I mean, we're literally like, like I'm waiting
for the call for the RuPaul Drag Race, Glow Up mix up.
Like there's gotta be,
there's gotta be a crossover episode.
Hi everyone.
I'm Dominic Skinner.
I'm a judge on BBC Three's ‘Glow Up’,
and today I'm going to be going through
some of the looks from the show,
as well as my own with Attitude magazine.
This is from episode one, season one.
And what you have to remember is,
like, I'd never done telly before,
like, never done TV.
And we had a day rehearsal
of just knowing where we stood.
And then all of a sudden we walked in on set,
and they were like, 'Okay, and action",
and generally, myself and Val looked at each other
and thought, "Hang on, what?
Sorry, what's going on?
What do we actually do?"
Like, we don't know what we're doing.
So we then had to start commenting on these looks.
So I look at that, and I do get a memory of fear
because we really didn't know what we were doing.
But that look in particular,
I liked the technique.
I liked the use of product poo,
we called it, which is a clay.
It's like a powder that you mix with water
and it becomes like a clay and it cracks.
It's a bit student-y to use,
but you can get some really cool effects.
And what Steph did is
kind of put it all over the face,
and then put these neon colours over the top.
So it kind of really became quite vibrant and cracked.
So, I love working with new artists.
I love working with young, fresh talent,
doing what I can to encourage them
and develop them,
and sort of help push their career forward.
And that's what I've always kind of done.
And working on this show,
the artists that we're working with are just incredible.
The artists I normally work with
is surrounded with fashion.
So we don't normally play with prosthetics,
but on the show,
they're playing with prosthetics,
they're playing with things from the kitchen sink,
they're playing with Play-Doh,
they are so innovative and so creative,
and mastering techniques that just blows my mind.
So looking at something like that,
I think it's like, the makeup world is in safe hands.
There is some really incredible talent coming through.
So I was excited for the show,
but when they said they had Kim Chi,
that's when I got really excited.
This is like, okay, I don't care if it gets slated.
I don't care if the show gets dropped.
I don't care if no one watches, I got to meet Kim Chi.
I'm happy.
(Dominic laughs)
Oh my God.
The infamous drag look.
So Nikki did this look.
When she was doing it,
we were a little concerned.
And especially the blue lip,
why Nikki decided to have the blue lip
start from the nostrils,
it just looked snotty.
There's a lot I can say that's wrong with it,
however, it got the attention of
Trixie and Katya, and it has now become,
I mean, it's a meme.
And once you become a meme, is there anything better?
Probably not.
You can retire on that.
Being spoken about by Trixie and Katya is,
I mean it's like six, what do they call it?
Six degrees of separation.
I'm basically best friends with RuPaul.
That's the way I see it.
That's how close we are.
I mean, we're literally like,
I'm waiting for the call
for the RuPaul Drag Race, Glow Up mix up.
Like there's gotta be,
there's gotta be a crossover episode.
We knew Ellis was talented.
We knew we had a really great group of artists
in the first season,
but it's, now this is the clever thing.
It's like,
you don't want to throw everything out at the first.
What you want to do is just keep some things back.
And it was almost like Ellis knew
that they were going to get to the final.
And so Ellis just,
I feel like Ellis just kept
this hidden away for the right moment.
And it gives me goosebumps now thinking about it.
It was just, it was incredible.
(Dominic laughs)
I'll say, Val is just one in a million.
She's like your best gay friend you can ever possibly have.
She is ruder, cruder, and more vile
than any gay man that I've ever known.
She will say herself,
she's a gay man trapped in a woman's body.
For work, for working sort of on set,
and in the makeup world, you have,
you really, you should wear black.
You wear black because you hide in the background.
So doing the show has been great,
cause I can wear all my colour, and I love wearing colour.
This was all about icons.
And David Bowie was an icon that
two of the artists chose.
One was extremely well executed,
and the other one was executed,
but it didn't really tell the story.
What I loved about James's look
was it was so definite David Bowie.
Like you looked at it,
you know exactly where it comes from.
So it's got this really iconic stamp.
But then it got elaborated on
with the powder spray,
and then the drag look, the contour,
and he took a male model and removed the gender,
which I thought was so clever
to play that into the role David Bowie as well.
So there was this,
it was just a really incredible connection
to not just the look, but the artist itself.
So I thought it was genius.
The other look,
there was moments that were really clever,
like the liner and sort of the red-y tone.
