How “Drag Race” Star Symone Created Her Greatest Appears on the Present — Interview

ALLURE: Oh my God, I adore it. It jogs my memory of while you’re a child and your mother places all of the Vaseline on you earlier than you go to high school — sufficient for the whole day. Now, I am questioning what are a few of the different merchandise you’re keen on to make use of while you’ve acquired a present.

SYMONE: For basis, I really use the Juvia’s Place basis as a result of I really like how full protection it’s. It is thick, nevertheless it spreads simply. I will mix it with the Nars Radiant Longwear Basis. The Juvia’s Place is drier, so I will combine the luminous with it to deliver the glow, if you’ll, again into my pores and skin. After which I really like a highlighter, darling. I like to be excessive lit. So, I exploit Anastasia’s Solar Dipped Glow Equipment to deliver all that shine out. Similar to I stated, I wish to radiate inside and outside. 

ALLURE: Who’re a few of the type icons that encourage you?

SYMONE: Rihanna is my lady. She’s my primary. 

ALLURE: Did not she slide into your DMs just lately?

SYMONE: She did. We have been really taking pictures [an Instagram Reel] for the beads look within the desert earlier than the solar was up. I am on Instagram within the automotive and proper earlier than we get out to go do our little hike to get there, she DMs me.

I stated, “Y’all, y’all, y’all. Rihanna simply slid into my DMs, y’all. This isn’t a joke. This isn’t a drill, okay?” After I first checked out it I believed, “@Badgalriri? Okay, no matter,” since you by no means know. Typically there’s one tough little further I on the finish or G within the title someplace. After which I noticed the checkmark and knew it was the actual deal. The message she sent me was very candy. You can not ask for extra from somebody that you simply look as much as and admire inside and outside.

What she’s executed together with her profession and what she’s executed in trend, make-up, and music is one thing you aspire to while you wish to be a mogul. Her type, it is easy, it is edgy, it makes you assume, it is fearless. It is the entire issues that I would like Symone to seem like. I additionally love Grace Jones. The androgyny, the fearlessness in her type. Lil’ Kim, too. I really like her sexiness, her unapologeticness… is {that a} phrase?

ALLURE: It’s right this moment. 

SYMONE: Put it in Webster’s! The entire fearlessness of all these girls, I put in my little field. After which once I wish to get actual glamorous, I will put Diana Ross in there. All of these individuals put collectively make up who Symone is.

ALLURE: And it is clear your drag.

SYMONE: You get it, which I really like as a result of that was the entire level. I wish to make clear all this magnificence and this grace as a result of it has been executed earlier than me, and plenty of a queen has paved the way in which for me to have this second. 

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