100 Years of Drag Makeup | Allure 

Choices

Am I the only one triggered when I see people do foundation and you can tell it doesn’t match their skin tone?

Did no one teach these makeup artists about blocking brows or how to put makeup over your facial hair??

While the sentiment is certainly appreciated, this is an embarrassment to the art of Drag. This video clearly shows there was either no budget, no real knowledge of Drag or just a way to capitalize on the popularity of drag. Next time hire drag queens to do something speaking on 100 Years of Drag Makeup. This $1.98 budget isn’t it. And that’s being generous on the budget.

On behalf of the drag community. This video is a major insult. I feel insulted.

Y’all couldn’t get a drag queen to do the makeup?

This is “Halloween” drag with really bad makeup and “party city’ wigs.

We’re not gonna mention ballroom culture in the 80’s and 90’s? No? Ok werk

Maybe get drag queens to do their own makeup bc most of these were horrific.

YOU CAN TELL THE GUY FOR 1940S WAS JUST SO EXCITED TO GET DONE UP AW

LOL THE RUPAUL ONE HAD ME ROLLING RuPaul looks like a goddess on the screen. Girlll I know everyone is *dragging* the makeup but, it was really just laughable.

As a drag queen I’m highly offended by this video. You should’ve had a drag queen makeup artist not someone that looked at drag pictures. Horrible application! Horrible execution! Bad video! needs to be redone and someone that knows their way around a mans face to feminize and apply should do it. So upsetting :(

Allure: Let's jump on the drag queen bandwagon. Someone go down to CVS and buy $20 worth of makeup and grab any dude who's there browsing.

Im sorry but for a drag content video these makeup artists are so bad at there job. Like please. Its about drag get some serious prof makeup artists. These makeups are unacceptablr

Very informative but the title doesn't make any justification to the make ups. They are all hideous! they should've gotten real drag queens to do their make ups! or maybe they should've guess drag queens instead. smh.

They need some better makeup artists

This has to be the worst video y’all have uploaded to date

the pic of rupaul at 4:47 I'm crying

Your makeup artists don't even know how to pick the foundations to fit the models' undertones...

looooool yall just gonna pretend like Raven's mug didnt get ripped off by every drag queen on the 2010s, trixies mug is also iconic, cause both queen's makeup has influenced the current state of drag culture

oh Drag makeup is the most fabulous of fabulous..... couldn't you have found a makeup artist who knew what they were doing????? The 1950 model slayed as she sat down...... what you did on her was underwhelming.... I call for a do over.

The makeup here was genuinely awful, I’m sorry but the makeup artists clearly had zero experience. That foundation almost killed me.

I’m sorry but this is so bad, the mug boot, the whole thing boot. The rupaul, lady bunny and Sasha velour MUG BOOT

Surely, during pride especially, this would have been a great time to put the focus on actual Drag artists and not a lackluster makeup team

I'm appauled. As a drag and makeup artist myself I'm insulted. This was horrific

Category is “100 years of first time in drag”

Please redo this with successful queens doing the makeup. Show the best the community has to offer, not just an attempt.

Trixie and Valentina should have been here too, let's be real the eyebrows of Valentina and Trixies makeup look and Ravens legendary MUG are iconic and shaped the future of drag for years to come

Imagine if they did Trixie Mattel

None of these looks were executed remotely well and they missed so many details in all the queen's faces. At least learn to block out brows and beards well.

All these looks and y’all couldn’t get their foundation matched to their skin tone? Okay James Charles.

These poor make-up people have no clue how to apply drag makeup...We love a droopy lash

Like Tatianna would say: CHOICES.

Sasha Velour would never step out of the house looking like that

y’all did the drag community dirty 😐 hire REAL drag queens next time, they’ll teach you a thing or 2 about drag

I’m loving the reference points and the education side, but those make up jobs are an insult to our craft. How hard would it have been to hire an actual drag queen to do the make ups? Very, very disappointing

Pretty easily some of the worst drag makeup I’ve ever seen.

This is highly embarrassing. You’ve just done a complete disservice to the art of drag. Drag is stylish, beautiful and deeply personal and must be treated with the utmost respect.

As a drag Performer and Makeup artist - this is very unprofessional. And i am not even blaming the MUAs here case just because you are a Makeupartist doesn't mean you can do drag makeup. I dont want to know how much time they had and how much you paid them. Also most of it is not historical correct. And drag kings exist too.

WOW the poor makeup and hair just got worse throughout. It's a bit disappointing to portray drag that way, an industry where performers take pride in creating the feminine illusion. All you did was paint them yellow and chuck some glitter and a wonky winged liner 🤣

Drag Culture IS historical 💄

U got makeup artist that can’t even cover the eyebrows

I see they chose project runway RuPaul as their reference

The only drag I'm seeing here is the thing commenters do in this video lol delete this

First of all, I KNOW y’all did NOT compare that slack job to the beauty that is Crystal LaBeija!

Allure: Gets drunk then looks at drag makeup!

Who recognised the Sasha Velour makeup right away? We STAN

Clearly these “artists” were too lazy to do any research. I don’t mind so much that the make-up and hair was unflattering and amateurish, but there was absolutely no sense of period.

The makeup artist had self admittedly “never done drag makeup” If you’re going to co opt a culture Allure, at least pay it proper homage by doing it right.

