Fallon Scott

My love for pageants spilled over into my budding drag career and really I made that the basis for Fallon. Shows are great, but for me pageants was where it was at.

Im not an overly ‘trend guided’ performer, I would rather give good paint, something beaded, and as much womped hair as I can! 🙂 Now, 16 years later, I am a much more seasoned entertainer, and with that comes the interest and dedication to helping other queens achieve their dreams, especially consulting them with their pageant endeavors.

VR: Where are you living these days?
FS: I’m a 5th generation San Franciscan on my mother’s side, but left California in 1989 to move to Oklahoma to be closer to my father in OKC and my sister in Missouri. In 1995 I moved from Tulsa to Dallas and was there for 9 years. I love Dallas, but growing up with a father that worked for the U.S. Government (attending 11 schools in 12 years) Dallas was the one place that I lived the longest in, and needed a change. So DeVon, my partner of 13 1/2 years, and I moved back to Tulsa to be closer to his mother and closer to my father. Sadly they both passed away this year, so we are glad that we could be here for them both, respectively.

VR: I know this is a hard question, but can you tell us what your life has been about say the last 5-10 years?
FS: Ok, what year is this….2005?!?!? LOL I’ll take the easy route and answer for the past 7 years….right in between 5 and 10! 🙂

Really my personal and drag life has changed immensly in the past 7 years! Professionally I have been the Regional Makeup Artist for Lancôme, Regional Education Director for Sebastian Trucco Cosmetics, Business Manager for Yves Saint Laurent, and I achieved my ultimate goal of becoming the National Makeup Artist for Christian Dior.

Achieving your goals is both a FABULOUS and depressing thing. I am fortunate to be able to say that I have achieved ALL of my goals both professional and drag, but making new goals is the hard part!

2000 was the year that I made several changes…..I ‘retired’ from competing in pageants, and left the cosmetics world to regroup and make new goals. Since then I have also had to regroup with the death of my father. It puts things in a new perspective, i.e. …get off my rear and MAKE GOALS AGAIN, don’t wait for tomorrow, just do it!

VR: When you were growing up and each morning you would look in the mirror did you feel that was the wrong person looking back at you or were you happy being you?
FS: You’re asking this question to a LEO so I looked in the mirror A LOT! LOL I have always been happy being male, in that regards, but I have always had a MAJOR self doubt about my looks……both drag and as a man. I am my worst critic, and always think that everything can look 3 times better than what it does. That’s where my ‘sparkling personality’ LOL came in growing up!

Then and now, anytime someone compliments me on my looks, it is very hard to just say ‘Thank You!’ without explaining how I could have looked better, ya know?

VR: Who was your inspiration growing up?
FS: The first person that comes to mind is my High School honors English teacher, Margaret (Peg) Garner. Not because of her being a woman, but because of her experiences in life, her AMAZING style, and her being so expressive!

Every day in class she had life stories that would put me in a trance listening to them! Her fashion was a cross between ‘hot casino wear/Dolly Parton-esque fashions’ (without the cleavage) and anything with SHOULDER PADS! (remember, it was the 80’s! LOL) and her outlook on life was ‘take it as it come’ which I have lived by.

She was my English teacher for 3 of my 4 high school years, and after the 1st year I became ‘teacher’s pet’ so I was able to spend more time with her. I found out that she and I were a lot alike with our both moving a lot as children, personality wise, and self doubting wise and she inspired me to just be a better person always.

VR: How long have you been doing drag or female impersonation?
FS: December 1989 was when I lost that bet, and ya know, I can’t even remember what the bet was about now! LOL So, this month was my 16 year anniversary.

VR: Do you consider yourself transgendered or a female impersonator?
FS: This is a funny question to me. I am OBVIOUSLY a man, just ask DeVon! (wink wink, nudge nudge) But, A LOT of my dearest friends are transies! One of them has told me “Girl, you’re just ITCHIN to be a transie aren’t you!?!?” When I was a size 4 in drag it would have been more of an option, but now being 34 years old and add a big 1 in front of that ‘size 4’ it would NOT be a pretty sight for me to change my gender appearance! LOL

VR: I know you dabble in the art of makeup artistry and to look at you, your very good at it, do you like most makeup artist I know, consider yourself a perfectionist or are you easily satisfied with your look?
FS: Thank you, and Absolutely, Positively, 100,000% a perfectionist! I am NEVER satisfied with how I paint! In fact, one year when returning back as a former Miss Oklahoma USofA, my number wasn’t until just before crowning, and I sat in the dressing room during the WHOLE PAGEANT and painted and re-painted, and painted and re-painted etc. over and over because I didnt think I looked good enough.

Im trying to get myself out of that mode, but I think self doubt is equal to a lot of addictions in the way that it can sometimes rule your life if you let it!

