


Obviously, I could have practiced on other people but I’d rather practiced on myself to understand the basics of a glam make-up. My tutor for beauty said we had to do make-up, and I knew nothing about it. Mills: I started playing around with make-up when I was 16 and was doing hair and beauty at college. Mills discusses their path from being bullied for being different at school and at drag shows to transforming their own autism into a powerful tool in entertaining the world via social media.īailey J. Ever since, videos of Bailey embodying a rich arsenal of colourful personas with questionable hairlines have spread across all social media as they have become the uncrowned queen of lockdown entertainment.įrom parodies of Nicki Minaj, Boris Johnson, and Scooby Doo’s Velma to a wide array of made-up characters like Cathy Lee, Susie, and Georgia (seriously, there are just too many to mention), Bailey dances, sings live, acts, and pulls some pretty legendary looks that defy the classic idea of drag promoted by Ru and his dolls. The inexplicably funny video that just feels so familiar to anyone who’s shared a taxi now counts over 1.5 million views. The catchphrase ‘Laura, I’m paying,’ has now been heard around the world. Bailey first got the mass attention back in October when they uploaded a video of them paying a taxi fare while dressed up for a night out, completed with a Louis Vuitton Speedy bag and a harsh brown bob. Hailing from Lincolnshire, the multi-talented performer is best known for their viral TikToks capturing the essence of bizarre British humour through the medium of drag and dressing up. What’s wrong with high-street drag? Why didn’t Ru yell at some of the other queens for being boring and unfunny? Was she angry at the effects the high street has on the environment? When did she become such a bitch? While they might not have the answers to these questions, Bailey J. When RuPaul yelled at Joe Black for wearing H&M on the main stage of Drag Race UK a few weeks ago, the LGBTQ+ community echoed in distress.
