03x11 - RuPaul's Hair Extravaganza

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- Previously on

RuPaul's Drag Race...

You'll need to perform in

a ladyboy music festival

we're calling RuPaul-a-Palooza.

- I think she's gonna rely on

what she's been relying on

this whole time:

being a loudmouth.

[out of tune] ♪ Ooh ♪

♪ All of the glamour ♪

♪ And all of the fame ♪

- Can I get a halleloo?

- ♪ Now that the time has ♪

♪ Come ♪

- ♪ Waited what seemed like ♪

♪ Forever ♪

- ♪ Mama please don't look ♪

♪ Back ♪

- God save the queen.

Raja.

You are the winner

of this challenge.

- f*ck Yes.

- Ladies.

I've made my decision.

Shangela.

Shante, you stay.

Carmen Carrera.

Sashay away.

And tonight...

I'm gonna give you an

opportunity to really wig out.

- [cursing in Spanish]

- Wigs fly.

And a tangled twist.

[hissing like a cat]

With extra special guest judges

Fantasia Barrino,

and Wayne Brady.

[cheers and applause]

The winner of RuPaul's

Drag Race will receive

a lifetime supply of

Kryolan professional makeup,

headline Logo's Drag Race tour,

featuring cocktails perfected

by Absolut,

and a cash prize of $75,000.

And may the best woman win.

- ♪ RuPaul's Drag Race ♪

♪ Start your engines ♪

♪ RuPaul's Drag Race ♪

♪ May the best woman win ♪

♪ RuPaul's Drag Race ♪

♪ Start your engines ♪

♪ RuPaul's Drag Race ♪

♪ May the best woman win ♪

[car tires squealing]

- Good morning.

- We're back again.

- Top five, b*tches.

- Oh, she wrote notes

for everyone.

- Says, "Raja, I love you."

Oh, my girl.

- Bye, Heather.

- I'm gonna miss her.

- In the workroom this morning

there's a huge, huge, void...

that used to be taken up

by Carmen's giant ass.

So I guess Raja, it's up to you.

You're the bitch now.

I appoint you.

- Gladly.

You know what, I've been so nice

this whole time.

And I'm not holding back

anymore.

If I win something

and I deserve it,

why not show it off

a little bit?

So I won.

- Watch out, darling.

Anything could happen.

One day you're in,

and the next day you're out.

- Suck it, b*tches,

suck it, b*tches.

I win, I win.

- I really don't give a f*ck

about raja.

He just want to become a model,

but he's old,

and he looks like a man.

Shangela, you was

in the bottom two again.

- Oh, Lord have mercy.

- How was that, girl?

- You start to feel like,

I'm here again, why?

But you just gotta go back to,

you know...

- Yeah, wi to fi, you know?

- Who you are.

You gotta fight.

I feel like I have to work

harder to prove to everyone,

you know, that I deserve to be

here.

- And they keep talking

about you.

Like, they keep attacking you.

- 'Cause they want me gone,

sister.

If Raja and Manila

really didn't think

that I was competition,

they wouldn't be

bothered about it.

They'd embrace me like Carmen.

[alarm sounds]

- Ooh, girl!

You've got shemail.

Hello, ladies.

all: Hello!

- However you dippity-do it,

the next drag superstar has got

to keep her hair bouncing

and behaving.

It takes just one bad blowout.

You could be hair today,

and gone tomorrow.

And parting is such

sweet sorrow.

- Whoo.

- What?

- Something about hair, honey.

- Hello, hello, hello.

all: Hey!

- Hey, Ru.

- Now, every now and then,

we all have a bad hair day.

And that's when a ladyboy

really has to improvise.

Now for today's mini-challenge,

you need to make a dramatic

headpiece,

using only materials swiped

from the gay beach.

all: Ooh!

- Now, ladies.

You've got crabs,

beach balls,

grass skirts,

and a whole bunch of fun stuff.

Now there's 20 minutes

on the clock.

Ready.

Set.

Go!

- Yeah.

- Ooh, look at the fishy!

[high-pitched muttering]

I'm making this headpiece

with a fishy lace front.

[laughing]

- I want mine to be chic.

- Well, good luck, honey.

'Cause that looks busted

and crusted, girl.

- Honey, this is a Philip

Treacy Alexander McQueen, honey.

- Oh, you bitch.

Mama, stand up straight.

My headdress is falling over

and dying.

But at least it doesn't look as

jacked up as Shangela's.

- Ooh!

Oh.

- What kind of headpiece

is that?

Like, a parrot with a dolphin?

What the hell?

- All right, lady-kins.

all: Whoo!

- First up, let's take a look

at Raja's head.

Wow.

Now, have you had crabs before?

- Um, yeah, I actually pulled

these right out of my panties.

- [laughing]

Yara Sofia.

