- Hi everyone, it's Jan
from "Ru Paul's Drag
Race", season 12.
Today I'm going to show
you my Lady Ballers look
from the Ball Ball.
It's just a simple smoky eye
and you're gonna get to see
me go from this to this!
(laughs)
Jantasy!
Ooh, she's a lady!
Baller!
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(chimes ringing)
The first thing
that I like to do
is put on this lovely
little headband.
Right after that, I immediately,
because I am blind, I
love to do contacts.
I love to feel my
blue-eyed fantasy
or my blue-eyed Jantasy.
I'm sorry, I'm
just so emotional.
Now that the contacts are
in and I can see everything,
We are going to move on to
coverage of the facial hair.
I actually have a fun story.
I am terrible with
an actual razor
so I have to use
electric razors.
They don't get
the closest shave,
but as an Italian woman,
I am very fortunate
that I do not get very hairy.
But regardless, there are
still some things there
that we have to
conceal, don't feel.
I'm also somebody who
loves to not sleep.
And so what I'll do
is I'll take this,
there's some pigment
under here, under my eyes,
and I'll take that same
coverage and I'll put it
right underneath there so that
when we put on our
full-coverage foundation,
it just looks flawless.
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I'm going to cover
my entire face
with this one product.
And I call it my base.
And now, you may or
may not have noticed
that I am wearing a
shirt that says 12 on it.
What you don't know is
that I used to play sports.
Growing up, I played soccer
for 13 years of my life,
and this was actually one
of my jerseys that I wore.
I always have been
drawn to the number 12.
It was my favorite
number growing up
and when I started
to do drag, I said,
"You know what?
"If I ever want to do
'Ru Paul's Drag Race',
"I'll try to be on season 12."
And so here we are.
Now that this base is
on, I am going to go in
and add some highlight
with this white foundation.
And I won't bring it
out farther than this.
I used to cover it and
have it go all the way out,
I find now that keeping
it in the center,
it makes my face seem smaller
because we're focusing on having
the brightest points
in the center,
and the darkest
points on the outside.
And so I will use this
specific beauty sponge
to blend all of this out.
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Like, you can see
the difference.
Blended, not blended.
You always, always, always,
if you're going for this look,
you wanna blend it out.
The next step is
going to be contouring
and mapping out the face.
I am going to use a darker,
more like a chocolate
type of contour,
and basically,
I'll just do this.
I'll put it on the perimeter.
We're gonna get this
chin outta there, mama.
You can always add more
when you're doing makeup.
You cannot take things away.
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So now that the contour
is all blended out,
I am going to go in
with the fourth shade.
It's in between the white
and in between my base.
And it's to just give this
cheekbone some definition.
I will apply it right here
and right here.
And I am going to blend it out.
♪ In my head ♪
- Now that the
contour and highlight
is all laid out on my face,
I'm going to go back in
with the contour and
shape out my nose.
So I think that
if you actually go
on the direct physical
side of your nose,
you actually accentuate
it more than you need to.
So I kind of like to cut
it off right in the middle,
where it's a little
bit on the side,
but a little bit on this bridge.
So all I'll do is
just make this line
and I'll go down
that lovely path.
This takes a minute
to kind of figure out.
You have to kind of find
the right ballpark region
of where it's supposed to be.
Loving all these sports
references today, by the way.
And then I cover all
of this down here.
I always like to say
this, if I'm doing a show
and somebody notices that the
lines on my faces are not,
ugh, faces, Gemini!
If people are noticing
that a line is not correct
or absolutely straight
while I'm doing a number,
then I'm not doing my job right.
I'm going to go back in
with the beauty sponge
and I'm gonna blend
out the outside lines.
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And this we refer to as
the Uncle Fester moment
of the entire process.
So we are taking all
of that dimension
that we created away, for now.
And then I'm going to
take another powder puff,
and I'm going to put the whites,
basically where we
put my white highlight
that we used with the cream.
And I like to just take off
any of the excess on my lips,
because I don't want
them to get crusty.
I don't have any filler yet,
maybe All Stars, we'll see.
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(rattling)
(air whooshing)
So I'm going to take
that base color,
it's kind of like a warm
chocolatey type of a color.
I'm gonna put it on this brush,
I'm gonna flatten it
out as much as possible
to just get the
straightest line.
And then you bring it out to
about where the
end of my eye is.
So I'm going to take
the lightest shade,
and I'm going to just make
little spokes that go like this.
Then we'll just go boop.
See?
I can always add on,
and I can't take away.
And you're just trying
to make hairs here,
so they can go in any which way.
I want them to try to look
as natural as they can.
I'm going to go in with
that base shade again,
and I'm just going
to start putting them
a little bit closer.
Now I'm gonna take one
of the darker shades
and start filling in that area.
Y'all see how it's
coming together?
So now this looks
pretty good to me.
I will take the third shade,
which is not the darkest,
but it's one away from
being the darkest,
and I'll create that facade.
Now, I like to
start at the bottom.
