Aside from enamoring RuPaul with her humor and charm (including her impersonation of her friend Paris Hilton), her style was incredibly noteworthy, taking nostalgic high fashion trends and twisting them in a way that serves the contemporary eye-a boxy suit with crystal pinstripes and white ruffles around the silhouette a little black dress so little it only covers the groin. Gottmik proved to be a fashion queen from the get-go during her time on RuPaul’s Drag Race, where she not only became the first trans man contestant in the show’s history, but she competed so well that she made it to the finals. For him, the makeup becomes a way to protect himself as he discovers who Kade is, while Gottmik shines bright under the stage lights. “ paint my face white, it not only me a really gorgeous canvas to play with the makeup and the colors, just don’t see my old self in my face at all,” Gottlieb tells me over a Zoom call. Her lips are black and upturned in the corners-almost a nod to the impish playfulness of the person underneath the drag, Kade Gottlieb. The lines of her cut crease and eyebrows are both sharp and delicate. The focus, however, is on her eye makeup, which is oftentimes a grayscale of different shades of black. When applying her makeup, Gottmik uses her thick, white foundation as her base, then adds gray contouring that resembles a mime, Hellraiser’s Pinhead, and a little bit of the rock band KISS. Where and with what do you begin crafting your art? However, for RuPaul’s Drag Race season 13 finalist and makeup artist extraordinaire Gottmik-whose blank canvas is her face painted in white-it’s an exciting symbol of starting anew. For many artists, a blank canvas can often be intimidating.
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