It’s truthful to say that Raven is Drag Race royalty.
The Emmy-winning make-up artist appeared on the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race, earlier than competing in All Stars and fronting her personal present Painted With Raven.
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She additionally serves as legendary drag queen RuPaul’s make-up artist – and that is precisely what she did within the upcoming season of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, which premieres on July 28, solely on Stan.
It’s rumoured she may additionally make an look on this sequence, too…
Speaking solely to 9Entertainment forward of the premiere, Raven mentioned the upcoming season, the importance of make-up in drag and her relationship with RuPaul.
“I have always said this: makeup is the most important thing when it comes to being a drag queen,” she started. “When you are getting in drag, there are plenty of drag performers who don’t wear clothes, but they still have to have makeup.
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“There are loads of drag performers who’re bald or do not do something so far as their hair or the rest, however they nonetheless should have make-up. Makeup is all the time going to be the most important a part of doing drag.
“I’m glad that make-up has develop into what’s has, as a result of I actually really feel that with out the recognition of RuPaul’s Drag Race, make-up and the wonder trade wouldn’t be booming the best way that it’s.
“Everyone desires to contour now, everybody desires to spotlight, everybody desires to over-emphasise their lips, or their brows or their lashes, so you could have a drag queen to thank for that.”
When asked if there was one go-to product she often reaches for in her kit, Raven replied: “My Anastasia Beverly Hills liquid lipstick, as a result of I’ve used it on the eyes as properly and it is labored – plus it wears all day. Once you set it on, it is set.
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“And I think, Rimmel London’s black ink liquid eyeliner. That’s a really good one – just the tip of it you can lay on your eye and deposit so much colour and pull it out and wing it without struggling.”
Raven additionally shared her pleasure for the model new sequence of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under, which after two profitable seasons is returning to Stan as soon as once more.
“I am excited, and let me tell you why,” Raven defined. “Every time a brand new group of queens is available in, you are already enthusiastic about the queens from the season earlier than – however then you definately get stunned.
“You find yourself watching these queens evolve in entrance of your eyes, and you might be form of blown away to even assume that you simply had been attempting to match them to another person from a season earlier than.
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“I love the Down Under queens, I love the UK queens, I love all queens, but I think that the queens for season three are a little hungrier, so there might be a little more drama.”
When it involves ideas for anybody beginning out in drag, Raven has a number of.
“The thing is that there are tutorials out there for everything. Maybe observe a few tutorials but don’t do the whole thing, take a little bit from this and a little bit from that, because you see a lot of people start to look like the person they want to emulate.
“But create your individual look, create your individual base, your individual factor that makes you stand out and makes different individuals take a look at you and go ‘That’s you’.
“There’s enough out there for you to make or create your own look.”
It comes simply weeks after Stan confirmed the queens for the brand new season.
You can learn all about them by clicking right here.
The sequence lately acquired two coveted 63rd TV WEEK Logie Awards nominations for its second season – Most Outstanding Entertainment Program and the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent, for Season 2 runner-up Kween Kong. This is the primary time a drag performer has ever been nominated for a TV WEEK Logie award.
The model new season of the Stan Original Series RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under will premiere Friday 28 July, solely on Stan.
To vote for Kween Kong for the Graham Kennedy Award for Most Popular New Talent on the 63rd TV WEEK Logie Awards head to tvweeklogies.com.au
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