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And yo, what's good? So, I mean, by no surprise, there are rave reviews about Trinity being on the podcast. Y' all love the realness. Y' all love the sass. Y' all love the Southern Bell. With Trinity, the tuck. No one's gagged. I'm not gagging. Are you? Well, good.
C
I need to look at these reviews. I know for a fact I listened to it myself because I just wanted to hear the quality. And, girl, thank goodness y' all told me I needed to get a microphone because I sound like I am in a hole, sweetie.
B
Okay, I wish I was in a hole. No, but now you have. You have a yeti microphone, which you had all the time. This is your microphone. You don't ever use it for, like, zooms or anything?
C
No, I. I'm like, the worst technical person ever. So I. You know, I used to have a podcast years ago.
B
Well, yes, I remember this.
C
And so I would use it for that, but I totally forgot that I had it. And then, you know, girl, I don't do these things, like this. Smart. Smart things, technical things are not for me. I need an assistant.
B
Girl, I know. I was. So my friend is a personal shopper for this, like, billionaire. And so, like, she literally gets paid to shop for him. Like, go to, like, Gucci or Louboutin. And, like, so she just. She gets. Her salary is six figures to shop for someone, which is crazy. That that's a job.
C
How do I get that job?
B
I want that job. I said, bitch, I will. Girl, if I could get six figures, I would quit drag and just do it when I wanted to and just shop for someone.
C
Girl. Yes. What do you want? You want junk food? You want porn? You want holes? I'll shop. Whatever you need, I will be there. I'll be shopping. Amazon. I'm good at that. Amazon, I'm good.
B
Okay, well, no, this is glitchy because right now, right now, they're Right now he's. She went to Italy with him because he's going on vacation in Italy, and he wants his personal shopper there so that she can go and, like, buy things for him on vacation. I'm like, what? I'm so jealous,
C
girl. Is this man single? Like, I will throw my relationship away. I'll throw the dogs away. Somebody can condemn my house, and I'm. I'm gonna travel with this billionaire.
B
The fact that, that, like. But that's the fact, like, people have that kind of money in the world is crazy. Do you think. Do you think RuPaul has a personal shopper? I wonder if RuPaul has a personal shopper, like, someone who shops for him.
C
I think that RuPaul probably doesn't. She probably. She has an assistant for sure, but I don't know if she has a shopper. RuPaul seems, you know, because she came from very humble beginnings. And I feel like people that come from humble beginnings, they. They are control freaks. They want to. They want to be in control of everything. Because it. Even. No matter how much money you make, you still feel. You still have this, like, anxiety. At least for me, I still have this anxiety of, like, yeah, it's going to go away. I don't want somebody else, you know, in charge of my money. Like, I. I want to be in charge of it.
B
So we're going to get into it. But, yeah, I. I agree with that. Like, I know those feelings of, like. Like, like, like, something might happen tomorrow and, like, it'll all go away. That's such a real feeling. And people think just because, you know, we're rude girls and we travel, we do this, like, they have money, whatever. It's like, it's always that fear of, I don't know, I'm gonna overestimate something, and it, like, all goes away tomorrow. I always have.
C
Yeah. Because we're. We're freelancers, so it's not like. It's. No one's paying us. Like, we're. We're. We have to, like, get the job and then get paid for that one job and then hope another job comes.
B
Yeah.
C
So it's definitely scary.
B
Well, what is not scary is All Stars Season nine. And I have to say, you know, that we're only two episodes in, and aside from untucked, which I think untucked is too happy. Go Lucky. The regular episodes, I'm actually enjoying it. I feel like they're good so far. Now this is. We're only two episodes in. This might change in a few Episodes. But so far, I am enjoying the episodes. How do you feel?
C
Yeah, I really like it. I think it's a strong cast. I think that right now, going into the second episode, you're seeing that there's no one frontrunner because, yeah, people were doing good in different things, so I'm really liking it. I also agree with you that it's a little too nice, but I have a feeling, for some reason, I just have a feeling that is not gonna last long.
B
We shall see. We shall see. So George's walks in at the top of the episode, and she didn't even know that she won a badge. I'm like, is George's. And is. Is this. And she. She lives in another galaxy. She's like, oh, I want a badge. Oh, okay. Like, I'm like, girl, were you not there in the. On the main stage and announced it that you want a badge, girl? What is going on?
C
No, no, she was not. Girl. She's all of her own little La La Land bit. She probably had an edible or two that you gave her.
B
You know, I have not done a weed edible in so long. That's not true. I did one, like, a week ago, and it really fucked me up because I haven't done it in, like, months. So I took, like, a 10 milligram edible like, a week ago, and the next day I was still foggy. Well, I also took the 10 milligram edible, and I had, like, a little bit of some weed juice I had. So that may be also the combo. But then the whole next day.
C
What is a weed juice?
B
Weed juice?
C
A weed juice.
B
It's like thc. Like, it's like they put the THC in, like, a Druse. It was like a strawberry lemonade. And, like, the container. Yeah, the container is, like, maybe like, this big, but it's like 100 milligrams in it. And I had, like, about this. Like, this much of it. I think I may. I may have had too much. But I was. The next. The whole next day, I was like, still fucked up. I was like, oh, not again. Not again.
C
Yeah, I love a good edible. Thanks to you. You introduced me to these things.
B
Well, you know what I want to get you on next? I want to get you on psychedelics. I feel like tripping with you would be so funny. We do, like, mushrooms or acid. I think I would have this out of my life with you.
C
I've never. Oh, my gosh, never Vacation.
B
The girls are also talking about their blocking strategy, and Jorge reveals that if she would have won. She would have blocked Nina. And I think that is a smart choice. Nina is good. What's probably next is probably going to be a comedy thing. Sorry. It would make sense. She thought, like, a comedy thing was coming. So Nina is a good thing. And she was like, nina's good at everything. I'm like, yeah, everything, like, except sewing and like, you know, the fashion isn't always, you know, footballs. But yeah, I think that Nina is a good. Is a good person to walk.
C
I agree. I think Nina is a. Is. Is very funny. She's also very smart. I. I think that that would be a proper per. I think she can act too, like, you know, drag. Drag race. Likes somebody to overact, so, you know, they're. They're not winning an Oscar. I agree. That would have been a good choice for sure.
B
Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I was trying to think, like, in our. I realized in our All Stars, we had two. We had two design challenges. That was two too many. I know you like a design challenge, but obviously, because Trinity can literally make a fucking. A fucking Versace collection in a day. I hate sewing challenges, so.
C
Well, you did great with yours. What are you talking about? Both of yours were good.
B
I mean, my second one, my RuPaul. My RuPaul one was sickening. I love that one. First one, the green, it was not bad.
C
It was not bad. You, you, you. There. There were some moments you were, like, freaking out, but you figured it out. It was cute.
B
I thought it was cute, you know, but, yeah, so I'm not as throwing challenge girl. Although I like watching the balls. I am not a fan of balls. Do we. We.
C
We.
B
Oh, yeah, we did have a ball. We had the Vanna White ball. Then we had the RuPaul creation. Got right. That's the. We had. Yeah. Okay.
C
So.
B
But this week on this episode, they're doing the paintball. And there are three categories. Category one is monochromatica, where they have to express yourself in a shade of your choice. Number two was the drag Imitates art. A look inspired by famous work. And then the third one, they had to create a look, but then the twist is they had to, like, paint it, hand paint it, and, like, design it with paint. Would you. Would you like this kind of ball?
