00:00I'm Chicago's little supermodel.
00:02It's costuming, it's sewing, it's makeup, it's styling hair.
00:06She's large and in charge, but with a corset on.
00:08My friends know me as Famine the supermodel, but today I'm saying bye to the alter ego.
00:12So get ready everyone for Joey the supermodel and star.
00:20Hi, I'm Famine.
00:22I'm Dana, good to meet you.
00:24I'm guessing we're doing a makeover today?
00:25We are.
00:26Well, come on right in.
00:27Super excited, thank you.
00:29I'm Famine the supermodel, I'm a Chicago drag queen.
00:32Famine's look is very much like a fashion version of a showgirl with like a little princess twist.
00:37She is a confidence ball.
00:39Famine kind of does soak up a little bit of my femininity.
00:42When I'm not Famine, I'm Joey.
00:44I'm just like kind of like your run of the mill person.
00:47I identify as a trans woman, but I definitely don't think my style reflects that.
00:51It's very drowned out.
00:53Joey is very like, it's kind of like a hermit.
00:56Like I don't, I don't try that hard.
00:58I am way more confident in Famine attire.
01:02Famine gets to soak up all the femininity, but today Joey's gonna come out and shine and show the world that she can be a feminine star.
01:08Are you excited to get glam?
01:11I kind of am.
01:12I'm always nervous about other people doing my makeup, but I'm sure you'll make me look amazing.
01:17Now Joey has never dressed like this, but I feel like it's gonna be weird but liberating.
01:22Glam it out.
01:23Okay, Victoria's Secret.
01:24Yeah.
01:25The model vibes.
01:26Okay, we can do that.
01:27Are we ready to turn Famine into Joey?
01:30I am.
01:31I am.
01:32To remove your gorgeous drag makeup, we're gonna use Clinique to take the day off.
01:42I was raised Catholic to my two parents in Maine.
01:45And I feel like life was very black and white.
01:49I always knew I was different growing up.
01:51I didn't really like to play sports.
01:53I always wanted to play in my two sisters outfits.
01:56And I think I didn't get the chance to do that because my parents were very afraid of what that meant for their first born.
02:02I came out as trans in 2019 during COVID because I couldn't do Famine anymore.
02:08Like I couldn't perform.
02:09I couldn't really go out in drag.
02:12Like we were all locked away.
02:14And I finally told my parents, I was like, I just want to be a woman too outside of drag.
02:20My parents were a little scared.
02:22But now I feel like I am accepted by at least my family and my close friends circle.
02:27I'm gonna start with your eyes.
02:31I'm gonna use the Urban Decay Eye Primer.
02:33This is my tried and true.
02:35I've been using this for 15 years.
02:37Has never failed me.
02:39Ever.
02:40I used the original formula.
02:41It is amazing.
02:42Can you tell me a little bit about why you wanted to transform today?
02:47I really wanted to transform today mostly because I wanted to see if I could get a level of glam
02:54that I get from Famine is Joey.
02:57As a trans person, especially when it does drag,
03:00I feel like sometimes I put a lot more effort into like the drag part.
03:04And I feel like I need to like just look at myself in the mirror being like,
03:08wow, this is like, we have no show.
03:11We're just looking beautiful for ourselves.
03:14I feel like Joey sometimes gets mistaken as a man just by the naked eye.
03:18And I feel like it kind of does cut at me at some point.
03:22And it like kind of like rips away this femininity that I feel like Famine gets a lot.
03:27I use this palette on literally every single client.
03:29This is the Viseart Neutral Max.
03:31Mm-hmm.
03:32I love a neutral eye.
03:33Oh my gosh.
03:34The best.
03:35This is the Mario palette.
03:37It shimmers everything.
03:39Joey doesn't go out with makeup because I feel like sometimes I do such glamour makeup as Famine.
03:44I feel like when I don't do this and I try to be Joey, I feel incomplete.
03:50A lot of trans women face like the ideology of like if you're not fully transitioned,
03:56which could be medication, surgeries, head to toe outfit, makeup,
04:01like people are just going to treat you as a man no matter what.
04:04And it's definitely tough because I want to be identified as a woman in my day to day life as Joey and my job.
04:11But sometimes I can't.
04:13I think our biggest struggle is always to be seen.
04:16These are the Ardell 421s.
04:19Tried and true.
04:20I'm going to have you look down for me.
04:23I'm going to go in with the Charlotte Tilbury Foundation.
04:29Have you been judged in public and online because of your style?
04:34I get like the occasional person that's just trying to be like a homophobe or trying to test the limits of what they can say to like provoke me.
04:42I've had a couple of instances where like people have like scream like transgender slurs at me.
04:48I've had people come up behind me and like follow me as I walk to the gig if I'm in like full drag.
04:53And I feel like those experiences like they shake me.
04:56Highlight you with the best highlighter of all time.
04:59Sure.
05:04Today I'm going to be revealing myself to my two roommates and friends, Hex and Dale.
05:08They both know me as Famine.
05:10We all have done drag together for a while.
05:13And I think they're going to really either enjoy it or they're going to think I look stupid.
05:17I think we're ready.
05:27Are you ready?
05:28As much as I can be.
05:30Three, two, one.
05:33Okay.
05:34This is crazy.
05:35I never thought that I would look like Lana Del Rey.
05:39It's kind of giving Lana Del Rey.
05:40Yeah.
05:41With the brown and the white.
05:45I love it.
05:46I like, I mean the makeup is probably my favorite part of it.
05:50Just because like I have eyebrows now again and like it is subtle.
05:55This is probably like the least amount of makeup I've worn.
05:58Yeah.
05:59So I'm like, okay.
06:00The wig is wiggy.
06:01I think I look pretty.
06:02I think I look soft.
06:03Yeah.
06:04I think you did a really good job of bringing out my soft features.
06:07How do you think your friends are going to react?
06:08There's like two ways they can react right now.
06:10So either they're going to make fun of me or we're going to make this a productive moment
06:17and we're going to celebrate the fact that we tried something new.
06:20But I feel like it might be the first one.
06:22I definitely feel that there's a night and day difference between Joey and Salmon.
06:26That's two complete different people personality wise.
06:31And I'm excited to see more continuity between the two.
06:35Joey on like a day to day doesn't like dress up.
06:39I've never seen Joey up in like full lady geese.
06:44Like really trying to be passing.
06:46So it will be interesting to see like what that would look like for her today.
06:50Come on Deva.
06:56She's femme.
06:58Very beautiful.
06:59It's like a Monet.
07:01The more I look at it the better it's getting.
07:03The eye is soft.
07:04I like the soft eye.
07:05Who kind of teeth?
07:06Oh God.
07:07It's really great.
07:08You know Deva I'm always going to be honest with you.
07:11That's one of the pillars of our friendship.
07:13Got it.
07:14Got it.
07:15It's interesting.
07:16I've never seen you in this light before.
07:18I would say I like the eye.
07:20Okay.
07:21And we'll leave it at that.
07:22She definitely looks more like feminine.
07:24Sure Deva you did so good.
07:27We're proud of you.
07:29So what did you think of their reaction?
07:30They were a lot nicer than I thought they were going to be.
07:33They complimented some things in the makeup but I definitely I can see what they didn't like.
07:40What I've learned from this experience is I can tone it down.
07:43I don't need to wear so much makeup.
07:45And I can also like try softer versions of myself.
07:48But most importantly like I think I got a good experience of a search for femininity with Joey.
07:54And I feel like it wasn't just all feminine focused.
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