RIDLEY XCX
on glamour
(Ridley) And it was like — I don’t know, I feel like one of the places I would like to improve is my looks and, um, polish, you know what I mean? Glamour.

(Ruby) I mean, I think you’re pretty good.
(Ridley) Really? Oh, you’re too kind, thank you. It’s honestly — it’s the clothes and the, um, hair sculpting. Like, I’d like to be able to do, you know, more than just, like, I get the wig out of the bag and I put it on.

(Ruby) Yeah.
(Ridley) Um, and I don’t know — that’s the other thing with drag king looks. Sometimes I feel it’s difficult to elevate it, and even with gender stuff too.

Um, I feel for folks who want to try out a feminine look, you’ve got, you know, nail polish, skirts, makeup — there’s a lot of things we associate with femininity.

(Ruby) Yeah.
(Ridley) But it’s hard for me to name something that’s like, “This is just masculine,” or “I associate it with just masculine,” because at this point, um, like, 50 years ago, if somebody was a woman wearing pants, it may have been, like, scandalous.

But now it’s kind of like, who cares?

Um, I lost my train of thought again. Oh, so just — I’d like to be able to either tailor my stuff or, I don’t know, sequin or something.

Because I want — I don’t know, I want to, like… So that’s why I do long nails for my drag king looks, just because I want — I want people to know I’m putting in the work.

I just — I’m like confused sometimes on if it’s a guy. I mean, you saw my look for, uh, the TikTok thing — it was like jeans and a freaking shirt.

(Ruby) That makeup was really great.
(Ridley) Thank you!

(Ruby) Like, in the pictures that I took of you, it was like your face was always ready because it was like just always — because you had done it, like…
(Ridley) Thank you.

And that was one of the few times I tried to just do more of, like, a natural, like, I don’t know, just contour-type look. Um, but the clothing is something I’d like to, like, this time next year, maybe get better at.