PHOTOGRAPHY BY HADAR

When we decided to feature Susan Sarandon in our third issue, we knew we had to do something special. After much editorial debate, we decided to ask a drag queen to paint her face. Dan Donigan (aka Milk) was our first choice, obvi. As you may know from RuPaul’s Drag Race, his style of makeup is always beautifully over the top. This queen is expensive, creative, anything but typical — just the way we like it.

We wanted him to go crazy on Susan’s face. No holding back — big eyes, big color, big hair, big and Milky! Susan was nervous. And rightly so — who the hell are we? And who the hell is this drag queen who wants to give her a glitter moustache? After a lot of back and forth, we settled on a look. In the end, it was exactly what we needed: sophisticated, smart, and a little subversive.

We asked Dan to write a few words about the transformation. If you want to read that then you should buy the issue (sorry for the tease) but we thought we’d share some of the images of Dan that we couldn’t fit in the magazine. Enjoy them below!

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