C
Oh, I would love it. I love to paint. I also paint. Really? Yeah. There's no paints in here. I told you. I want to paint you a painting for your house.
B
I would love that. I want. So I have a painting by Bianca in my house. Bob, I would love if you did a painting as well, I would love that.
C
Yeah, I do like abstract stuff, so it's not like portraits or anything like that. I would love to paint fabric. I've done it before. I just think it's, it's a creative way to show another side of you.
B
Yeah.
C
And. And I love to paint.
B
Yeah. Okay. And what if you would have painted something? Are we talking about something like this? Or you go, maybe. How big we talking?
C
Oh, girl, I have a huge. This is not portable. I have a huge painting over my sofa, in my living room, and in my dining room. It takes up the whole wall work.
B
I love, I love big. I love big art. I love big art.
C
I heard that about you.
B
Have you ever been painted by someone or accidentally painted someone, like, on my
C
body or just in, in like, a portrait of myself?
B
No. You know, like when you're going to have sex and the person didn't clean out well enough so they paint you. They paint on you.
C
Were they shit on me?
B
Yes.
C
No. Oh, no, ma'. Am. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, yes. Yes, that has happened. Not me, not me doing it, but, like, are we talking about this right now? So I hooked up with this, this guy, and this was, like, years ago, and we were just supposed to be fooling around. Well, he was like, oh, it was, he was really femme. And I, I like them, I don't mind them. And he's like, oh, put it in. And I was like. And you know, in the heat, in the moment, you just. Yeah, you do. And I did. And the, the moment, the moment, I, I, I immediately knew something was wrong.
B
Yes.
C
And girl, we, I, I, I had to stop because I knew I, I was about to van go my sheets. Okay.
B
Yeah. The moment that those things happen as, as soon, as soon as it's happening, you know, because the smell starts to, like, immediately come in the air. And then in that moment, you just start regretting. You're like, why the fuck? You're like. I knew that this bitch wasn't ready. I knew this wasn't a tea. Mine happened when I was hooking up with this DL dude up in Yonkers, and he was a cop, and I was hooking up with this guy, and he used to always top me. This time around, he came over, he was like, he wanted to bottom. I was like, okay. And, and then, girl, as soon as I went into it, I was like,
C
girl, you should have known a DL man, you know, he ain't know how to clean out his ass.
B
I know, I know. But he Was so cute. And I was like. I thought. But, girl, I immediately regretted it. And then when it started to happen, I was like, oh, no. Like, we gotta stop. And he wants to keep on going. I was like, bitch.
C
No.
B
I was like, uh, uh. And then we never hooked up again. Cause I was just so disturbed.
C
Because you're brave to tell a police officer. No, honey, girl. I would have just kept going. I would have just kept. I would have been like, okay, bitch, I'm not going to jail.
B
Angeria, you know what? People were reading me in the comments, like, monet, you did the pit stop her season. Do you remember? I'm like, oh, yes, I do remember. I do like Angeria a lot. She's very charming. Like, anytime Angeria has her talking heads, It's a combination of that southern accent and how honest and earnest she is. Angeria has a very charming personality. I like her.
C
Is she old?
B
How old is this?
C
She's not that old. She's. She's younger than me. I think she's, like, in her late 20s, maybe early 30s. She's.
B
She's not old at all. Okay. She has an old soul. Like, old energy.
C
She. Yes, she's 30, you said, Jacob. Yeah, she's 30. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She has an old soul, but she's so charming, like you said. She reminds me of, like, when I go to visit new Orleans and the people that are there that you would interact with, like a server or like, someone in a shop or on the street that's from there, just very friendly. Has, like, that southern charm, can talk. Literally instantly go into a conversation. You feel like you've done them forever.
B
Yeah, yeah. And, yeah, so I really enjoy that about her. And she. And she. And you see, like, the girls are kind of, like, sewing in, like, the. They're kind of not teens, but they are, like, dividing into these kind of duet alliances. And her and jorgeous are, like, working together. And we see, you know, Angeria is, like, thinking about what she's gonna do back and forth. And Jorgeous is committing to using this fucking little ass stencil to make this pattern on this dress, which I think at the end. We'll get to it later. Ends up being beautiful. But, like, that's like me when I had my sponges. Like, people think that it was easy to do the sponge dress. Let me tell you. I was cutting spong for, like, five hours. It takes a lot to cut these fucking sponges up. So I get the pain of doing. Of doing something very menial to get a big Result at the end.
C
Oh, yeah. And once you start, it's like, okay, girl, I've committed to this, so I just gotta do it.
B
Yeah.
C
I just gotta do it. Yeah.
B
Yeah. I'm trying to think what my direction. I'm not a painter. I don't. I'm not good at fine art. Like, I don't know how to draw. I don't know how to paint, so I don't know what the fuck I would do. I don't know. I don't know. I have no idea what I would do.
C
Well, you might have went the direction of, like, what Angeria did, which is. It's a solid. It was a solid color, so she painted it, but it was.
B
It was.
C
It ended up being solid. I think that you're very creative. I think that you would have done something abstract, and that's. And that's great.
B
That had to be abstract. I remember In All Stars 7, Shay, she painted the cheetah print on her outfit. Yeah, she painted that. Yeah.
C
Yeah.
B
And I guess. Cause they had spray paint, so I guess you'd have to use. Cause you couldn't just use fucking, like, regular. You got to use specific fabric. Oh, my God. I feel like there's so many layers. I would fuck something up if I did this challenge easily. Yeah.
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And.
B
Oh, and then the girls are all outside working, and Gottmik, she does her walkthrough through RuPaul, and we see that she's doing this punk vibe. And even the sketches look really good. And out the gate, just from the sketches, I'm like, this feels like it's good. And knowing she's obviously good at balls. She won the ball in her original season. I was expecting something fierce from Gottmik.
C
Yeah, I liked her sketches. I thought the sketches were kind of cool. I'm really weary about drawing or painting, like, random things on a garment because it can kind of look messy. But I like. Individually, I like the sketches that she has. I like her vision. She's very different. Gottmik is very different with their fashion, and I. And I can definitely appreciate that. I like the silhouette that they're going with.
B
Yeah, I think so too. And also, we all know Roxy Andrews. She can make anything, and she made some really fucking amazing things on All Stars. I mean, on season five, I don't think she sold anything on All Stars too, but I'm just. I was immediately excited to see what Rox is going to do, because she can do anything. Although we know Roxy loves stones, and a stone takes a lot of Time. And I don't think maybe she did bring a lot of stones with her, but I thought maybe she tried to incorporate stone, but she didn't. But I thought she would try to make some stone fantasy happen.
C
She did a little bit, like, on the bustier part up top, But. But you're right. Like, majority of the outfit, it was just paint. And when you're. When you're in those and you know, because you've done this, when you're in those situation, you don't have a lot of time, so. Bitch. Trying to stone something takes a lot of time. Yeah, that takes. To me, it takes more time than sewing.
B
Oh, yeah, for sure. Stoning takes weight. Although you stone bitch. You were stoning things on. On both your looks, the red one and the blue one. You stole something.
C
Well, that's because I'm. I'm really quick at. I'm really quick with sewing, so I can utilize that extra time for stoning.
B
Yeah, y'. All. Trinity would literally finish her thing and have enough time to. Well, as you saw, make shit for Jinx, like, help Jinx out with stuff. It was crazy. It was still.
