and I'm shooting content for YouTube,

I like to be finished by 6:00 p.m.

That way I can go home and do some editing

and pat myself on the back for having done drag today.

Hi Vanity Fair, It's me Miss cracker.

And this is everything I do in a day.

[upbeat music]

I wake up and get out of bed

at seven-- at 10:00 a.m.

I use my phone to wake me up

and I put it on the most obnoxious setting

because anything soothing, I will ignore.

I only set one alarm because I am determined

and I will get up after the fourth snooze.

I check my phone, don't tell anyone,

before I even roll over.

The first thing I look at on my phone

is pictures of me.

It's to give myself confidence.

I'm drinking coffee all the time,

like as we're speaking.

I'm from Seattle, so the most important Part

of my diet is coffee.

I have my first cup of coffee

as soon as I can possibly get to a pot

we're talking about within an hour

of when I wake up no matter what,

no matter where I am in the world.

I take my coffee however it comes to me

if someone brings me a coffee

and they're like I hope it's the kind you like,

I'm like it's the kind I like the kind of coffee in it

I don't care, can be cold, can be hot,

could be ice, could have cream,

could be black, don't care.

I am a morning shower person

because I want to get my day started right away

and you can't do drugs.

Smelling like I smell in the morning basically.

[laughing]

My typical shower is 10 minutes.

You know why?

The environment, I use a hydrating soap

to moisten my skin and prepare it for shaving.

Sorry to break the illusion.

I use the cheapest shampoo I can possibly find

because that's the way I am

and I use a dove body soap to make sure

that my skin is smooth and supple,

soft and supple

[laughing].

I'm a religious toothbrusher.

So I use a old fashioned toothbrush

and I brush for three minutes that I carefully time

on my phone to the second, 15 seconds

for each surface of my teeth.

I'm really serious about this.

And every time the dentist gives me a compliment,

I'm like, yeah.

And I did it without an electric toothbrush.

I floss religiously, like one of those people

that gets a four foot long strand

and does like a whole, like I'm toweling off

between my legs like this much

[laughing].

Like this much floss.

My glam routine if I am a boy

for the day is putting on hands.

My glam routine if I'm becoming a woman involves taking

my shower, doing my morning rituals,

sitting down in front of a lighted mirror,

moisturizing and priming my skin,

going through an hour and a half of makeup,

putting on a huge wig that I made

and stepping out into the world.

The most important part of any glamor routine

is leaving the house

and I try to make sure

to do that every time I glam up.

Breakfast is as long as I can possibly delay it,

it's called dieting.

And then it's like all the carbs I could possibly find.

[laughing]

My favorite to go breakfast is eggs,

and sausage on a croissant.

And you can tear it up with nails on into smaller pieces.

And that's the most important part

because you can get it past your lipstick

without messing anything up.

By the time I'm having breakfast,

I'm usually dressed because if I like gave my to self time

to have breakfast,

I would lose steam and never get in makeup.

I would just spend the rest of the day matching.

I based my outfits on where I'm going

and what town I'm going to be in.

So if I know that the author of Frankenstein

was born in the town that I'm going to

or die in the town

that I'm going to I'm gonna dress like Frankenstein.

That's what the day calls for.

A day to evening look.

[laughing]

If I am going to be on stage,

I dress very differently than if I'm going

to be on camera,

if I wanna be on stage,

I know that I can paint bold,

and I can take risks and try new things

because it's going to be far away,

like blasted out by the stage light anyway.

But if I want to be on camera,

I do the face that I know is going to work

and that is not going to fail me.

And I spend that extra time making sure all my eyes

are crossed, and my T's are dotted.

I'd say that it's noon by the time I catch an Uber

to go to do some work.

For me work means wandering around whatever town

I'm in and meeting people that love drag

and taking photos in front of landmarks,

and the rest of the evening is of course hopefully a show

if I'm not lucky, but the real work for me

is in meeting people.

I don't take a lot of phone calls during the day

but I do take a lot of text messages

from people saying, is this ready yet?

Are you gonna have this submitted?

What time is it where you are?

