Drag Queens’ Favorite Makeup Products
Whether you’re a beginner at Drag Queen Makeup or you spend hours binge-watching every Drag Makeup tutorial on Youtube, this guide is for you. Why? Because we have also spent hours stalking our favorite queens from RuPaul’s Drag Race to find out what their favorite beauty products are!
The Drag Queen Makeup Guide features products that you can find at a pharmacy near you, but also some more specific, and luxurious beauty items. All of them you can find inside the makeup bag of at least one of those queens: Trixie Mattel, Katya Zamolodchikova, Bob The Drag Queen, Naomi Smalls, Monet XChange, Bianca Del Rio, Shea Couleé, Jinkx Monsoon, and RuPaul. (Click on her names to jump right to their products list! Or click here to jump to our special discount codes for MAC, Fenty Beauty, NYX, Sephora, and Ulta Beauty!)
As Nicki Minaj once said, first things first! Before we get into our Queens’ favorite makeup products, let’s go through the basics. We’re talking about glue sticks for setting your eyebrows, and invisible tape to help you lift the eyes. There’s no secret about these products - the classic glue sticks from Elmer’s and a Scotch transparent tape will do the job. But if you want something more specific, Sephora has its own face-lifting tape and NYX sells the powerful Brow Glue.
To complete your Drag Makeup Essentials Kit you’ll need a toner to keep your skin clean and healthy, foundations in different shades (RuPaul uses five shades of foundation), a great highlighter for contouring, at least one good eyeshadow palette, a blush, a strong eyeliner, and a magical setting powder.
The favorites of the favorites
As you will see in this post, there are four products that seem to be very popular among our fabulous drag queens! Kevyn Aucoin Skin Enhancer, KimChi Chic Beauty Concealer, MAC Studio Fix, and the Kryolan TV Paint Sticks Foundation were mentioned at least by more than one queen.
Kevyn Aucoin Skin Enhancer is a highly pigmented and waterproof concealer, full-coverage, with a complexion perfector that instantly covers and corrects your skin. KimChi Chic Beauty Concealer is perfect to enhance your looks by color correcting any blemishes, dark spots, and undereye circles. MAC Studio Fix collection is one of the most popular lines for professional makeup. And the Kryolan TV Paint Sticks Foundation is a cream make-up in stick form that has been around for years, being used for professional makeup artists on television.
What are Trixie Mattel's favorite makeup products?
Before becoming one of the richest drag queens in the world and launching her own makeup line, Trixie Mattel went to beauty school and worked at MAC for a while. On her Youtube Channel, she is always experimenting with new makeup brands and revealing her favorite products so it’s hard to choose one.
Trixie likes to moisturize her skin before applying makeup with two drops of CEO Glow Face Oil from Sunday Riley. For foundation, MAC Studio Fix Fluid is one of her favorites. Trixie has talked about how much she loves the Maybelline Instant Age Rewind Concealer a few times on her channel - she uses one in the cool ivory shade for highlighting and another in the mahogany shade for contouring. For the white areas in her makeup, Trixie likes to use the Colourpop White Concealer!
These are some other products that got good reviews from Trixie on her channel: the MAC Edge to Edge Lip Liner, the Urban Decay lipstick in Unicorn, the Anastasia Loose Setting Powder, and the Huda Smoky Obsessions Palette.
What are Katya's favorite makeup products?
To have the vibrant and sexy red lips of Katya Zamolodchikova, you’ll need the MAC Lipstick In Russian Red. It has a beautiful pigmentation, and the texture is very creamy. The drag queen also likes to prepare her face with Kevyn Aucoin Skin Enhancer, which is perfect for moisturizing and protecting skin while instantly concealing dark circles, discoloration, redness, and hyperpigmentation.
On her makeup tutorial with Trixie, Katya also revealed using KimChi Chic Beauty Concealer. And speaking of the duo, Katya and Trixie recently teamed up to release a new collaboration line, the Team Katya vs Team Trixie collection.
What are Bob The Drag Queen's favorite makeup products?
When you watch Bob The Drag Queen serving beauty on We’re Here, her makeup is usually done by Laila McQueen. However, some of Bob's favorite products include the Urban Decay All Nighter Setting Spray, the Ben Nye TK-7 makeup kit, which is their darkest makeup kit, and the MAC Blacktrack Pro Longwear Fluidline Eyeliner, and the Ben Nye Luxury Banana Powder.
To remove her makeup, Bob uses Ponds Moisture Clean Exfoliating Towelette, washes her face with Johnson & Johnson Baby Shampoo, and moisturizes her skin with Vaseline Intensive Care Cocoa Radiant Lotion.
What are Naomi Smalls' favorite makeup products?