VR: How did you get started in the art of female impersonation?
FS: The famous bet was lost, so I did a newcomer talent show. I didn’t win the first time, but my being a makeup artist I thought “Ok, I can do this” so I did another show 2 or 3 weeks later……I WAS WRETCHED! LOL

But two queens, Kesslin Foster and Nikki Rich took me aside and said “You have potential, we want to help you!” So they gave me a list of what to buy…….the shade of Pan-Stick, powder, hair, shoe heel height, etc.

They are also where I got my name from. They had a list of like 20 names something like: Lauren Fairchild, Fallon Versace, Monica Scott, etc. and I asked if I could take Fallon from one name and Scott from the other and put them together, thinking in my mind that that would be a ‘no-no’ LOL, but I did and hence “Fallon Scott”

Well, they painted me for my 3rd show and I WON! My original ‘drag mother’ didn’t even recognize me! So, I thought I was done, but as the show winner I had to go back the next week and ‘defend my winning’…….I WON AGAIN, and again, and again, and again, etc. Then the night I didn’t win, Kesslin and Nikki said YOU HAVE TO DO A PAGEANT!…………

VR: There is a rumor going around, that you are kind of hooked on the pageant system, how many pageants have you won?
FS: Yes Miss Vicki, I can confirm that rumor! LOL Officially I have won 12 pageants, but there are a few more that were ‘just for fun’ pageants that I won that I don’t include in the 12 because they werent affiliated with a system.

SIDEBAR: I think it is hilarious when I hear queens say ‘I have won 287 pageants……’ how many of those were in someone’s backyard at the drop of a hat with no promotion or knowledge that it was even happening until right then and there! LOL

Although I have only won 12, I have entered MANY! I would say at least 40+ pageants, and have won interview in almost every one of them!

The second year I entered Miss Texas America I was “Best Non Finalist”. (my first year I made Top 10 and was 6th overall) Some people thought that I was bitter, but actually with that achievement I have won EVERYTHING in pageantry possible except for a National Title! LITERALLY! All catagories, all placings (I’ve never placed LAST, thank God!) each level of contest (Bar, City, State and Regional, twice over) and I have placed in the Top 5 at a National Pageant.

VR: Do you have one that stands out, above the others, one that your are really proud of the most?
FS: I loved being Miss South USofA 1996, and traveled to about 10 states performing with that title, but I am most proud of being Miss Oklahoma USofA 1994. I won my first time entering, I believe that I hold the distinction as being the youngest Miss Oklahoma USofA. I won it in late 1993 and gave it up in early 1995, so I had a long reign as well.

It was always my dream to: enter, win, give it up, and judge it the next year, and I did exactly that with my first state title, Miss Oklahoma USofA! I have been involved with the pageant for the past 9 of 13 titleholders since I won, and will continue to be involved until either Im not here, or the pageant isn’t here! 🙂

VR: Can you share with our readers what the costs are to enter and compete in a major pageant and what is involved in competing in one?
FS: Great question! The costs are many! One of the most major costs is your self being. A pageant contestant has to know that no matter if they are good or ‘not so good’ there are ALWAYS going to be people out there that either LOVE you or HATE you! That cost is something that never is ‘totally paid up’!

We all know gowns/paint/shoes/etc. aren’t cheap, and I have been one of those queens that bought a fab pair of Frederico Leone shoes for Miss USofA rather than paying my phone bill…..trust, a lot of us have done that! LOL……but rather than focus on that well known part of it, I would like to stress to all budding ‘pageant queens’ out there to try their best to be humble, personable, and dedicated, because without your integrity you’ll never wear a crown that means something to you or the public in general!

VR: I know you are very much involved in a couple of pageants there in Oklahoma, would you care to tell us what they are, where they are held and when they are held?
FS: Miss Oklahoma USofA will always be the premier pageant for me to be involved in.

I have been a pageant promoter before, and DeVon and I are going to get back into it this year with 2 local pageants (a double crowning) to go on to Miss Oklahoma USofA. The pageant that I promoted before was a Regional prelim. to Miss USofA, it wasnt stressful as it was the relationship with ‘my girls’ was temporary……i.e. only really being involved with them until they competed at Miss USofA. Whereas, with our 2 local titles, we will hold the pageant early in the pageant year, I want to have the first prelim. of the system year, we will be able to form a bond with our girls, and REALLY help and inspire them to be winners the whole year, regardless if any of them take home the crown at Miss Oklahoma USofA!

