Han Meijuan is red, from Kuaishou to Douyin and even b station is the top traffic.
If you have two or three friends who are addicted to the Internet, "A hundred causes will have an effect, your retribution is me" may still ring in your ears for a few weeks.
A B station UP master who is very loved by friends evaluates Han Meijuan as:
It looks scary and magical
Whether it is the tone or makeup, this is probably the impression of most ordinary people on Han Meijuan. But if you understand the profession of "drag queen", you may have a different impression of Han Meijuan.
I'd rather call her a less mature comedy queen than a sensational clown. Costumed as an image that does not conform to the traditional gender impression for exaggerated comedy performances.
I wonder if you're curious about this definition? Or maybe we can take this opportunity to talk about cross-dressing culture.
I don't really want to change my gender, but I've been working in women's clothes for 30 years.
——LADY BUNNY
The most mechanical and broad explanation for drag comes from Wikipedia:
DRAG ：the wearing of clothing of the opposite sex （cross-dressing）
Many times in China, the drag queen is called a women's clothing bigwig, because the drag has the abbreviation of dress up as a girl, but in fact, for the drag queen, they may not really care what girls should wear.
Today's cross-dressing is more like a form of expression, expressing creativity by blurring gender boundaries
The rise of cross-dressing culture
There is a theory that drag originated from the BLACKFACE MINSTREL SHOW, a performance in which white men play blacks since the time of satirizing blacks and women at the time
BLACKFACE MINSTREL SHOW
This statement is not necessarily correct, but it is somewhat ironic, because cross-dressing can be said to be a counterattack of the marginalized people to the culture of social sovereignty.
In the 50s and 60s underground artists began some real drag, and by the 70s and 80s, the style of cross-dressing became distinct and some classic images appeared. Although Ren used to be an underground culture, the exaggerated and bold shapes of the drag began to attract the attention of the fashion circle during this period.
Pink Flamingo
For example, the founder of "interview" is a fashion person who is fascinated by cross-dressing culture. As a classic cross-dressing image, Divine not only appeared in john Waters movies, but also became the prototype of Ursula in Disney's Little Mermaid.
In 1979
At the Pyramid Bar in East Village there was a stage for cross-dressing.
The cross-dressing culture of the 90s began to take shape, and Rupual, as the queen of the time, was not only active in the night venue, but she also released singles, as a makeup spokesperson, although still controversial, but the drag queen of this period began to really appear in the media and lights.
In 1994
Rupual became the face of MAC VIVA GLAM
But cross-dressing culture has just begun to enter the public eye began to be suppressed by the government, the mayor of New York personally broke people's nightlife rights, but also suppressed many cross-dressing places, this period of cross-dressing queens are difficult to use as a profession to maintain life. Until the broadcast of the Rupaul Drag Queen Show, the trend of drag culture returned.
In 2009
The first season of RuPaul's Drag Race aired.
RuPaul's Drag Race can be said to be a landmark turning point for drag, which puts the cross-dressing culture on a larger platform and brings the underground culture of the drag culture into the public eye through the dissemination of the Internet.
In China, probably because East Asian cultures may be less receptive to cross-dressing, the topic of cross-dressing queens always seems to be out of the scene, VICE has previously had an episode of a documentary about Chinese drag queens - "Self-Made Queen", which tells the life of two Chinese drag queens in Beijing.
Photo/vice China
"She's a rich, rather gorgeous, occasionally sexy... I drank a lot of wine, so when you see her, you will always be a little dizzy."
This is Kris's description of krystal after his disguise
Drag queens often make a meticulous and complete persona for their cross-dressed image
Every day, we must position ourselves and strive to become our own consciousness.
——SASHA VELOUR
The impact of cross-dressing culture on the beauty industry
Is it familiar to break the stereotype of gender and change from head to toe into another person? Like the transformation challenge before TikTok, people seem to be satisfied with not only being a better version of themselves, they want a new version of themselves.
A photo of Kim Kardashian's once selfie contour has caused a stir on the Internet, and Kim has said that her contouring skills were learned from drag's makeup skills.
