[intense electronic music]
- Hi Vogue.
This is Princess Gollum here,
and I will be taking you step-by-step
into a pink alien look.
First things first, let's get into skincare.
This is my favorite serum.
And it's like, it's called the mucus 92.
I really like the slimy stuff.
I should have better skin with how much I do, but yeah,
I think growing up,
I saw my mom doing it every morning and night and just,
I realized that it's more of a ritual
and it's like a winding down kind of moment.
And when she would do it every night
and there's just like one light on her and it's dark,
it was just beautiful.
Like, I was just like, I want to be like that one day.
You know, also my grandmother,
anytime I try to like use any of these muscles, you know,
like when you go like that, she would slap me like,
like that I'd be in public and she just slapped me
and no one would know why.
The next stage will be prosthetics.
I have these.
So basically this alien, she's a bit delusional,
but also like might be a genius.
She moved to Hollywood to become a big star
and naturally you move to LA and you get lips.
So yeah, here we go.
Also, these, these lip prosthetics are made in Hollywood.
[giggling]
So, let's just hotter this down.
Oh, they're fab.
Look at me.
I was born K town and I lived with my grandparents
and my mother for a little while,
but I was raised very religious
and in third grade, my parents, I don't know,
they decided to join like this Christian cult group
and they had this blog.
They would review every like part of pop culture
and tell you if it's safe for kids to watch.
Harry Potter is a big no-no,
very big satanic demon worshiping.
If you watch it, your kids will, you know,
die kind of thing, go to hell.
And I remember that year,
I had to burn all my Pokemon cards in like a fire.
It was really dramatic.
And I think that was the moment I was like, oh,
this is like, kind of BS, you know, at a young age,
I'm like this, isn't what God wants.
I had such a crazy, like a weird upbringing.
And I really didn't have many friends.
So my mom's always said like, keep your head high.
Like, don't let anyone else's opinion
affect the way you see yourself.
I think that was a really important thing she taught me.
Now we're going to get into the skin.
To make the perfect shade of pink, kind of mapping it out.
I fell in love with like the underground music scene
and I met so many great people there.
I guess there were like the LA club kids,
you know, at the time.
And I'm like,
I had this moment where I'm like looking around
and I feel really safe.
And I felt like my people were there, you know?
Okay.
So next we're gonna do a bit more contour
with a darker pink, just get it really nice.
And then we're gonna bake it.
Because my looks are always changing.
My mom thinks I'm like on the run or something.
Honestly, they've been quite supportive.
It wasn't always that way.
Like I knew, I knew I broke them in.
When I showed up with my new haircut
and my mom complimented me.
She was like, that looks really good.
It opened up your face.
Nice.
And I was like, I really don't want to do a look
my mom thinks is cool,
but she is really cool.
So it's okay.
But it took a lot to get there, you know?
I actually shaved my head on Instagram Live.
Like I never do Live.
I'm really inspired by beauty standards
during the medieval times when a woman
would shave half their heads.
It was a religious thing,
but that was actually like deemed the most beautiful thing
we could do as a woman,
which is really profound to base a whole beauty standard
and a weird one too, like, not very common
because of what you believe in.
I just found out so beautiful.
Princess Gollum comes from, my mom and I
used to watch Lord of the Rings.
And that was one of the approved things on the list.
And the only things that I was like interested in watching,
I was,
I have really fond memories with her
going to the theater to watch it, watching it at home,
talking about what we think things meant.
And she coined me as Smeagol.
And then when I'm being bad, she'd call me Gollum.
So that always stuck with me, you know?
That is so me though, I am always,
I feel like two very extremes,
same level of strength feelings, at the same time.
And I, life just really learning how to deal
with both of them and like,
knowing which way to lean when.
My mom has Instagram Queen Gollum, her bio reads,
"There is no princess without a queen."
So yeah, she's holding that for me.
Thank you.
Thank you, Ama.
My iconic, like starting out look
with Princess Gollum was like really
vintage nighties I found, at this vintage store,
but my reference photos for that,
were it was so funny because it was two pictures of Gollum
and then one of tank girl,
this is a good place to like put the brush down
and I'm going to let it bake with the setting powder.
I learned this from a drag queen.
Okay, so now that like cream-base is baked.
Now I'm going to contour with a little bit of powder.
It's quite nice.
It's a nice pink.
And now we will go into mapping out the design
using eye shadow and lipstick.
Modeling is tough.
The industry is tough.
There's definitely hurdles that I go through, being 4'11'',
kind of unheard of, unless you're a child.
But when I saw that challenge like, oh, this is how it is.
And I don't agree with it, and like,
I'm going to try my best if I can to go in
and just fuck it up, you know?
I mean, that's kind of like why I do it, right?
Because I want everyone to have equal opportunity
and I do it for the freaks, but you know, really,
it's hard for us to find our place in the world.
It really is.
You really have to like wear a mask.
You kinda have to step back some times.
Okay.
I don't like look or watch a lot of things for inspiration.
I could literally be walking across the street
and find a pile of trash
and I would be so inspired
and I'll want to make something or, you know,
a color of like someone's pee or I don't know,
just like really random things.
So now I'm going to add the silver.
I'm feeling pretty good.
I'm doing pretty great.
Okay.
So I'm really happy with my makeup now.
Ooh, that looks kind of real.
I'm going to this really cool party later
and I'm putting together this great outfit,
but the only thing I'm missing is shoes.
So we're going to go to my favorite shoe spot
and I'll see you there.
Bye!
[playful house music]
[shoes clacking down stairs]
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