- Hi, guys, it's
me, Heidi N Closet,
from "Rupaul's Drag
Race," season 12.
Today, I will be recreating
my '70s glam runway look
from the makeover challenge,
it's fun, it's easy, and it's
so simple to do and fast,
and I'm so happy
to do it for you.
So watch me go from this,
to this!
(bell dinging)
(upbeat techno music)
The first thing I like
to do is my brows.
Now, this is a little trick
that my grandmother taught me,
it's very old-school, it's
uh, uh, and then we're done.
I'm joking, I'm
joking, actually,
we're gonna go in
with my glue stick,
really get up in there.
And then you want to have
a nice little metal comb,
metal comb, get up in there,
get all the excess gunk
out of there.
Get out of my
Christian household.
Okay, and then I like
to take a makeup wipe
and get all that excess off.
Let's get blown.
(hair dryer whirring)
I do about four to
five coats of this.
I am from Ramseur,
North Carolina,
I just call it the sewer,
it's a place where
we're outnumbered
by the wildlife, like
chickens and cows,
there's really nothing
out there to do,
the closest drag
scene is probably
about 35 minutes away, so.
A nice little
country town, though,
if you want to sit on
the front porch and...
Sit on the front porch.
(hair dryer whirring)
Next we're going to use some,
I guess it's color corrector,
to block out all the
color, because no one wants
to look like Willam,
girl. (laughing)
Oh, my God, she's
going to kill me.
Now I'm gonna take my
old trusty makeup sponge,
and gonna just.
You know, can't just
leave that all caked up
on my face and stuff,
you gotta blend her out.
(upbeat music)
Foundation time, I like to
in with a highlight first,
and this is called a T-zone.
Now, if you're watching for a
professional makeup tutorial,
you've come to the wrong place,
I'm no professional.
People ask me how
I do my makeup,
I say I put it on, pray,
and just hope for the best.
Then I'm gon' blend that out,
with the same sponge,
just different end,
so we don't get the
colors everywhere.
I use two different
color highlights,
this one goes over my brow,
'cause it's a little more
full coverage, it just
has that extra thickness
that I desire.
Ooh, all kinds of wrong.
Blend her out.
Now I'm going to
use a contour color
down here, around the forehead,
and try and marry all
the colors together.
You wanna look semi-human
by the time you're done.
(relaxed upbeat music)
Put it on my neck.
Blend her out.
I do take it onto
my ear a little bit,
that is one of my
biggest pet peeves,
is when I see someone's face
all beautiful and stuff,
and then their ear
is 10 shades lighter.
It breaks up my fantasy,
and I want to be entranced.
Gon' do a little
(grunts) for you.
You liked that, didn't you?
Bring it down, bring it on down.
Now that I look like my colors
aren't blended together,
then you blend it.
That's the sound.
(cheek clicking)
(chuckles) What's wrong with me?
See the difference?
Semi-blended, how I
looked on the show.
That's one thing I will
never be caught for again,
not having blended,
I just refuse,
I will not go back.
I was wonderin'
where Heidi was at,
but she's coming out of
retirement now, look at that.
I am highlighting my
chin a little bit.
My chin doesn't have a shape,
it's just kind of there.
A lot of my outfits have collars
or stuff that comes
up by my neck,
and I like to set it with
this translucent powder,
so it doesn't get on everything.
These lights are
lovely, oh my God.
I can see all my pores
and bad decisions
over the years, wow.
What is? (laughs)
It's time to move on to my
favorite part, the powders.
We're gonna use my
old trusty sponge.
She's on her last leg, she's
been through some things.
She was around on one
of the great wars.
She still gets the job done,
and I'm too poor
to buy new sponges.
So we gonna use this one
till the wheels fall off.
I'm using banana powder,
that's just the name
of the color, banana.
Because I like my
potassium on my face.
Ooh, that came out wrong, too.
Oh, God, oh, my grandma's
gonna see this. (laughs)
The powder is so
strong, the smell is,
it reminds me of home,
because my grandmother
wears the same powder.
Now I'm 'bout to contour this,
I'm 'bout to give
my face some shape,
'cause I made everything
real flat, real flat.
And I have my trusty
handy-dandy piece of cardboard,
it's probably got more makeup
on it than I do. (laughs)
It's a really good guideline
to help you with everything,
and gettin' all your
angles and lines straight.