You look at it
and you can't really tell it's David Bowie,
unless someone tells you it's David Bowie.
She used Play-Doh, honestly.
I would never even thought
that using a putty would have been
a product to use in makeup,
but this is the thing.
Sometimes education,
learning how to do makeup,
stops you from expanding and experimenting.
And when you get someone like Eve that,
right, she wants to create
this sort of dragon scale effect.
What is she going to do?
Is she going to spend a week
sort of casting a face,
and then creating a sculpture of prosthetics,
and moulding and all this sort of stuff?
No, she's going to get Play-Doh and she's going to paint it.
It's like, done.
Two hours, done,
and it's so clever.
I just, I was blown away by it.
I thought it was genius.
See, this is what happens if you just
stick your hand in the cookie jar...
Is it stick your hand in a cookie jar?
I'd know, I'm always sticking my hand in the cookie jar.
No, if you just,
you just got to play with all the colours
in the crayon box, maybe.
So you just have to go with it, and play, and experiment.
And, James didn't really have an understanding
of where he wanted to go with the look.
He just knew he had some ping pong balls,
he had some bits of this, bits of that,
and he's going to give it a go.
And that's kind of what we wanted.
And you could just imagine this as a story,
that you could see this being developed
over a couple of pages,
it would look incredible.
It would be an incredible spread.
We had to keep it secret.
No one was allowed to know.
She's professional.
She turned up, I don't know what time of the morning
she was getting ready, but she was fully done.
Hair, makeup, perfect.
She's professional.
She gets the job done.
It was amazing, but we kept it quiet,
kept it all secret, hidden in the back.
And then when she came out,
I mean the artists,
you can see their reaction.
They absolutely died.
But inside, I was just like,
"Oh my God, this is amazing!"
And of course I got as many selfies as I could,
because I do.
And she was up for all of them.
This was a good look.
This was so beautiful.
There's something very pop art about it.
I love the thin black lines
just outlining everything.
The colour blend from one to another.
There were so many elements to this
that were just incredibly beautiful.
But at the same time, it shouldn't work.
You look at it all individually,
it shouldn't go together, but somehow it does.
And it's a knockout.
(Dominic cringes)
Ooh. I could see where Hannah was trying to go.
But, yeah.
(Dominic whispers)
I mean it kinda does look like a jock strap on the chin.
This was Ophelia at her finest.
This is just the most beautiful look.
That pure white base which is really, really tricky to do.
But the line work was impeccable,
and all those tiny little dots.
It was, it was just a masterclass in lines.
It's, you know, I remember being at art school
and you know,
you'd spend days just with paper
and just drawing line after line
trying to get these perfect lines.
And there's Ophelia just doing the same thing
but on a face,
and just creating this beautiful look,
it just looked like,
it looked like a piece of art.
Oh, so this was Ophelia,
and this was her finale look.
Again it was just the idea of,
this was taking the same prosthetic
that she used with the maggots
and the little skulls,
but she reused them.
Not reused them,
but used the same prosthetic,
but created these eyes instead of maggots.
And it was like, it's clever.
It's just being able to think beyond the realms
of what it's designed for
and see what it could be.
That is just so imaginative and so beautiful.
And then to then,
to then stitch in these beads
and these like, bleeding tears of jewels,
the whole thing came together
and just looked absolutely stunning.
Breathtaking.
(Dominic laughs)
Okay. So this little number,
this was based off a cardigan that I customized,
I did it at like a charity auction,
and I raised £580 for that cardigan.
All the money went to Positive East
in East London, and Mac Cosmetics matched it.
Ah, this, this look.
So this look was to,
sort of a celebration of LGBT History Month.
It was about the flag,
so basically it was my take on the pride flag.
And instead of doing stripes, I did spots.
That was, that was basically it.
The other thing is that I wanted to film it.
So I needed something simple for someone else to do on me.
So my husband, who is not a makeup artist,
actually did the dots on me.
So it took forever.
Ah, Halloween.
Well, Halloween is the makeup artist holiday.
It is the one time of the year that you can go all out.
You can do things that you would not normally do.
I do love Halloween.
I start thinking about Halloween around June, July time,
because you know, you gotta plan, you gotta prep.
And I do love Halloween anyway.
For my 40th birthday I did
Halloween Horror Nights in LA.
Cause I just, I wanted, they do it better than us.
So there we have it.
Thank you so much for watching.
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