Practice make (almost) perfect.

We all have an image of ourself that we want to improve one way or another. May it be our weight, the shape of our nose, the wrinkle that is under our eye. We want to improve our self image to feel better about yourselves, so that in return there will be someone who finds you attractive to the image you want for yourself.

When entertaining I see myself wanting to improve my image. I am constantly obsessing over the way my make up looks. Not everything comes out the same way every time. And this may be me obsessing even more but when I was about 13 years old I very insecure, I wasn't cute. My top k nine teeth were being forced out by my adult k nine teeth. It was VERY unattractive. I didn't want to smile at all, and on top of that I noticed that my ears are not symmetrical.

My left ear is is smaller than the right, and the right one sits lower on my face. It also sits more forward on my face than the left. It isn't a HUGE deal because I can still hear when people talk. Which is the most important thing.

But when creating an image for myself and maintaining the same facial make up for drag, it always creates an issue, because the contouring on my face from my ears to the round of my cheek bone is never consistent or even.

I have a roommate who INSISTS that I help him become a drag queen. He wants to be one so bad and practices his make up when he has nothing better to do. He isn't doing this more than once every three weeks or so. But in the beginning when he was trying to develop a look.

He didn't necessarily look as beautiful as Erika Andrews. I don't look as beautiful as Erika Andrews. Because It takes years to develop yourself as an entertainer. I always tell Shawn that it takes a lot of practice to understand what to do with the make up you have in front of you. You can't buy a bunch of make up and automatically (for the first time) look like a real woman, or even pass as convincing. The first time I went out to a bar in drag. I wasn't even 21, I looked like a man with a wig and eye shadow on.

I still manage to do my best. But it's a self esteem issue that I have, a very shallow one that I am worried how good or bad my face looks. But I have to make sure that I look good. That I look like myself in drag and consistently deliver personality, entertaining stage presence, good hair, and flattering outfits.

One of the processes of drag is very expensive and it takes a lot of resources to make sure you are maintaining a good wardrobe. If you have the resources and knowledge it takes to produce an outfit yourself. You are going to save more money.

The alternative option is to pay someone else to make an outfit for you. If you get the best of the best it could cost you over $300 for one outfit. Or a gown, that could cost you over $10,000 if it's stoned with AB crystals, has expensive GOOD fabric.

Drag is not cheep, but you certainly can take steps to making it without spending an arm and a leg.