Growing up in rural Southern California, ELLE.com's resident makeup guru Kurtis Dam-Mikkelsen, who you might remember as Miss Fame on season seven of RuPaul's Drag Race, studied the bombshell beauty looks of Linda Evangelista, Christy Turlington, and Naomi Campbell as a form of escape. "I was obsessed with these powerful women," he says. In 2011, he moved to New York City to pursue his own modeling dreams and become a makeup artist, but it wasn't long before Miss Fame made her on-stage debut. That performance, at a charity drag competition at The Ritz, "was forgettable, to me at least," he says, "but it was a jump start to my direction as Fame." And that direction landed Miss Fame on stage with Miley Cyrus at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards for one of the most memorable finale acts of all time.

Here, Dam-Mikkelsen—whose step-by-step beauty tutorials have racked up over 6 million views on YouTube—recreates classic silver screen faces, such as Elvira Hancock, Michelle Pfeiffer's ice-cold Scarface disco queen, Gwyneth Paltrow's chain-smoking #sadgirl in The Royal Tenenbaums, and more.

Makeup by: Kurtis Dam-Mikkelsen. Hair by: Ursula Stephen.