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Jaida Essence Hall is an American drag queen, fashion designer, makeup artist, performer, and the winner of Season 12 of RuPaul's Drag Race.

Jaida returned as a Lip-Sync Assassin for All Stars 6. She tied with Eureka!, with both queens having Trinity K. Bonet's lipstick.

She later returned to All Stars 7, the first All Winners season of Drag Race. She placed 5th-8th.

Jaida currently hosts the podcast "Hall & Closet", alongside Season 12 Miss Congeniality, Heidi N Closet. As of 2023, Jaida is slated to host Season 4 of the HBO show, We're Here, alongside Sasha Velour, Priyanka, and Latrice Royale.

Drag Name Origin[]

"Jaida" was the name a friend gave her the first time she did drag. "Essence" comes from when her boyfriend said she was "the essence of beauty." "Hall" comes from her drag mother, Tajma Hall.[3]

Track Record(s)[]

Jaida Essence Hall
Statistics USA Season 12 USA All Stars
Season 7
Ranking: 1st Place
(Winner)
5th-8th Place
Maxi Challenges Won: 3 (Eps. 2, 9, 10) 2 (Eps. 3, 7)
Mini Challenges Won: 0 0
Times as Team Captain: 1 (Ep. 3) 1 (Ep. 4)
Times in Bottom: 1 (Ep. 11) N/A
Episode Eliminated: N/A Episode 11

Memorable Quotes[]

RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12[]

  • "Hey, bitches! She's here!" (entrance quote)
  • "For me, drag is exuding, like, feminine energy."
  • "My turn. ♪ EHHHhhh... ♪" (her attempt at singing)
  • ♪ "Yup!, It's Jaida, the essence of beauty. The gowns, the face, and tons of booty. But don't you be fooled by the perfect facade, she always rises despite the odds. She's funny, she's witty, she's got talent beyond recognition. And that's how mother dear will slay the competition!" ♪ (verse in "You Don't Know Me")
  • "Shady. Boots. Shady boots."
  • "Chile, I'm not finna be this damn orange."
  • "Nobody likes broccoli!"
  • "This is not RuPaul's Excuse Race!"
  • "Antarctica's at the bottom, isn't it?"
  • "Yeah she's a little salty that her friend left, but I’m thinking, she's a little more upset that she had not won this challenge." (Referring to Jan)
  • "Chile..."
  • "The horrible actress from Gay's Anatomy!" (introducing herself in her Droop ad)
  • "If a robot and a Barbie and a cheerleader had an orgy and they had a robot cheerleader Barbie baby, bitch, that would be Jan."
  • "Keep your ass right, and your mind will follow."
  • "I would like to make America confused again."
  • "Don't you ever want to not know where you are? who you are? why? you are?"
  • "That's a question."
  • "Confusion..."
  • "Heidi, question?"
  • "LOOK OVER THERE!" (avoiding Jeff Goldblum's question in the political debate challenge)
  • "I don't own a horse but I love to ride."
  • "HE'S A DINOSAUR DOCTOR!"
  • "I would like to retattle the retittle of her rebuttal." (In response to Sherry Pie retittling Gigi Goode's rebuttal in the debate challenge)
  • "Crystal and Grace are over here talking about healing powers. I don't know what the hell that's got to do with this runway challenge — chile." (Referring to Crystal's and Opal's 'wonder woman' pose)
  • "Oh my god, don't fall, don’t die." (After seeing her partner struggle to walk in heels in the Makeover Challenge)
  • "You're talking a cute game, Jackie — but it doesn't matter what she thinks. It only matters what the judges think. Mic drop. Boom. Cat. Cow."
  • "That's a low blow. I've only worn those earrings twice. Shady." (Referring to Crystal Methyd's Everybody Loves Puppets read)
  • "I don't know, maybe it's a sign something good is gonna happen, maybe it's a sign I'm going home."
  • "What I did?"
  • "Ooh, y'all are not feeling me."
  • "The hardest part of writing the lyrics is writing the damn lyrics."
  • "They would not allow me." (when asked if she's ever recorded professionally)
  • "My rap style is Old Mother Hubbard."
  • "You said it! I didn't!" (to Jamal Sims)
  • "I've been really trying to learn how to walk, since I was a baby!"
  • "♪ Boss bitches rise up! No better time than now! Sometimes we beat ourselves up, always lettin' ourselves down. Remember that you're beautiful, let go of all that shame. Now matter how your story ends, go make them know your name. ♪" (verse in "Losing is the New Winning").
  • "Uhm, orange you glad that you chose the orange?" (to Rock M. Sakura during the reunion)
  • "Well, technically only 12." (referring to Sherry Pie's disqualification during the reunion)
  • "I would like to say that if you can't love yourself, how the hell you gonna--LOOK OVER THERE!" (after her victory)

RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars Season 7[]

  • "Hey, bitches! She's... back?" (entrance quote)
  • "America, I'm your favorite bottom."
  • "You're the realest bitch i know from the knees down." (to Trinity during the Reading Challenge)
  • "The legend's back again, gonna snatch the crown, 'bout to turn the whole world upside down. Sickening little bitch with an itty, bitty waist child, I'm never afraid to put a bitch in her place. She's a queen for the people, you're mothertucking right. Got the looks, the beauty, I know you're gonna like, slayed a worldwide pandemic, what's seven more queens? With a stamp from Mama Ru even though I can't sing" (Jaida's verse in 'Legends')
  • "hee-hee-ahh-ah~" (As Prince during the Snatch Game)
  • "'sup Ru, I'm sexy." (As Prince during the Snatch Game)
  • "I'm a man." (As Prince during the Snatch Game)
  • "I was dreaming when i wrote- this answer." (As Prince during the Snatch Game)
  • "This is a fun game." (As Prince during the Snatch Game)
  • "I don't know what the hell that is." (as Lady Chablis in the Snatch Game when asked if she ever drinks Chablis)
  • "Sometimes it pays to be delusional."
  • "I get this rumble in my tummy when you're holding my hand so baby, let me clear the air, you're like my number one fan but you're my number two, I'm so in love with you, just like diarrhea we've exploded in love, you got me high babe like I'm gassy and we're floating above, the new millennium hit 'cause baby, you're the shit!" (verse in 2getha 4eva)

Trivia[]

