00:00I am the demonic drag clown of your dreams or possibly your nightmares.
00:05I've always been on the dark side.
00:07I was born a few days after Halloween so that may have something to do with it.
00:11If I could describe my look in a few words,
00:13it would be hellish, hot, and a little bit horrifying.
00:18I am transforming from demonic drag clown to smart, androgynous,
00:22and suited up to surprise my friends at the housewarming party.
00:25This is going to be absolutely wild.
00:28Oh my god!
00:30Um, what the f**k?
00:34Who are you and what have you done with Xavier Switchblades?
00:43Hey Xavier, I'm Merton.
00:44Hi Merton.
00:46Xavier, nice to meet you.
00:47Ready for your transformation?
00:48Ready as I'll ever be.
00:50Let's get started.
00:50My name is Xavier Switchblades and I am the demonic drag clown of your dreams
00:56or possibly your nightmares.
00:58I am a drag performer, performance artist,
01:02burlesque artist.
01:03I am a DJ.
01:04I also do some modeling.
01:06Key elements of my look.
01:08So red and black or like red, black, and white.
01:12My sort of color scheme.
01:13I'm like very, very like gothic, demonic, evil.
01:17Kind of eyeliner, fishnets, chains.
01:19Any kind of like vampire, like demonic sort of mythology.
01:23Everything you can imagine.
01:24It's inspired by drag, alternative like music and culture as a whole.
01:29So very punk, very gothic, very emo.
01:31I always say you can't spell a demon without emo.
01:36I do receive a bit of judgment for my demon clown look.
01:40I get, oh like you need Jesus.
01:43Like why do you look like that?
01:44I'll have people like, they'll like see me from the back and like see the long hair
01:49and they'll try to catcall me and I'll turn around and they'll see my face
01:53and they'll literally go like, like run off in terror.
01:56They say like, you know, God bless you.
01:58Like I hope Jesus comes to save you.
02:00I'm like, well, I hope the devil comes to save you.
02:01Thank you very much.
02:03Being a demon clown, it's, I know why people are staring at me
02:07and I can be proud of that, I guess.
02:09I am transforming from demonic drag clown to smart, androgynous, and suited up.
02:14Ready to surprise my friends at the housewarming party.
02:17This is going to be so wild.
02:18I can't wait.
02:19So we're going for something that's a little bit more androgynous.
02:23So we'll be pairing the look back quite a bit
02:25and chiselling up the cheekbones, strong brows.
02:28The main challenge that I'll face today is removing the clown white makeup.
02:32I think that's going to take a little while to take off.
02:36So how are you feeling?
02:37Are you feeling a bit nervous to, for the big reveal later?
02:41Um, I am a little bit nervous.
02:43I'm, I'm excited.
02:45Um, I feel like I'm like not going to recognise myself.
02:47I think it's going to be weird, but I like weird.
02:50So yeah, let's do it.
02:52I had kind of a shouldered childhood growing up.
02:54So when I was 18, I like graduated from high school,
02:57like moved out of my parents' house and like went out on my own.
03:00Kind of, yeah, gravitated towards like the dark and the alternative and the spooky.
03:05And coming to terms with my gender identity and like questioning that,
03:09like realising my queerness and like started transitioning and all of that.
03:12I've never really fit in.
03:13I like tried being a girl.
03:14That didn't work.
03:16Tried being a boy.
03:17You know, I was never particularly good at either of them.
03:19So I was like, I'm going to be something else entirely.
03:23So now I will be using the Hourglass concealer, but not to cover up.
03:30I'll be using this as a contour shade, just to contour the face.
03:37Now I'm just using the Charlotte Tilbury bronzer as an actual eyeshadow,
03:44just to warm up the eye area a little bit.
03:47So tell me why you want to do this transformation.
03:50I want to do this transformation just because,
03:53you know, my look is such like a big part of who I am and how I express myself.
03:58So we're going to map out the eyebrows now.
04:01I'm using a pencil.
04:02The brand's called Kevin Aucoin and the pencil colour is brunette.
04:07So who are you revealing the look to today?
04:10I'm revealing it to like a couple of my roommates and like a few of my close friends.
04:14So I've just moved into like a new place recently
04:16and we have like another new roommate here too.
04:19So having like a little bit of a housewarming party.
04:20Should be exciting.
04:21So how do you think they're going to react seeing you?
04:25This is your new look.
04:27They're probably going to scream.
04:32All right, well done. Are you ready to see yourself?
04:34Yeah, ready as I'll ever be. Let's go.
04:36Let's go.
04:38Xavier, are you ready for the big reveal?
04:40Yeah, I'm ready.
04:42How are you feeling?
04:43Oh, I'm really nervous now that it's like coming up and, you know, it's actually happening.
04:47Are you ready?
04:48Three, two, one.
04:54What? I have eyebrows.
04:56Excuse me.
04:58It's been so many years.
05:07I kind of feel like this is like the version of myself my parents like wanted me to turn out as.
05:13I really like it.
05:14This suit is amazing.
05:16I love how shiny it is.
05:18You look great.
05:18And like the blush and everything.
05:20I look alive.
05:21That's, that's so crazy.
05:23Do you think you're ready for your house party tonight to surprise everyone?
05:27I don't think any of my friends have ever really seen me like
05:29dress like this sort of conservative.
05:31I honestly have no idea what they're going to say,
05:34but the closer and closer we get to it, the more nervous I get.
05:43How do you feel about Xavier's demon clown style?
05:46I really love his like drag style of like the demon clown stuff.
05:50Like it's just the first time I ever saw him in a club, I was so just like
05:55that I need to be this person's friend.
05:57The entire time I've known him, he's always just been like this
06:00eyebrowless like, like weirdo.
06:07No, even in his day to day, it's like still like the clown makeup.
06:10Look, yeah, quite often, like come home from a night out and I'll be like,
06:13Oh, did you perform tonight?
06:15No, I just went to the shops.
06:16Yeah, it's charming. I love it.
06:24Who are you and what have you done with Xavier Switchblade?
06:34Where'd you find the eyebrows?
06:37When did I find the eyebrows? Who did I steal the eyebrows from?
06:40That is a crime we were reporting about on the news today.
06:46I'm giving news anchor, right?
06:50I mean, if the news looked like this, I would watch it.
06:52Wild.
06:52Oh my god.
06:54Giving a twirl, trying to spin in these heels.
06:57What do we think of the shoes, by the way?
07:00Wearing heels that are not platforms and trying not to fall over.
07:04And he's never been this glamorous, I will say.
07:07Definitely, I prefer his like demon clown aesthetic.
07:10It just matches his vibe a bit more.
07:12Thank you all so much.
07:15I love you all.
07:16This is the first time I'm hugging you without like
07:19stabbing you in the neck with my choker and getting eyeliner on everyone.
07:22Oh my god.
07:24What did you think of everyone's reactions?
07:26I really loved seeing everyone's reactions.
07:28That was, it was so funny.
07:29I definitely love like freaking people out and shocking people and surprising people.
07:33And my friends definitely did not disappoint.
07:36What do I think of my new look?
07:38I mean, it's definitely something different.
07:40I feel very different, very fabulous, very sparkly.
07:43Who knows?
07:43Maybe, maybe I'll be investing in a lot more shiny suits.
07:46What this experience has taught me is that my friends do like see me
07:51and love me for who I am, even when I kind of look different.
07:54It's really reassuring to know that people see the inside as well as the outside,
07:58even when the outside is especially crazy.
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