- Yaaaay!

- Beach party.

- Yaaaay!

- Girl, you are so fishy.

- Thank you.

It looks so real, right?

- Manila.

Showgirl.

It's very Ziegfeld.

- Although I need

a little Viagra,

or the pit crew to give it

a little inspiration.

'Cause she's starting to sag.

Like Raja!

- Alexis Mateo.

- Pat...

all: Ooh.

- I steal the head fish, bitch.

Look how I float.

- Yes, you are floating.

- I feel like in a boat fat.

Pfft!

[laughing]

- Shangela.

all: [giggling]

- Is that a parrot

humping a dolphin?

- [laughing]

- Mm-hmm.

- I don't know how natural

that is,

but somehow I'm strangely

stimulated by it.

Ladies.

You all had fun

with this challenge.

But...

I'm gonna have to go with Raja.

- Oh, sh*t!

- Raja is the winner of this

mini-challenge.

[laughing]

- She can jump around

and celebrate everything

that she wants to,

but I won too.

Hey.

- Ladies.

A queen's crowning glory

is her hair.

Now I'm gonna give you

an opportunity

to really wig out.

[cheers and applause]

- Oh, God.

- Oh.

- For this week's

main challenge,

you'll be competing

in a fantasy hair show.

You need to create

three distinct hairstyles.

First, a classic look

from another era.

Second, a modern look

worthy of a red carpet event.

And third, a far-out fantasy

hair extravaganza.

- Mmm, hey.

- Now, Raja.

- Yes.

- Because you won

the mini-challenge,

you get a five-second head start

at the wig bar.

- Oh!

- Provided by Wilshire Wigs.

So get going.

Gentlemen, start your engines.

And may the best woman win!

- [screams]

- [laughing]

- What are you doing?

The extravaganza?

- Mm-hmm.

That's the one

I'm gonna work on first,

'cause I think that'll

take me the most time.

She ain't slick.

I know what she's doing.

Yara is brushing that wig,

and walking around,

looking at

everyone's creations.

Getting ideas.

What am I gonna do?

Hmm.

- I love doing hair.

- I think Yara's gonna do

really good at this one.

- Mm-hmm.

- 'Cause you always have, like,

the craziest, wackiest hair.

- And Manila, how do you think

I'm gonna do with this

challenge?

- Um, I think you'll do fine.

- [laughing]

- Shangela, this is a comb.

- Ooh, girl!

- Oh, yeah.

- It goes through the hairs.

Mm-hmm.

- Thank you, Manila.

- Just sharing the knowledge,

Honey.

- These girls don't expect me

to have any creativity

or ability when it

comes to this.

It's a fire in me

to prove them wrong.

- Our main challenge is

creating

three different looks

of hair,

matching with

three different outfits...

the classic from another era,

a modern red carpet look,

and then we have

a fantasy creation.

- Alexis.

- What happened, boo?

- Which one are you working on

right now?

- My fantasy look.

That's gonna be my hardest part

of the challenge...

is going to be

to get that look together.

I normally work with my own hair

as a base.

So I'm gonna have to see

how it goes tomorrow,

because I can

actually style the pieces

that I'm gonna wear.

- Uh-huh.

- But it's not until it's

on my head

that you actually see

the final product.

- Right.

- Alexis is probably gonna have

this weird-looking Elvis

pompadour

with, like,

an Avatar ponytail.

I mean, this is what she does.

Shangela, au naturale.

Do you know what you're doing

for your era?

- Donna Summer

meets Diana Ross.

- Work.

- Yara.

- Huh?

- How you doing?

- This is my '80s look.

- An '80s look?

- Fros seem to be really

popular for a classic era.

- Hello, hello, hello.

- Hola.

- Hello.

- Hi, how are things

shaping up?

- Fierce, honey, fierce.

- Well, hello there.

Alexis.

Which is your classic look?

- I think I'm going for

the 1940s.

- Well, now, during the '40s

there was a rationing

on latex titties.

- Are you serious?

- Yeah.

- '40s look.

- Yes.

- Do you have it here?

- No.

- No?

What about your

red carpet hair?

- I'm going to go for

the evening modern mohawk.

- An evening

modern mohawk style.

And where's that?

- It's not ready yet.

- It's not ready yet?

Oh, Miss Thing.

Let's talk about your hair

fantasy-stravaganza.

- I saw this pink,

and it reminded me

of that cotton candy

that you get

when you go to the circus.

- Yes, yes.

- And that's my inspiration,

the circus.

- Your inspiration is

cotton candy from the circus.

- For the circus.

- Ah.

Hi, Shangela.

- Hey, Ru.

- How you doing?

Oh, this is

your hair fantasy?

- This is it.

We're on it today.

- Wow.

