Makeup Artist Who Transformed Druski for ‘Proud to Be American’ Skit Also Worked on ‘Weapons’

Druski was transformed into a white redneck in his latest skit, Proud to Be American, and the woman who did the makeup has some impressive credentials.

The parody sees him going undercover at a NASCAR race to mock overly patriotic and racist people, while disguised in whiteface, a mullet, farmer’s tan, sunburn, tattoos, and overalls. But exactly how did he do it? Well, by hiring Georgia-based makeup artist, Kaylee Kehne-Swisher, who also recently worked on the 2025 box office smash, Weapons.

According to Rolling Stone, this isn’t the first time the pair has worked together. Kehne-Swisher previously did Druski’s makeup for his “white boy accepted by the Hood” skit from May, which she told the publication took around seven hours.

“I love these characters that Druski’s coming up with,” Kehne-Swisher told Rolling Stone. “I’ve always really loved [Saturday Night Live], where you can hardly tell who a person is under Clinton makeup, or White Chicks—these big makeup transformations. I’ve been trying to come up with more ideas for him, like ‘What can we get away with?’”

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While she did the makeup for that first parody by herself, for the comedian’s new NASCAR sketch, hiring an assistant allowed her to reduce the process to about four hours.

“This time around for NASCAR, they sent me some samples of the sunburn and that mullet look, and we just went from there. I had maybe four to five days to prep for it this time, which is really nice, but it was definitely a lot of work.”

As for the tattoos, Kehne-Swisher said she worked with an Atlanta-based company called Hookup Tattoos that works with movies, and found temporary tattoos on Amazon that she said “came out surprisingly good.”

She also explained the process for the sunburn. “We basically painted the sunburn right on. After we painted him a regular skin tone, we airbrushed the entire shirt outline on. Then with lighter tones, we went over and speckled different reds and misted other tones of red to give it some modeling.”

Kehne-Swisher has been a makeup artist since 2011, and in that time, has done everything from commercials and makeovers to special effects. In addition to Weapons, she’s also worked on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and Zombieland: Double Tap.

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