Symone drag race pocket skin#

I'll set my face with powder - Laura Mercier Translucent Powder is what I use. For me, it's cheekbones, cheekbones, cheekbones! Lower the forehead, accentuate the cheekbones. Then concealer and contour, which is usually cream. Nars Natural Radiant Longwear Foundation is my tried-and-true. I always start with foundation because it helps me map out my face. Then I'll go in with a primer and start my face makeup. That's very important because I feel like it softens the makeup.

Symone drag race pocket skin#

After skin care, I put in my colored contacts. I tried a new face oil from Elemis called the Superfood Facial Oil. I'll tone my skin I'll go in with a moisturizer, sometimes two, then I'll apply an oil to really get the hydration going before I put on makeup. Sometimes I'll do a mask, just depends on how much time I have. It can go up to eight or 10, but at least six products. I get out, dry off, and put on all of my skin care, which is at least six products.

I shave, and I always, no matter what, use some type of lotion. I have to take a shower before I get in drag. I can remember one time thinking, Oh, my God! I'm actually making progress. I wouldn't ask questions, but I would observe everyone and see, OK, she's doing that. I was, as we called it, 'in rotation.' I would practice almost every weekend and watch the other girls get ready behind the stage. At this point, I was performing at the club. I didn't realize until my sophomore year that I could forge my own thing and carve out what I enjoyed, which is more of the fashion side. At the time, RuPaul's Drag Race was a big thing, but I was surrounded by pageantry, so I thought that was the lane I had to go down. I wouldn't say I had a mastery of developing a character until well into college.

At the time, there were, like, two or three foundation colors that worked for my skin.

There were nowhere near as many Black creators. I would watch people put makeup on, but it was a lot of white people. Well, there was YouTube, but it was nowhere near what it would be a couple of years later, as far as beauty goes. Becoming Symone took a while because when I started doing makeup at about 16 years old, I didn't really know what I was doing.