She creates pieces that depict an exaggerated version of her drag character, often featuring details like Adam's apples, overdrawn lips, big hair, exposed breasts, beard stubble, and square jawlines "to blur the lines between masculine and feminine attributes". In addition to working as a drag queen, Birch creates and sells ceramic sculptures. Her work and her social media have attracted significant media attention and she has collaborated with other artists, such as Alexis Stone and Trixie Mattel. In 2020, GQ called her "one of the country's most interesting drag queens". all the elements darling." Birch is known for her unique drag aesthetic, which features pastel " alien skin" (typically blue or pink), yellow hair, and retro sunglasses. She described her drag persona as a " Martian spy woman, meets The Muppets, meets 1960s housewife, meets Squidward, meets The Fifth Element, the sixth element, the seventh element.
īirch began performing in drag professionally in December 2018. In a video created with Vogue, Birch said that the first time she painted her face was in school around the age of 13 when she was portraying the Joker, wearing "bright white make-up and massive red lips", in drama class at school. She underwent gender confirmation surgery in 2015 to alleviate her gender dysphoria. She is a trans woman and first came out around the age of 13 or 14, before starting hormone replacement therapy at age 16. Birch was born in Manchester on 25 December 1993, and grew up in Frodsham and Runcorn.