date: 21.7.2022. Thursday
time: 11:00 - 14.00
Bring a straw, you will eat lunch in drag, yes.
Before we meet for our drag up/drag down I would like to ask you to consider drag not as plain crossdressing or masking, but as a way of exaggerating and translating gender.
Drag is a visual medium. Drag is a practice in (unlearning) visual pleasure. Drag is an embodied practice.
I see the workshop as a blabbering crash course in make-up and dragging workflow: types of makeup, layering, covering your eyebrows, drawing new eyebrows, cutting the crease (of an eyelid), contour, lips, eyelashes, taping, wigs, padding, stockings etc.
Therefore this 3 preparatory hours before the score start will be in huge part concerned with makeup as finding your 'face' is a huge part of what drag is, however some people might not be keen on putting their life in danger with 5kg of full coverage makeup, I propose that if you find yourself in this group, see if you can imagine making your drag out of other materials - go wild or go mild. I also have a surprise solution, but I encourage you to find your own.
The makeup thing won't be a tutorial, you needn't follow it, I will just use it to talk about certain aspects of dragginging.
PLEASE CONSIDER BRINGING
whatever drag outfit -- however big or however humble,nylon stockings if extra are lying around and I'm sure they are.
if you have spare false eyelashes or false nails, combs,
whatever spare makeup you have,
hand or portable mirrors.
every item could make or break somebody's drag!