And those are the things that take up the bulk

of my life and they have gotten me so addicted to my phone,

I should be ashamed, my old self that refused

to have anything but a sidekick

would be so ashamed of me right now.

I tried to stay off social media,

so I don't have the Twitter app or Instagram.

I spend all my time on safari,

looking at Twitter and Instagram.

[laughing]

Like To be honest,

I tried to keep myself out of social media,

but where there's a will there's a way

and I found my way back in.

By the time I have to do a show at the end of the day,

I have already fully been in drag.

[chuckles]

For like, five or six hours.

So all it takes for me is just putting

on some dancing heels and putting on a leotard

and saying okay, we have made our transition

from gay to evening.

Before I do a show, I always do like 30 minutes

of rehearsal to make sure I know my numbers.

But if I'm gonna put together a brand new show,

we're talking like a week of rehearsal time,

with two to three hours every day

where I'm working through everything I wanna say,

and making sure that my numbers are tight.

From then on, it's only

like little touch-ups every day just to say,

okay, what have we discovered?

And what can I do that's new?

Usually for me, a show starts at like 6:00 p.m

with a meet and greet.

And then I say hello to everyone

that I know and love, because I see a lot

of faces returning, and then I go

and I do a little Switcheroo with my outfit,

and the show itself starts at like eight o'clock.

To get ready for a show,

I always try to hype myself up.

So I put on my headphones and I listen to my tracks

and I breathe deeply,

and I'm just walking around like a monster

because the most important thing for

me to do is sort of embarrass myself

in front of the stage hands.

Because if I can do that,

then I can get in the mood for a show.

But if I stay shy

and little backstage,

that's how I'm gonna perform on stage two.

So I try to bring that stage five up

while I'm while I'm getting ready for the show.

Oh, I always have outfit changes during the show

because think kids expect production these days.

We're talking reveals, we're talking backstage switcheroos.

If I don't catch my nail on something,

and almost yank it off by the end of the show,

I know I'm not doing enough with my outfits.

On a typical work day where I'm not gonna do a show,

but instead shoot something for YouTube.

I come to my studio in the Bronx,

and it's this big open space that has everything

I love all of my fan art

and all of the clothes that I've worn over the years.

It takes about eight hours to shoot a 10 minute episode,

you have to prepare the outfit,

then you have two to three hours

of getting dressed that's four right there.

It takes an hour to shoot

the thing, takes an hour to take it down,

then it takes three hours

to get everything transferred and edited.

So yeah for those 10 minutes, you have a lot of work.

And if you have a really complicated show,

it can take like 20 hours,

I finished work at like 10 o'clock after a show is done.

Let me tell you about when I get out of drag

as soon as the curtains like, boom,

I'm like slam and we are out of drag.

[laughing]

Unless there is an opportunity to be seen one more time.

Like if I think that people might see me walking

from the gig to my home,

I will definitely stay in drag

because these heels were made for walking

and they deserve to be seen.

After I leave the studio,

after I leave the stage, the first thing I do

is feed myself because it's the biggest means

of self care and it's also the best way

to celebrate with people.

So whoever has been helping me all day long,

we're gonna sit down together

and break bread and enjoy that feeling

of having done something beautiful

for the world today hopefully.

And I always tell people if it is cheese on carbs

then it is a go, it can be lasagna.

It could be Fettuccine Alfredo, it can be pizza,

as long as is a cheese on carbs.

That's all I require, no matter what I'm doing,

it takes me like 10 minutes to get home.

Because if I'm at home in New York,

my studio is 10 minutes from my apartment

so it's like nothing.

And if I'm on the road, it is definitely 10 minutes

or less between the theater and the tour bus,

so that is a blessing.

As soon as I am out of my drag, I am into my PJs.

I have a lot of silly socks.

I have kangaroos in space

and two cans and grapefruit

and all that kind of stuff on my socks.

You know, when I'm in the socks

that the day is done,

I like to unwind with a nice binge-worthy show .

I tried to only watch a binge show

until I pass out.

And then no more because I don't want to wrap

my brain.

Once I get into bed-- I used to be blessed with insomnia.

Now, I feel like I do so much during the day.

[laughing]

That I just I'm unconscious pretty much