I love Ru and I think that she is more that a "man in a dress." I think her version od Depeche Mode's "People Are People" is great. A song about equality and against violence against the human race, covered by a drag queen. Does anyone see the irony in that, or maybe it's just a coincedence.

i am gagging on "rupaul's drag race".
the kids are lovely!
both nina flowers and ongina are potential superstrs and the embattled rebecca glasscock is a true beauty and you lie if you deny!
shannel was a trip, and her absolute swimsuit walk was flawless and pretty, but i can't cosign on all the praise her makeup application has recieved.
i think she's talented, precise and skilled - but i also feel her style is misguided and "regional", as the children say nowadays...
shannel brags about her skills, but how about some class?
...it's all in the eyebrows.
someone else pointed out that shannel gives you kirstie alley *down* - and not in a good way.

shannel does the vegas showgirl thing and she does the vegas smoky eye.
chanel's classic vegas stripper brow is cruelly curved - self-consciously "aggressive" and ever-so-slightly placed too close together.
it's a sci-fi/fantasy "wicked disney queen" brow crossed with sheer, inadvertant reba mcintire/polly holliday cornpone…
shannel's brows are consciously intimidating, angrily drawn
and faintly, slightly "white trash"
(not to get "racial" or anything, let me stop right now…)

like previous contestant tammy brown, as well as holly woodlawn, rhoda, garbo, ross the boss, clara bow and the fabulous marisa berenson,
rupaul's eyebrows are always spaced wide-apart, open, light, ethereal - and more roundly *arced* than arched & angled.
rupaul's art deco, ross-related brow is organic, friendly and optimistic.
it represents rupaul's basic positivity as clearly as shannel's knitted, country & baroquely "evil" brow mirrors her own intrinsic negativity!

-it's as clear as the brows on those girls' faces…

as fit and poised as she is, shannel's sick, wrong, country stripper brow finally is a
deal-breaker for me, aesthetically speaking…
along with her dark, swooping, contrasting tammy fae baker lipliner -
- well she can kiss my grits!

nina flowers most consistently represents the standard set by rupaul himself.
she gives the face, the flair & the hilarity.
she brings back the human simpatico contagious joie de vivre that made rupaul herself so special when she first came out in atlanta in the 80s and added up to her 90s persona as a telegenic shaman for the "age of oprah".
nina flowers even has the righteous, sampled catchphrase: "Work, Loca!"

however!
in my own opinion,
only the paint-challenged, tentative rebecca has the POTENTIAL to equal or even come close to the LEGENDARY BEAUTY STANDARD set by rupaul himself in '93 as Supermodel of the World.

I bow to your sheer genius on your brow commentary alone,and you are right on target about each of these girls. Werk Princess!

Princess, I encourage you to lend your brilliant, maxi-finite critiques to the
RuPaul's Drag Race discussion in the Tea Room.

I love this show - such a perfect vehicle for RuPaul and frankly am surprised this wasn't dreamed up/launched years ago. I mean, America's Next Top Model has been on the air for 13 seasons already.

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and frankly am surprised this wasn't dreamed up/launched years ago.

I thought the same thing Lex, what took so long for this to hit?

It should have been on 20 years ago.