Crystal Methyd Transforms Me Into Nikkie Methyd!

guys it's me Nikki and crystal hi how are you it's so good how are you I'm feeling phenomenal so we're filming on both our cameras but right here there's my laptop and this is how we communicate because this is my first ever virtual collab it's like we're in the same room but with a little bit more of a distance makeup teach class through it through the computer so so excited before we get started crystal method is a finalist on RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12 congratulation thank you second place so Krystal today is gonna get in drag but I have to become part of the method family so I want to become Niki method today and crystal is gonna walk me through the typical iconic method look yeah exactly we're ready we got our is there anything you would like to add ma'am nope let's do it baby all right let's do it I've been watching some of your tutorials and it's a way different 14 than what I do so what is your first step usually um normally I don't know what you've all done yet but I like to use a primer cuz not to prime is a crime but I've just got a NYX pore filler Oh fill me up yeah yeah I don't know I got a sample packed it was the first primer I ever tried and so I just it's only when I've ever used I'm gonna use some red to cover my beard area but you might have to do that but that's the only color correction I really do okay I'm just gonna do under eyes okay so crystal tell me how's her color correcting oh you're powdering already oh my god I'm sorry I'm speedy how long did you get to get ready on RuPaul on like many challenges it was usually like around 30 minutes tusually say how much time we offer many challenges and then for run wave is usually like an hour and a half for makeup and hair everything Oh to be like completely ready yeah uh-huh dressed padded Wow I don't know how it happened it kind of just you make it work you have to you have to be done okay perfect so let's do our full foundation over the full face yes I use like the mirror on pink steak love it I am using why yourself sexy how long do you usually take to get ready and drag if you have like no time restraints I mean if I have no time restraints I'll leave myself like two and a half hours yeah but that's just like I like to listen to music and maybe I'm not like rushing but I can do my face in like 40 minutes if I'm like you have to get somewhere what kind of music do you listen to you what you get ready oh when I get ready it's usually whatever song I'm performing because I'm like really bad at deciding what I'm gonna perform so it's like the first time I'm listening to it I mean I've been listening to chromatic a non-stop since that day my favorite song I love sign from above yes I I cried when I heard it one of my favorites are Alice uh-huh I love replay me2 tlove replay so much I love sour candy you know it's always so haunting about walking browse and having a big-ass forehead it looks even bigger thank God I'm not competing on drag race I would be disqualified for having absolutely no speed let's not talk about disqualified this season okay oh my gosh now let's go ahead and contour yes got it got it I've also been trying to let my hair grow normally I don't have sideburns so I'm just gonna go around it but this is kind of the shape I give myself mine is so light ha shape you were looking for we got that beige rainbow going on yeah Thank You Raven did you meet Raven on the show I did she um I mean she was there every day cuz she was she does rese maker right there was one day after the rusical she came back and she was like this was the best musical I've ever seen it was that was crazy I never do cream contouring I'm shocked I'm sorry tell me a little bit more about how you got into drag I really love doing things and my parents tell me not to do and so I was I just recently come out to my parents I was watching drag race season seven on TV and my mom saw it and she was like you know I kind of just like in that moment I was like I'm gonna do drag to spite my mom and I just started practicing in my room late at night I just locked the door and then I'd go on periscope do you remember that yes ah okay so just go on there and like dr. random people in drag uh-huh I love that from there it was like I kind of wanted to see what it was like to you know take it out to the club I went out for the first time for pride like in drag and I met gia Gunn laganja and raven and then i like built up the courage to ask to be able to perform he was a Wednesday night and there was like a hundred and twenty people all there for me and my whole number I was just collecting money cuz everyone was like so excited and I was like wow I'm so good at this what song did you perform to I did pray to God by hiam and it was like mixed in with like quotes from the god warrior oh hell yeah so then the second time I ever performed I was like well I'm gonna see just what it's like to not invite like I cuz I made a poster I did a photo shoot I like I always made sure and so the next time I went I performed and I made one dollar and I was like oh I guess I'm not that amazing so how did you get into makeup did you just start practicing on your own or I want to say some of the first tutorials I watched were yours it was just like a lot of just practice practice practice so now I'm gonna do my eyebrow highlight ding ding ding so I start like where my actual eyebrow kind of is cuz I want it to still have a little movement when I move my face if you think what I'm doing looks like [ __ ] you need to tell me ok no I love just if you're like girl you're giving me a little bit of apple pie then tell me I like to also like kind of set a base for my eye shadow with color – my go-to is like blue eyes red lip I've got a blue cream I can use this yeah and so this is kind of how I just like map out the shape of my eye I make kind of like a straight line kind of like this like that yeah okay I kind of go down my nose just a little bit and make that arch you go here and then um from like the outer corner of my eye I pull like a straight across just a little bit to give me where my wing is gonna go and then I I just connect it like this I got you yeah like that yeah oh by the way was this your first year auditioning for a drag race this was my second year auditioning for the show I think I I auditioned for season 11 good did you get along with the most of your season I was already really close with Widow I have that was a story about Widow it's so fun I was in LA for Ellen and then the night before going on the show me and Patrick Starr and his friends were like we need to go see we need to go to Mickey's I never like read up front like who's gonna perform I always want to like get surprised this gorgeous fierce chocolate lady stepped onstage and it was so incredible I looked at my manager Wes and we were like this is everything and so much more and what I always do at a drag Club is I have like $1 bills $5 do we have miles and yes a