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I'm Chicago's little supermodel
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It's costuming, it's sewing, it's makeup, it's styling hair. She's large and in charge, but with a corset on
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My friends know me as Famine the supermodel, but today I'm saying bye to the alter ego
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so get ready everyone for Joey the supermodel and star. Hi! I'm Famine
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I'm Dana. Good to meet you. I'm guessing we're doing a makeover today? We are
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Well, come on right in. I'm super excited. Thank you. I'm famine the supermodel. I'm a Chicago drag queen. Famine's look is very much like a fashion version of a showgirl with like a little princess twist
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She is a confidence ball Famine kind of does soak up a little bit of my femininity when I'm not famine. I'm Joey
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I'm just like kind of like your run-of-the-mill person I identify as a trans woman, but I definitely don't think my style reflects that
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It's very drowned out. Joey is very like it's kind of like a hermit like I don't I don't try that hard
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I am way more confident in famine attire. Famine gets to soak up all the femininity
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but today, Joey's gonna come out and shine and show the world that she can be a feminine star
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Are you excited to get glam? I kind of am. I'm always nervous about other people doing my makeup
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but I'm sure you'll make me look amazing. Now Joey has never dressed like this
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but I feel like it's gonna be weird, but liberating. Glam it out
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Okay, Victoria's Secret. Yeah. Supermodel vibes. Okay, we can do that. Are we ready to turn famine into Joey
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I am. To remove your gorgeous drag makeup, we're gonna use Clinique to take the day off
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I was raised Catholic to my two parents in Maine, and I feel like life was very black and white
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I always knew I was different growing up. I didn't really like to play sports
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I always wanted to play in my two sisters outfits And I think I didn get the chance to do that because my parents were very afraid of what that meant for their first born I came out as trans in 2019 during COVID because I
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I couldn't do famine anymore like I couldn't perform I couldn't really go out and drag like
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we were all locked away and I finally told my parents I was like I I just want to be a woman
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too outside of drag. My parents were a little scared but now I feel like I am accepted by at
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my family and my close friend circle. I'm gonna start with your eyes. I'm gonna use the Urban Decay Eye Primer
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This is my tried and true. I've been using this for 15 years
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Has never failed me, ever. I used the original formula. It is amazing
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Can you tell me a little bit about why you wanted to transform today? I really wanted to transform today mostly because
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I wanted to see if I could get a level of glam that I get from Famine as Joey
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As a trans person, especially one that does drag, I feel like sometimes I put a lot more effort into the drag part
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And I feel like I need to just look at myself in the mirror being like
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wow, this is like, we have no show. We're just looking beautiful for ourselves
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I feel like Joey sometimes gets mistaken as a man just by the naked eye
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and I feel like it kinda does cut at me at some point
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and it kind of like rips away this femininity that I feel like famine gets a lot
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I use this palette on literally every single client. This is the Viseart Neutral Max
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Mm-hmm, I'd love a new try. Oh my gosh, the best. This is the Mario palette
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It shimmers everything. Joey doesn't go out with makeup because I feel like sometimes I do such glamour makeup
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as famine, I feel like when I don't do this and I try to be Joey, I feel incomplete
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A lot of trans women face the ideology of if you not fully transitioned which could be medication surgeries head to toe outfit makeup people are just gonna treat you as a man no matter what And it definitely
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tough because I want to be identified as a woman in my day-to-day life as Joey
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and my job but sometimes I can't. I think our biggest struggle is always to be seen
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These are the Ardell 421s, tried and true. I'm gonna have you look down for me
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I'm gonna go in with the Charlotte Tilbury Foundation. Have you been judged in public and online because of your style
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I get like the occasional person that's just trying to be like a homophobe or trying to
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test the limits of what they can say to like provoke me. I've had a couple of instances where like people have like screamed like transgender
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slurs at me. I've had people come up behind me and like follow me as I walk to the gig
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if I'm in like full drag. And I feel like those experiences, like, they shake me
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I'm just gonna highlight you with the best highlighter of all time. Sure
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Today I'm gonna be revealing myself to my two roommates and friends, Hex and Dale
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They both know me as Famine. We all have done drag together for a while
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And I think they're gonna really either enjoy it or they're gonna think I look stupid
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I think we're ready. Are you ready? As much as I can be
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3, 2, 1! Okay, this is crazy. I never thought that I would look like Lana Del Rey
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It's kind of giving Lana Del Rey. With the brown and the white
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I love it. I mean the makeup is probably my favorite part of it
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of it just because like I have eyebrows now again and like it is subtle This is probably like the least amount of makeup I worn so I like okay the wig is wigging I think I look pretty I think I look soft Yeah I think you did a really good job of bringing out my soft features
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How do you think your friends are gonna react? There's like two ways they can react right now
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So either they're gonna make fun of me, or we're gonna make this a productive moment
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and we're gonna celebrate the fact that we tried something new. But I feel like it might be the first one
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I definitely feel that there's a night and day difference between Joey and Salmon
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It's two complete different people personality-wise, and I'm excited to see more continuity between the two
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Joey on a day-to-day doesn't dress up. I've never seen Joey up in full Lady Geese
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like really trying to be passing, so it will be interesting to see
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what that would look like for her today. Come on, Diva! She's femme
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Very beautiful. It's like a Monet. The more I look at it, the better it's getting
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The eye is soft. I like the soft eye. I'm kind of pink. Oh my god
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It's pretty bright. She's very... You know, Dima, I'm always going to be honest with you
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That's one of the pillars of our friendship. Got it. It's interesting
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I've never seen you in this light before. I would say I like the eye. Okay
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And we'll leave it at that. She definitely looks more like feminine. Shorty, you did so good
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How did you? So what did you think of their reaction? They were a lot nicer than I thought they were going to be
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They complimented some things in the makeup, but I definitely, I can see what they didn't like
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What I've learned from this experience is I can tone it down. I don't need to wear so much makeup
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And I can also like try softer versions of myself. But most importantly, I think I got a good experience
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of a search for femininity with Joey. And I feel like it wasn't just all feminine focused
