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The MAC Skin Primer keeps my makeup nice and smooth during application and throughout the night. I can't be having no creases up in this mug!
Shangela /
Application
Makeup
Mug
Night
Smooth
Skin
Throughout
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I don't have any problem with drag being more mainstream... I enjoy the fact that we're moving toward a place where people are a lot more open.
Shangela /
Drag
Mainstream
People Where More
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For someone with darker hair in the beard area that likes to sometimes sprout during a 14-hour drag day, I must have a thick, yet smooth foundation.
Shangela /
Beard
Drag
Foundation
Likes
Smooth
Thick
Area
Darker
Sprout
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It was a privilege and an honor to work alongside Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. Working with people at the top of their game was like a master class.
Shangela /
Class
Gaga
Honor
Privilege
Work Game People
Alongside
Cooper
Master
Lady
Lady Gaga
Top
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We can't live in fear. There are going to be people who will disagree with us, but it's important for us to stand up and say what's right and what's wrong.
Shangela /
Disagree
Stand Up
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Life is about putting forth your best effort and showing up. When you show up to the gig fearlessly and put forth your best, who knows what could come of it?
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Best
Effort
Showing Up
Life Best Your
Life Your Effort
Come
Show
Could
Fearlessly
Forth
Gig
Put
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In life, you can't control what other people are going to do; you can't control how they're going to behave. All you can control is how you're going to react.
Shangela /
Behave
Life Control People
React
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Even last minute, you can find a great makeup artist at your local MAC store or department store makeup counter, and a lot of times they'll hook you up for free.
Shangela /
Department
Hook
Counter
Department Store
Mac
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It's a real honor and dream come true for me to be part of something as awesome as NBC's 'Community,' working with such comic legends as John Goodman and Chevy Chase.
Shangela /
Chevy
Goodman
Legends
Nbc
Chase
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She's quite the professional, but I think the true Gaga - the magic of Gaga - is she knows how to dive into any element and really just be comfortable in her own skin.
Shangela /
Gaga
Dive
Element
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I would love one day for us to all get in to drag together and all hang out. Wouldn't that be fun, me and Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga in drag skipping around the city?
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Drag
Gaga
Love Together Me
Cooper
Lady
Lady Gaga
Skipping
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People around the world get to get a sense of who you are through reality television. They are so engaged with you that if they love you, they will support you for life.
Shangela /
Engaged
Love You
Reality Television
Life Love Reality
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It's amazing how far that we've come and the strides we've made in the LGBTQIA community with regard to acceptance and equality and really honoring ourselves and who we are.
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Acceptance
Regard
Honoring
How Far
Strides
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A big thing in the LGBTQ community is finding family because some of us have loving families and some of us really don't, so we have to go out there and make our own families.
Shangela /
Big Thing
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One thing that Gaga taught me was less about makeup and more about how to be just natural through the makeup - really allow your talent to shine through, no matter what you're doing.
Shangela /
Gaga
Shine
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I've always wanted to continue work as an actor in Hollywood. So being in a film with Lady Gaga is something I'm trying to get my head around. It's a fabulous dream honey, don't wake me.
Shangela /
Fabulous
Gaga
Honey
Work Always Me
Lady
Lady Gaga
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I not only went back to the 'All Stars' gig for myself but also for my fans. I wanted them to see the story of even if you get knocked down, you get back up, you keep going and you can win.
Shangela /
Fans
Stars
Back Up
Gig
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For me specifically, after travelling around the world I noticed that performers who had web shows had huge international popularity and that segued into a lot of events reaching out to book them.
Shangela /
Performers
Reaching
World Me Who
Noticed
Specifically
Travelling
Web
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I would say my biggest piece of advice that I would offer LGBT business owners and people looking to segue their talent into a business would be to utilize all the resources that are available to you.
Shangela /
Business Owners
Owners
Utilize
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You have to know what you're worth and you have to stick with that because you're only going to hurt yourself in the end if you bring your price point way down, as well as impact others in the market.
