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6 Hilarious "RuPaul's Drag Race" Celeb Impressions
Can we get an amen up successful here? Because RuPaul's Drag Race alum Raven is dropping large vocation gems.
There's nary denying the resistance performer has learned from the champion successful the business, having worked with the legendary RuPaul for implicit a decade. In that time, she's competed successful respective Drag Race shows, won an Emmy successful 2020 for her constitution artistry skills, and is present heading into play 2 arsenic the big of her own show, Painted With Raven.
And passim those years of achievements, Raven (née David Petruschin) has remained committed to her guru's words of wisdom.
"'Do not work thing astir yourself online,'" Raven recalled the resistance legend telling her erstwhile they were filming season 1 of RuPaul's Drag U successful 2010. "It was successful the aboriginal stages of societal media and I saw thing that was written astir me. He could spot that it had wounded me."
And so, Raven shared successful her exclusive interrogation with E! News, "He pulled maine speech and told me, 'Don't work that stuff...As agelong as you're bully with you and the radical astir you, that's each that matters."
It's a mantra Raven has present passed down to amusement business newcomers.
"I did that with each of the contestants connected seasons 1 and two, and that's besides what I archer the contestants connected RuPaul's Drag Race," she said. "I've ever held onto that due to the fact that I don't deliberation I would've been capable to bash the things I've done had I been caught up successful what radical were saying astir me."
And arsenic overmuch arsenic she would emotion to absorption connected the affirmative messages sent her way, Raven knows it's unrealistic. That's wherefore she doesn't prosecute successful it astatine all. Instead, advising, "Go astir your business, beryllium successful, prehend each infinitesimal and bask what you're doing present due to the fact that it could beryllium gone tomorrow."
It's thing Raven not lone preaches but that she puts into practice. After all, she noted that Painted With Raven is more than conscionable a show for her.
"I emotion doing makeup, I emotion doing thing successful beforehand and down the camera," she said. "And to beryllium fixed a 2nd accidental astatine it is an adjacent bigger woody due to the fact that that means radical liked it the archetypal time."
And portion the world TV series is astir makeup, Raven emphasized that it's thing but superficial.
"It's 1 of those things that makes you consciousness a small spot amended astir yourself," she expressed, adding that constitution is transformative, "It helps you decorate yourself and springiness yourself to the satellite successful the mode that you privation them to spot you."
But Raven knows that putting her champion look guardant doesn't necessarily mean it's each astir the glam. While makeup serves arsenic a almighty tool, it's the interior quality that genuinely sets the foundation.
"You tin enactment connected each the constitution successful the world, stack arsenic galore lashes arsenic you want, overgarment a grin on, but you tin spot underneath each of that the mode idiosyncratic is truly feeling," Raven noted. "You person to beryllium close wrong ever oregon it's going to amusement connected the outside."
That's wherefore she stresses the value of having me-time, arsenic it gives her a accidental to recharge and rejuvenate.
"There are those times wherever you go, 'Let maine springiness myself conscionable a moment,'" she said. "I'm a workhorse, truthful erstwhile I get the accidental to bash each these things, I privation to bash them. But I've had to cheque myself."
As she enactment it, "You're allowed to bash that."
Season 2 of Painted with Raven premieres Nov. 17 connected Wow Presents Plus.
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