Drag queen Lush Monsoon peered at herself in a small mirror as she prepared for her performance. Delhi’s Kitty Su was opening the first weekend of Pride Month with a Vietnam-India showcase. Saraya Abdoul St Laurent, her drag niece Irina “The Diva” Wakanda, and Valentina, all from Vietnam, were set to perform, and Monsoon alone was to represent India on the five-by-five platform at The LaLiT.
That’s when Monsoon’s drag sister Hash Brownie stopped her from using the lipstick. The red wasn’t deep enough. Use this, she said, pulling out what looked like a miniature ball gag: a bright red ball surrounded by two black cylinders on each end. It was Hotline, a red liquid lip shade, Brownie designed.The range was launched on 1 June. Brownie worked with Kitty Su to develop three shades, the first offering of KittySu Beauty, owned by Keshav Suri and his husband Cyril Feuillebois.
“I always manifested working in the makeup industry, but never got the opportunity. One day, Cyril suddenly called me for a meeting. And then he told me he wanted me to do KittySu Beauty,” Brownie told ThePrint over a call.Feuillebois had likely remembered her from 2019, when Brownie put him in drag for an event. She became his drag mother. When he was all decked out, the founder of Kronokare Cosmetics joked that he looked like his own mother.Drag queen Lush Monsoon preparing for a performance at Kitty Su, The LaLit, Delhi | Prasanna Bachchhav | ThePrint