- Yeah, it's kind of like

an alien princess

from the future.

- It is quite the fantasy.

And you've got

your classic hair?

- Classic hair is very

Diana Ross meets Donna Summer.

- I'd love to wear that hair.

That is beautiful.

So you not being a hair queen,

are you asking for advice

from the other girls?

Just how to put things together?

- No.

I know and I'm learning

what looks great on me.

- Mm-hmm.

- And no one can tell you

what looks best on you

but yourself.

I mean, I know it's okay

to ask for help,

but I've kind of

gotten some feedback

from the other girls

that they're over me

asking for help.

- Right.

- So I can do things on my own.

- Good, good.

You got to, 'cause, you know,

we're down to the wire now.

- That's right.

- Yara Sofia.

- Yes.

- Hi, darling.

- Hi, darling.

- Tell me about your

classic hair look.

- I made this with braids.

- Uh-huh.

- On the cover.

And I mixed two afros,

two tones.

- I see.

- Oh, wonderful, wonderful.

You know, um, Shangela is doing

a little bit

of a...sort of a '70s afro.

It's big, curly hair.

Are you worried

about that at all?

- No, well, I made it first.

And when I see Shangela's

classic hair,

it looks like mine.

Even the brunette color.

I think Shangela's a copycat.

- Hey, Raja.

- Hi.

- So tell me,

what are you planning

for your red carpet look?

- I am taking some inspiration

from Janice,

from the Muppets.

- Uh-huh.

She's my favorite muppet,

I think.

- [imitating Janice]

"Hey, man.

Yeah, it's gonna be cool."

- Yeah, uh-huh.

Artistically,

what is your fantasy?

- Well, my fantasy would never

really involve a wig,

'cause the wig would be

pulled off, but...

- [laughing]

- Uh-huh, no...

I really don't know what my hair

fantasy is, to be honest.

- Now, listen.

I just want you to know

that we expect something

truly out of this world.

- Ru wants to see something

that's just gonna wow him

and, you know, take him

to another, like,

another realm, really.

And I definitely feel

a lot of pressure.

I am about to lose my mind.

- Hey, Manila.

- Hi.

- How you doing?

- Good.

- What you got there?

Sort of a rock me disco Amadeus,

isn't it?

- This is my classic look.

- That's your classic look.

- Yeah.

I thought it may be kind of cool

to do,

like, the mix of, like,

'80s meets 1800s.

- This is not

your fantasy look?

- This is my classic look.

- 'Cause that's pretty fantasy.

That's...that's out there,

isn't it?

- It's a lot to explain.

- Some of the other girls

have gotten in trouble

for having to explain

what it is they're doing.

- Yeah.

- You know, it should be clear.

- Hits you over the head.

- Yeah.

- Make sure that everyone

gets it.

- Well, to quote Alexis Mateo,

it should say, "Bam!"

- The jig is up.

- You know what I'm saying?

- I will.

- Okay.

- All right, ladies.

Gather around.

Now tomorrow, we'll be joined by

our extra special guest judges...

the talented and hilarious

Wayne Brady...

- Whoo!

- Wow.

- Brady.

- And my favorite baby mama,

Fantasia.

For real.

No, for real, though.

I'm for real.

- Fantasia won American Idol,

and I can't wait.

- In addition to debuting

your three hairstyles

on the main stage,

there's just one more

little detail

I neglected to mention.

I want you to create

a runway outfit

made entirely out of...

hair.

- [gasping] Oh, my god.

What am I going to do?

- You'll get more hair pieces,

toupees, falls, and merkins.

So y'all can really

get wiggy up in here.

- Like, really, Ru?

Really?

- Listen, the competition is

getting pretty hairy in here.

So don't f*ck it up.

- Our main challenge today

is that

we're creating three

different hair looks

that has to correspond

to three different outfits,

and we have to create an outfit

out of hair!

There's so much to do,

and so little time.

You can feel the pressure on.

- We have to make a dress out

of nothing but wigs?

This is insane.

You gotta be kidding me.

- It's crazy,

that's what it is.

- That kind of changes

my whole, like, look.

- Me too.

- It's a giant challenge,

but yet it's like,

they tell you, like, later.

- Isn't that crazy, though?

That there's always a twist?

Just when you think

you have it down.

- Ooh!

Oh!

I almost melted my face.

Sabotage!

Ooh, girl!

It's jumping up in here.

[hysterical laughter]

- Are you losing it, girl?

Quit sniffing all those

adhesive fumes.

Yara is being wacky.

- [cursing in Spanish]

- But a part of me goes,

"Is she doing that

to distract the other girls

in the room?"

Oh, okay.

Miss Girl's got a strategy

of her own.

- ♪ Be-deep, be-deep ♪

♪ Be-deep, be-deep ♪

Ay! Ay! Ay!

