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Summary: Dress in drag by selecting a bright dress and wearing a brazier, pantyhose and elaborate makeup. Finish off a homemade drag costume by wearing a styled wig with this free video from a costume shop owner.
Angel Jones has been designing and costuming for shows and events for more than 20 years. Jones owns and operates Wenches and Warriors, a costume rental store. She is also a licensed...read more
"Drag Queen 101. Alright guys this is how to do it. Simple is the easiest way to become a girl well for a moment anyways. You are going to want to find yourself a dress or a female attire clothing of some sort that is going to be your attire for the evening. Cody has chosen a lovely pink, hot pink and black chiffon dress that is. You will find that simply enough by taking your waist measurement and that will give you a dress size, 32 inch waist boys, 12, 34, 14 and all such. So you can find yourself a dress at the mall or the thrift stores, in your wife's closet, wherever it is that you find your dress and make sure it fits appropriately so your chest, to take a chest measurement simply measure underneath your bust line that will give you the brazier size that you need. It will be somewhere in the range of a 36, 38 possibly 40, 42 depending on what kind of chest you are as a fellow. So what to put in the brazier, you have a few choices. They have lovely gel packs out there now that you can buy to insert it into the brazier or you could be as simple and easy as shoulder pads, that works as well. We also have a fun trick with pantyhose and rice. A pair of pantyhose cut off, fill it up with the rice, fold it over a few times leaving the knobby piece for your nipple piece and just insert that. Makes a great simple easy breast for your drag queen. Another quick note on great sexy legs for the drag queen is definitely do pantyhose. A good trick for you guys if you feel your legs aren't so up to par, double up on the pantyhose, two pantyhose. That will give you a nice slender look and also take away a lot of the hair underneath if you choose not to go with hair. Lots of guys like fish nets and that is a fine look to go with as well. Do put a nude pantyhose underneath it and then apply the fish net on top of it to give you a much cleaner smoother great looking drag leg. Shoes, keep in mind guys it is hard to find shoes in your size so this is the rule of thumb. If you are a size 9 you are going to be wearing a size 12 womens' shoe. Three size difference. So for you fellows out there with a size 12 and up foot it is going to be a little bit trickier for you to find shoes so make up. This is a very simple drag queen make up. You can get very crazy and elaborate if you want it all depends on where you want to go with it. Of course a clean shaven is more appropriate. Cody is going for more of a wild drag queen look here leaving his facial hair but he does have a nice set of blush, make sure you get those up on your cheeks. You want to definitely use some lipstick. A good trick is a lip liner with a lip stick over it so that way you boys can talk away or drink your drinks or do whatever it is with your mouth and not have to worry so much about your lipstick. You'll also want to do something fun with your eyes. Eyes are done both with light shadow on the lid and very much so underneath the eyebrow to help open and enhance the eyes and once again eyelashes go a long way leaving not a lot of work for eye liners which is a much easier thing for guys to do than eyelashes than the eyeliner. So some eye shadow up there, try to get some light shadow up underneath that eyebrow to help bring that out if you want to define the eyebrow some more you can bring it in with a eye pen and bring in that eyebrow even more but to finish off the drag queen you need some great hair so Cody has chosen to be a blond today. We've got a lovely Farrah Fawcett style wig to wear today you want to help pull that on to your forehead there. That is a great look of course, blonds have the most fun so going that way is always nice and a red head the next best in that. But of course any wig that you choose will certainly bring out what kind of drag queen you are that day so keeping that all in mind practicing your walking, nail polish is another fun accessory that you can add to it and of course bracelets, necklaces, all those fun accessories and a great little bag to go along with your ensemble are all good things to finish with a great drag queen."