![]() What are you thinking?!” I have watched RuPaul since I was 14 years old which was the first time I saw Ru. Raven: I was thinking, “You are not going to be able to do this. And just a nice beautiful peachy beige lip with a nice wash of peach on the cheek.īTL: The first time you did Ru’s makeup, did you have a moment of panic? The top piece is the base lash with the full piece that we manipulate to get the shape of the eye and cut up other lashes to kind of fill it out, like fuller on the edge or more of a round eye. For the bottom lashes, it’s anywhere from three or four pieces that Ru likes to do himself because he likes to get right up in there, whereas I’m a little nervous to get so close. We use a full strip but we cut them into sections. ![]() There’s a minimum of three sets of lashes. There’s still a lot of contour, and a lot of highlights but it’s a softer look. It’s very much what Ru would call “the Ru face.” It’s really relying on accentuating the features Ru has. She discusses what it takes to create the many faces of the queen of drag.īelow The Line: How would you describe RuPaul’s signature look? Her talents were recognized once again, this time for “Outstanding Contemporary Makeup For A Variety, Nonfiction Or Reality Program (Non-Prosthetic),” along with Makeup Artist colleagues Nicole Faulkner and Jen Fregozo.īelow The Line spoke with Raven about the maquillage that goes into making RuPaul and company as fabulous as can be. Painting faces is her passion so receiving her first Primetime Emmy Award for “Outstanding Makeup for a Multi-Camera Series or Special (Non-Prosthetic)” for the series in 2020 was unforgettable. She also became a skilled sculptor of her own “Raven face.” But before she ever took a brush to create “the Ru face,” Raven worked as a cosmetics salesperson, applying makeup for customers in California, but never went for the hard sell. As a former runner-up in the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, she earned the certain distinction of being RuPaul’s personal makeup artist since the ninth season. That’s where makeup artist and fellow queen Raven (aka David Petruschin) excels, with her motto of fierce and fabulous. ![]() There is an art to creating the face of a drag queen. They ‘werk’ it with their drag style, talents in “Lip Syncs For Your Lives,” their charisma, and not to mention plenty of nerve when they face the panel of judges on the main stage. Sashaying into its 13th season on VH1, RuPaul’s Drag Race took off on the runway with episode one, “The Pork Chop,” named for Victoria ‘Porkchop’ Parker, who was the first queen ever eliminated from the show going back to season one in February 2009.Īs always, the competition was fierce for the competing drag queens to impress the host, mentor, and head judge RuPaul for the coveted crown as America’s Next Drag Superstar, and a cash prize of $100,000.
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