- Oh, Christ on crackers.

- Aaiiee!

Oooh!

Aaah!

I mean, come on.

- Hee-hee-hee!

Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!

- Really?

- I feel like I'm in some,

like, weird alien petting zoo.

It's, like, shut up.

- If you guys had a chance

to k*ll one of the other queens

in this competition,

who would it be?

- Yara Sofia.

- I never win the challenge.

And this time, I have to win.

f*ck, it's about time for me.

Um, excuse me.

Excuse me.

Darling, I need help.

- What, Yara, what?

- Do you like the combination?

- I like it, I like it since

you made it.

Yara is coming to my station

every five seconds

to ask me how her look is.

I mean, we're the top five.

Ain't no time to be

talking around

or playing with each other.

This is some real sh*t

right now.

You'll be all right.

- I hope so.

- If Carmen was still here...

- Mm-hmm.

- She would have just taken

two wigs,

glued them to her titties.

- Called it a day.

- I'm always having problems

with the proportions of my body.

Um, the wrong way.

And this challenge, I have to

wear my body, plus hair.

So for me to actually have

a silhouette on stage,

it's gonna

be very difficult.

My fantasy dress was not going

to the right place

that I want it to.

- Alexis finish her garment,

and now she's changing the dress

and cut it.

- Oh, you changed it,

like, fiercely, huh?

- It doesn't look like circus.

- I was wondering why you cut

it all apart.

It's important for me to do well

in this challenge because,

bitch, it's the top five.

I mean, I wanna be

part of the top four.

- It's good, but I don't know

if this could bother you.

- I put it on so it sits,

like, right here.

Fits okay.

- Can you glue hair?

- This is a creative high

for me.

I don't want to look

outward for help.

- It doesn't have to cover

the entire front.

- Okay, awesome.

- Just a design.

- Thank you.

- Shangela's outfit is a mess.

Hey, girl, listen.

You should learn

some new things.

- Have you tried your wig

on yet?

- I haven't even started it.

- This is all good in theory,

but let's see if it

actually stays on my head.

- This wig is, like, super,

like, Halloween-y.

I don't know what the f*ck

I'm doing anymore.

In Drag Race history, this might

be the craziest and hardest

and most stressful

challenge ever.

Time is getting shorter

and shorter and shorter.

- Piece of sh*t.

- Ow, son of a mother f*cking

bitch!

It's do it or die.

[alarm clock buzzing]

- Oh, my God, oh, my God,

oh, my God, oh, my God,

oh, my God, oh, my God.

- Today, the clock is ticking,

honey.

Nobody's ready yet.

We are going crazy.

- I'm nervous,

'cause I still have to do

my modern, worthy of

a red carpet look.

- There's just so much

for everyone to do,

that everyone's really feeling

the pressure right now.

- I'm stressed out of

my f*cking mind.

I can feel the veins

in my temples

and in my neck just pulsating

with, like...

[inhales]

I just need to get it done.

- Ready or not,

here comes mama.

- Manila, you're getting ready

already?

What about your modern look?

- Honey, I'm gonna

make it work.

It's gonna be a shake and go,

honey.

- Did you finish everything?

- Stop talking to me.

- Ha ha!

Bitch.

- I just wanna

get myself painted,

'cause if I'm in the bottom

and I have to lip-synch,

I at least want to be pretty

when I do it.

- I don't feel like

I'm gonna be there.

I've worked really hard.

I'm confident

in what I'm bringing.

- This has to be the most

difficult challenge so far.

But I'm actually finding

that I'm a lot better

at doing hair

than I thought I was.

- I've always wanted to be

in drag,

even when I was a little boy.

I used to sneak into

my sister's closet

and take all of her clothes

and wear them around.

- Drag made me be

who I want to be

whenever I wanted it to be.

It just gives me that freedom.

- Freedom.

- Yeah, it's like a vacation.

You can take a vacation

every night.

- Exactly.

And you get paid for it,

and it's even better.

To me, it's like

my artistic expression.

- It's...I know,

it's your creation.

- Everybody cannot do drag.

- I think everybody

should have the right

to do drag if they want to,

even if they look busted.

I'm here.

- Mm-hmm.

When I started it,

like, I was kind of like,

"Am I an attractive person?"

- I look pretty, and that's...

- [laughs]

And that's it.

- Some people use drag

as an escape.

Like they don't feel

that they...

- Yes, it's true.

- I agree.

'Cause I started so young.

I needed something to boost

my self-esteem, you know?

And people...people finally

told me I was beautiful.

The biggest difficulty for me,

though,

has been, like, people

who you know or knew people

don't know the real you.

They only know your character.

So they start only calling you

by your character name,

or, like, they only want to

see you in drag.

And then if you show up

and you're not in drag,

they're like,

"Oh, where's Shangela tonight?"

