Another episode of RuPaul’s Drag Race Down Under is here, it’s queer and we’re a little too used to it. In this episode, the dolls are doing the makeover challenge. Fans have been hating this season online, but this episode has some fun moments.
The shade continues to be thrown as Elektra Shock says to Kita Mean that she wants to send Scarlet Adams home. Last week Scarlet was called out on the runway and the Werk Room for having done blackface. Many fans are ready for Scarlet to pack her bags after discovering her racist behavior and this week she does land herself in the bottom two. The challenge is to makeover a group of very hot rugby-playing men. Broad shoulders and handsome chiseled faces are not the first things one thinks of when referencing drag queens, so this is certainly a tough task.
Maxi Shield pairs up the girls with their rugby player and generally plays fair. Everyone seems well-matched with their partner. As the dolls paint their daughter’s faces, the queens poke fun at Art Simone, who is seemingly neglecting her own daughter. Art is the only queen who puts her makeup on first and lets her daughter sit there waiting for her eyebrows to dry for what seems like hours. Art Simone was eliminated early in this competition and then brought back with no explanation, so the pressure is very much on for her.
On the runway, Kita Mean and her daughter look fantastic. They are campy, cohesive and they work well together. Kita Mean’s paint looked very clown-like on her daughter in the Werk Room, but as Kita says on the runway “I want the judges to see that drag is about having fun!” They look so great together and they definitely look like a family. Kita had an incredibly handsome man with such a strong jaw and totally transformed him into an unrecognizable drag queen.
Scarlet Adams is the only queen building an entire garment for her drag daughter. The trouble is that the outfit she builds is an extremely simple bodysuit. It looks very underwhelming on the runway. Elektra Shock and her daughter are serving Miss Fame entrance look space eleganza. It looks identical to Miss Fame’s look… except for the execution. Elektra’s makeup skills are rough around the edges and her styling is nowhere near at the level of Fame, but they look better than expected. Maxi Shield and her daughter look adorable, but Michelle Visage thought it was sloppy. The other judge Rhys Nicholson also said that the presentation was not the best.
Art Simone and her daughter look absolutely stunning but the judges read them for not having a family resemblance. Karen From Finance made a carbon copy of her daughter and added some very fun accessories, but the judges felt the extra props were distracting from the makeup transformation. In general this season has been a snooze on the runway with these very lackluster looks.
Kita Mean wins the challenge, which is very cute. Kita is the dark horse in this race and she may just beat these other queens to the finish line. Elektra Shock narrowly escapes lip-syncing for her life. The bottom two are Scarlet Adams and Maxi Shield. Maxi gives it her all, but the win goes to Scarlet. Maxi Shield sashays away.
