- Hey guys, it's Dahlia Sin
from Season 12 of Rupaul's Drag Race,
today I'm gonna be recreating for you
my buttons and bows runway.
So watch me go from this...
To this.
The first thing I'm gonna do is
color block with an orange
because you know, I gotta hide this beard.
And that's the look!
No, I'm joking.
So now that my color block is done
I like to go in with my foundation
and then literally just
like to use a stick.
I don't know why I still have this hat on.
I literally just go all over my face.
Now I know you're thinking bitch,
this is not your color,
but yes it is, bitch.
Cause literally, once I'm
done I contour and stuff,
this literally blends in
and becomes my skin tone.
I know you're gonna be like, "Oh my god,
that is not her skin tone!"
But it is, so.
'Cause I say it is.
So.
What's up.
Catch me outside.
(laughs)
A lot of girls I see will skip this part
which I find it so funny,
we clearly see your neck
and it doesn't match.
So then I'll go in with
kind of like a dumb brush
that's kind of harder
and then I'll literally just kinda do it
like a beauty blender and just pack it in.
I don't ever go like and swiping
'cause it just takes the product off.
And I blend it up into my hairline
because I'm bald so I can do that.
Every time I do this step
I feel like Valentina.
Boop, boop, boop, boop, boop!
This part gets really repetitive,
so like sometimes I get
like a cramp in my hand.
And it is not cute.
And then for the neck I kinda just swipe.
After I do that I like to go
back in around the beard area
'cause hello, we are men.
Some of us.
I'll go in with my
dirty ass beauty blender
and then I go really softly
'cause I don't wanna take
any of the product up.
Then I'm just taking
it onto my eye as well.
People use primer for the eyes
but it's literally pointless,
you can literally just take
your foundation or concealer
and literally put it on your eye.
Then I'm just blending underneath my eye.
Also am I the only one that
literally whenever they're doing like
something with blending or their eyeshadow
or some, or like their
mascara or something
and you just realize your
mouth is open the whole time,
you're like.
Now we're gonna do the highlight.
What I like to do is take the cream
and put it on the backside of my hand.
I'll take my beauty blender,
the same beauty blender I used
and I usually love to
use a really white cream,
slowly keep blending and bring
it up to the side of my face.
Like basically into my hairline kind of
but not really all the way.
On the sides of my nose.
Blend it down.
Then I take the back
of it, get the cheeks.
The one step that I hate about
doing my face is blending.
On a normal regular day I do my face
within an hour and 20 minutes,
but the quickest I've ever
done my face is 45 minutes
because I had a brunch
gig and I woke up late
and I had to get there real quick.
On my forehead, highlight as well.
And then I like to go in with
a little smaller brush
to my nose highlight,
which I literally just
draw a straight line down.
And then I just blend it.
At this point you literally,
it doesn't really matter
how this part kinda looks
'cause you're gonna contour anyways.
I'm done with highlight
and now I'm gonna go into contouring.
What I like to use also is another stick
and I literally just carve out the sides.
I like to just kinda stop
like right in my hairline.
I contour this big ass forehead
'cause my hairline is
receding 'cause I am 85.
I like to use my beauty
blender and just blend.
But I like to go really
fast with it though,
'cause it take forever.
This looks crazy right now
but I like to just keep
going back and forth
like this for a while, while it's blending
and then I like to slowly
go up to my lip a little bit
and then slowly bring
it up into my highlight.
To be honest, contouring and highlighting
are literally one step
but they're two different steps because
if you don't have one of the other
then you're gonna look crazy.
I like to bring it down
a little bit onto my jaw.
If you wanna make your jaw smaller,
you wanna contour more and
bring it down a little bit more
and just highlight your cheeks.
If you highlight this, it's
just making this look manlier.
So then I like to blend my forehead
and I literally just
like to go around first,
like blend it kinda where it's at
and then slowly bring it
into where my eyebrows are.
Then you just slowly
start to bring it down
so you're just blending
while you're doing it.
You're kinda doing it lighter
and lighter as you go,
'cause you don't want like obviously
a thick like brown line
like going all the way down,
you want it to have like,
you know, a nice transition.
I also like to bring it into
my brow bone a little bit, too.