- But for Alexis,

that's not a problem.

- [laughs]

- No, I don't...

I don't know if that's true,

because, I mean, RuPaul, like,

you know, half the time here...

- I'm not talking about RuPaul;

I'm talking about me.

- It all starts to become

one person after a while.

- Raja's first picture of her

in drag is an oil painting.

[laughter]

- No, bitch,

it's a cave painting.

- No, it's one of

those pictures

where they have to have

the big flash that explodes

when you take the picture.

- My problem with drag

is the dating scene.

- It is kind of hard.

- My situation that, every time

you're gonna date somebody,

you feel like you just...

- Have to hide it.

- You just have to come

out of the closet.

- Yes.

And then when you're going out

for the night,

and you intend on going out

and hooking up with someone,

you have to make sure

that you put all your drag

up in the closet

and all the sequins

off the floor,

all the rhinestones.

- It is true.

But that was at the beginning.

- Now I don't care.

- Ha!

- [laughs]

♪ Cover girl ♪

♪ Put the bass in your walk ♪

♪ Head to toe ♪

♪ Let your whole body talk ♪

♪ And, what? ♪

Hey, guys.

Welcome to the main stage of

RuPaul's Drag Race.

Hey, Michelle, we're going back

to our roots tonight.

- Aren't we, baby?

- Santino.

Now are you gonna be

splitting hairs

with our girls tonight?

- Oh, you know this.

- Wayne Brady!

I'm so glad you're here.

- Hey, you.

I am so happy to be here.

And Fantasia.

- Ooh!

- Hi, Ru.

- This week, our queens

were challenged

to compete in

a fantasy hair show

and create three

distinct hairstyles,

which includes a runway outfit

made entirely out of hair.

Gentlemen...

start your engines.

And may the best woman win.

The first looks are their

classic hairstyles

from a past era-era-uh.

Yara Sofia.

Oh, she's got a disco feeling.

- I'm bringing this '70s look.

With such an inspiration.

And I feel flawless.

- She loves the nightlife.

- Studio 54.

- Alexis Mateo.

Bring the fur, baby.

- [laughing]

- My classic look

is all glamour.

Hollywood.

The golden age.

- The drama.

- Looks like she was outside

trapping some animals too.

- A girl's gotta eat.

- Look at Raja.

Very '60s.

- Ooh!

- Yes, hey!

- Twiggy!

- Yes.

- That girl.

- I just wanted her

to feel really sweet,

a little bit like

a sex-cretary in the '60s.

A little Mad Men.

- Oh, I love a nude pump.

That's Raja from

the secretarial pool.

- Sex in the '60s.

- [laughing]

- Shangela.

Uh-oh, I smell a costume change.

- [laughing]

- I'm a Spanish flamenco sister

all the way from Barcelona.

And I'm loving it.

- Ooh, el motivar.

Toro, toro!

- Yes.

- Yes.

- Ole.

- Oh, and she popped the fan.

- Yes, she popped that fan.

- She popped something.

- Manila.

- She's giving you

Marie Antoinette meets Shaft.

- Yes.

- Blonde Venus.

- Is she "rock me Amadeus"

from the '80s?

- I have a powdered wig going.

I have my little, like,

curls on the side.

And I'm feeling fierce,

and the judges are living.

Oh, look at all the cameos.

- And look at the candelabra

in her hair.

- Oh, yes.

That's a candelabra.

This is their modern

red carpet look.

From Yara Sofia.

Wow.

Desperate housewife.

- There's a little J-Lo

in that one.

- I'm giving the judges

a very strong haircut

like Rihanna, for example.

- I'm going to the Emmys.

- It's very Roberto Cavalli.

- Sexy urban camo.

- Yes, it is.

Alexis Mateo.

She's ready for the ALMA awards.

- For my red carpet

modern look,

I make an evening mohawk.

And it's very modern,

it's very couture.

- A little new school Mae West.

- Yes, she is.

- Yeah, there you go.

She's trying life as a blonde.

- Just a little bit at a time.

- Yeah.

- Raja.

Britt Ekland.

Ooh.

- Okay.

- Easy breezy.

- I cut this hair.

This is something

that I razored on my own.

And I am ruling that runway.

All I can hear in my ears are

electric guitars and keyboards.

- Vidal Sassoon.

Shangela.

Miss Diahann Carroll is

in the house.

- Yes, she is.

- I'm daytime class.

So I'm coming down the runway

giving you Diahann Carroll

at the Oprah's Legends ball.

And I'm feeling fierce.

- Red carpet.

- Oh, she gave you a wedge.

- Yes.

I think she's pumpin'

to bump it.

Manila.

- Audrey Hepburn there.

- Well, she's more

Jennifer Love Hewitt's version

of Audrey Hepburn.