I'm soooooo pissed off, those hair and makeup (especially hair), look absolutely nothing like the photos you're showing. Literally everyone in the comments is telling you that you are doing it wrong

“She is bald and goes without a wig, making her dramatic makeup the focus of her look” did my dad write this

the fact that to wong fu thanks for everything julie newmar was not mentioned in this is criminal. Noxeema, Vida and Chi-Chi (though they may had been fictional drag queens) had little 6-7 year old me wanting to look like Noxeema and run around the house with feather boas and metalic lipstick.

OK I’m sorry but it looks like a five-year-old did their make up but also the last one is not what drag looks like today at all

It is painfully clear none of these men they dressed in drag saw what they looked like with the make up on until they walked off camera. Otherwise they wouldn't look so happy. Especially if they were actual drag queens.

For those who disliked because of the offense when using drag makeup wrong, thank you. For those who disliked because you hate drag and you're homophobic, get a life.

I feel like yall disrespected Sasha so hard... More like yall trolled drag

4:38 RuPaul sweetie I’m so sorry 😐

Thanks for that embarrassment to historical drag. Can I have those minutes back please?

Sasha is really the game changer! She does nobody does and elevates the Drag to another level!

well, even if the makeup technique is awful, I was expecting to see the 2020 decade. You cannot call a video "100 years of beauty" if you basically show just 90 years of beauty.

Lmfao they wrong for this 🤷🏽‍♀️😂🤘🏽🌈💯let’s do a redo Allure !!!

As someone who has been a drag queen for going on 5 years... Try again :( I was so excited when I saw the video title but so disappointed in the looks. The makeup application was horrendous. Truly.

Love the sentiment of the video but y’all really should’ve collabed with actual drag queens for this, just on principle, but also because the eyebrow blocking... horrendous. Redo!

You cannot do the ICONIC Raven’s make up for the 2010s? Clearly everyone’s having Raven’s makeup on or at least inspired by hers nowadays

Allure: saw a drag queen once, decided to make a video about drag make-up history.

yuh get in to it

I kinda like watching these “history of” videos. They’re all just so bad.. under researched and poorly executed

the divine one was literally insulting. y'all put about 10 minutes of effort into looks that could take up to hours to create and it SHOWS.

This is a really depressing representation of the artistry that is drag makeup. I don't know if they just don't give them any time? Or if it was just too out of their wheelhouse? Sad.

The best thing about this video was the poster for the queen documentary! Lmao

0:36 a man who got famous for looking like a woman releases his own beauty magazine and makeup line..... is jeffree star a reincarnation of him?

These foundation and brow cover jobs are like,criminal.

1:06 The way he walked in with such presence and confidence... You know that thats a drag queen. Flawless. Her too: 1:55 i love them so much😍 edit: omg her tooooo im obsessed 2:38

4:29 Milan as Rupaul as Dida Ritz Iconic

That makeup ain’t it sis. It’s like they put it on in five minutes while also having no idea what they’re doing. And are we just gonna ignore the wigs?

The reference picture for the 1940s has the best make-up in the entirety of this video. I'm a drag performer and watching this video is just embarrassing, and kind of offensive. I am gobsmacked at how poorly executed each look was. It genuinely looked like there was no care for quality and just wanted to seem on trend. If you truly want to do drag justice use drag performers with make-up artistry - that isn't hard to come by. It is clear as daylight that the make-up artists in this video are out of the depth here. Take a leaf out of Vanity Fairs book with their 100 Years of Drag. The models did a great job though.

5:47 handsome Squidward

3:50 I heard the pop

Thanks, Allure, I feel better about my drag now!

Yessss I love this series

I know Allure felt so good having all those POC on set. And I’m proud of you too, but for 100 years of drag - I probably would’ve hired professional drag queens 🤷🏾‍♀️ I’m no big time magazine exec, but oh God @ 3:39 🤦🏾‍♀️ It takes a lot to disrespect Divine yet you managed

Poor Sasha. It’s like Sasha and Charlie Hides had a kid💀

Am I the only one upset that the foundation doesnt match the rest of the body ?

I don’t hate this video but there are a lot of things that could’ve been done differently. Firstly, maybe have a drag queen to do the makeup? For me as a queen, I find that my face is more extravagant that “normal” beauty makeup. It’s as if beauty makeup is water colours and drag makeup is acrylic paint. You can use a paintbrush on them both but you require different skills to master them both. Second, this shows a very closed view of the drag community. Men dressing up as women or more traditionally feminine. Drag was hugely influenced by things such as the club kids movement, ballroom, rupaul, and the trans community. We have so many wonderful performers that do drag so I believe that it’s very one-sided to not mention those influences in a video titled “the history of drag”. Lastly this video reminds us that somewhere in the world, it is always 5’oclock

Definitely, this is exactly how American's next top Transgender model would be like. : )

waow they really used the same foundation to every person omg

I see where Jeffery Star got his look

Y’all really disrespected my culture like that... props for effort i guess

Is there no budget this time around?

1:56 had me crying😂😂😂

Where are the drag kings?

Can confirm that drag queens doing their makeup in 10 minutes looked 10 times better than these looks

YES SASHA VELOUR

The tidbits of drag history are so interesting and I am glad that you're using your platform to discuss them. However, I have to add my voice to the chorus to say this makeup application is TERRIBLE. Not a single brow blocked well, terrible foundation, visible facial hair, droopy lashes, YIKES! Such a disservice to this art form, particularly when a handful of these icons are still alive and well.

The makeup for this is rly bad 😔

Alternate title 6:24 of busted makeup.

6:08 min on drugs. Delete this pls.

Trixie should do a video about it! Daaaaamb that's BAAAAD bad

why are all of these looks so bad... wtf is this honestly

They should do 💯 years of eyebrows