Pretty fun!
Drag queen hosts makeup
class for local tweens at
BPL’s Ditmas Park branch
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BY COLIN MIXSON
This teacher was a real drag!
A professional drag queen
taught youngsters how to
channel their creativity
using cosmetics during a
makeup tutorial at Brooklyn
Public Library’s Ditmas Park
branch, where the lady of the
hour walked the kids through
a toned-down version of her
own fabulous routine.
“The difference between
drag and regular everyday
makeup is that drag is just
more,” said Jonathan Hamilt
, a leader of do-good group
Drag Queen Story Hour ,
which partners with the borough
library system to bring
queens to book lenders for
readings. “We remind everyone
that if you want to wear
this in real life, tone it down
a little bit.”
The new cosmetology
workshop, which debuted at
the Courtelyou Library on
Feb. 21, sprung from the book
lender’s ongoing partnership
with Hamilt’s group.
But unlike the readings
— which cater to 3- to 8-yearolds
— librarians geared the
makeup mixer to a middle-
and high-school-aged crowd,
inviting 12- to 18-year-olds to
watch New York City–based
queen Cholula Lemon demonstrate
how to apply such products
as eye shadow, mascara,
and fake eyelashes, according
to the organizer.
The new gender-bending
collaboration between the librarians
and the performers
introduces kids in a new age
group to the queens, allowing
the tweens to recognize
and embrace differences that
make their peers unique, according
to Hamilt.
“Our mission is to instill
tolerance, acceptance, and
love, and to promote gender
diversity,” he said. “We want
kids to know its okay to love
yourself for who you are, and
let everyone know it’s okay to
be different.”
GLAMAZONS: (Clockwise, from top) Marley Shea helped her twin sister, Maya, put on false eyelashes during the
tutorial. Shea showed off her makeup skills with drag queen Cholula Lemon, who led the Feb. 20 class at the
Courtelyou Library. Teen Kalha Norviloe gave herself a shiny, statement eye. Photos by Caroline Ourso