Miranda is a handy-dandy
trusty piece of cardboard
that I have had for over
a year and a half now,
she's a loyal friend, so I
have not thrown her away.
She's still the same
piece of cardboard she was
a year and a half ago, she just
wears a little more makeup.
She stays painted, mainly
because if I wash her
or use a makeup wipe on
her, she'll collapse.
We don't tell her that,
because she's a good woman.
Isn't that right, Miranda?
And then we gonna chisel
this forehead down.
Now that it looks like I
haven't accomplished anything
with that brown powder,
we're gonna use a darker brown
powder to really set it in.
This is a different brush,
'cause I like to change brushes
in between stages.
Ooh, she could cut glass,
honey, unh, she's cut.
I use this darker color,
I don't bring it all
the way down here,
like I did the other brown,
I leave it around the edges.
So it really like gradiates,
radiates, gradiates?
It's like, it's a
gradient of color
going from lightest to dark.
I have a more boxy
jawline than Heidi does,
so you want to take it
right here by this ear,
just blend it on down, 'cause
we gonna create a shadow
as if that's not
actually your jawline,
that's just how
small your head is,
that's what we're giving.
I'm sure some of y'all are
probably starting to notice
that one side of my face
is slightly different.
Symmetry is hard.
But, if you're that close to
see that my face is uneven,
you probably owe me some money.
We're gonna go in with
another powder in here,
to really define the
difference in color
from this to this to this.
Gonna just go up in there
underneath that contour.
I also like to hit
up right around here,
and then I like to hit it up
with just a little bit of blush.
I only use a little bit of it,
because I don't wanna look
like a clown, anymore.
Get up in here with it.
I don't know what
about my skin it is,
it just eats color.
So this won't be this bright
by the time I'm finished.
And now that that's done,
it's time to move on to eyes.
(upbeat music)
I'm going to go in here and
get all that extra makeup off,
because we want a good
clean slate for this.
We're gonna go
ahead with a primer.
Blend it off.
So when I do my eye,
I like to go in,
usually with two colors,
one light, then one dark.
Then I go with a black as well,
to deepen it up some more,
and then I just try to
marry the colors together.
So for the darker
color, I like to use it
on the inside, and then on
the outside, like underneath,
I use it on the outside.
Now that that's done, I'm
gonna go with a touch of black.
Mysterious, yes.
Now that I've put all
this stuff up in here,
we gonna go in and
clean all this up.
So we're gonna use that same
primer that I used earlier.
Get in there.
But you don't need a lot,
you don't need a lot.
I'm 'bout to go up in here
with a huge black wing
and cover up a lot of this, too.
So really, this part
is for me to clean up
mostly this right here.
Get in there.
This actually reminds
me of the time
when I was playing in
makeup at my house,
and my grandmother caught me.
I lied and said it was
for a play at school,
and she believed me.
And then she wanted to become
involved with the play,
and I was like, no no
no no no no no no no no,
but then she started tellin' me
how I shoulda done my makeup,
'cause she's one of those
women that wears makeup
every Sunday to church.
She basically taught
me how to paint
like a old church lady,
and it all makes sense now,
doesn't it, yeah.
Thanks, grandma, for teaching
me how to do my makeup.
Life stories with Heidi
N Closet, you're welcome.
This is the point when I go
and eat something. (laughs)
No one likes a hungry Heidi.
She's a monster
when she is hungry.
Now we're gonna go in with
my second favorite part,
which is the liner.
I use a lovely
traditional black cat wing
that a lot of drag queens
and even people who
aren't drag queens use.
(relaxed R&B music)
And then I go in
here, to the center,
and I start the line,
and then I just pray
that I can connect the two.
Oh my God, did
they just connect?
They did, oh my God.
Now you just gotta fill it in.
Mysterious, something else.
Then I go under the eye,
because you can't just not.
Using the little stick thing
that I use for my liner,
sometimes you may have missed
some of where it should go,
and you can just
go over top of it,
and the powder will conceal it.
I like to go in with
a white eyeliner,
to clean up this edge,
and I go here and put
a little bit, too.
And then the last thing
I'm gonna do to this eye
is I'm 'bout to set this
powder with white, now,
because I want the
contrast between the colors
and the lid itself
to be drastic.
So much cleaner, you
like that, don't you?
(driving upbeat music)
We're gonna go in
on my face again,
we're gonna hit it
with a different color
powder this time,
it's a pink powder that I like
to put on the highest points
of my face.
