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Molly Roncalis an industry veteran.
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She absolutely is, though.
And yet, I worried that “industry veteran” would be misconstrued as a euphemism for “old.
“What if she takes offense?I worried.What if she gets mad at me?
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Clearly, I had never interviewed Mally Roncal before.
“Wait a minute, wait a minute how old?”
she replied with an adorable incredulity.
I tell her Ill be 43 in April.
“You look like a teenager,” says the 50-year-oldwho looks like a teenager.
“He was like, ‘You’re like a cup of coffee in the morning.
They need that lift, that push, that cheerleader.
You’re like a mom, yet you’re a drag queen.'”
Although Roncal isn’t literally a drag queen, she feels very much at home in drag queen spaces.
That humongous fan she whipped out?
She got it at DragCon.RuPaul is one of her best friends.
It wasnt just Roncal’s buoyant personality that put her on the makeup-artist map, of course.
You dont get to go along on superstar world tours and major editorial shoots just by being sweet.
And don’t even get Roncal started about those Evercolor Shadow Sticks.
(Full disclosure: I totally got her started.)
“I’m not saying, oh, you have to wear makeup every day.
It’s a choice.
It’s like choosing joy.
It’s like choosing fun.
I feel as comfortable in that skin as I do in a full beat.
But the idea is just being unapologetic about how you wanna live.”
I was always that makeup artist that was like, ‘Come on, let’s party.’
And I would do my client in front of everybody.
I was always that makeup artist that was like, ‘Come on, let’s party.’
And I would do my client in front of everybody.
I’ve always been that person.”
But Roncal is just as much a content observer as she is a content creator.
In the 17 years since Mally Beautys inception, she has watched social medias influence on beauty change dramatically.
“I feel like it’s our time.
“We’ve lived through the trends that are coming back.”
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