C
She still would have lost if there was an elimination. But, you know, the thing with. The thing with Jinx is, like, she was not good at sewing. She knows that she was not good at sewing. We all know she was not good at sewing. But, like, she was so committed to the things that she was making. Even when I went to go help her, she would not let me really help her. It was like, help me fix what I've already, you know, messed up. And it's like, okay, well, we're going to. We're going to hot glue some more, because that's the only thing I could do since you've hot glued everything. But, yeah, I also.
B
I also. Gorgeous Jorgeous comes into this with a lot of controversy because she ended up winning the ball her season. Making that, like, dress that everyone was like. Is RuPaul literally in this moment, smoking crack? Is this the winning look for the thing? So George's has a lot to prove from her original season winning that. Because I still. I still. Years have gone by, and I still think it was ridiculous that George's won, that that outfit was not great.
C
Who do you think should have won?
B
I don't remember. I don't remember who was up for it. But, I mean, her shit was a hodgepodge. It was a girl. It was just, like, a bunch of shit. I didn't like it back then. I remember thinking having strong feelings about who should have won, but I don't remember who it was. Were Georgia, San and Jury on the same season? Jacob, can you look that up? Were they on the same season?
C
I don't remember.
B
I don't remember either.
C
They were. They were both on 14.
B
They were both on 14. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
A
Girl.
B
We're like RuPaul. There's so many seasons. I can't even keep track of who's on one anymore.
C
No. At least we know their names. Barely.
B
Well, we have so many looks. I think we should just get to the Runway because we have a lot of looks to get through and a lot of feelings about them.
C
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B
1-800-contacts. Let's talk about the judges really quick. I think that I love RuPaul in this dress. I think, like, rarely does RuPaul. I mean, not rarely ever. RuPaul never does a theme, but I feel like in this one, he's kind of doing like, this looks like some type of art, like airbrush. An airbrush watercolor situation happening here.
C
Yeah, I love it. I love the colors. I love the fabric choice.
B
Yeah.
C
Like we were talking about last week, lately, I just haven't been loving her fashion. I just feel like maybe her designer's gotten bored. But this dress is absolutely beautiful. And she obviously looks stunning. Her makeup, her hair. Yeah, beautiful.
B
I'm not a. Can I say I'm not a fan of RuPaul in blue contacts. I like when he has the hazel ones, like those really light brown ones,
C
but the blue ones.
B
I rarely like that icy blue contact look on brown skinned people. It rarely ever does it for me. I don't like it when I wear contacts. I wear delicious honey. They're like a light hazely color, but I don't like the ice. You look like a fucking vampire. You look like somebody from Interview to Vampire. Which are you watching Season two.
C
Is it out?
B
Yes. It started like a week ago. It's so good.
C
Okay, I'm gonna start this again. Yes. No, I'VE gotta watch it. Is it good?
B
It's so good. It's so, so, so good. And Michelle looks good. She's. She gave, like, almost like a 50s thing with that kind of. Did she have a victory role? I don't remember. I thought she had a victory roll, maybe.
C
It looks kind of like a victory roll. I like her hair this week. It's still like, last week. I told you her hair looked old lady. This looks old lady, but, like, chic.
B
Yeah.
C
So I do like this. I don't really care for her dress. It's okay. Yeah, but it's fine.
B
I like it. And Stephanie, I like this. This top. This stuff is very cute. And she did. When the guest judges try.
C
Yeah, I think she looks great. She looks great. The pants, the top, her hair. Her hair. I don't know. In untucked, when she turned around to, like, walk away, her hair was so freaking shiny. I was like, oh, my God. You have really healthy hair.
B
Yeah, yeah.
C
And then Ross Matthews
B
is a sparkly bomber jacket. Let's go on to the looks. First up, we. And her monochromatic look. It was all neon green, you want to call it. And the hair wasn't monochromatic, but I wasn't super bothered by that. But this is her monochromatic look. I like it. I wish she had titties on because she has these big hips and just flat chest. I don't understand why she doesn't have titties on. Like, I'm confused by it, but I think that this look is cute. I've seen a lot of queens in this particular silhouette, but not. That's not a read, you know? But I think. I think this look is this. This. This is a good look. I just wish she had tits.
C
I think it's fine. I love the hair. The hair is absolutely beautiful. She looks fantastic with this. With. With white hair.
B
You really just.
C
It looks it. Like, some people can make them age them, but for her, it just. She just looks like an ice queen.
B
I just.
C
I love it. The outfit is okay. I like the bustle. But to me, this. This looks like I'm very critical about Runway looks because I. I just am with. With what I've put on the stage, what you put on the set, what other people put on the stage. And also comparing her to other people that are on her cast, this, to me, looks more like a girl group outfit with a buckle.
A
Mm.
B
I could see that. Like a dance look that you just made a matching bustle to.
C
Yeah, but it looks fine. It looks Good. It looks good.
B
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go to her. Her. What's this category called? Her.
C
Drag Imitates art.
B
Drag imitates art. And she's doing Mondrian.
C
Yeah.
B
I thought that she could have been a little more creative. Even a small detail, like in Mondrian, like, outlining each shape. Like, if she had at least outlined each shape with black to separate the pieces, I think even that would have made it look more intentional as opposed to just trying to recreate it. If you're gonna recreate it, recreate it. Don't be so lazy with it. So I wasn't too in love with this. It felt like she could have got this dress from Rainbow. And the little random spark of stoning was weird to me too. Like, girl, just. This is your Runway look. Like, fully stone it. Like. Like stone. If. If you're going to stone it, really lean in and give us those separations from each one with the black. I think that would have elevated it. So, yeah, those are my thoughts about it.
C
I think she looks beautiful from the neck up. The hair color looks great on her makeup. Great. I hate this. I hate it. I think that why, out of all the artists you could ever pick from, you would pick this one. Like, this is the word. Like, there's nothing creative. It's very boring. And then you come out here in this dress that, like, you said, the spot stoning looks cheap. And I wouldn't even wear this for an entrance look. Like, she. No, man. This is like. This is like an acting challenge dress, bitch. You won't wear this when you ready to get pies thrown at your face. Okay.
B
Made us wear our fucking. So y'. All. Y' all don't know for All Stars 4. Those clown looks, those that they gave us that as Runway look, like, you thought that was gonna be a Runway. So then when we had to. We're in a challenge, they're like, can we throw pies on you? We're like.
C
And the only person that said yes was Naomi.
B
Yeah.
C
I was like, absolutely not. I spent way too much money. No, ma'.
A
Am.
C
And then they threw the pies. And I'm like, ugh. I had to step back. Cause the pies were, like, flinging. I was like, uh, yeah.
B
But I agree. You're right. This does. This is like something you like, a throwaway look that you wear. Like an acting challenge for sure. Yeah.
C
Yeah. And, girl, the. The three. This is another thing about foxtails. Like, obviously, you know, people are have very strong feelings about real fur I don't know if this is real fur, but if it is real fur, either way, three foxtails. Girl, if you. If you don't have that monstrosity of a dress and you're gonna have foxtails, you better have a wrap. It better wrap around your entire body. Something, honey. I need more. I need more.
B
Yeah. A way that she could actually have elevated this was if she came. If she did this Mondrian in, like, a Comme des Garcons situation, like what Aja did, and have it be like something like that. So, like, your body feels like it's like that flat panel. Maybe that one made it more interesting and I don't know, but you're right. I think this is not good. But doing a Comme des Garcons silhouette with the Mondrian could have been something like what Aja did on, I think, All Stars.