- Yes.

- I'm walking down the runway,

and I feel like Audrey Hepburn

in Breakfast at Tiffany's,

or Barbara Streisand.

- She has borrowed those jewels

from Harry Winston.

- Of course.

- The security guard

is backstage.

- Waiting for me.

- This is their fantasy hair

extravaganza.

Yara Sofia.

- Oh!

- Oh!

- Take that, Bjork.

- How much is that poodle

on the runway?

- For the fantasy,

I'm wearing this hairy dress.

It's like a scorpion on the top.

I feel so fabulous.

- I made a purse out

of Shirley Temple.

- Oh, yes.

- Won't get out of place.

- I see her fantasy

is doggy style.

Alexis Mateo.

- Oh!

- Phantom of the drag queens.

- Yes.

- I look like a ballerina

in a circus.

I'm loving it.

It just screams Alexis Mateo

from far away.

- Thighs wide open.

- Yes, hunty.

Wild, wild west.

Miss Kitty never looked so good.

Raja.

Hair fantasy.

- Wow.

- I'm so happy with

what I've created.

It looks like this beautiful,

like, cotton candy

frothy milkshake.

- Earth girls are easy!

- Yes.

Yes, Rainbow Brite.

- She's like a snow cone.

- Oh, my gosh.

- Shangela.

- Ooh!

- Ooh!

- Mad Max.

- Ooh, She-man the barbarian.

- The minute I hit that runway,

I am alien warrior princess,

and I'm coming for you.

- Two queens enter,

one queen leaves.

- [laughing]

- Beyond the merkin-dome.

- Ooh!

I wanna see that in 3-D.

- Mm-hmm.

- Manila.

- What you buzzin' 'bout?

- Yes, honey.

Honeybee.

- I'm feeling cute

and floating around

on the runway, like,

from flower to flower.

- She's pollinating the runway.

- She is.

- Buzz, buzz, buzz.

Welcome, ladies.

Your runway was absolutely

hair-raising.

And now it's time

for the judges' critique.

Let's start with Yara Sofia.

Tell me about

your fantasy extravaganza.

- For me, the word

"extravaganza" means an animal.

- The word "extravaganza"

to you means an animal,

like a scorpion and a poodle.

- Scoodle.

- I made this, um, scorpion,

um, curve.

- Uh-huh.

- And I feel very hairy.

Very hairy.

- [laughing]

Well, girl, you are hairy.

- [raspy groan]

- [laughing]

- It's very Dr. Seuss.

You're like a beautiful woman

from Whoville.

- Don't take this the bad way,

but, like, you're like the ho

of Whoville.

- [laughing]

- A "who-ho."

- A "who-ho."

- Yeah, a "who-ho."

Horton heard a ho.

Who...I love that.

- Right. Right.

- I love that.

- Fantasia, what did you think

of her classic look?

- Um, it reminds me so much of

my aunties.

How, you know,

how they used to do it.

And they used to rock it well.

And I want the outfit.

- Thank you.

- Do you think I can wear

that outfit?

- Yes, I can make a few ones.

- I got a lot of junk

in my trunk.

- Don't worry, darling.

- Okay, good.

- Next up, Alexis Mateo.

Hi, mami.

- Hi, Ru.

Hi, judges.

- Let's start with the best,

which is this look here.

Your fantasy look.

When you came out,

I totally got circus girl.

Your red carpet look that was

supposed to be very modern,

the hair was kind of like

budget RuPaul, in a way.

I mean, it was like, uh,

I don't know what award show

you would have worn that to.

- What I don't understand is,

you do the modern red carpet,

and it looks like you're wearing

the red carpet.

You know, all along I've been

telling you,

I don't understand why certain

things you wear

that makes your body look bigger

and malproportioned.

- But I felt like a star

walking on that runway, so...

I would wear my dress with my

mohawk to my red carpet event.

And I would wear this

for the circus as well.

- [laughing]

- So bam!

[all laughing]

- Up next, Raja.

Hi, Raja.

- Hi.

- What inspired your look?

- The big mission I had

with this

is to make it

not look like hair.

- I love the outfit.

You have beautiful legs.

- They're wooden, by the way.

- [laughing]

I'll take them, I'll take them.

- Thank you, Fantasia.

Now all the way from

the Colombian coffee fields...

- [laughing]

- Let's go to Juan Valdez.

- You look completely, like,

Japanime art.

And as for your red carpet look,

I liked your take on it.

It was definitely like

a young rocker.

Love the hair.

The razor cut.

If I could have one critique,

it's that I think you look

even more beautiful

with less makeup on.

- Your '60s look,

I put that you're like a sexy,

dark Goldie Hawn,

circa Laugh-In.

And you looked really natural

and real,

and that looked like that could

be you walking the streets.