And I will bring it
up a little bit past
that corner part of my eye.
And I'll take it like this,
bring it out to
about the same part.
And then I will start
to curve that line.
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And I'll take it out to,
not my hairline but
right before it.
And just keep it there.
I'll go back on the bottom
and I'll attach the two by
straightening out that line.
Just like so.
And then once that is done,
I will start to go in with
the not darkest shade again,
just the third one,
and fill in the corner
parts of this brow.
Once I get to where I don't want
to draw little hairs anymore,
I'll just start to fill it in.
Once the general shape is done,
I will go in with the darkest,
and I'll make little
hairs with that.
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I don't use this too much,
we're just trying to add
some overall dimension.
Now we're gonna go in and
just clean it up a little bit,
just to make sure
that it's precise
and snatched for all of you.
So I'm gonna take a flat brush,
and all I'm gonna do is
take the whites that I put
underneath my eyes, and go in
underneath and clean it up.
I'll kind of just
blend it downwards.
Okay everybody, now
the brows are complete.
So we are going to move
onto some eyeshadow
and get this right together.
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My biggest trick for eyeshadow
is fluffy brushes only.
It's so much easier to
blend everything out, okay?
So I'm going to dip
in with this brush,
and in small motions, I'll
kind of pat and lay down
all of this shadow.
Make sure you have something
underneath your eye,
like when you're baking,
to brush any excess away.
So all I'm gonna do
is take this black
and put it underneath
this eye ever so slightly.
There she is.
Okay.
For this look, I kind
of wanted to keep it
very neutral tone.
I wanted it to be blacks,
grays, and whites.
I'm gonna take this brush,
dip it into a gray shade,
and just go over
in patting motions.
All right, so now
that the gray is set,
we're gonna go in
with the white.
Now, I like to take
a small detail brush
that's fluffy, it's
a little round.
Doing my YouTube,
all right you guys,
so, here you go.
Oh my god, and
this is on YouTube.
So funny, I'm a YouTuber
and I didn't even know!
All right, so we're
gonna take this
and just put some very
pigmented white on there,
and start to fill it
in in this corner.
And now the blending
gets severe.
This is where we start to
get any inkling of beauty.
Yes.
See her?
Smoked!
Smoked salmon, doll, yes!
I literally just put
this here on accident,
and that's fine, because
we can go back in
and we can reinforce all of
those colors a little bit later.
That's the beauty.
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I'll take the gray,
the transition shade
and I'll just pat that in.
And see how it's going back on?
Lovely y'all.
What we're gonna do is
take this little brush
and dip it into a little
bit of translucent powder
and just blur it out.
Take it from the edges and just
swipe, swipe,
swipe, swipe, swipe.
Now that's basically this eye.
If you don't want
to go any further
and you think that that's good,
this is basically that eye
with all of the shadow
done and mapped out.
We're going to put a little
bit of black in the waterline.
I take a small
little flat brush.
Okay, so once that's there,
all I'm gonna do
is flick this away.
So I'll just take more
powder and put it back under.
All right everybody,
so now we're going to
move onto eyeliner.
It's not a big wing,
it's kind of just
a little roadmap.
So basically, I'll
start over here.
I'll make a little line
that goes up there,
and then I'll start
back in from the inside.
Then a trick to drying this
is taking that same brush
that we just used
for our waterline,
and just patting it over.
Now we're moving on to
what I think is the most
transformative part about
the entire makeup process,
which is painting
my LaCrease Royale.
I start from the inside and
then work my way to the outside.
Now I'm gonna go back in
and just fill in
everything down here.
It brings all the light
back into your eye
and brings the focus onto
everything that you just did.
So, I mean.
You know?
We're gonna take
this brush again,
dip into the translucent,
and we're going to go over
all of that with this.
Take this brush that
we used for the black,
reinforce that out here,
and put it in the outer
third of my crease.
Now it's coming together, doll.
Like, yes, of course I'm trying
to look like a Lady Baller,
but also, I'm trying to look
like I'm going to the
Jersey Gardens Mall.
As you know, I'm
from New Jersey.
We take deep pride
in many things.
Our beaches, Wawa...
But we also take
pride in our malls.
I'm gonna take a silver
and I'm gonna put that
on the middle part of my eyes.
I will take a different fluffy
brush than what we've used,
and this is what I like
to call my shimmer brush.
I'm going to take a little
bit of setting spray.
I'm going to spray the brush,
dip it into the shimmery shadow,
and then I'm just
going to apply that
in the middle of this crease,
right above my actual eyeball.
And when you're doing
this, you do wanna stay
inside the lines that you
created of your crease.
I am going to dip into a
lovely white sparkly shade,
and we're gonna just
do the same thing,
we're gonna spray this
and then we're going
to apply it right here.
Now the LaCrease Royale is done.
All we're going to do is go
back in with the eyeliner
and we're gonna just
redefine that line that
we basically took away
with all of the pigment.
I know, someone in the
comments is gonna say,
"Well why even do the
eyeliner in the first place?"