We were once blessed by Vogue with Naomi Smalls’ Makeup Tutorial, so we know exactly what products are inside the Queen of Legs’ makeup bag. Naomi uses the Olehenriksen Truth Juice Daily Cleanser to clean the skin, followed by Glossier Solution to make her skin glow!
For her eyebrows, Naomi uses the Anastasia Beverly Hills Dipbrow Pomade. Now comes the list of concealers: MAC Studio Finish SPF 35 Concealer, MAC Full Coverage Foundation, KimChi Chic Beauty The Most Concealer, Kevyn Aucoin The Sensual Skin Enhancer and Make Up For Ever Ultra HD Invisible Cover Stick Foundation.
To set the paint, Naomi likes to use the MAC Studio Fix Pastels Powder, which reduces the appearance of pores and helps control oil, and MAC Studio Fix Powder Plus Foundation, which controls shine without causing acne.
Some other beauty products that Naomi Smalls likes are Anastasia Beverly Hills Powder Bronzer, Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Baking & Setting Powder, Nars Cosmetics Lipstick, and, of course, her collaboration palette with Kim Chi, the KimChi Chic Beauty x Naomi Smalls 2QI1D Palette.
What are Monet X Change's favorite makeup products?
Monet X Change used to go with Kryolan TV Paint Sticks Foundation, as many other girls do. Also, did you know that Monet has an exclusive Lip Gloss that was released in partnership with NYC’s Abracadabra?
Monét’s secret is in her skincare. She loves to get her skin ready with Belief cleanser, a few drops of Guidance To Glow serum, and the Guidance To Glow moisturizer.
What are Bianca Del Rio's favorite makeup products?
Bianca Del Rio is probably not the type of queen who enjoys doing Makeup Tutorials, as you can see in this very ironic video that she released years ago. However, we know about at least two products that she is a fan of.
The first one is the L'Oréal Paris Voluminous Original Mascara, which is actually very popular among celebrity makeup artists. The second is her own makeup remover, The Bianca Remover, which was one of Amazon's top-selling beauty products in 2018.
What are Shea Couleé's favorite makeup products?
Shea Couleé’s secret products are Anastasia Beverly Hills Foundation for her overall foundation, Smashbox Studio FX foundation for the area around her perimeter, all liquid-based makeup Juvia’s Place for medium highlight, Makeup Revolution for extreme highlight, and contour by Fenty Beauty.
The goddess queen cannot live without NYX Epic Point eyeliner, and she likes to use Laura Mercier’s translucent powder to set her makeup. Shea’s favorite eyeshadow palette? The BPerfect X The Vivienne Sceptre Palette!
For lips, Shea likes to use three different products: Patrick Starr's black eyeliner, Pat McGrath’s lip pencil, and the lipstick nude color "Goode" from the Christian Audette x Gigi Goode Collection.
What are Jinkx Monsoon's favorite makeup products?
We once again need to say "Thank you for your service, Trixie Mattel!"! Because it was on her channel that we learned a few things about Jinkx Monsoon's makeup routine. First lesson: she likes to use the Maybelline Dream Matte Mousse as a primer. Her favorite foundation is the Ben Nye Creme, and Jinkx likes to put a lot of Ben Nye Neutral Set Colorless Powder to set her makeup.
Two other products for Jinkx's eyes: the Extra Dimension Mascara, her favorite, and the Duo Brush-On Striplash Adhesive Dark Tone!
What are RuPaul's favorite makeup products?
It's no secret to anyone that Raven is the name behind RuPaul's makeup. To paint the face of Mama Ru, Raven uses Prep + Prime Fix+ Primer and Setting Spray by MAC to prepare the face. Then she goes with Kryolan TV Paint Stick and Kevyn Aucoin’s Sensual Skin Enhancer, which is full-coverage and waterproof. Stila’s Glitter & Glow is her favorite highlighter, as well as the Anastasia Beverly Hills Amrezy Highlighter powder.
To set RuPaul's makeup, Raven uses the Mally Beauty’s Face Defender, which reduces the appearance of fine lines, and pores. Plus, Coty Airspun Loose Face Powder, a translucent powder that minimizes fine lines.
Other products that Raven likes to use for RuPaul's makeup are the Ben Nye Fashion Rouge Palette for Blush, and the five-brush Morphe X Jacyln Hill Complexion Master Collection.
Bonus: Trinity The Tuck, Aquaria, Violet Chachki, and Gottmik.
Violet Chachki's favorite makeup product is the Dermacolor Concealer. Aquaria loves to wear Pat McGrath Labs Metalmorphosis In 005. Trinity The Tuck lives for MAC Pigment. And Gottmik's favorite black lipstick is from Hank & Henry's.
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