- Next up...

Shangela.

- Hi, Ru.

- Where'd you get

the inspiration

for your fantasy outfit?

- You know,

I love sci-fi films.

I love horror,

scarier films.

- Wait, what did you call me?

- Ooh!

- For the classic look,

I felt the dress

was a little too big.

I just would have loved to have

seen it be a little tighter,

'cause this figure that I'm

seeing right now...

[clicks tongue, imitates sizzle]

Hot.

- Sometimes, just having one

solid look

works better than having kind of

like two mediocre looks,

because after you took

that big coat off,

you still had kind of

a big gunny sack of a dress on

underneath it.

Your modern red carpet look,

it looked more kind of like the

high-class executive secretary.

It just wasn't quite there

to a red carpet event.

- I felt like I was going to,

like, Oprah's Legends ball.

- Montecito.

- That's right.

It was a daytime look.

- Why would you pick a daytime

red carpet?

- I'm an E! fan.

They have carpets all day long.

- Yeah, you could wear that on

the red carpet.

Would E! stop you

to talk to you and ask you,

"Who did your hair?"

No, they'd probably go,

"Eh, she did her hair."

But you appear to be

very fearless

just like your dressed...

you know, when I was a kid,

I was a big fan of D&D,

and you look like a D&D heroine.

- Wait a minute, that's

Dungeons & Drag Queens?

- Yes, that's

Dungeons & Drag Queens.

- Next up, Manila.

- Hi, Ru.

Hi, judges-zzzzzz.

- Hi, Manila.

- I loved the classic.

I want the dress.

I want the boots.

I loved everything about

the classic look.

- Who wears a tiara

to a red carpet?

- I would.

- Hey, girl.

- Hey!

- We queens, Santino.

- Thank you.

- Get into it.

- [laughing]

I really just felt that, uh,

enormous central necklace

made your beautiful neck

and this whole area just

kind of look a little mannish.

- Okay.

- Thank you, Pancho Villa.

- [laughing]

- So, Manila, I can just

eat you

with a spoon tonight.

And what I love most about you

as a drag queen

is your ability

to theme couture.

Like, you always have these

great themes.

- A love of fashion

and insects,

you don't find that

in a woman.

- No, you don't.

- Good job.

- Thank you, ladies.

I think we've heard enough.

While you go and untuck

in the Interior Illusions

lounge,

the judges and I

will deliberate.

You may leave the stage.

[car engine starting up]

Okay, kids.

We're gonna start with

Yara Sofia.

She was our scorpion poodle.

- Scoodle.

- She really brought it

to the fantasy level.

- I thought she tore it up.

The '70s look was

out of control.

The hair was gorgeous.

I loved the big gold hoops.

I want that outfit.

- Is it wrong that I think

that the booty is so amazing?

- No.

- It's juicy, honey.

- Yes.

- Yeah, you know, this kinda

messes with

your perception of things.

- It does.

- Oh, my goodness.

- It wrecks your head, honey.

- Now you see what happened to

Eddie Murphy.

- [laughing]

- What?

- Alexis Mateo.

- She looked like she was

coming from

a Bell Biv Devoe video.

- [laughing]

She didn't look like...

she didn't look like

a Hollywood starlet.

- That '40s look, there was

nothing '40s about it.

Maybe $40.

- Oh, okay.

- And that's about it.

- All right.

Do think that her red carpet

look was too regional?

- She wore the red carpet

and spangled it.

- Miss Raja.

- ♪ Raja, raja, raja ♪

all: [laughing]

- I love her.

When she walked out,

it was that look of,

"Even if you don't like it,

"the way I'm about to walk out

here with it,

you're gonna like it."

- Sell the garment.

- I would say, although

she really worked it

and gave us that rock and roll

kind of

first time at the Grammys

kind of young rocker look,

I do wish maybe

she would have brought it

in a more conventional way,

because I would love to see

what Raja

would wear to the Oscars.

- It's probably more realistic

to think that she would

do something

that looks like

a red carpet gown,

instead of going Miley Cyrus.

- Shangela.

- You know what?

She reminds me

so much of myself,

just with being the underdog.

With going into something

and saying,

"You know what?

"I might not have this,

"I might not have that,

but I'm gonna give it my all."

- All of those things

that you said,

Fantasia, I love about her.

And that's really why

she's still here.

- Yes.

- Because as far as her

fashion sense, her style...

she is clueless.

- Is anybody else seeing

the five o'clock shadow

consistently?

- It's not

a five o'clock shadow,

it's actually

the shade of makeup,

and it's her highlighting.

- So it's picking up where...

- She's not blending it

very well; that's what it is.

- I do think that Shangela has

an amazing spirit

and I think may be pursuing

the wrong thing,

because there are clearly

other people

who eat, breathe, sleep this,

and it comes out of their pores.

