"Feels like beauty and the beast"- Olympic champion Masai Russell offers a glimpse of her 'alter ego' while doing makeup before the 2024 Athlos NYC

Masai Russell has shared that she steps into her alter ego and her 'beauty and the beast' space when doing her makeup before track meets. The 23-year-old recently clinched her 100m hurdles title at the 2024 Summer Games at the Athlos NYC.

Russell won the 100m hurdles in 12.25s at the 2024 US Olympic trials and qualified for her debut Games in the French capital. In the finals in Paris, the 24-year-old outpaced the Tokyo Olympic champion Jasmine Camacho-Quinn and stopped the 100m hurdles clock at 12.33s to take the victory.

She then took the track and clinched a couple of podiums in the Diamond League installments. Shortly after, at the 2024 Athlos NYC, Russell finished with the bronze in 12.44s against her Olympic rival Camacho-Quinn. In a recent video, she showed off her make-up skills, recorded before her Athlos 100m hurdles race.

In the video, she shared stepping into her alternative personality while doing makeup before a track event. She referred to the co-existence of both sides as 'beauty and the beast'.

"For me personally, I feel like I'm stepping into my alter ego when I'm doing my makeup. I'm stepping into that girl on the track; the makeup has to be done. I just feel like a beauty and a beast," she said in the GRWM video for Self Magazine.

The olympian started with moisturizing her face followed by concealing the darker areas. She acknowledged getting stressed out while perfecting her eyebrows while applying blush on her cheeks. Russell then set her blush with bronzer and capped off her makeup fake eyelashes, highlighter, and setting spray.

Masai Russell shared what impacted her 100m hurdles race at the 2024 Athlos NYC

Masai Russell reacts to the gold medal win at the Olympic Games-Paris 2024 - Source: Getty

Despite finishing third at the Athlos NYC, Masai Russell complained of a flinch at the starting line of 100m hurdles. She talked about playing 'catch up' the whole race and felt disappointed when the deserving didn't win the prize money.

"I want to protest because as anyone can see, there was a lot of flinching going on at the starting line, so that kind of affected me. I was playing catchup the whole entire race. So you know, it is a big prize money on the line and I think the person who ran the legal race should get the prize money they deserve," Russell told CITIUS Mag. (0:47)

After her race on September 26, Masai Russell exuded pride in being a part of a celebration of women athletes.