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Ready to Purchase a Plan, Get 10% Off with the Offer Code ‘Ru’ RuPaul: This show was brought to you by Audible, Audible is the world’s leading provider of audio books with over 150,000 titles to choose from. Baby you better get on over there it’s great, you can get a free audio book and a 30 day trial just by going to AudiblePodcast.com/RuPaul. That’s right you get a free audiobook and a 30 day free trial at AudiblePodcast.com/RuPaul. Now please support them since they support us. Hello everyone it is What’s The Tee with Michelle Visage. Michelle Visage: Hi. RuPaul: We’ve got lots of stuff to talk about but I want to just talk about my trip to Vegas this week. Michelle Visage: And you went with Georgie. RuPaul: I went with Georgie and we went to see Olivia Newton-John at the Flamingo. Michelle Visage: I saw a picture of you with her which was presh. RuPaul: Did you just say presh? Michelle Visage: It was so presh. RuPaul: I love that, I’m going to steal that it’s so good. Well just the whole idea of shortening any word. Michelle Visage: Offish. RuPaul: Offish officially you know. That’s a whole other topic because I love the idea of having fun with words, my friend Tommy, his new catch all phrase for everything is “Well you can blame Obama for that.”. Michelle Visage: My mother in law actually blames Obama for everything. RuPaul: I got it wrong it’s “Well you can thank Obama for that.”. Michelle Visage: Same thing, more sarcasm. RuPaul: It’s just hilarious it’s fun, but we went to see Olivia on Friday night and they put us up at the Flamingo, I had never stayed at the Flamingo Bugsy Siegel hotel. Michelle Visage: Was everything pink? RuPaul: Pretty much. Michelle Visage: That makes me so happy. RuPaul: Instead of a red carpet they had a pink carpet, Olivia was fantastic. Michelle Visage: How was her voice has it held up? RuPaul: It has held up it’s even better, she’s one of those ones some of them like Cher and… Michelle Visage: Donna Summer. RuPaul: They all got better as time went on and Olivia is one of them. We went to see Elton John on Saturday night at Caesars. Michelle Visage: You had quite a weekend! RuPaul: We sure did and you know, I love Vegas and I hate Vegas at the same time, but we know how to do Vegas. Usually we will stay at The Mandarin Oriental, I know that’s probably not PC. Michelle Visage: I’ve never even heard of it. RuPaul: Well that’s what they call their hotel it’s called The Mandarin Oriental, it’s not kosher to say Oriental. Michelle Visage: No it’s not kosher to say oriental when you’re talking about anything other than food or a rug. You don’t call people oriental, you call people Asians. RuPaul: Well they are from the orient though. Michelle Visage: Correct but don’t even get me started on all that bullshankery. RuPaul: We stayed at The Mandarin Oriental because… Michelle Visage: I think they should drop the name and just call it Mandarin. RuPaul: Are you offended? Michelle Visage: Ooo Mandarin. RuPaul: Girl don’t get me in trouble up in here. So they put us up at the Flamingo because we were guests of Olivia and I got to meet Marie Osmond was there. Michelle Visage: Was she? RuPaul: She looked gorgeous. Michelle Visage: Were you able to recognize her? RuPaul: She looked gorgeous. Michelle Visage: Gorgeous – but not like Marie Osmond. RuPaul: No she looked like Marie Osmond, she looked like todays version of Marie Osmond, she looked fabulous. Michelle Visage: So she loosened up a little bit? RuPaul: You know you are gunning for trouble girl. Michelle Visage: I’m telling it like it is Ru. RuPaul: A lot of people think they’re telling it like it is. Michelle Visage: I have no problem with people getting faceless, but the last time I saw Marie I was literally and I've always thought she was drop dead gorgeous and I still do think she’s gorgeous, but when she first got her lift she did not look like herself. RuPaul: Is it a lift or is it just filler? Michelle Visage: I think it’s a lift. RuPaul: Well she’s got the hair coming out, I couldn’t see the sides. Michelle Visage: You can’t tell because she’s got so much gorgeous hair, mind you she still looks gorgeous but when I saw her I even posted it on the