Because some people like do
that blacked out white eye
and I don't like to do that,
like 'cause I like to look,
you know, like a woman.
And not a cartoon character.
And literally I'm just flipping
the beauty blender to use
'cause it still has the
white from the highlight,
like sometimes you'll
go up a little too high
and it'll be too much contour up here
so I literally just like take the end
and kinda like, you know, smooth it out.
So when you're doing a nose,
I like to tell girls, do not go with
the shape of your nose girl.
What's the point of doing that contour
if you're not gonna reshape it?
When you're doing it you
wanna start from your eyebrows
and kinda make like a V as you go down.
I like to put a lot on the tip of my nose
coming from the bottom up
'cause this helps with like,
lifting your nose and making
the tip look also really small.
This part doesn't even have to be perfect,
it can be messy as.
Because you're just
gonna blend it anyways.
And then I like to use my
beauty blender and blend it.
As you're doing it, some
people will probably notice
that I'll get contour
somewhat in the white
but that's fine because
remember on the other side,
it's where you have your highlight
so then you just tap back inside
and you're just blending.
So it has this nice like smooth line
and you don't have this
thick line on your nose.
She slim!
When I'm doing my eyebrows
I'm not the type of girl that
likes to block her eyebrows out.
If I was gonna block my eyebrows out,
I would have do this way
before I put on foundation.
I like to use my natural brows
because I have a lot of eye space,
I tend to always cut
my eyebrows at the ends
'cause normally they're like this long,
so I can draw in any shape I want
so I can go out if I wanted to,
draw them down, you know, I
can get basically any shape.
Girl I've been doing
drag for seven years now,
so literally I can usually just
do my eyebrow in like at one take,
but watch me just jinx myself
and have to do it anyways, so.
I'm considered like a beauty queen,
like I like to paint to look like a woman.
Well, you know, my version of a woman
'cause obviously I'm not
gonna walk out of here
and be like, "Hm, clearly I'm a girl!"
There's a lot of drag
queens that are like,
"Oh, I'm a drag queen, I
don't do female illusion."
But I'm trying to get a female illusion.
I want you to see me as
specific lighting like,
"Oh my god, that's a beautiful woman!"
I don't like to have
white above my eyebrow
or underneath my eyebrow.
Like a natural woman is
not gonna walk around
with this big highlight
above her eyebrow, like.
What is that on your face?
So now that I've contoured,
highlighted, did my brows,
she's blended, she's contoured,
I am gonna go into powdering, bitch,
because we need to bake.
And literally after this part, girl.
It's so easy and so much quicker.
Pack in the powder like
where my highlights are and my eyebrows.
So they don't move.
And then this part I don't care.
I just tap it all over.
And then don't forget your neck.
After I powder and everything then
I'll just go in and dust off.
I don't really dust off under my eyes
'cause I'm gonna literally
go back under there again
so it's kinda pointless to dust it off.
I know you're thinking, bitch
you still look the same,
but that's the point.
A woman!
And then I just go back in one more time
with a little bit of powder
and this is when I like to really like,
kind of like concentrate
it underneath my eye
like put a little bit more.
When I contour my nose later,
it's gonna help me get more
of a more blended line.
So now that I've powdered,
I'm gonna go in and do eyebrows again
but I'm gonna do them with powder.
My favorite kind of eyebrows are black,
but since I have like
light color hair today
I'm gonna go in with a
brown, it looks more natural
than versus a jet black eyebrow
and just filling it in back with powder
so it's like, it looks complete.
And then as I'm getting like
into the center of my eye,
I'm going lighter with the powder.
With everyone's eyebrow it's
always lighter to darker
and this time I'll use
like a black on the end
that I'll do really lightly with the black
'cause the end of your eyebrow
is gonna be the darkest.
I'll go in lightly with
the black on the ends.
Wah, she's blended enough.
Okay, so now that the eyebrows are on
we're gonna go into the eyes.
I like to switch up my eye
'cause I don't want to have going out
with the same eye all the time,
so I'll either have like a cut crease
or like this blended out smoky cut crease,
a smoky eye which is
also really my favorite.
I'm doing a smoky eye
with a little glitter.
I like to call it my like,
kind of like dead eye,
like it's very blown out and kind of like,
it almost kinda looks like you died.
I'm gonna go in with a red on my lid.