That's right, now, we're
building on to brows.
I like to start it down here,
basically go through
where my natural brow is,
and then end up laying
on top of where the tail
of my brow is.
It's decent shape.
She's about to touch up these
brows to make them even.
Now you're gonna wanna hit
those brows with some powder,
so they will sit
and not melt off
during your night out
on the town, honey,
'cause no one wants
to just go like,
oh, where'd my brow go?
I have this trusty little
highlighter schtick,
and it's basically white,
and this is how I
highlight my nose.
Now, those same browns that
we used earlier for contour,
I use right here.
Up to where my eyebrow
and my eyeshadow.
Blend it out little
bit on my nose,
blend out just a
little bit on my nose.
And then we go back in
with the darker brown.
Oh, you see how she's
startin' to get pinched?
I'll just blend out the
edges just ever so slightly.
Make sure you use
a clean finger,
'cause you're about to
go in that highlight,
and just dab a, so it
still has some width to it.
So we take that pink
powder that I was using
here, here, and here,
and now apply up here.
Now we have a lip to do.
I use my lovely, lovely, lovely
like, burgundy lip liner,
I almost use this for almost
every lip that's red-based,
or even purple-based.
Being that I have such
luscious natural lips,
I just line what
I naturally have.
Ooh, y'all can't take that on.
Time for a red lip to go
right over top of 'er.
Paint up to the liner.
Burgundy lip liner, and
I like to smudge it in
around the edges,
just a little bit,
just to give some
dimension to my lip.
It almost gives you a pouting
moment, like you're mmm.
There's the lip, all right.
We're 'bout done.
Now that the lip's done,
we're gonna blend off
all these powders.
And we're even
gonna hit these now,
'cause she's been sittin'
long enough, honey.
Also, I have this
trademark little,
I like to give
myself a little mole.
Right there, I use liquid
eyeliner to put it on,
I also use a marker.
Anything that's black, really,
I just put it on my face.
That came out
wrong, (laughs) God.
We'll just hit up a
little bit more blush,
just a slight dusting
just to reapply.
And now, it's time for
some shimmer highlight.
We're gonna hit
this, these cheeks.
Oh, there she is.
Oh, hello, hello, gorgeous.
And I also like
to hit that chin,
just a little bit, not a lot.
Because we're not tryin'
to draw attention there,
but it's still one of the
high points of your face,
so you kinda wanna
try and keep it
with the rest of
your face, honestly.
'Cause I'm also gonna put
it on the bow of my lip
a little bit, just a smidgen.
And then I'm also gonna
put it on up here,
just a smidgen, not a lot,
gotta be careful with this,
'cause she can get
dangerous real fast.
And also, along the
bridge of my nose,
just ever so lightly.
All right, and now,
I think, lashes.
Like to keep my lashes
in a little box,
so I can keep up with 'em.
(laughing)
You know, I like to use
the same lash 30 times
before I throw it
away, 'cause I'm poor.
I like to use a big
lash on top, of course,
and then I like to
use little itty bitty,
they're not individuals, but
like little sectioned-off ones
that are like, pre-cut already.
I just use some glue.
I call it wave
ballin', I don't know
if that's the technical
name for it or not, but.
I am takin' a brush, any
random brush will do,
you're gonna put it on
the back of your lash,
where it's gonna be
adhering to your face,
and do a light coating.
Be careful not to get it
too close to your eye,
because the fumes
will get in your eye
and bother your eye,
and we've come too far
to have a watery
eye at this moment,
thank you very much.
Oh, is it on?
Oh, I think that's on.
And now we're gonna go in
and put on the bottom lashes,
one by one.
Plop it up in there.
Now you wanna hit 'em with
a quick coat of mascara.
And the final step for my
makeup is, take a bath.
And when I say take a bath,
I mean sprayin' your face
with some settin' spray
(spray bottle spritzing)
(exhaling)
You're gonna look real
wet, and that's fine.
And just fan it and let it dry.
Now that the mug is done,
I'm a gonna throw on this
look, and I'll be right back.
Ow, here she is,
this is my makeover look
from "Rupaul's Drag
Race," season 12.
I love this look so much,
'cause it's sparkly, it's
glamorous, it's the '70s,
and it gives you all
that you need and more.
I hope you enjoyed watching me
beat this mug into submission.
I hope to see you all
on the road! (smooches)
(whistling) Out!