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In The End
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A lot of times, in other films in the past, you see some drag roles that make you go, 'OK we're the punch line again.' You know, someone comes in and they're like, 'Oh is it a man?' that kind of thing.
Shangela /
Drag
Punch
Punch Line
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I'm track 3 with fabulous French dialogue on the 'Star Is Born' album. I'm track 3 'NASA' on Ariana Grande's album. From 'All Stars 3,' went to 'Drag Race' three times, never won. Three is my lucky number.
Shangela /
Dialogue
Drag
Fabulous
Nasa
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I have a lot of talent and sometimes, you know, when people see you're a drag queen they go, 'Oh, he's a drag queen. That's what he does.' But I'm always excited to... stretch the boundaries on how they see me.
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Boundaries
Drag
Always Me Talent
Stretch
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And I think I might be one of the first, if not the first, drag queens, in drag, to ever walk down the red carpet at the Oscars. And I hope that means something to somebody out there, because it means something to me.
Shangela /
Queens
Carpet
Drag
Oscars
Red
Red Carpet
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You know, when you start thinking about residencies in Las Vegas, you have J.Lo, Britney, Mariah, those types of stars. So to be performing next door or across the street from them, I'm just thrilled beyond my wildest dreams.
Shangela /
Las Vegas
Vegas
Wildest Dreams
Britney
Next Door
Thrilled
Types
Wildest
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When it comes to a lip sync, Kennedy Davenport is someone that, when I first turned 18, I was going to the clubs in Dallas, because I went to college there, seeing, and tipping, and would live. She's the dancing diva of Texas.
Shangela /
Clubs
College
Dallas
Seeing
Sync
Texas
Tipping
Diva
Lip
Turned
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I get a daily master class in Jenifer Lewis, and that's been so special to me. If I haven't prepared for something, she'll ball up the script and throw it at me. She'll say, 'You're not ready for this! Go downstairs and work on it.'
Shangela /
Class
Prepared
Ready
Special
Work Daily Me
Ball
Daily
Downstairs
Master
Lewis
Script
Throw
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Seeing RuPaul go out there and not only create music, but TV and film roles, and continue to go down so many creative avenues - that is inspirational. For a person of color like myself, I see RuPaul and I say, 'Oh, honey, I can do it too.'
Shangela /
Inspirational
Avenues
Honey
Tv And Film
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My grandmother will watch any episode of a show I'm on, but she watches her soap operas every day. When I was on 'The Bold and the Beautiful,' you would have thought I had won an Oscar. She told everybody at church that I was on her favorite soap.
Shangela /
Soap
Soap Operas
Watches
Bold
Episode
Operas
Oscar
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We're in the world right now where self-promotion is very accessible with the Internet and with YouTube and what I've learned is that you've got to utilize all those resources and the relationships that you have in order to make your business a success.
Shangela /
Youtube
Utilize
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I think that's what happens when drag starts to go mainstream: All of a sudden, you're watching 'The View' and there are three drag queens on there and it's not a joke. Yes, we're here, we're queer and you better deal with it. 'Cause we ain't going nowhere.
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Queens
Drag
Mainstream
Nowhere
Sudden
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Even though she may not be a physical presence, for me RuPaul is an aspirational presence. Ru is out there doing her job - being RuPaul. That takes a lot of time and a lot of commitment. Besides, I don't need RuPaul standing over my shoulder telling me 'Good Job.'
Shangela /
Good Job
Time Good Me
Besides
Presence
Shoulder
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I mean, who cannot name at least three of her songs that you've broken a sweat to in the club? She's also been such an ally and an advocate to the LGBTQ+ community for so many years when it wasn't popular, and for that reason alone I say hats off, or should I say wigs off, to Madonna!
Shangela /
Hats
Sweat
Wigs
Advocate
Ally
Madonna
So Many Years
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