This literally can just be kinda messy.
Remember when I told you
when I first started,
bitch you'll see me like
always have my mouth open
like me, like ah!
Okay, so then I like to take a
little bit blending brush,
like one of these
and I just like to take the color
and then start blending it,
so I'll just literally take
that color and bring it up.
Then I'll go in with
the same blending brush,
get a little bit more
and when you're gonna add
color you always kinda wanna
stick to like your crease
and then blend out,
you want it to have it be
dark to light as you do it,
'cause when I do the smoky eye
I like to bring it all
the way up to my brow.
And then I like to just slowly
bring it all the way out to the end
and then back up to my brow bone.
Like near my nose I like to
blend it out right there.
And then I like to go back
in once I'm done blending
and then take it back into my crease
and darken it a little bit more,
so it kinda gives like that kind of
like sunken in kind of eye look.
I feel like if you die, bitch,
the most deepest part
will be the, whatever.
And then I like to do
is take a deeper color,
so I take the burgundy-ish kind of color
and I'm literally just
taking it into my crease,
so like that.
Tap but also like push out
like a little flick kind of motion.
And then kinda do it up a little
bit where your brow bone is
and I'm literally doing
this all with one brush.
You bitches be doing
having like 20,000 brushes,
I'm like directing my whole
eye with literally one brush.
So after you do the top of your eye
you're gonna go into
the bottom of your eye.
Which I'm gonna go in with that
same first red color that I used,
literally using the same goddamn brush
and doing the bottom of your eye.
I don't know if you noticed
but I'm literally trying so
hard to not open my mouth.
(laughs)
Like, I'm literally like this.
So when I'm doing the side I
like to slowly blend it out
and then blend up into you know.
You know, you get it.
Once you're like running out of color,
slowly bring it out to the other end
that you did on the top of your eye.
Okay.
Ooh!
Gonna go in with the dark burgundy again,
like basically do a line but you're like
blending at the same time.
Whenever I see a girl literally do
a black liner on their eye
and literally cover up that whole line,
like what the fuck is that, like.
You literally making
your eye look smaller,
like why would you wanna do that.
So then I literally take my blending brush
and I'm just blending it
and it gives a nice little, ooh girl!
Gives a nice little sultry, little ooh!
So I like to go in with a glitter,
I like to use like this
one 'cause it's a gel.
And it goes on easier
and it stays on longer
and it doesn't flake.
I like to just tap on my eyelid.
If you get the gel ones
this literally skips a
lot of steps for girls,
'cause you won't have to put glue on
to make the glitter stick.
And then you have a little glitter.
This is one of my favorite glitters
because it's literally like a yellow color
but if you notice it has like,
red and kind of like a pinky kinda color.
And then on the eye it
gives like a very like,
ooh she's wet!
And then she's set bitch, she's smoked,
she looks, girl, you got your glitter,
bitch you feel more like a drag queen
'cause drag queens always wear glitter.
Now I'm gonna do liner.
This is like a simple liner,
I'm literally only gonna line the lid.
I'm not doing a wing,
'cause the smoky eye,
it's kinda pointless in doing,
'cause you're not really gonna see it.
So literally just lining the eye.
Now that my eyes are
done, my liner is done,
we're gonna go with the lashes
because girl you need your look,
and without your lashes bitch,
then you'll look crazy, so.
So I just like to blow on the lash
'cause it dries the glue down quicker,
but if you're ever doing someone's makeup
don't literally ever do this.
'Cause that's gross.
And then when I put it on
I like to push up on the ends
because you don't want a wonky lash.
You always kinda want it to go like,
like have a nice little slant to it.
Okay, she's on, she's cute.
Okay so now that the lashes are on,
now we're gonna go in with
mascara and blend those lashes.
I like to go in and try and
blend them out as much as I can,
which I like to go really
ham with the mascara.
And then kind of pinch the ends
'cause if you pinch your lash
when you have the eyelash on
and you're putting the mascara on,
it will help blend a little bit more.
Gonna just dust off right here
on my cheeks on both sides.
So now that the lashes are down
I'm going to move onto my powder contour
because girl we need to blend that out.
And literally while you're doing this
you're literally just
basically doing the same step
you did with your cream but
you're doing it in powder now.
