James Charles Quotes

When I do my makeup, it kind of helps me get into the character that I'm trying to portray.

I've had a lifelong love affair with makeup. When I was a little girl, I used to take my mother's makeup and paint all of my dolls' faces, and I even painted the dog's face!

I have the utmost admiration for makeup artists. It's truly magical what they can accomplish with their materials. The face and the body are really their canvas.

If you ask me, I think knowledge is power and and being able to do your own makeup, or someone else's makeup, is power in itself.

I'm certainly not inventing anything new with drag.

I thought doing drag in the beginning was fun: playing dress up.

Makeup and beauty is essentially art so I really can't say that I dislike any trend. I love seeing innovation and creativity. It feeds my soul!

Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Rihanna, all of these artists that we do love - you see so much of what we do, the personas, makeup, hair, fashion - like, all of is now incorporated in pop culture, and a lot of it has to do with drag, because we over-exaggerate everything, right? We take it out to the next level.

No matter what you're doing, whether it's a makeup tutorial or an interview or a lip sync, performance is the essence of drag. It is gender performance. Being able to produce a performance is what a superstar has to do.

I'm an artist who happens to be in drag. And I think that's why my drag is a little different.

If you give me an eyeliner, I can create 40 looks with that - whether it's liquid or pencil.

I consider myself an artist, but instead of paint or clay, my medium is drag. I put so much of myself into my drag from every detail of the costume, makeup and hair to my performance, the way I speak or even stand.

Makeup can help you capture a moment.

My favorite thing is just sitting in a makeup chair and letting makeup artists do their thing.

I love the creative outlet of designing, and I love make-up and products and feel like I find so many great products around the world that I want to recreate, so I want to do that or design.

To me, beauty and makeup and color is like the finishing touch on everything.

I didn't start wearing makeup until I was in art school, and many of the techniques I learned on canvas, I applied to makeup.

I always secretly loved the art of makeup as a child. I would come up with stories and characters and try on my mom's Maybelline eyeliner when she wasn't home. It was a very old-school pencil - you had to burn the tip to make it smudgy enough to use.

I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous.

Although I tend to favor a natural look, I also like to have fun with makeup.

I've always liked playing with makeup. It's fun. I love going places and getting dressed up.

Color is key to making your makeup pop and have your unique look stand out amongst the rest.

It's fun to channel a different mood and character through makeup.

I'm a drag queen who is thoughtful and serious about drag in addition to being funny, ambitious, and glamourous.

I put on a little bit more makeup when I perform.