  • Jaida was the third African-American winner in a row, after Monét X Change and Yvie Oddly.
  • Jaida is the first lip sync winner and lip sync assassin of all stars and drag race franchise to tie a lip sync.
  • Jaida is the fifth main series winner to win the Maxi Challenge in her first episode competing, after Raja, Sharon Needles, Bianca Del Rio and Violet Chachki.
    • Much like Bianca, Jaida won her first challenge on the second premiere episode of her season. They also both won the Maxi Challenge in Episode 10 of their respective seasons.
  • Jaida is the fourth Drag Race contestant from Wisconsin, following Season 7 contestant Max, All Stars 3 winner Trixie Mattel and Season 9 contestant Jaymes Mansfield.
  • Jaida is the second African-American contestant to win the makeover Challenge on a regular season, after Naomi Smalls on Season 8.
  • Jaida is the third main series winner to have won the political challenge, following Sharon Needles and Bob The Drag Queen.
  • Jaida is the second main series winner to win 2 consecutive challenges, after Violet Chachki in Season 7.
    • She is the first, however, to do so without sharing one of her wins.
  • Jaida is the the fifth main series winner...
  • Jaida is the second main series winner to win the makeover challenge, following Bianca Del Rio in Season 6.
  • Jaida is technically the Lip sync Assassin of Season 12, defeating Sherry Pie in Episode 2, sending Heidi N Closet home in Episode 11, and defeating Crystal Methyd and Gigi Goode in the finale.
  • Jaida is the third main series winner to be crowned over the age of 30 (at 33), after Raja and Bianca Del Rio.
  • Jaida is the fourth main series winner to have not won a Mini Challenge, after BeBe Zahara Benet, Sharon Needles and Yvie Oddly.
  • Prior to auditioning for Season 12, she had also auditioned for Season 7.
  • Jaida designed and created every single outfit she wore in the competition, excluding her tulle dress.
  • Jaida shared on her Instagram that she made her promo dress the day before she went to shoot the promo.
  • Jaida's favorite song to perform to is "Die Young" by Ke$ha.
  • It has been said by her fellow castmates that Jaida had one week less than them to prepare for Season 12, hinting at the possibility that Jaida was originally an alternate.
    • This is supported by the fact that Jaida, seconds after winning, said "I can't believe, like... I was almost not even supposed to be there!", as shown in the Live Reaction to Season 12 Winner video on the RuPaul's Drag Race YouTube channel.
  • Jaida's Season 12 looks' colors make up the Progress Pride flag:
    • White (Frozen Eleganza, Balls to the Walls Eleganza);
    • Pink (Planet of the Capes, Buttons & Bows);
    • Sky blue (entrance look);
    • Brown (Eleganza Extravaganza);
    • Black (Black Wedding, Night of a Thousand Michelle Visages);
    • Red (Basketball Wife Realness, Drag Family Resemblance);
    • Orange (Lip Sync for the Crown look);
    • Yellow (Tulle);
    • Green (Loosing is the New Winning look);
    • Blue (promo look, Stars & Stripes Forever);
    • Purple (Fall fashion look, The Color Purple).[4]
  • Jaida was nominated for the 2020 People's Choice Award for "Choice Competition Contestant."
  • Jaida appeared on 'Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen' alongside Tatianna and Shea Couleé.
  • Jaida is the first contestant to place ‘safe’ 5 times in an All Stars season.
  • Jaida is the first queen on All Stars 7 to receive 3 stars.
  • The cast RuVeal for Season 12 was filmed on her birthday.[5]
  • Jaida is one of the few queens on Drag Race to lipsync to a song by an artist they also impersonated on Snatch Game (Prince). Other queens who have accomplished this include Trixie Mattel (RuPaul), Latrice Royale (Aretha Franklin) and Kylie Sonique Love (Lady Gaga). All of these queens except Trixie won their respective lipsyncs.
  • Jaida was added to the Season Pass of RuPaul's Drag Race Superstar in February 2023, alongside the tag "Essence".

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Videos[]

Lip-Syncs[]

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Discography[]

Appearances[]

  • (2020) "You Don't Know Me" by The Cast of RuPaul's Drag Race, Season 12.
  • (2020) "I Made It/ Mirror Song/ Losing is the New Winning (Las Vegas Live Medley)" by RuPaul's Drag Race Season 12 Cast

Filmography[]

TV[]

  • RuPaul's Drag Race, in Season 12 as contestant. (2020)
  • Untucked, in Season 12 as contestant. (2020)
  • Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, as herself. (2021)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race, in Season 13 as special guest. (2021)
  • RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, in All Stars 7 as contestant (2022)
  • Untucked, in All Stars 7 as contestant. (2022)
  • Trixie Motel, as herself (2022)

Web Series[]

  • Cosmo Queens, as guest. (2020)
  • Hey Qween, as guest. (2020)

External Links[]

References[]

  1. RuPaul's Drag Race Moments of Black Excellence | VH1 | YouTube — February 19, 2021
  2. 2.0 2.1 [1]
  3. https://youtu.be/OSzNQX5zVegbe
  4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNVvPL9RSbs
  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNVvPL9RSbs
  6. [{{{link}}} See Drag Race winners reunite in EW's stunning All Stars 7 portraits] | Entertainment Weekly — April 26, 2022

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