C
The way she could have elevated this is. Thrown it away, honey. Throwing it away.
B
This is her look. She created. There it was. I didn't even read. I didn't see the lime into the yellow. I just thought red is all yellow to me. But now this picture that we have here, I see. See the lime yellow ombre thing, and I think this was fine. I wasn't in love with it. Like, I get. I have a real. What's her name? Hershey lacour. Jatay did this on the recent season. Like, her entrance look, it was just like a catsuit with this belted skirt thing. I hate when I see those. I'm not in love with that thing because it always feels like an afterthought and something you just to create volume, just. And also, it's kind of similar to what she did in her first look. You just make this.
C
She literally. This is her second one she made.
B
Yeah, Yeah.
C
I, I like it. I, I. You're right. Like in the. In on tv, it didn't translate as green and yellow, but in this picture, it does. I really like it much better in the picture where I can see the green and the yellow.
B
Right.
C
Because on tv, it looked chartreuse, almost like her first look. I don't mind the strap bustle thing. I like it. To me, I like this one the best out of her three looks, and she made it, so. But none of the three. I don't, I don't foreshadow her being in the top this week for sure. But I think, again, you can't clock the mug. The mug is right.
B
Yeah. The hair and the face are always beautiful.
C
Yeah.
B
Let's go on to Chanel. Chanel. And her first look is this pink monochromatic situation. It's a sequin gown with ostrich feather detail and shoulders and the, and the cage on the hips and. Yeah, I think this is quintessential Chanel. This is very Chanel. And I think this is a good look. I think that. But I don't love the. I mean, I do like the shoulders, because when you look at. It looks like a, Almost like a butterfly situation. But, yeah, I think this is, this is a good look.
C
Yeah, I really like this. I, I wouldn't wear this, but I, but for her, I think it's great. I love the color. And, girl, she paints. She is a paint her makeup. Oh, my gosh. It's, like, so airbrushed, and she has so much makeup on. Yeah, it looks fantastic. The only thing that I don't care for in this is there's these like, like, straps that are just flinging around on the bottom. I don't, I don't. I didn't think it needed that. I don't like it.
B
I didn't even notice those.
C
Yeah, they're like loose straps.
B
Gotta work.
C
Yeah.
B
Going into her drag. IMITATES ART Look. Her inspiration was Hokusai painting the wave, who I believe is a Japanese artist, I think, and I think this is very creative. To see something like that, to see how she was able to achieve the dimension in the gown and having the foam of the waves. I think this is very exquisite, actually seeing it in the picture. Also, it is even more striking, even having the detail of having that one ship tossed in the waves there. I think this is actually a very, very, very good look. And the hair was a great touch to continue the narrative.
C
She looks amazing. This is really cool. You immediately understand what art piece that she's trying to emulate. Her makeup, her hair. The only thing I don't like about this, there's two things, but the main thing is the boat. I get that there's these boat boats in the painting, but it's almost like, you know how, like, as a kid, your grandparents would have made, like, paper boats out of, like, those paper bags?
B
Huh?
C
And that's what it looks like. It doesn't give me, like, the boat from the painting. It gives me, like, cheap paper boat. I don't know. It doesn't look like the one in the painting. I, I, I like it. Other than that, though, I, I think it looks great.
B
Yeah. And I also, like, every time she came out, she changed her makeup up a bit. And gave us and was diversifying makeup, which I thought was very lovely.
C
Me too.
B
And the last look she created there is this, like, neon. She said this one thing when she came out. She was like. She was like, y' all can take my look. It's giving Las Vegas meets Cirque du Soleilaire meets Avatar. I'm like, bitch, damn. Anything else meets Blue's Clues meets Goat Keys, Everything, which I think is a problem. I don't like. If she would have said, like, my inspiration was Las Vegas Cirque du Soleil, I get it, but it just feels like a lot of stuff, and I don't necessarily. I don't know, because I don't know if I like those black bits. Like, I don't like that. We can see the bra, the black bra, and the black corset. She should have just covered it or painted them completely to make me fall into the full fantasy. I don't like that. You can see the black corset and the black bra.
C
Yeah. This is very, like, old school drag where you would make your own costume. You'd take broken jewelry and just glue it to.
B
Yeah.
C
Your costumes. I. I like bits and pieces of it, like you said. I think that the black definitely throws it off for me. Other than that, though, I like. I'm just captivated by her makeup. It's just, like. So it's exactly like Cirque du Soleil.
B
Yeah.
C
I like the colors of the outfit. I like the fringe bit. But I definitely agree with you. The. The black definitely throws it off. One thing about all three of these looks, and I'm hoping this doesn't become a trend with her, she doesn't have a very long neck, and so she tends to like these ginormous earrings, which in any way that she moves, unless it's straight on, the earring just gets bent and stuck on her shoulder, and it just looks weird. And I think people need to be conscious of that whenever they're. They're styling their outfits. If you want to wear a big earring, that's fine, but make sure it doesn't look odd when you're, like, turning. You know, it needs to. It needs to be appropriate to the sizing of. Of the rest of the costume.
B
Yeah, I. I see that now. I wasn't thinking about that, but now you pointed out that it's true because,
C
like, you would have been docked points for that.
B
Really? They knock points for that, too.
C
Your. Your earrings can't touch your. Your garment work.
B
Yep, Girl. The panther system, y'.
A
All.
B
Hoes don't play.
C
But you know what? That I feel like a pageant is. You get. You. You know, when you're watching a pageant, unless it's just that close, you. You know the winner. Because if. If it's fair, you can tell the person that has the cleanest package, and that's the person that's going to win versus drag race girl.
B
Let's go on to Roxy Andrews and her red chromatica look. What do you think about this?
C
I like the idea of this. I think that I need it way more cinched.
B
Yes.
C
I also think I. Roxy wears these padded boobs. She. She actually sent me the link for them and told me never to tell, so I'll never tell. We're gonna gatekeep this. It's these. These fabric padded boobs, which are perfect inserts for things, but, like, for certain looks. It. It looks flat. And for this one, I think it looks flat. Also. Her boobs look kind of.
B
Yeah, they're like this. A little.
C
A little sideways, a little. I don't know. I like the concept of it. It's not my favorite, mainly because of. Of the shape. I wish. I wish she was corseted more.
B
Yeah. And I love Roxxxy Andrews. I love Roxy. Don't kill me, girl. But, yeah, this was not my fave. Like, I just don't understand what the squiggly lines are supposed to be. I don't understand what this look is supposed to be. Like, I don't understand the squiggly lines. I wish it was cinched more. And it's so simple for, like, a monochromatic look. Like, why even add the silver tones? Like, make the shoe silver. Make the. I mean, sorry, make the shoe red. Like, make the. The category is literally monochromatic, monochrome. Like, one color. Like, I don't. I don't. I don't understand Andrea having white hair and Roxy having silver. Like, just make it one thing. I just. I don't get it. I do.
C
I agree with that. I agree with that. I think overall, though, she does look good. In. In any other season, this would have went over very well. But girl, you're. You're up against some stiff competition with girl runways, and we just need a little bit more shape. And, like, this has nothing to do with her being a plush girl. It's more just what. No matter what size you are, you need a little shape. A little shape.
