more water on that.
I'm gonna put on my Sunday Riley oils.
I do love, that was a little too wet.
(laughs) I do love putting on face oil
to just re enliven the skin
after removing everything from it.
I either use this one
or I have the Juno antioxidant one.
I love these products.
Miss Farrah Moan introduced me to these when we were touring
after season nine of "RuPaul's Drag Race"
and I have been absolutely addicted ever since.
Just put that on,
also it has a magical greenish color.
Neck, chest, oh yeah scalp, all over.
Into the eyebrows,
and you can keep adding stuff.
Sometimes I use a little lactic acid products,
sometimes that I use a special little eye-dabby thing.
It doesn't, none of it really matters.
What you need for skincare is good clean products
that you are using to take off your makeup
and good clean products
that you are then putting onto your face.
So I'm gonna to put on a little fresh rose moisturizer.
This product, it just smells so good and it's cold.
I love a hot shower it turns all my skin pink
and this brings me back.
(inhales deeply)
Okay and that is literally
as simple as it is.
Little lip balm, some boundaries on it.
Good to go.
One final step,
I have literally been wearing this necklace to sleep
so you can check this out,
purchase it on my website
and let's just do one last thing
that I do every night before bed.
I'm gonna take you with me.
I believe that you need a little cold air, like nature.
That's the final step,
of which is gonna run up to the roof.
So come on come with me.
It'll be so good.
Well, thank you so much for coming to bed with me.
That's my goodnight ritual.
Thanks for joining me.
I hope to see you soon.
Goodnight, I love you.
(gentle music)