I love dipping in and saying, “Let’s try this,” and 99% of the time, Ru says, “Sure, let’s do it. But your job is to make the goddess of drag look like a goddess, so it’s always about pushing yourself. I’m known for perfecting a beige face that looks good with any costume and hairstyle. How do you insert bold colors into Ru’s palette? Ru will pick out a dress and I’ll say, “This is how I feel the makeup should look for that.” 1 One of the oldest working drag queens in the world, she has been a regular feature of Brighton Pride since 1973. We don’t say, “Here are the looks for the season,” it happens the morning of. David Raven (born 15 August 1933), better known by the stage name Maisie Trollette, is a British drag queen who has been active for more than 50 years. I’ll have makeup references that are used by other drag queens and fashion shows. There’s been a lot more leg this season, so that’s been fun to work with. I’ll go through and start cataloging ideas.

We will end up having about 25 to 30 looks for the season, which Zaldy sends, so we get them ahead of the time. Talk about how you collaborate with costume designer Zaldy to complete Ru’s look. For the second look, we went upstairs and blended some things out, removed things and layered on things because I’m not the kind of person to send someone out in the same look. They are two different looks, so I carved out two different looks. Ru was doing this performance in a huge tulle coat and going into that neon dress with 300,000 Swarovski crystals. I wanted each makeup look to complement what wearing. What about the finale looks at the Ace Theater? I tried not to do too many touchups, so you had to really get Ru ready and get her onto the main stage and try to not step in so often. The main stage was made bigger, the judges’ panel was made bigger, and there was social distancing too. But we were tested you couldn’t be on set unless you were tested. We still were trying to figure out all of the inner workings of how we can make this happen. Let’s talk about the opening episode of Season 13 and putting Ru into drag during the pandemic. It’s a crazy thing to wrap your head around when you are responsible for getting the queen of drag into drag. We’ve done the U.K, “Saturday Night Live” and all these different things. I remember saying no I thought about it and here we are, five years later. I never thought I would see the inner workings. Up until then, I had only seen RuPaul in drag when the whole monster was done. In 2016, I was asked to come and do Ru’s makeup.

How did you go from being a contestant on “Drag Race” to RuPaul’s makeup artist?

He had to pivot to making up the queen of drag with new safety protocols in place, and he earned this third consecutive variety, nonfiction or reality program makeup Emmy nom in the process. Last year pushed Petruschin to work under new conditions when production resumed on “Drag Race” U.K, U.S and a new iteration, “Down Under,” amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The fan favorite competed in both Season 2 and “All Stars” Season 1 and has been working as RuPaul’s makeup artist for the past five years. David Petruschin is known to “RuPaul’s Drag Race” fans as Raven.

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