B
Yeah, for sure. Let's go into her and her Salvador Dali, the persistence of memory, AKA the melting clocks. Not a melting Clock. I thought that this was good. I love the piece in the front, and I love what I wish, though, to just yield more into this, like, melted situation. I wish she would have made. Instead of the skirt being this, like, one harsh, like, thing, it should have made it, like, asymmetrical or, like, stitch or, like, incorporate the black into. So it just wasn't, like, that solid line. If this skirt was a little asym or just, like, kind of curved a little more to just give. Lean more into this, like, melty world that Salvador Dali created in this. That's what I think that. That small attention to detail would have made this a slam dunk for me, but it didn't happen.
C
Yeah, I. I'm actually not in love with this. I love bits and pieces of it. I love her from the neck up. I think the. The mustache is genius. I love the fascinator. I love the chest piece with the melted clock. I actually really love the. The. The pattern of the painting. I love the fabric. But I agree with you. I. I don't like how it cuts her off at, like, a weird length. Also, the black. I get why she did black, probably to showcase the clock. I don't know. I just. There's something about this. I. I'm not feeling the shape of it.
B
Yeah.
C
It doesn't look bad. It just. I'm not feeling the shape of it. But she looks. Overall, she does look good, but I just feel like you're right. Like, asymmetry would have been more cohesive with this artist.
B
Yeah. Even if that black was, like, the color of that, like, of that. Of that olive green in the picture. Right. Like, make it feel. It was like. I feel like that would have made more sense, but. But black seemed like such a stark choice. It seemed strange.
C
Yeah, I agree.
B
Yeah. And up to her final look, she made, here was this coat with a pantsuit. And I. And. Oh, I see the stones now. I see, like, just a little. A few red stones. I thought this was a good look. I liked it. I know. Michelle talking about a lining. I was like, girl. I mean, I'm not talking to fucking Trinity, who could probably make this in 10 minutes. But I'm like, you want me to. I have to make the coat and line it, too. I mean, I get it. It is drag race. This is all. But, damn, that seems like a lot of work. That seems great.
C
I love this. I thought. This is. The thing with Michelle is she's. She doesn't. Some of her critiques. She doesn't give, like, feedback necessarily to what the. The contestants are given as far as time, Girl. Like, first of all, when would she have time to. She had to paint, paint her fabric, let it dry, then sew the fabric. And I'm, I'm sure they only had the day and a half that they normally get. That's not enough time to do all that. Plus line of thing, plus the fabric, because it's painted, bleeds through, so it's, it's painted on both sides. So, yeah, I don't know Michelle sometimes, and I think she's a great judge, but sometimes her critiques are kind of from left field, and it's like, girl, come on. Which we already know. You could never go up there and line anything yourself, let alone paint an entire garment. I love it. I, I like the shape of it. It looks professional. It looks like she went and bought this because it's so well made. I love it. I think this is, to me, her best look from the night.
B
Yeah, I agree. I, I, I think asking for this to be online is really unreasonable. And I think Roxy is great. The fit also just to make fucking pants. The fit of the pants looks good. She doesn't have a saggy, droopy crotch. The coat looks good. I think this is her best look of the night. And I agree. I think Roxxxy looks incredible. I love this look.
C
And see, this is what I'm talking about. Her shape. Like, she has shape here. I don't know if it's just the way that it's cut, but she has way more shape here than she did in the red.
B
Yeah. And she made all three looks that she wore tonight. And I always say I give extra for that. I know that. Whatever. But when someone makes, especially for a ball, when you can say bitch, all three of these looks I fucking made, to me, that is a little. You get a little extra credit because that bitch work like, that's.
C
Yeah. Fierce.
B
Up next, got Meek wearing. Girl. We are truly on All Stars. Drag has. Is really in another place. This bitch is wearing Versace, like, straight off the Runway for her Runway on RuPaul's Drag Race. The access, the funds, the connections, she better work. What do you think about this look?
C
I don't like it.
B
Really?
C
I, I don't like when somebody can just go to a designer and pull something off the rack that anybody has access to to wear on a Runway. And does Gottmik look good in this? Yes, but it does not to me give. Drag it to me, it gives. I got right off the Runway and came on. Drag Ra think Gotmik looks amazing. I love the color. It. It doesn't give drag. It gives off the rack, pants off the rack, jacket off the rack, bodice and a purse. And you're right now you're an advertisement for this brand. And does it look good? Absolutely. Does it look drag? No. No. So in the same sense that you saying that you would give extra points to Roxy for making all of her stuff, I take off points when you just go to a designer off the rack and pull. I don't care if they're the most exclusive, one of a kind designer. It's not drag. I will say certain things, like when Shay pulled the. Her African dress, where she had the thing that to me looked drag because Shea accessorized the hair. Everything just looked. Yeah. Made it. She made it more drag. This, to me, doesn't look drag. Other than Gottmik in it, it's fine. It looks good. I don't like it for Drag Race.
B
I could. I could see that. I also, for some reason, in this look, I was, like, so, like, caught by, like, her fucking face. The way. I don't know if Gottmik. I don't know. Gottmik has fillers. I don't know what she has, but the fucking chisel of, like, her cheekbones and, like, her jawline, it looks so. Makeup just looks so good on her face like this still. They have of her hair. She looks fucking unreal. She looks great.
C
Yeah, she is what I love about Gottmik, because her face is so masculine, because it's so cut. She almost looks like a creature, like, in a. In a great way. Yeah. In makeup, it. It looks almost like an anime character or the. And also, she. Her eye pain is also severe, so it looks. Look, it looks like a creature. And I live for that. I mean, she looks overall great. I just don't. I don't like when you wear off the rack stuff.
B
Yeah, y' all know me. I am. I am. I am a streetwear girl. I am very.
C
I am like, I am wearing that on the Runway. You are not wearing that on the Runway.
B
I was wear that on the Runway. I would be crucified, girl. People would drag me from here to Timbuktu. But I like stuff like this, and I will not wear it on Drag Race because I know how the fans would destroy me. But Gottmik, like, you know, you know, like, to them, like, Gottmik is, like, the fashion girl. So, like, Gottmik wearing it, it's cool. If I wear it, they'll be like, ugh. You lazy, fat, bald, black bitch. How dare you try that?
C
Oh my God.
B
Wow, girl. Facts though. Her second.
C
Let's say it right now, you lazy, skinny, white, bald bitch.
B
Let's go on to her second look. She recreated the Scream by Monk Girl. This look is incredible. I fucking love this. I would like to wear this. I love the silhouette of the dress. I love a dress with a long train that kind of droops on the floor. It just looks so good and to like even. Cause I think she like created. I don't think this is not a designer. This wasn't like recreated off of something like this was her idea and concept. I believe somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I love this so much. I think this was incredible. And this I love Disco Daddy. He's stoned something. He's stolen my panties and my pasties for my video for a last minute thing that happened. And he's amazing at stone and he's done stuff for like Dua Lipa Lizzo. Like he stolen for everyone. And this is in incredible. I love this so much.
C
Yeah. I mean, there's no way to critique this any other way than it's, it's perfection. This is what I expect of Gottmik.
B
Yeah.
C
I, I think it literally looks because of the way that the dress is cut and the way that the, the train puddles. It looks like she's almost walking out of a puddle of paint.
B
Yes. Yeah.
C
It's almost like the silhouette gives me the magic mirror from.
