When asked recently to describe her trademark style, the drag performance artist Bianca Del Rio called it “erotic clown.”

“Basically,” she said, “I want the most unnatural look possible.”

It was late on a Friday afternoon, and Ms. Del Rio, otherwise known as Roy Haylock, was sitting in a dressing room in the Gramercy Theater on East 23rd Street, tending to her makeup and doing her hair.

She wore a black zip-up hooded sweatshirt, a black Topman tank top and gray Zara sweatpants (“Plug those,” she said, “so they’ll send me some swag”). Underneath were four pairs of Capezio tights topped with nude-colored fishnet stockings.

“I have to hide my candy,” said Ms. Del Rio, 39, last May’s winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” as she put the final touches on the night’s outfit.