Quotes from Bretman Rock

When I run, I don't ever think about my destination.

Third grade, I plucked my eyebrows.

You do not need millions of followers to know and to feel that you have a platform. I feel like everyone should realize that they have a platform regardless of how big their audience is.

Don't forget to appreciate everyone you have in your life... not everyone is blessed to have them like you do.

Drag Race' was, like, my outlet and finally being able to see myself in television and that was through Manila Luzon, who was a 'Drag Race' contestant. Manila was the first Asian queer person that I ever saw on mainstream media and 'Drag Race' really did that for me.

I wake up when the time is double digits - 10, 11, 12 - and I make myself a cup of coffee and think about what I'm gonna do that day. Either I'm gonna set my house on fire or I'm gonna take pictures. I'm random.

Now that I'm older and wiser, and I know what that word means and what it possesses... I'm like, 'Yes, I am a mahu and you should look up to me!'

I think I've always been fascinated by women, colors, and makeup and the whole art of vanity because I would always watch my grandma get ready for church. And I was five or six at the time, maybe even four. I've always just loved admiring my grandma get ready and seeing how a touch of makeup made her so much more confident.

I would always tell people I'm going to have a reality show, I'm a star, or I'm rich.

There are so many reality shows, but there's none that really shows the island life and what influencers are in the islands. We don't have the same resources as people in L.A. do.

I'm, like, really cute.

I think I've always had this non-binary energy with me. My mom has always told me that I'm pretty and handsome at the same time. And so I kind of just believed her.

Even though my dad came from a family that was very religious, he was actually the first one who bought and let me play with Barbies. My mom, the first makeup I ever used was hers, and she never once said, 'Oh, you're so gay for doing that.'

To be honest, once you are comfortable with the person you are and you know the things that you could offer to the world, none of the hate comments can really get to you.

We can watch only so many reality shows filmed in L.A. It gets boring and repetitive.

If I show up without brows, it means I'm sick, I'm dying, or both my arms are broken.

I just don't like how the beauty industry became so much about money and so much drama-driven.

I have always been skating, either with skateboards, ripsticks, longboards - so it's been really easy to get used to the electric board. And no, you don't have to wear certain shoes. I love to wear my crocs!

Fame is not who I am. It's not even what I do. It's just a part of my job.

When I first started with social media, there were a couple of us that were men in makeup. I didn't have anyone that I looked up to at a young age. Now, it's so accessible. You just go online and see all these amazing men in makeup. We share the same passion, but we all have different goals and we come from different places.

My favorite TikTok of my own would have to be the video of me drinking coconut water without closing my mouth - that trend was really fun to do because it was a hidden talent that I did well.

As long as you are doing things with a smile on your face, and you are having fun, then you are being unfiltered.

I think my struggle with acne just kind of triggered the skincare junkie in me. I just wanted to find the best products out there.

My first-ever social medium was actually MySpace. But my first video ever was on YouTube - that's when I thought I was a fashion guru - posting fashion stuff. I deleted all of those videos. And I regret doing that today, because I want to look back and see how baduy I was in seventh grade!