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Hello.

My name is Charity case.

I'm a London based creature creator.

And today I'm going to be turning into a fantastical, fabulous disco.

Fetch the disco fish is going to entail Blue Skins, Gary horrible bag eyes and lots and lots of sparkles.

So my first stage of preparation is going to be time back to this main and having a little shave charity case is a mythical being.

She's bubbly, she's fun.

And she's quite scary as well.

Sometimes sure, I've been doing drag for close to seven years now.

The first couple of years were more just experimenting with makeup and costume, lots of metal wear chains, bows, ribbons, ruffles and lots of crystals.

Yeah, so now I'm going to mix my foundation and my gorgeous palette.

I grew up in the Northwest in Lancashire, in a really tiny little village, and I was literally the only gay in the village for my whole childhood, which, with quite traumatizing in a lot of ways, it's a really closed minded, close knit community where people haven't seen much expression from people like me.

So I didn't fit in at all around there and I never let that stop me from expressing myself, and I always saw fashion and looks as a way of showing other people how I fell inside.

I knew that I didn't fit in anyway, so I wanted to not fit in even more and be absolutely fabulous.

Mhm.

I'm just adding a highlight tone with my white cream blood and sticks.

I was really into Tim Burton, all of the characters from James and the Giant Peach and Del Toro.

And I'm not really into anything that's based in reality because I like to escape from the world that we live in.

Like I love Tarantino Poison Ivy, She ra Black Widow you know, strong women who don't take no for an answer.

So I just finished doing all my highlighting in the middle of my face, and I'm using a darker blue or just, like go around the sides, give it some more definition and do a little bit of contouring.

So when I went to college, I studied full time art and design.

It was a really amazing experience for me.

I found that I was really into my textiles and my sewing.

I used the opportunity to try and learn as much as I possibly could about that.

But halfway through the year, I transferred colleges down to London.

Then I got kind of sucked up into the nightlife scene, and I dropped out of college and became a became a full time seen kid.

I guess for a while my college was like over an hour away on the train, and I had to be there, like a every morning or something for signing.

And obviously, when you've got to be there at eight in the morning, you don't want to be going out partying the night before.

And I did want to be out partying the night before, so my priorities weren't quite in order back then.

I was like hosting a few nights and stuff I would go out with, just like a jockstrap and some platform shoes and a choker like that was my my general.

Look back then and I would think I was doing like club kid couture, which I really wasn't at all.

It's just being a slut.

Nothing being a slots bad, of course.

So I'm gonna go with some more blue powder and just build up this this contour on the side of my face.

At this point, I was making a little bit of a name for myself on the nightlife scene here.

But one night on a night, our party, someone spiked me and took advantage of me, which was really hard.

Two to deal with and to accept as an 18 year old.

But that had been my experience a few months down the line.

I was very, very sick, and I ended up being diagnosed hatred, positive from this experience, which was really quite traumatizing and and hard to accept, and to understand, I felt like I didn't really know what HIV was.

At this point, I felt quite uneducated about it, and drag became my escape form.

It became my my therapy of sorts.

It was my my way of expressing myself without telling people how I felt in words.

If I felt woke up one morning and I felt really sad, I paint tears all over my face and I'd be a really sad little doll that day.

Or if I was feeling angry, I'd pay myself read and turned into a demon.

It was just a good way of me feeling and looking, how I felt without telling people that I felt really sad or really angry.

But it really did grow me as a person.

It it taught me a lot about myself, a lot about myself worth and a lot about HIV, and I don't think HIV has talked about.

You know, I feel like I can use my platform to educate others who feel how I felt six years ago when I got diagnosed.

I'm just adding more blue eye shadow under my eyes to deepen these socket.

So one of the first times I got into drag I dressed as a lizard creature and looking in the mirror and not recognizing myself, not seeing any single part of me that reflected Harry.

It's that freedom of no one knows who I am.

No one knows what's underneath here, and I first of all, I committed to doing a 100 days of drug challenge.

But I got picked up by a few different news outlets and magazines, and eventually it just seemed like it was a wasted opportunity to stop it 100 days.

So I continued on to doing 365 days which it was a big commitment, and that kind of exposed me to more of an online audience and open up my opportunities to the drug industry.

And it also helped me in speed like I used to take three or four hours to do a full body look.

But now I'm practiced and I'm fast.

So my next stage is to paint all of this section like a deep, well black charity Case really suited my character and me as a person because I'm not really into fast fashion.

I'm quite advocate for the opposite of that into reusing fashion and reworking old garments into new things, which is exactly what my shop does.

And so charity case seemed to fit quite well for me in that in that respect, after starting my 365 days, I started getting a few requests for shows and performances.

So it was a big deal for me getting on stage For the first time.

I was like a lumpy devil creature doing a striptease to Eartha Kitt.

I wanna be evil, and I threw a pie at someone in the audience.

Um, it was very chaotic and twisted since then, My performances have gone from like lip sinking, throwing pies at people to now making a potion as a witch out of toothpaste, beer, Cheetos and drinking it.

So my performances have taken more of an extreme, like freak show turn over the past couple of years, which I love being able to hold a room by doing something disgusting on stage.

I think that's really powerful.

My next step is to paint my teeth black so that they fit in with the illusion.

When I put my lips on later on.

And to do this, I'm gonna use this tooth pain.

Uh oh.

There we go.

Got dry out here, so I'm just putting in my contact lenses.

It's nice to be showing a different side to drag as well.

I feel like most of the drag queens around the world tend to show the generic side of beauty rather than this.

So this is just a head sock, which I've made.

It's kind of a nice way to just cover up my hat.

Next, I'm going to start adding some crystals to my face like fantasy magical dreamworld realism.

I think I've always dressed quite extreme, like even in casual day clothes.

Dressing up makes me feel good.

And I'm never gonna, like, stop doing that because it feels like an opportunity missed every day to be feeling myself and having a nice time and catch my reflection in the window and like, Oh, yes, like I don't want to go that feeling away And the experience itself is quite adrenaline fueled.

I know that there's probably going to be pointing and laughing.

I do tend to scare quite a lot of Children with my looks.

So I've now stood quite a lot of crystals on my head and my cheeks, and I'm quite happy with how it's going.

I've got some thins to stick on my ears.

So I think I'm gonna do that next.

Yeah, I'm going to add on my eyelashes next, just like really big, extreme, glamorous slashes.

So this is my mask, which I made this morning out of some foam and some pink tights, which I so tubes in and stuffed.

So I'm gonna hook it around my ears to finish off my fish fantasy.

The Scottish face complete time to get dressed and I'll be right back.

Yeah, welcome back.

I just put a little number on for the disco tonight we have my gorgeous sparkly fins with this stunningly Adar, my beautiful queen of the ocean crowd.

And, you know, just a little Parker to keep me warm on a nice evening.

Yeah, I think the limit is your imagination.

If you've got a good imagination and your creative, then you should be able to make anything like fantastical or mythical.

I found a way to live my life as a new character every single day.

I like to escape from the world that we live in by being a monster from another realm.

Mhm.

Yeah.

Mhm.

Uh huh.

No.