I don't know.
I don't have the
answer for you, babe.
But this is just my process.
I just literally tried to
close my mouth to
do this and I can't,
I just can't do it.
(laughs)
It's like my tongue's out too.
How heinous (laughs)!
(laughs)
Then once we paint that,
we're just gonna take
the black eyeshadow and just
reinforce what we just did.
And one more time.
(gasps)
Oh my god!
(laughs)
The eyeliner fell out!
So when that happens (laughs),
all you're gonna do is
take the black eyeshadow
and just do what you
would do with the liner.
Now we're going to do
a very important step
to making the eyes
look bigger and bolder.
We will take our
excess powder away,
because it involves
the underside.
We are going to
add a white pigment
into the inner corner
of the under eye.
It just lightens everything
up and and it brings focus
to all of the eye.
We're gonna use an
angled flat brush,
and we're gonna take a
little bit of white pigment.
I go to the inside and I
just create a small line.
All right, so now
that that's done,
we can add some dimension
back to the face
with some powders.
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What I do first is I
add my darkest contour
and I put that
and concentrate it
on the outermost
parts of my face.
In the temple areas up here,
I go in underneath the
cheekbone right over here.
Then I go underneath the chin,
and I'll go along the nose.
So once all of
that contour's on,
then we get to bronze the face,
and give it some life!
I will go back in right
underneath those spots
that I just contoured
on my forehead,
and right above the
spots on my cheeks.
And just add some
warmth back to the face.
And then I'll take the bronzer
and I'll do the same thing
down the side of my nose.
We are going to
move on to blush.
I literally will do like...
I've had this for
two and a half years.
Smile, ooh, (coos)
and then just tap.
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That's all.
I'll basically take
this brush that is flat,
it is angled, I will dip
into three highlight shades
and I'll take this
and I will dab it
all in that highlight region
that we have built.
See how much that evens out
this entire side over here?
I will put some on the
forehead over here,
and I'll go right
underneath that cheek.
Okay, now I'll go
underneath here.
And just highlight the
bridge of that nose.
And I like to do the
same thing on the sides.
Now this is what's going to
give it that surgery look.
See, it just kind of
snatches everything in.
Sports played a very
big part in my life,
and so I thought that this
would be really, really fun
for you to get to
know me a little more,
and see what it's all about.
We're gonna go in and
add some highlight.
When I'm on stage, I want
my cheek to be visible
from the back of the house.
And so I like to do
that with setting spray.
So basically what I'll
do is I'll spray this
all over my face, and I'll
dip into the first shade,
and I will go right
on the tip of my nose.
I'm gonna take this
brush, I'm going to dip it
ever so slightly into
my highlight powder.
Right above where I put
my bronzer and my blush,
I'm going to tap
it into the skin.
And then I'll use another shadow
and I'll just add it on top
to give it some
layers and dimension.
Oh, how gorgeous.
I will go back in
with my bronzer,
and I will tighten
up any of the edges.
So basically, I'll just do this,
and blend it into my skin.
This is like an
iridescent glitter
that I just like to
put right over the top
to give it that extra shine.
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(air whooshing)
All righty, y'all, so
now we are going to learn
about my world famous brown lip.
Now, I get hate for
this all the time,
because I do a very
similar lip a lot,
and I think that
it just goes with
every single eye color
that you can possibly
think of or imagine.
So I'm so sorry for any of you
who don't want to
see me do this,
but we're gonna do it
right here, right now.
(clicks tongue)
Taking this, I make it into
a lovely little heart shape.
and then once we start
to get to the nostril,
we'll start to curl it down.
Now, I don't have an upper lip,
and so overdrawing
is essential for me.
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Now we're going to move
on to a liquid lip.
And fill in that lip.
I love this lip because I
feel like it's very '90s,
it goes with everything,
it's flattering,
and it's different.
So now before this dries, I'm
going to take a flat brush,
and I'm going to
blend all of it out.
I'll take my pencil.
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So now we're going to go
in with a cream lipstick.
And again, just blending it out.
Now that those three are on,
we're going to top it
off with some gloss.
You know a lot of queens
don't like to use gloss
because it gets
caught in their hair.
It gets caught in my hair,
but it doesn't bother me.
So there she is.
All we have to do
is add some mascara
and put on lashes,
and then we're done!
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Time for the lashes, where
everything comes together.
I'm going to use a
little bit of hair bond,
and then I place it normally
on my line on the inside,
and then I build it
up on the outside.
All right, everybody,
so the face is done.
I'm gonna go throw on my look,
and I'll be right back.
Bam!
Everybody, this is
my Lady Ballers look
from the Ball Ball.
I'm so excited that I got
to do this look today,
I love it so much
because it represents
a very significant
part of my childhood.
This look is amazing because
all of these little patches
are hand-sewn and created
by this amazing designer
named Abraham in New York City.
Thank you so much for
watching my video today,
and I hope to see you all
on the road sometime soon!
(smacks lips)
Bye!