WIW Report, it didn’t even look like her. But you know sometimes they just need to loosen up and it’s like Raquel Welch, wow. RuPaul: Gorgeous. Michelle Visage: I wasn’t meaning to be shady. RuPaul: It’s not being shady we both love some classic surgery, I cannot wait to have my mug snatched. Michelle Visage: Are you going to? RuPaul: Yanked. Michelle Visage: I don’t think you will. RuPaul: Before we dive in to facelifts let’s take a moment to talk about Squarespace. Now they’re the all in one platform that makes it fast and easy to create your own professional website. I used Squarespace to build RuPaulPodcast.com and baby it took two hours to make it, and it looks better than if I had paid a web designer. That’s right, Squarespace makes it easy to cover all your needs and looks amazing. All of their plans even include free ecommerce, start with the free trial at Squarespace.com/RuPaul with no credit card required. When you’re ready to purchase a plan, get 10% off with the offer code ‘Ru’. Squarepsace.com offer code ‘Ru’. Now we’re going to talk about tapes but we’re going to talk about it in the next show though right? Michelle Visage: Yes or we can talk about it here. RuPaul: Well tapes is a temporary facelift and we can talk about that and some people already know, but I’m a big fan of tapes. If you’ve ever seen RuPaul’s Drag Race you’ll know that I’m a big fan of tapes. Michelle Visage: That’s right Ru doesn’t move her [5:57] RuPaul: Don’t say that don’t tell them that. Michelle Visage: Well here’s the thing, I’m still a fan of the Croydon facelift. RuPaul: The who? Michelle Visage: The Croydon facelift, it’s pulling your hair so tightly, I haven’t moved on to tapes but I feel like now is the time to start. RuPaul: What did you call that facelift? Michelle Visage: Croydon, I think it’s a place in England. RuPaul: Croydon? Michelle Visage: Croydon facelift that started the whole kind of trend, I think it was like a chav thing however they say it. That stands for council house and violent, it’s like our version of ghetto white trash. RuPaul: The projects. Michelle Visage: Yes but I think it’s really fabulous, the chav look everything is Burberry, pony tails and lip liner. It kind of is my look. RuPaul: I love that. Michelle Visage: Yes it’s everything that you would love. RuPaul: Well now okay because you know that Marlene Dietrich used to have a braid around her head, and then she would yank and she would tie string to that braid in her hair and yank everything back. Michelle Visage: You realize how much hair you’re losing every time you do that. RuPaul: Who cares? But you are tight, you are looking smooth and gorgeous. Michelle Visage: That’s the idea of the Croydon facelift, so that’s the step you do before you start moving on to tapes, and after tapes of course we’re talking surgery. But if I’m already doing the Croydon facelift, I want to move on to tapes but in order to do tapes you kind of have to hide it under your hair don’t you? RuPaul: Yes. Michelle Visage: Gaga is the queen of tapes. RuPaul: Sure listen, tapes have been around forever I think since Shakespeare and things of that nature. There’s nothing new under the sun kids. Michelle Visage: Croydon facelift sometimes known as council house facelift or in Northern Ireland a Millie facelift, is a particular hairstyle worn by woman where it’s pulled back and tied in a bun or ponytail really tightly, and the supposed result is that the skin of the forehead and face are pulled up and back giving the results of a facelift. Hence every look that I wear on RuPaul’s Drag Race. RuPaul: You know the thing about a man and a face lift, it’s difficult. Michelle Visage: Agreed that’s why I don’t believe you’ll ever do it. RuPaul: I will do it. Michelle Visage: I don’t think you will. RuPaul: I’m going to get my face yanked. Michelle Visage: I don’t think you will. RuPaul: The problem is for a man, you either have to be in drag all the time that’s why I always have a problem with when men who have a weave, that’s like some synthetic or have a wig on with no foundation or no false eyelashes. Because it doesn’t look complete, if you’re going to have fake hair in the day time darling.
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