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Drag queen culture is not an exaggerated makeup but a way of expressing themselves, and it is becoming popular through various media as well as the culture of sexual minorities according to the passage of time. Thus, this study research various use cases of drag queen makeup, and elicit characteristics of drag queen’s makeup expression by case analysis. Qualitative research on characteristics of makeup expression was conducted to achieve this purpose of study by the last selected image through workshop of a group of experts after collecting images from October 9, 2019 to November 13, 2019. As the result of analysis, attention, sensuality, expansion, and playfulness were found to be the characteristics of drag queen makeup. The attention is revealed as expressive property as an art makeup by uniqueness of form, color contrasts, and using pearl, and the sensuality is revealed as femme fatale by contouring technique an elevated type of eye makeup, and low-luminous dark red lip color. Eye makeup was expanded much, enlarged lips and distorting the body were shown in the expansion and the playfulness was focused on intense color expression and drastic transformation of makeup by provoking laughter. There is significance in providing data which is the basis of the beauty industry development that enables creation of artworks and studying makeup trend through this study.