B
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
C
I, I live for this. This is, this is what I'm talking about, what I expect from, from Gottmik. And she's, this is the thing. She's done this to herself. Like, she's, she's made her caliber so far above that. This is what I expect of her. It's, it's perfection.
B
Yeah. And then when she did the photo shoot for this on Instagram, she like, she, she has this hood, but she put like, she continued the makeup onto her face in these colors and then she stoned ombre stoned it onto her face so it looks even more intense.
C
This is incredible.
B
So fucking good. So, so good. This is my second favorite look of the night. I think it was delicious. And last but not least, her, her dress, he painted there. Um, and I thought, I thought this was, I thought this was cool as well. I like, I, I, I, I like this dress. I love what she did. I love the asymmetry with the red paint on one glove and not the other one. I Love the stuff that she painted on this. This looks very punk rock, very Gottmik. I think this is all her and her branding, and I think this was a very strong look as well. I love this.
C
I like it. I like the. The dress. Just. If you break down the dress, it's well made. There's design concept to it. I love the lacing up the leg. I love the paint, how it's asymmetrical. And like you said, one glove has the paint, one doesn't. One thing I don't like, and I mentioned this earlier, is I don't like random objects painted on a garment unless it's. Unless it really gives graffiti. This doesn't give graffiti to me. So I don't love those. I think if she was to have taken those away and it just been the red painted, you know, like, the way that it's painted up, it still gives that grunge, punk rock vibe, but either even still, it's incredible.
B
Yeah. That thing on the back of her head, is this. Is it supposed to be hair or is it. Is it supposed to look like something? I don't. I was so confused as to what it was supposed to be. It's supposed to be hair.
C
I don't know. It looks like it's made out of hair. It reminds me of one of the characters from Star Wars.
B
Oh, yes. The red lady with the.
C
Yeah.
B
Yes.
C
Yeah, yeah. So that. I think it's cool. I wish if she was gonna wear that hair, she would have incorporated that design more into. Somewhere in the dress. Would have been cool.
B
Yeah, I could see that. Yeah. I didn't understand the hair. Yeah. Honestly, she would have just, like, put a little red in that thing, too. I think that could have looked really cool in some creative.
C
I'm sure that hair probably cost her a fortune.
B
She's like, my hair for y'.
A
All.
B
Ho.
C
That.
A
That.
B
Next up, Nina west in her fuchsia chromatica look. This was the look in the promo. Everyone was like, oh, my God, Roxy A. She's doing this Balenciaga. Blah, blah, blah. Y' all gagged. It's actually Nina West.
C
Yeah. I. I think the. The outfit is incredible. Like, the bustle, the hat. Very cool. I hate this little thing that goes up and down, like, the reveal. Like, come on, girl. Like, you couldn't have just taken this one thing seriously because it overall looked like your one fashion moment.
B
It really.
C
One fashion moment. And it. And. And you had to have this little paper that comes down and goes up like a receipt from cbs. You Know, I don't. I don't like that. Also, girl, her boobs, it is so. They're so high. It just there, it's like, whoa. Other than that, like, the outfit is. It's so cool. I love it for her, but not the receipt.
B
Yeah. I don't understand. Like, to me, that was such a strange choice to have this post it note just in front of it. It was so weird. You're so right. Like, girl, this is your fashion moment. You. This is when you could be like a real fashion girly and you had to do some clown shit to like. Yeah, yeah. Like, it would have been even more effective. She had that big ass hat. You just come with it tilted down and you walk out and you just reveal and let us think it like that.
C
No, no, girl, reveal what, her mug? No, no, just come out with the hat up, girl. We want. We don't want no jump scares. We want it. We want it just as it is. We. We wanna.
B
We wanna.
C
We wanna revel in your glo it and not have to, not, not no reveal of the face. We don't need the reveal of the face. We know looks like. Okay.
B
Yeah. That was such a strange.
C
Although I will say Khalid, the makeup artist for Paula Abdul, he paints her a lot. He paints Nina a lot. And when he paints her, she looks like a goddess.
B
Really?
C
Yeah.
B
Work softer than spackle. Next up was her Tom Finlan look, which I love that she did this right. Tom of Finlan is a very, very, very, very iconic queer artist. And he's celebrated in queer bars and in queer people's homes. And I have a lot of friends that have his artwork and stuff. Tom Finlan is huge in our community and I love that she's giving him the reverence that he deserves that.
C
Hate it, hate it, hate it. I love the hair, I love the hat. Hate it, hate it, hate it. I don't get girl, No, I hate it. Oh, God. I hate it. Like, I like the concept, but, girl, these boots, these look like those boots that Latrice wore on her original season where she wore them 14,000 times. Yeah.
B
I don't know what I'm looking at with the top. Like, is it supposed to be a T shirt? And like, is the jacket, like going like this? Like a. Yeah, I just.
C
I don't think she knows. I don't think she knows. Okay. Hate it. Throw it away. Keep the hair. The hair's cool.
B
The hair is cool. I just.
C
I just.
B
I just feel like this was, to me, this was like so Nina this could have been so easy. Just get like a. Like, get someone design a leather jacket similar to what Roxy Andrews wore in her entrance look. Does a leather jacket and like a leather skirt like that and just be cool. But she just has to take it into this other direction. And then with like the white. Why the white tights? Like, I just don't understand.
C
Yeah, I think it's a body.
B
I think that whole thing is a bodysuit. And she put this leather jacket and the skirt. I don't. I don't know. I can't make sense of it. I don't know what I'm looking at, actually.
C
No, no, absolutely not. No. Where's the little pink receipt when you need one for it to just go
B
over the whole thing. And her last look she created there is just giving full on bozo clown. You know, this is not my favorite look. It's not something I would wear. And I don't even know why she even went with that hair. Like, are you trying to give cubism or, like, not cubism? What's the, like, pop art? I don't even know why that hair. Why this hair with it. And like, did she bring this hair or did she make this hair there? Like, she just carried this just in case in her purse. I don't.
A
I don't. I don't.
B
I don't know.
C
Yeah, I think it's, you know, art is subjective. Yes. And it's supposed to make you think and ask questions. And we are definitely asking questions.
B
No, girl, this art is objective. Objectively terrible.
C
Girl.
B
Oh, wow.
C
Yeah, I, you know, I will say, taking the paint away, the dress fits her.
B
Yes, it does. It does.
C
That's about it. Baby, baby, baby. Yeah.
B
Honestly, she just went the polka dot direction and like, not even wear that fucking corset and just like, do like all types of random size dots of different colors.
C
It still would have been awful. And you already know, girl.
B
I don't know. Yeah, this is not great, Nina.
C
There's no saving that. No, baby, no.
B
Not great. Up next is Vanessa Vanjie Mateo in her Michelle Visage green dress.
A
This.
B
I want this dress. I want. I think Vanjie looks so hot. She looks so fucking good. The dress fit her so perfectly. She had these green shoes. And even though the hair is obviously not green, y', all, this does work, though, because it's just big fucking hair and her makeup. She looks really, really, really pretty tonight particularly. And this was an exact recreation of what Michelle did, just in this green color. And I think Van Der looks Hot. I want this dress, and I'm going to ask someone to make it for me.
C
Yeah, I do. I like the concept. Her hair not being the same color works because it's. It's. She's mimicking Michelle.
B
Yeah.
