Before Tuesday's Rose Parade broadcast, she spent an hour in the makeup room and wore false eyelashes and hair extensions, she said.

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Antwon, my hairstylist, is in his room twirling my wigs up and I sit with a turban on with a freshly washed face to start makeup.

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