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MH: Nah! *laughs* I usually do slutty crazy numbers where I can either do a strip tease on someone or do a slinky, terrifying blood-driven number and covering the look in blood or something. I try to use this to create a creature for you.ĬD: Because these looks you create are so big, do you ever find it difficult to create equally big numbers to pair up with the looks? I also have a natural resistance to things status quo or the norm but I know what is beautiful and I know what is crazy and I know what can inspire nightmares. MH: I’ll draw inspiration from everything and if i had a bazillion dollars, it would be even more than what it is but I think ingenuity and confining circumstances force you to really push it.

#Maddelynn hatter archive#

Its that notion that made me want to archive every look as much as possible.ĬD: Your looks are so distinct, and so larger than life, where do you find the inspirations for them in order to keep it fresh? There are so many brush strokes to complete and entire face you know? So in that respect, each one is unique unto itself. *laughs* As corny as that sounds but you never see the same look exactly twice. the combination of all art forms and I find that each look is kinda sorta like a snowflake in way. MH: All of it! The hair, the makeup, the dressing. MH: Almost completely! I learned about color theory and how light falls on the 3D surface from painting classes and drawing classes.ĬD: What ultimately got you started in drag? MH: School of Visual Arts here in New YorkĬD: How did that have an influence on you as a drag queen and a photographer? My photos were always more of a fun thing for me and while it still is, I’m finding it taking on more of a prominent place in my world.ĬD: Where did you go to college and what did you study? MH: When I got to move back to New York City, so about five years ago. I didn’t get into drag until I graduated from college.ĬD: When did you start to develop your photography into more than just capturing your makeup looks? MH: No, I was more of a guy liner kinda kid when I saw the show, you know, compacts from Hot Topic and nail polish and death metal.

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So good! But it would be many years before I started doing drag full on.ĬD: Did it influence the makeup you were doing at the time? “ A Woman’s Got The Power” was the number she did but then it had just come out and was like this massive club stomper. I was terrified of everyone there and the drag queen was incredible. MH: I was sixteen and got into the gay bar in downtown Springfield and saw a show for the first time. MH: I like pwetty colorz! I was like 12? 13? I was a little (Marilyn) Manson freak growing up, a total angsty art fag!ĬD: What was your first exposure to drag? CD: So that is why I can’t do eyeliner for crap! I never asked my mom how growing up! What started your interest in makeup?