I Am A Fairy Tale Princess For A Living | Refinery29

I always loved princesses. I loved watching the movies about them. I loved dressing up as them. My job is to make people's dreams come true. I own the Los Angeles Princess Company. These are all my costumes. These are all the wigs. I have a section for each character. And then each of them has their own makeup, which is really important to me because nobody naturally looks like all these characters. You kind of have to know how to make yourself look like them a little bit. I always thought I was going to be a professional actor, and I was for a long time, but I quickly found that this was the thing that people were willing to pay for. And I still kind of consider myself a real actor, but I can't really, like, go on auditions all the time anywhere or anything like that. My specialty is really performing. So I always try to really bring the character to life. I used to think it was really extreme to wear colored contacts for this job. But kids notice everything. This is Cinderella. Alright, I think we're ready to go. I need coffee or else I might not make it through the day. I'm not selling myself as a Disney princess. Cinderella's in the public domain. Not every other character is. But I don't use their copyrighted names. But I play by the rules. Going into my first party. Hello everyone! Wow, that dress is beautiful. Wow, I think it's even lovelier than mine. Rapunzel. Okay, I probably will have to ask someone to help me. I usually do. Hi, could you do me a big favor and zip me up? What? And zip me up. Oh, sure. Thank you so much. I just can't do it myself. Thank you so much.Yeah, sure. You're a pro. Hi, princess! Oh, my goodness I'm so happy to see you. But then I didn't care because it was the best day ever! Yay! Bye, princess! I am dead tired. I'm not going to lie. We went from North Hollywood to Tarzana, back to North Hollywood. And then I had two parties in Beverly Hills very close to each other. And now we're in Northridge and we are going to be done for the day after this. Hi, Princess Riley! Happy birthday! Mother Gothel was so jealous of my hair that she stole me and put me in a tower. I really try to bring the character to life. With theater, it was all about me. Look at me. Look at me. But with this, it's like my job is to bring so much happiness to people. Oh, yay! Can anyone guess how we all lived? Happily ever after! Alright, good job! It's not a job that you do forever, but I would really miss this job if one day I couldn't do it anymore. I'm hoping by the time I get there that I will just be tired of it. But like, I haven't reached that point yet. My parties start at 180 dollars an hour. But a lot of that money goes back into business. So this is not a job you get into if you want to be rich. I definitely live very humbly, but it's worth it. I'd rather be just making it by doing something I really love. But definitely, it can be a little stressful. I've been doing this five years already and I know that you know, my time is coming up. And hopefully, when I reach that age, I'll be able to know when it's time to hang up the crown.

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Length: 4min 28sec (268 seconds)

Published: Sat Jul 04 2020