C
I will say. And I love the dress. Love the dress. I think it looks great. I think she looks great. I. To me, this is. This is an entrance look. This is not a Runway look. Again, I'm a stickler for when you, like, when you're getting ready for the show, you should. Especially your third time going on the show. You. You need to wow us every single time. And this looks great. But I'm not, you know, I don't. I don't be like, oh, my God, wow. You know, And Benji is one of the most popular girls, so. Bitch. She's. She's out there working left and right. She's making the coin. She can invest in her wardrobe a little bit more.
B
Yeah.
C
Because this is. That. This is that pre stoned fabric.
B
It sure is.
C
That Somebody just cut that I could have whipped together in literally five minutes. And I think it looks good. But I. And. But I just. I want more. I want more.
B
Yeah, I agree. This is an entrance look. This is not a Runway look. And I'm trying to, like, bend my bed.
C
You would look incredible in this dress.
B
Oh, bitch. You think I'm joking? I'm literally going to send this to a designer. Godoy, if you're listening, I want this in the color. I don't know what color. Maybe blue, who knows? But I think this looks gorgeous. And I want some big old hair like that, too. Bitch. Ty has been getting me big hair recently, so.
C
Okay.
B
I'm back in my big hair era, so it's good. Let's go on to her recreation of Van Gogh starring night. How do you feel about this trend?
C
I actually really like this. I like the shape of it. I do wish it had some more white or some more aspects of the painting in there because it was so abstract.
B
Yeah.
C
But I really love the shape. I think she looks gorgeous. Her legs are gorgeous. The colors look good. I do, again, wish there was a little bit more nod to the painting, but overall, I really like this. I really, really like this first.
B
That was my critique, too. I wish it was more of the painting. Right. I'm not opposed to being abstract. I love that it's abstract, but I wish we had more of the painting in there, because if you did not tell me this was Van Gogh, Starry Night, I would have literally no idea. I would have no idea what this was. It had to have more of the painting, incorporate some of that brown in there and have some of the white and give us more of that. We needed more paints, more inspiration of the painting, so we, so it's just a full through line. But I love the fabric choice. I love this, like, nebulous of fabric she's in. But she still has a nice shape because she's giving us shoulder and legs. So she doesn't look like a big blob. Like, we know there's a sexy body under there, which I like. And the hair was really dope.
C
Yeah. The only thing I don't understand is why she has the one red earring. Cause there's not really much red in the painting.
B
No, because he, because didn't. Didn't Van Gogh chop his air. His air off? Jacob. Jacob. He did.
A
Yeah.
B
Yeah, yeah. He chopped his ear off. She was like, she was like, thing into Van Gogh.
C
Oh, okay. That's, that's smart if I, I mean, I didn't know that, but that's very smart.
B
Yeah. Yeah. And last but not least, her dress. She went there and it's, it's, it's, it's a, a, it's a nod to her Puerto Rican heritage in this dress. I actually thought that this dress came out well. I love the hand painting of the crown and this, like, I don't know if this black smudge under it. Obviously it's essential. It's there, but it almost gives like a, Just this moment here gives a little Basquiat y a little bit vibes. But I think this actually was really beautiful, and I think she looked really great.
C
I agree. I think the cut of everything, the, the flow of the dress, her hair, her makeup. I, I do think that the painting, to me, looks a little. Amateur. I mean, I guess all of these girls are kind of amateurs when it comes to painting, for the most part, I think. But I, I think that the garment itself is very well made. I, I, I, I like the twist. That seems to be a popular thing right now with, with gowns. The twisted strap.
B
Oh, is it work?
C
Yeah. Yeah. So I think, I think that's, it's really pretty.
B
Yeah. And Vancy has such a beautiful smile. She has such a pretty smile. I could really.
C
Her makeup transformation from her original season to now is astronomical.
B
Yes. And I think she looks, especially this episode, her makeup looks so beautiful. Let's go on. To last but not least, plastique.
C
The rest of these girls can go home. It's In End of story, honey. End of story.
B
This first look, incredible. This red is beautiful and a nod to her Vietnamese heritage by doing the red with the gold. And I think her makeup was stunning. She looks like. She looks like some. She looks like some being from a video game that I played before. Like, she looks really great. Her body looks incredible. This dress. The geometry of this dress is stunning. Her body in this dress looks good. She looks great.
C
She looks like a doll. Like a little doll. Like, it's just. It's. It's incredible. She looks incredible. And her. She's literally perfect. Her makeup is, like, airbrushed. She looks incredible. And whoever she got to style her, like, the nude in there really matches her. It looks great.
B
Yeah, it's, like, perfect.
C
Yeah. Very good.
B
Her second look that she was inspired by was by Kusama. I've seen this. I think she. I think there was, like, an exhibit in New York that maybe was that in New York. I went to it anyway. There's a bit of this somewhere. And I went to go, yeah, in New York. I went to go see some of this work. And I think plastic did a really good job of putting her spin on this. Like, having it being this spiral and this, like, tentacles that Kusama has done and having, like, it even in her hair and the glasses with the fucking eyelashes on it. I think plastique looks amazing.
C
Yeah. This is so unreal. It's so crazy. It's gorgeous. This is like a finale dress. And we're only on episode two, and it's the second look of three. I feel like this gives me, like, if they were to remake Mars attacks and the lady that does, like, her arms side to side, this would be the. The updated version.
B
Yes.
C
Because it just has, like, a cool pattern. It's kind of vintagey. It's over the top. It's drag. This is drag.
B
It really is. It really is. And her last look. What do you think about this girl?
C
Amazing. It's amazing. I think that the intentional ombre of the pink at the top with the painting of the.
B
The cherry blossom.
C
The cherry blossoms, the bodice painted onto the white dress. The white dress is pretty simple, but, like, the way that it snugs her so well. And the cape girl, it's just. It's incredible. It's.
A
It.
C
This was like. Like she won.
B
Girl.
C
Crown her now.
B
When she fucking came out in this, I audibly gasped. I was really taken aback by how simple yet stunning and fucking incredible this was. Like, I don't know how she made. How she created this, like, bleed of the black, this ombre of the black, and having, like, the titties and the pussy on it and, like, having this beautiful kid. This is like. Like, this is, like, something you. Honestly, I may be. I may be doing a lot, but I feel like it's something you could see at, like, the Met gala and, like, I don't know what the category is.
C
No, I agree. 100. 100%.
B
Honing, like, the detail of these sleeves on this duster and, like, how grand it was, how it trailed, and even how when she walked. Very, very trinity. The tuck. Like, she walked, and she walked around to showcase that motherfucking train. And then, like, it was just so. So effortless and beautiful and classic and stunning and sexy. I loved this. Love, love, love, love this.
C
Absolutely gorgeous.
B
She.
C
She won the night 100%, hands down. Everybody else can sit down. Yeah, for sure.
B
Yeah. It was incredible. Oh, sorry. I said last but not least. I meant now. I mean, last but not least, we have Jorgeous, Gorgeous Jorgeous doing her monochromatic look in kush green. Cause if there's one thing Jorgeous will do, she'll let us know that she loves weed, and she loves smoking weed. She will not let us forget it, and she is making us remember it in this look. This is cute.
C
It's fine. I think this is, like, a girl group outfit.
B
It's.
C
It's like a. I just. I don't know. I'm. I'm tired of seeing bodysuits that are so simple that they look like they're for a girl group, for a Runway. I'm. I want more for the Runway. I want more. We know you can give more. We've seen it before. And I think this is fine. I think she looks good. I just think this is more of a girl group or like, a dance challenge or like, a finale song look than it would be for a Runway.
