happy pride eve dallas!

from one diva to the city of divas, have a safe, fun, and uber-gay pride eve dallas!! 

miss lifewalk pageant video

look what just got delivered to me!!
so excited to watch it!! yes!

brandi amara skyy - miss lifewalk 2012 talent

so i know it's been a while BUT...

i'm uber-excited to share with you a fan made video of my cosmic love florence + the machine talent.

let me know what you think!!!!

pics coming soon!!

full drag pageant mode

hello kats and kittens! i have been obsessing about my package for this pageant, Miss LifeWalk, for the last couple of months and i'm finally at a place where i feel that it's going to be unbeatable. right now i'm still amidst all the sewing, stoning, and rehearsing for both gown and talent. while i don't want to post too much until after the pageant, i do want to show you what i've been up to. here are a few pieces and parts that make up my drag package. keep in mind the categories: presentation, gown, fundraising, and talent.

well, we all know what these are, but what could i possibly be using then for?!?!? 

there's a lot more where these came from!

i didn't make this but this may (or may not) be a hint to my talent!!! adore!

and lastly, here is a peek inside my drag factory. this is my sewing area in my drag room:

please forgive my partner's fingers-always the jokester!

i can't wait to post everything in detail!!! i still have a lot of work to do but it's coming along flawlessly!!



i'm entering another drag pageant!

yep, that's right!!! after taking last year off, i've decided that it's time to strap down my lace-front wig, throw on my fiercest costumes, and head back into the cut-throat world of drag pageants. this year i'm thinking about doing 2 . . .

i've also decided that it would be fun to document my pageant progress: from conception to creation to performance to crowning. make sure you keep coming back for more updates or never missed a rhinestoned step of my journey by following my blog and/ subscribing via email. this is going to be one crazy glittered ride!!

here are some pics from the first drag pageant i ever entered and the one (yes one, i was first runner-up) drag queen who beat me.

miss lifewalk 2010, brandi amara skyy, first runner-up

backstage painting my mug

my presentation gown made of pictures of those who have died/survived/working towards a cure for HIV/AIDS.

right before i went on stage.

my VERY unconventional gown. i wanted to do something different. the back of the ribbon was made out of tiny AIDS ribbons.

on stage for gown

talent!! i did a live version of lady gaga's paparazzi. the two dancers are my two best friends: jenna skyy and manny castro. you can kinda get the progression with these pics. i have a video, but need to figure out how to upload it :)

couldn't use fake blood so i had to create the illusion of it

crowing. i won: spirit of lifewalk, miss congeniality, overall talent winner (which i really wanted!!), and first runner-up.

2010 miss lifewalk

winner: anita nother

1st runner up: brandi amara skyy

2nd runner-up: bambi (can't remember her last name, but another faux queen as well)

drag-cap

whew! what an amazing, fun, intoxicating (tequila!),and very tiring weekend. the show, the costume, the performance was f l a w l e s s!! as promised here is a recap of the drag-(re)creation of m.i.a/madonna superbowl. enjoy!

i wanted to recreate the m.i.a headpiece with the feel of the black and gold costumes of the vogue dancers. so i made a make-shift fabric skirt, shoulder pads, and a face mask for the opening vogue dance number and then did a quick change into the m.i.a headdress and skirt.

for the shoulder pads i used fun foam for the base, hot glued my skirt fabric to cover, and hot glued a pair of $5 earrings and a $1.95 necklace.  

the face mask was something i decided to do last minute because i didn't want to do another head piece. this was my inspiration:

i used her mask for inspiration

i bought eight 99 cent mardi gras masks and hot glued them in a pattern that i liked. i added another string around the top part of the mask to keep it closer to my face.

cheap party city (yep, i'm a party city queen sometimes--ain't no shame in it) masks

here's the finished mask

immediately after the vogue dance break i rushed backstage to do a quick change. i took off the fabric skirt and the face mask and put on the skirt and the headdress.

the skirt was pieced together from fabric and trim bought at golden d'or (if you are ever in dallas this is a must-go-to for drag place!)

starting to come together

so i was originally going to use the headband (shown in pic) as the base of the headdress, but then i found this amazzzz-ing cesar-esque piece at a costume shop that i used instead. the fringe on the sides was made out of $1.50 earrings, the earrings that came with the necklaces i used for the shoulder pieced that i forged together, and $4.00 coin trim i bought at michaels. i bought a $7.00 necklace from a place called rainbow that served for the around-the-chin chain look.

i ended up ditching the headband, but kept all the other materials

here's the front of the finished headdress. i used one of the trim links from my skirt

side angle

ta-da!!   dragmation done! as a bonus, here are some behind the scene and onstage shots!

michael playing lmfao and me

mask, shoulder pads, and i used new and old necklaces to create the chain effect

during the show

the 3 queens: asia o'hara, jenna skyy, and me