So you're just mainly focusing on the end,
like this part of your face
and slowly bringing it up
to your eye and blending it.
Okay.
I like to bring it on my
lip a little bit too, girl!
She's getting blended honey.
Then I like to take it on my jaw
and then slowly bring it down
to my neck to match the contour.
Then I like to take it a
little underneath my lip.
Don't forget your ears bitches,
because if you have hair,
especially like long hair
or pulled back or like a pony,
you don't wanna forget your ears.
After I do that I'll go in with
a contour on my nose as well.
I like to focus most of the
contour on my nose at the tip
and it helps lift the nose
and then make the nose just
give that nice little like,
sucked in, like oh my god,
I got a pinched little nose,
like you know, I'm little, like it's tiny!
She's good, you're gonna
go in with your blush.
I like to use an orange blush
because it matches my skin tone the best.
Orange to me looks best
than red on any skin tone to be honest,
unless you're like super pale.
Then that just kinda looks a little nuts.
When I'm doing my blush I like to kind of
bring it up into my eyeshadow a little bit
and put it on my forehead.
Girl you gotta get that warmth.
I know I said I want
like a little dead eye
but bitch I don't wanna look dead.
And I know what you're thinking,
bitch you came in here
like three shades lighter
but so what, bitch.
I like to look tan at all times, bitch.
I love a good blinding highlight.
If you don't like a highlighter,
bitch you can exit this video right now.
Totally joking, bitch stay.
Don't leave me, I need friends!
I use like a fluffy brush like this
and I like to have like a highlighter
that is kind of really creamy,
which they're sometimes
really hard to find
but once you find it and you're good
it will bring in your whole face
and make it look more
blended versus patchy
and like you know, 'cause
some highlighters do that.
I like to go over the lip a little bit
and then a little bit on
my brow bone right above the eyebrows.
I also like to take a smaller
brush down my nose with it
because gotta highlight that nose.
So there's like sometimes where
I'll literally forget to
do my highlight on my nose
and I'm like staring at myself, I'm like,
what is wrong with my face.
I also like to take the highlight
and put it underneath my brow bone.
Then I go to go back in before I finish
and tap just a little bit into
the blush so it blends well.
Sometimes you'll get a line.
It's blended, she lookin' sickening!
Okay I totally forgot,
I'm gonna do eyeliner,
like a little red
eyeliner and then mascara
'cause clearly I forgot
to mascara these bitches.
I'm literally just gonna
use a red lipstick.
Gonna line the other eye.
You don't want the bottom
lash to look too full,
I like to turn my mascara downward
and it almost kinda gives you that
kinda like, PC kind of look.
That thick like, "Oh I just threw it
on like little individuals."
Just finished your eye,
you have basically everything done
and last but not least you're just gonna
finish up with your lip.
I always like to use three
different shades of lipsticks,
so I like to go in with like, a nice like
lighter color shade like
a nude for the base.
I'm gonna create like a nice ombre lip
so I like to take, what I'm doing
when I'm lining my lips,
I like to take a brush
instead of like a liner
and I'll take the lipstick
and put it on the brush
and then I like to line
my lip with a brush.
And I clearly like to overdraw my lips
and I like to also create a
different shape for my lips
'cause even though I love my cupid's bow
I like to take that away when I'm in drag
'cause I love this lips that
are just nice and pouty,
where they're like the big like, ooh.
Then I like to, like this.
To blend them more.
And then I'll go in with
the even darker color,
I'm gonna do it in a powder
and I'm only gonna focus it
mainly on the outer edges
and then a little bit on the top
and a little bit on the bottom.
Literally once you're doing this step,
this makes your lips
look even more bigger.
If you skip this step then
you're just kinda having
like a basic lip.
See this side and then
see this side, like.
Which looks better.
Clearly.
And then slowly bring it
down just a little bit
but lightly tap.
And then you're gonna do the same thing
to the bottom of your lip.
And there is the final lip.
She looking big and juicy, ooh!
This is the full face, she's sickening,
I'm gonna go throw on my
look and I'll be right back.
So this is my complete
buttons and bows look,
I hope you're living for
it, I hope you're loving it.
Get into this moment
and I hope you guys learned something.
See you on the road, thanks
for watching, love you!
(upbeat music)
