HOLLY HARKNESS
on love and hate
((Ruby) Um… What is the thing that you love most about drag and performing? And what’s the thing that you hate the most?
(Holly) Like, what I really, like, crush on? I hate covering my brows.

I think that shit is so gross. It’s so horrible.

(Ruby) How do you do it? What’s your process?
(Holly) I try… If you’ve noticed, I’ve been shaving more and more of my actual brows out. Because I get so pissed off and I don’t want to do it. 

(Ruby) You have really good eyebrows.
(Holly) I do, but you can’t cover them.

Yeah. And they’re, like… they’re, like, AMAB man eyebrows. So I have to… I’ve already shaved, like, some of them off. They used to be longer. Um… And I hate gluing down my brows. That’s the one thing I fucking hate.

(Ruby) Yeah.
(Holly) Um… What I love… I love… I love… I don’t know.

I don’t know. I like talking to people. I mostly like being at the place that I’m at. I like being ready and, like, doing the thing. And I think the transformation of it is really magical.

(Ruby) How long does it take you to get ready?
(Holly) I’m slow. I’m a good like two hours.

(Ruby) Really?
(Holly) Yeah. I don’t do a crazy nose contour anymore. I just do like regular darker nose contour.

Yeah, I’m trying. I’ve been getting really basic lately because I just… I like the do. I like making the mix and doing the performance more than throwing the makeup on.

I feel like you can really just throw anything — for me at least for my character.

I think she really just throws anything.

(Ruby) Yeah, yeah.
(Holly)  I can throw on a trash bag and then cinch my waist with duct tape.