B
Well, let me ask you. Do you think. Do you think that's because, like, draggers has gotten to this level now where we have to, like. We're constantly having to, like, up the ante or, like, was this always true for you?
C
Oh, no. It's definitely because the show has elevated and, girl, they got $75,000. No.
B
Is that how much they got?
C
I think they got. I got. I think they got a. I know that they got $75,000 just to participate on this season, but I. I know there was a big chunk that was paid for runways, the. The most that has ever been paid as a stipend. So my expectation is. Is bigger. Yeah, Is bigger because. Because. Because that's what. What people are delivering. And, you know, you've gotta. If you want to be on this show. Unfortunately, that's where we're at, where some of these girls have elevated so much that we. We are expected to. To live up to at least a certain caliber. And this looks great, but I want more. I. I. It exciting for me.
B
The reason why it qualifies for me as a good Runway look is because it's not just a bodysuit. Like, she has, like, the hair thing, and she, like, has these. The ganja, the leaves on her pussy, on her titties. Like, it was more intentional than just, like, a bodysuit. You know what I mean? For me?
C
Well, if I'm judging this based off of a Runway, I hate it.
B
Let's go next to her Picasso and inspired look. And I liked this. I. I think a lot of fun details here that I. That I really enjoy.
C
Yeah, I really like this. I thought this is fun. I like the structure and stiffness of the coat of the hat. It. It swallows her a little bit. So, like, you know, because she's a petite girl, so it makes it. The. The size of it makes it look even more interesting. I loved this. I loved the tights. I love the shoes. I loved it all. I thought it was great. I like the interpretation of the painting.
B
Yeah, I think so too. I think she did a really good job, and I think that. And I also realized I really like George's Runway walk. I think that she gives a really fun walk. It looks very strong. And when she walks, I forget that she's so tiny because it's such a strong walk. So I like. I think George did a good job in this and her fine look. I think this look would have been good if she would have not just left the bra. Like, I feel like if she would have, like, did something, like, even put that fucking stencil on the bra too, or something. I don't know. But just letting us know it was a bra, that's what she fucked up. Like, she really fucked up doing that.
C
Yeah. I agree with you. I thought the look was fine. I don't think it would have won a sewing challenge, but I think that the bra and the corset showing it just. It just left a lot to be desired. It also shows she only made, like, this bolero thing with, like, a skirt.
B
Yeah.
C
And. And so there was. There was left a lot to be desired for the middle section. And if she could have Sewn what she sewed. She could have made a little bit more or at least encrusted the bra or something, sweetie. Something, something. And. And I hate when you have on a bra and you. When the side angle comes, you can see right through it. I hate it.
B
Yeah. Like, even if she could have went, like, Gottmik promo look on her original season 13, I think, and made, like, I don't know, some heart shape or some. Some. Some pasties on her nips and stone those and put, I don't know, something to, like, that would make it feel a little more edgy. And, girl, to cover up the rest of that corset literally just made a belt, like. Like a waistband that was the same width of that and, like, hot glued onto the corset.
C
It with, like, a big bow on the side, like, long ribbons. That would have been fierce, girl.
B
That would have been cute.
C
There's so many things she could have done. It's cute. It needed more. For sure.
B
For sure.
C
Yeah.
B
Okay, Tren, who is your favorite look?
C
It was plastique, and it was the garment she made. Yeah, for sure.
B
It really was. I was so blown away. And did you see the fucking photo shoot she did for it? She's in this, like, garden with, like, pink sand. And apparently the people in Vietnam, like, hand dyed the sand to be pink for the shoot. I was like, plastique is out here pulling out all the stars. She is not playing for this all star shit.
C
Girl. The rest of us can go home. Like, everyone. Every single person, girl, she is dethroned. Violet. Violet. Everybody thinks of Violet when they think of, like, the fashion queen. Girl. Girl, Violet can sit the hell down, honey.
B
Fighting words, Trinity. Fighting words.
C
Well, she ain't that big. I could take her. Okay, I. I never claimed to be a fashion queen. I'm a costume fashion queen. But I think plastique is the new supreme bitch.
B
She is the new.
C
And when one rises, one dies, sweetie.
B
So.
C
Hello, Violet. Rest in peace.
B
It's so good. It's so good. And who's your least favorite? I'm gonna go with mine. Mine is Nina West. The look she created there, absolutely terrible.
C
I would say. I would say so that. I mean, both of her. Her. Her art drag to art look and the one she created were both terrible, but the one she created was not good.
B
Yeah, very bad. And with that, the winner of this. The winners of this week's challenge were Gottmik and Plastique Tiara. No surprise to anyone. And they lip sync to Harry Belafonte's. Shake, shake, shake, Sonara. Shake your booty line, Jake. Dank, dank, nada. What do you think of the lip sync?
C
I like the song for a lip sync. I do think it was very. Obviously, we knew out of the two, Plastica is a pretty girl, but she ain't going to know how to lip sync to something unusual. She's not going to get out of her comfort zone of beauty.
B
Beauty.
C
So obviously, Gottmik is. Is punk. So Gottmik's gonna do it. Punk. I loved when. When Gottmik walked past her and. And she's like. Like, we get it. Or whatever the lyrics were.
B
Line. Yeah, it was funny.
C
It was really funny.
B
Yeah.
C
So I. I liked it.
B
Okay, I believe you. That line.
C
Yeah. Okay, I believe you.
B
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that got me. Did a good job. And she won. And she blocks. She does the diplomatic thing. She does. She does the trinity of the tuck, and she. She blocks the person who had. Who already had a.
A
A.
B
A badge.
C
Well, that's smart, because Angeria is really good at many different things. And if it is a comedy challenge next week, Angeria is good at that.
B
Yeah.
C
So why would you not block Angeria?
B
Yeah, yeah.
C
You don't want her to get two stars, and then she's way ahead of the pack.
B
Giving the jinx Monsoon, girl.
C
Jinx monsoon. But.
B
And that's this week's episode. All right, y', all, we are gonna hop on over to Patreon to do a quick untuck. Again. There's not really much to talk about. Untucked. I don't even know what the fuck we're talking about, because these. I cannot do a season of these. Fucking everyone blowing each other fucking untucked. I need a little more regular episode. I love it. The untucked is too nice. I want season five. Roxy to enter the Untucked, please.
C
I don't think we're gonna see that.
B
All right.
C
But I guess we'll see. We'll see.
B
We'll see. Thank y' all for listening.
C
Yeah.
B
By.
Date: May 27, 2024
Hosts: Monét X Change & Trinity The Tuck (comedic duo, not actual siblings)
Episode Focus: Recap and kiki on RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 9, Episode 2: "The Paint Ball"
This week, Monét and Trinity bring their signature blend of sharp comedic commentary and drag expertise to a detailed review of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars S9E2, "The Paint Ball." The queens tackle a multi-category design challenge, serving monochromatic fashion, drag inspired by famous artworks, and painted couture created on the spot. The hosts dissect each moment with hilarious honesty, spotlighting both the triumphs and blunders of the episode’s standout looks.
Each queen’s trio of looks gets read and praised in turn, with witty, expert feedback:
A gleefully shady, knowledgeable, and deeply funny recap that fans of Drag Race and Sibling Rivalry will appreciate for its mix of technical critique, drag lore, and relentless clowning. If you want to know which looks slayed, who flopped, and why Plastique is “the new supreme,” this episode covers it all.