Have you had any big beauty disasters?
My eyebrows were bleached for a TV show I was on, so I was like, “that’s the character, that’s fine”. But then I thought I could make it work for myself and my real life. And there’s a few pictures from me with no brows, playing gigs and yeah, I look a bit peaky.
What’s your fragrance personality? So what smells do you like for different activities or emotions?
I’m a real smell pervert now. The most successful people I’ve met in my life have always smelled so good and so I started to care about perfume in a manifesting way, because I feel like if you smell good, then the money comes. So I’m really into perfume and I love an oudy, musky, leathery, all that. I love all that.
What’s your best clap back against current beauty standards?
I don’t think it’s a clap back, but I think I just will let myself get older and accept that. And it’s ridiculous still that women especially aren’t allowed to, even though it’s the most inevitable thing – it’s the only certain thing. From as soon as you’re born, that’s the only certain thing. So it’s a bit mad that we spend all our money and time and energy trying to not do the thing that’s definitely going to happen. So yeah, trying to stay on top of that, trying to stay realistic about getting older. It’s not exactly a clap back, it’s a very gentle, it’s a slow clap to my death.
What’s the best beauty hack you’ve ever learned and from who?
I didn’t really have [a lot of] eyebrow and then I started castor oiling and now I’ve got a lot of eyebrow. I love when something actually works and castor oiling your eyebrows really works.
What has beauty and makeup meant to you on your journey?
I don’t know – when I can be bothered, I enjoy it. If I can’t be bothered, I don’t do it. I still love going into a big shop and buying something I don’t need. But yeah I grew up in a very, “You can’t go to the shop without making sure your hair and makeup’s done.” And I gave that up a very long time ago. So in a way it’s now become just something fun and creative and something I like doing. Something I like talking to other people about. It’s not an essential.
What does pride mean to you?
Pride to me, it’s just about doing what I want unapologetically. I think there can be so many rules in queerness that is so the opposite of the point, I think. So, yeah. I’m prideful about doing whatever I want whenever I want to.