Tamara Mascara


Tamara Mascara is an Austrian DJane, fashion designer, presenter and one of the best known Austrian drag queens.

Early life

Tamara Mascara grew up in Vienna, Austria. At an early age she took ballet training at the Vienna State Opera. Later she graduated from a fashion school at the Schloss Hetzendorf.

Career

Her career as a DJane started at the legendary Heaven Vienna, the longest running House music clubbing in Vienna. Since 2011 she is co-founder, co-organizer and artistic director for The Circus, the biggest LGBT-party in Austria.
At the 59. Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen Mascara was the Make-up artist in the team of Conchita Wurst, which won the competition. She also was part of the Austrian postcard, a recording that presents each country before their performances.
Beginning in the end of 2016, Mascara started an YouTube channel, themed mostly around Cosmetics and Drag. In 2018 she launched her own eyelash collection.
As a testimonial for an open and LGBT-friendly Vienna she often cooperates with the Vienna Tourist Board, and visits cities and Christopher Street Days around the world, like in Tokio or Rome.
For the Austrian edition of Sprite's Stay Fresh commercial, an international campaign against mobbing and hate on the Internet, is Mascara head-testimonial. The company supports the Austrian telephone counselling for children and other social projects.
2018 she played Madame Oh in Mara Mattuschka's queer drama Phaidros.
Mascara hosts different events, like Balls, LGBT partys or the annual drag competition for Miss Pride at the Vienna Pride. She also co-hosted the After-Show-Talk to the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 at the Austrian public service broadcaster.
She is also candidate in the 13. edition of Dancing Stars. Mascara is, after Courtney Act, only the second drag queen who competed at BBC Worldwide's international Dancing with the Stars franchise.