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ALEXIS STONE.

“I’m always expected to act as this PG Disney queen who opens my window singing to my adoring fans with them being the reason I wake every morning,” says Alexis Stone. “But the reality is, I’m not. I’m not that person and I’m never going to be that person.” If you’re a queer who has access to ze internet, then you’ve probably heard of Alexis. Over the past decade, the British performer has established herself as one of the most notorious and boundary-pushing artists in the industry thanks to her makeup skills, extraordinary illusions of celebrities and for popping the lid on society’s perceptions of beauty with her (unintentional) ’social experiments’. This year, she launched a makeup line with Revolution, becoming one of the first drag queens in HERstory to collaborate with a major makeup brand (without the assistance of RuPaul’s Drag Race). She’s a prime example of a modern drag queen who

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