VR: What has been your biggest accomplishment to date, not just in the world of impersonation but in life?
FS: It’s a tie between: My relationship with DeVon; we’ve had our up’s and down’s but we both know that we are stuck with each other! LOL

The other would be becoming the National Makeup Artist for Christian Dior, and breaking sales records that were around for years. I, and my Regional V.P., were instrumental on the sales force side of getting the Christian Dior name out there in our 8 state region. OF COURSE the Dior product speaks for itself, but you gotta have the grunt work done by somebody, and we did it! 🙂

VR: Do you have any pet peeves?
FS: OH BOY HOWDY do I! 😉 Ok, here are the ones that come to mind:
**Closet or cabinet doors left open!
**Using the same spoon for dry and wet foods….that’s a strange one, but true!
**Poor grammar usage! (Thanks to Mrs. Garner on that one! LOL)
**Zealots!
DRAG WISE:
**Queens that lipsync the chorus of a song.
**The over usage of WHITE liquid eyeliner!
**People that think that the clear/rhinestone accented ‘Cinderella’ shoes cant be worn with a gown…..HELLO THAT’S WHAT THEY DESIGNED THE SHOE FOR! LOL
**Queens that dont use COLOR when they paint/and dont have expression in their eyes when they perform a song.
and finally
**People that dont know me, and that I am really a quiet homebody that automatically think Im a bitch……..get to know me and Ill give ya the shirt off my back…..unless it’s my fav. lime green Michael Kors shirt, then I’ll give ya DeVon’s shirt! 🙂

VR: Do you think you are a nice person or do you think you can be a bitch at times?
FS: Generally I am a nice person in that I am genuine and loyal to whatever I or my friends do.

I do have to admit that for what ever endeavor that I am passionate about I tend to be a RAVING perfectionist bitch! LOL I am a firm believer in the saying “If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing well!” so I easily go overboard with that in mind.

BUT, I always make sure to say THANK YOU to people around me, and to apologize to them BEFORE I have a ‘LET’S DO THIS RIGHT’ episode! LOL

VR: What do you think makes you stand out above others?
FS: Another good question….this makes a gal think!

I think that what makes me stand out above others is my ownership of my actions. If you do it, or say it, you better OWN IT! I know that I have done some fierce stuff in my day, and I am well aware of my haneous stuff too! LOL (And arent those always the performances that SOMEONE, SOMEWHERE has a video camera on for?!?!?! LOL) But I have always owned what I do, say and think, and that power has made me a better person both on and off stage.

VR: Do you get nervous when you are asked to speak to a group or perform on stage?
FS: For basic performances, drag or otherwise, no. But there have been a few times that the butterflies did NOT want to calm down. Cotton mouth is a horrible thing! LOL As the National M/U Artist for Dior I had many appearances on television and at trade shows in front of thousands of people, and I had to paint/teach/talk/finesse/and work the crowd more than any drag performance EVER! It was a blast though!

VR: Who do you admire these days?
FS: Monica Munro, Maya Douglas, Michelle Dupree, Tamisha Iman, Jennifer Warner, and DeVon.

VR: Are you in love now?
FS: Having been in a long term relationship, being “in love” and loving get mixed into one. The desire to have ‘adult relations’ isnt like what newlyweds have, but there is that great feeling of knowing each other so well both everyday wise, and passionately/sexually wise that makes the ‘in love’ part of it really stand out. So I would have to answer yes to the question.

VR: Where do you see yourself in the future?
FS: Hardest question of all! Right now, I have irons on the fire in all aspects that seem to be unpassable, and it’s hard to visualize what life will be after completing them. Drag wise: I think I will have a pageant competing resurrection one day….God knows I love the sight of a crown in morning daylight! LOL Professionally: I need to bring to fruition my ideas/dreams of a couple of entrepreneureal concepts that would really be profitable!

VR: What do you think you have to offer the transgender or gay community, anything at all?
FS: My support, love, encouragement, and assistance at all times!

VR: Do you have a favorite movie and why?
FS: I have a few of them, some for their obvious ‘gay factor’ some for their cinematic qualities, and some just because:
MOMMIE DEAREST (gay factor)
TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (cinematic factor)
THE GRIFTERS (gay and cinematic)
TROOP BEVERLY HILLS (TOTAL gay factor!)
REQUIEM FOR A DREAM (cinematic factor)
DEATH BECOMES HER (GAY GAY GAY! LOL)
and
THE COOLER (just because and cinematic)

VR: Who is your favorite fiction character(s), in literature or in the movies, and why?
FS: Mrs. Garner in high school introduced me to “The Great Gatsby”. She verbally illustrated the book and characters in such a way that I remember it vividly still to this day! The opulence and grandeur of the story, and the era in which it was portrayed are all fascinating to me. Also, this shows my ‘brainiac’ side; the book “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka is something that I will NEVER forget reading! It isn’t a ‘page turner’ but it sure does make for good dinner party conversation with those that have read it! 🙂 I also LOVE biographies and auto-biographies. Two favs. are: Nancy Reagan’s auto-biography that I read years ago…….I COULDNT PUT IT DOWN! and “American Evita” about Hillary Clinton…..finished it in one night before bed! Both MAJOR ‘page turners’!

VR: What words of wisdom would you give to someone who is reaching out for help?
FS: DONT SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF! A DOUBT MEANS NO! (Thanks to Oprah for that one!) IT IS NEVER AS BAD AS IT SEEMS, as long as you aren’t looking through bars when you’re thinking it’s bad! LOL and ALWAYS BE PASSIONATE ABOUT WHAT YOU DO.