Lessons from RuPaul’s Drag Race

If you can’t love yourself, how in the hell you gonna love someone else. If I had a euro for every time I’ve heard this… But in all seriousness if you actually listen to the message you’ll realise how true it is. Learning to love yourself and accept yourself for who you are is one of the most important things you can do. If you want to put your best self forward into the world you have to be able to love that self before you can expect any one else to. It’s hard to love someone or expect anyone to love you if you can’t love yourself first

Putting someone else down doesn’t make you better. It happens a lot where one queen will try to make another queen look bad in order to make themselves look better. Doing this is so pointless. If you want to make yourself look good do it through practice and hard-work that will actually make you better. Putting others down or sabotaging others does nothing to help you become better, it just makes you look a shitty person. Focus on yourself and not others, it’s the best way to do well.

Don’t Sleep on It: Being good at something doesn’t necessarily mean you can take your foot off the pedal. Once too many a Queen has gone from winning a challenge to being in the bottom or under performing in the next challenge because they got too comfortable. This can be applied to any part of life, being good at something doesn’t mean you don’t have to work. If you want to succeed you need to work, no matter what it is.

Confidence is Key. If you exude the right level of confidence you can convince the world you’re killing it. Sell yourself like Alyssa and her camera dress and you can make people believe whatever you want.

Put your mental health first. *AS2 Spoiler* Adore leaving All Stars 2 may have broke our hearts, but it’s an important lesson for everyone to put your mental health first. You have to do what’s best for you, no matter what other people may think or say. You have to look after yourself.