Like, I’m getting paid for this?"
Butdollsdon’t tend to have personalities.
Unless they’re haunted dolls, and those are borrowed personalities.
Serving Face.Slim Barrett headpiece, glove, and bra. To create a similar makeup look: Artliner Precision Felt-Tip Liquid Eyeliner in Noir, Blush Subtil in Aplum, L’Absolu Lacquer Gloss in Infra-Rose, and Le Lip Liner in Mauvelle by Lancôme.
She prefers feminine pronouns, but adopts aspects of the masculine and feminine as one might accessorize an outfit.
Her speech is an unending chain of hilarious observations, with regular intervals of tenderness inserted like rosary beads.
Her tone struts an exhilarating line between an exhausted supermodel and an ancient diner waitress in a jocular mood.
Gucci gown. Cornelia James gloves. Tiffany bracelet. Shihara ring.
(“Have a good day!”
I said at the end of a phone call.
“You too, sweet cheeks,” she croaked back.)
Fendi dress. Fendi sandals. Joanna Laura Constantine earrings. Sauer rings. To create a similar makeup look: Color Tattoo in Golden Girl and Chill Girl, Fit Me Blush in Rose, Unstoppable Eyeliner Pencil in Onyx, and Lifter Gloss in Brass by Maybelline New York.
If Gigi Goode was a doll, what kind of accessories might be included with purchase?
Goode grew up in Woodstock, Illinois, a city known foremost as the setting of Bill Murray’sGroundhog Day.
Then I got booked to perform."
“I went on a Tinder date with the manager of Micky’s West Hollywood.
“Someone saw me and then I ended up getting booked to perform.”
This is not to say that drag wasn’t already an age-old cultural phenomenon.
(Gender play has always been, if not invariably politically correct, wildly entertaining.)
But where will it go from here?
Joanna Laura Constantine earrings.
Goode is still figuring that out.
It’s not really a performance so much as a series of outfits.
Photographed by Dima Hohlov.
Fashion stylist, Justin Hamilton.
Hair: Ryo Narushima.
Makeup: Marie Bruce.
Set design: Jacki Castelli.
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