In the past, the appearances of drag queens were generally on the highly lit night stage, so high coverage and oil-controlled long-lasting base makeup, and strong highlight contour contrasts are essential for them.
Drag Queen Aquaria makes up for Jeffree Star
You can basically see kryolan's TV PAINT STICK appear in the makeup tutorial of every drag queen, the texture of this foundation is very thick, you can hardly see it in the daily makeup teaching.
The sheer coverage and the sheer oil-controlled makeup hold have made this product a cult cross-dresser for years. Although many professional makeup artists are emphasizing "revealing the real skin", like the drag queen, even if they ignore the thickness, they must pursue absolute concealment and are highly sought after in the beauty circle.
In addition, using a glue stick to cover eyebrows and orange lipstick or concealer to cover the traces of beard is a trick unique to cross-dressing.
左 Miss Fame/右 Miz Crackers
Now that queens have more job opportunities in the sun, magazine filming program recordings, and even close fan meetings, the makeup of queens is also being affected by the current beauty industry.
Some drag queens learn makeup techniques from beauty bloggers, while others become bloggers themselves.
Left Miss Fame / Right Kimchi
If you love all kinds of social networks, then you will find that in addition to the flawless skin of the base makeup, the rest of the people on the ins have also become more and more gorgeous, constantly adding more highlights and makeup to the face:
They want their eye makeup to look gorgeous, their lips to look full and juicy, and their highlights to shine absolutely.
In addition to the influence of makeup on social media, some makeup artists such as Peter Phillips and Pat Mcgrath also have many makeup inspired by DRAG.
The cross-dressing and beauty industry has always been in a process of mutual influence. In the past, the beauty industry always emphasized that people's makeup is as natural as possible, and it is best to highlight only one key point in makeup, while the makeup of the drag queen has always been all glam, and every part must be extremely gorgeous.
Less is more is not the credo of today's beauty industry.
Left Jeffree Star / Right Nikkie Tutorials
Whether it's Nikie or Jeffree Star, cross-dressing culture has appeared in the videos of various top beauty bloggers, and beauty may have become the fastest and easiest way for ordinary people to first get involved with cross-dressing.
But today, when the Internet is so developed, it's not difficult if you want to really understand the culture of disguise.
We ‘re all born naked and rest is drag.
—— RUPUAL
Learn about the way of cross-dressing culture
Movies are often one of the best ways to learn about a culture, and movies that mention cross-dressing culture can't escape Paris burning and Desert Demon.
Movie "Desert Demon"
"Paris is Burning" is a gorgeous nighttime fashion, while "Desert Witch" is more like a movie, a road movie full of fringe culture.
The drag queen Ban Lina and Mizzie reunited due to the death of a good friend, Mizzie was given the opportunity to perform in a city in central Australia to invite Ban Lina to go with her, accompanied by Felice to ask for a partner for the dream of the "Queen of the Desert", and borrowed a modified bus as a means of transportation, and the three of them embarked on the journey.
All the way to the brilliant song and dance until the cold society and stop, prejudice seems to never be eliminated, perhaps in the shooting, the director will not think that one day, the cross-dressing culture can really enter the public vision, the image of the cross-dress queen has become positive.
Rupaul's Drag Queens show won the Emmy Award for Best Reality Tv
Rupual is undoubtedly a queen who has a huge influence on cross-dressing culture, and the competition of The Queen of Ruppo's Drag Queen Show is like the Flyover Mix National Top Model Competition, and there will be some cross-talk performance links from time to time.
The stunning artistry is paired with the most eye-catching reality show, the Rupaul Drag Queen show is a great success, the guests invited every season are getting bigger and bigger, and the queens who appear are getting more and more attention. It also has a global presence that cannot be underestimated – in Thailand and the UK there are their own versions.
Even the great success of the cross-dress reality show only brings the cross-dressing culture into the public eye, not into the mainstream, cross-dressing will never become the mainstream, cross-dressing is the opposite of the mainstream, but the world is diverse, learn to identify with and respect any minority culture, the moon and the stars have their own power.