[air whooshing]

- Hi, I'm Hungry the local bug lady.

Welcome to my charming Berlin life.

[bouncy music]

So this is the face that I'm going to be doing today.

I'm very excited about this.

It has this beautiful organic nose piece

that you can just take out whenever needed

and it just has a general very drowsy sleepy vibe,

but with a bit of color to it.

First I'm getting rid of my brows.

Boop.

Boop.

So I'm just doing my foundation routine.

I grew up in a very pretty part of Bavaria, I suppose,

which is just, it was very shielded, very Catholic.

Whenever I could I would just start dreaming of different

things, different worlds.

In early school the teachers would always just tell

my parents that I'm a dreamer, not being too present

when it came to actually learning about maths

or things like that.

When I was a kid, I didn't really experiment

that much on me.

It was mostly just drawing monsters I suppose

and drawing creatures.

It never occurred to me that I could just turn myself

into anything I drew or anything I thought about.

So right now, I'm just doing a light

contouring and highlighting.

My parents were very involved with the church in our town

so at one point I was also an altar boy for a while.

The whole ceremony of a mass was always

very performative, very strong.

The rich embroidery on the garments.

All of these things, I always just found very fascinating.

The Catholic church then definitely was one

of the reasons I left Bavaria

because the whole Catholicism and all the strict rules

that come with it and all the discrimination

that comes along with organized religion

are just things I didn't want in my life anymore.

Berlin was a good escape for me for that.

I'm gonna start going in with the grease paints

and the mapping out of the face.

Where this is from what I picked up

from in my studies, basically from my life drawing class

to just kind of see the proportions

of the thing you're working on.

As I'm working on my face, I just try to use

the paint brush to see where things line up,

if they're on the same level,

and just using that as a helper for symmetry.

I do know my face more than I should.

It doesn't help me knowing

that it's not perfectly symmetrical.

But it helps for my work.

Doesn't help for my self imagery

cause I know that it's not perfect

and it could be perfect.

Now I'm gonna go in with the black

to really create the eye illusion.

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I always wanna see how it moves, how it would react

if I pose, if I do different, if I squint.

If the line would still make sense

in an emotive way.

Basically this is my full eye illusion at this point.

I'm gonna add more details,

like I would drag down my pupil, diagonally,

and then just slant my eyes out more.

So it's just a very wide eye

and if I'm putting the lenses in,

this is supposed to just be the blank space

with the lashes and then this is all eye.

So now that the eyes are roughly done,

I'm gonna go in with grease paint to add color to it.

Hungary really appeared out of a very impulsive

idea to just try drag.

And I was always very into the idea

of being otherworldly and very bizarre looking.

Over time, it became more organic and more animalistic,

just delivering more of an insect vibe overall.

Hungary definitely evolved along with me.

So at the beginning, when I started,

I was also kind of fresh to Berlin

so it was very much the vibe I thought was right for Berlin.

It was just right for me.

As I became more aware of my actual interests

that weren't necessarily linked to the city or the scene,

I think that's when Hungary

actually took a very different route.

Pretty early on, gender wasn't really

a topic for me anymore.

Especially not in my drag.

I didn't really want to have those strong boundaries

on myself with a thing that I could be so free with.

So in my drag, I always tried to stay away

from everything being so binary

because I felt it was just so much stronger

if it was just this standalone character

or object or creature.

At one point, my work was just so far

from what I had originally known as drag.

I didn't find drag to be fitting anymore in that sense.

I just thought it, describing it as distorted drag

because it made more sense to me to drag your eye out

and make it bigger or make it weird.

It was just something that I created for myself.

I never realized that anyone else would even

relate to that term for what they do

and where they take their drag or their work.

Ooh, ah.

[upbeat classy music]

So the color is done and now I'm gonna go in

with some gold paint to map out

where the glitter's gonna go.

Symmetry clearly is beautiful to me

and it is just a very immediate way

of expressing perfection.

To have the skill to get things symmetrical,

more or less symmetrical.

They see the symmetry, so they see this is symmetrical,

this has a very technical aspect to it

so they appreciate it just for that first

and then they try to question

would they consider it beautiful

in what they usually would see as beautiful,

like what would the standards of beauty apply

beyond what they know

and that I always found quite interesting.

In preparation for a fashion week gig,

I went to Cantlook Market and hunted down the one store

that still had Halloween lenses and I put them in

and I just kept staring at myself

because it was just such a face opening moment.

I felt like I could do so much more with it.

So I'm gonna add glitter, lashes, and that should be it.

[upbeat electronica music]

Back in school I briefly did some research

on camera surveillance and how you could prevent it

or how you could confuse the cameras

and started working with the idea of hiding the nose.

I noticed that the earliest when none of the face

filters would work on my face

when cameras didn't really see my face anymore.

It has gotten better, which is a bit scary.

Cameras do tend to track me now.

It's not like I can hide looking like this,

but it is actually claiming more attention

than just being undercover.

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These are just lashes I cut up

just to frame my eye illusion

to be a bit more understandable as an eye.

I'm just gonna add the mouthpiece.

And now that it's all completed,

I'm going to work on my outfit

and I'm gonna get ready to take myself out for dinner.

This is it.

I'm dressed as a successful 80s business woman

with my statement shoulders, a bit of teased hair,

and my sensible court shoes.

And I'm gonna take myself out for a schnitzel.

[upbeat classy music]

One of the first words that I learned

the meaning of in Berlin was just irrelevance.

A lot of the reactions I get

are just not relevant to my life,

they're just not relevant to who I am,

to what I do, and to my story.

[patrons chattering]

I kind of manage to just separate it from making an impact

to people that I care about and then to not care

what the irrelevant people

necessarily say or how they react.

It's always the community you need around you

and I'm very lucky to have found mine here.

[laughing]