Company savagely dedicates face mask to Valentina's exit from 'RuPaul's Drag Race'
When you're lip syncing for your life on RuPaul's Drag Race, the number one rule is: we need to see your lips. And, the second most important rule is: know the words.
We're looking at you, Valentina.
Season 9 might have come to a close, but the library could not be more open. Because, Lush Cosmetics is determined to make Valentina's monstrous lip sync fail live on forevermore.
The mask section of Lush's website makes a glorious reference to Valentina's mask moment in the latest season.
The description of a face mask called "catastrophe cosmetic" reads: "I'd like to keep it on please" -- Valentina's famous last words during the contest.
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If you're not already a viewer of Ru Paul's Drag Race, you're missing out. Let us set the scene for you:
Valentina -- who was previously a favourite among the judges -- decided to keep on her decorative face mask while lip syncing 'Greedy' by Ariana Grande.
"Is she seriously leaving that on?" asked judge Michelle Visage. RuPaul stopped the music and asked Valentina to remove the mask so the judges could see her, ya know, lip syncing.
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"I'd like to keep it on, please," was Valentina's response. Of course, the mask didn't stay on much longer. Lo and behold, when the lip sync was resumed sans mask it became evident that Valentina did not know the words. Gasp!
Diehard Drag Race fans immediately got the LUSH reference. And, absolutely loved it.
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Sashay away, Valentina.
Rachel Thompson is the Features Editor at Mashable. Rachel's second non-fiction book The Love Fix: Reclaiming Intimacy in a Disconnected World is out now, published by Penguin Random House in Jan. 2025. The Love Fix explores why dating feels so hard right now, why we experience difficult emotions in the realm of love, and how we can change our dating culture for the better.
A leading sex and dating writer in the UK, Rachel has written for GQ, The Guardian, The Sunday Times Style, The Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Stylist, ELLE, The i Paper, Refinery29, and many more.
Rachel's first book Rough: How Violence Has Found Its Way Into the Bedroom And What We Can Do About It, a non-fiction investigation into sexual violence was published by Penguin Random House in 2021.