- Manila.

- Wasn't a big fan

of the fantasy.

Love, love, love the classic.

She had an afro and she had some

curls on the side.

I'm thinking, "Who does that?

And who pulls it off

like she did?"

- As for her red carpet look,

I think she just kind of

overworked the jewelry.

- I don't know, she did it

for me tonight.

- All right.

Silence!

I've made my decision.

Bring back...

my girls.

Ladies.

Based on your performance

and your presentation

on the main stage,

I've made some decisions.

Raja.

You served three hot looks.

And your cotton candy fantasy is

truly delicious.

You're safe.

- Thanks.

- Yara Sofia.

This week, you scoodled

your way to victory.

Condragulations.

You are the winner

of this challenge.

- [cursing in Spanish]

- [laughing]

- And you've won an Alaskan

cruise for two

from America's number one

gay travel specialist,

alandchuck.travel.

- Do you know what, darling?

It's about time.

It is so good to finally

win a challenge.

- Alexis Mateo.

You are a timeless queen.

But some of your hairstyles were

a little dated

and off the mark.

I'm sorry, my dear, but you are

up for elimination.

- I don't wanna go home.

I wanna stay in this competition

all the way till the end.

- Manila.

You rocked

three very different looks.

And your fantasy bee was k*ller.

You're safe, honey.

Shangela.

You are a sharp queen.

But I'm afraid your hairstyles

didn't make the cut.

I'm sorry, my dear, but you are

up for elimination.

- Wow, I'm back here...again.

And, you know, it's really tough

having to lip-synch against

a friend in this competition.

- Two queens stand before me.

Ladies, this is your last chance

to impress me

and save yourselves...

from elimination.

The time has come for you to

lip-synch for your life.

Good luck.

And don't...

f*ck it up.

♪ ♪

- ♪ I'm driving in circles ♪

♪ Should have bought that ♪

♪ New phone ♪

♪ Can't find my way to ♪

♪ All the places I call home ♪

♪ I'm on my own ♪

♪ I'm at the station ♪

♪ Pumping gas ♪

♪ Yeah, I'm taking out

the trash ♪

♪ I'm all alone ♪

♪ And who's there? ♪

♪ Who's there? ♪

♪ Since you've been gone ♪

♪ I learned how to move on ♪

♪ How to be myself ♪

♪ I don't need nobody's help ♪

♪ I'm doing so good ♪

♪ I forgot that I could ♪

♪ Live like this ♪

♪ Whoa ♪

♪ First step ♪

♪ Take a deep breath ♪

♪ You don't need a reason why ♪

♪ And you can take ♪

♪ Take time, you can ♪

♪ You can walk, run, dive ♪

♪ Close call ♪

♪ You think you might fall ♪

♪ But all you gotta do is try ♪

♪ Even angels ♪

♪ Even angels

learn to fly ♪

- The lip-synch is a beautiful

song by Fantasia.

Shangela is doing

the best she can,

but Alexis is, like,

feeling it with her body,

and it's timeless and beautiful.

- ♪ Close call ♪

♪ You think you might fall ♪

♪ All you gotta do is try ♪

♪ Even angels ♪

♪ Even angels learn

how to fly ♪

[applause]

- Yes!

- Yes.

- Ladies.

I've made my decision.

Alexis Mateo.

Shante, you stay.

- [whispers] Thank you.

- Shangela.

No one can say you didn't

try your hardest.

And it's that drive

that will take you far.

Live your dreams, mama.

Now, sashay away.

- Thank you all.

Thank you.

[applause]

- Halleloo!

- Halleloo!

It's a sad feeling because

I definitely came back

into this competition

wanting to win.

And it's not been easy.

But I'm leaving a winner.

And it's just a lesson

for everyone

who's ever wanted to pursue

any dream they've had.

Live your passion.

And live it to the fullest.

Halleloo!

- Well, ladies.

As you know, each week

I consult with the judges,

but the final decision

is mine to make.

It seems that I've been

criticized

for sending some of my queens

home too soon.

Michelle.

- Yes?

- I want you to confer

with Santino and Billy B.

to decide which of

the eliminated queens...

deserve to return

to this competition...

next week.

- Oh, my God.

Are you freaking kidding me?

- And you may pick from

any of the queens

eliminated this season.

Will it be...

Venus D-Lite?

Phoenix?

Mimi Imfurst?

India Ferrah?

Mariah?

Stacy Layne Bryant Matthews?

Delta Work?

Carmen Carrera?

Or Shangela Laquifa Wadley?

Now.

Remember...

if you can't love yourself,

how in the hell you gonna

love somebody else?

Can I get an amen in here?

all: Amen!

- All right!

Now let the music play!

[dance music]

♪ ♪