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# Watch a Makeup Artist Transform Herself Into Ron Swanson

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by 

[Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/)


## Ashley Hoffman


Jul 26, 2016 3:11 PM UTC

by 

[Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/)


## Ashley Hoffman


Jul 26, 2016 3:11 PM UTC

A makeup artist transformed her face into the glorious face of [Ron Swanson](http://time.com/3914672/nick-offerman-parks-and-rec/), [Nick Offerman’s](http://time.com/3595636/nick-offerman-time-for-thanks/) carnivorous _Parks and Recreation_ character.

In a four-minute time-lapse video with 7,448 views so far, Katelyn Galloway, a makeup artist from Austin, Texas becomes everyone’s favorite symbol of masculinity. “I feel as though my whole life has been leading up to this moment, where I can unveil to the world my true self,” she says. The vlogger lays the makeup on really thick, and after she pencils in Swanson’s furrowed brows and applies exactly one fake mustache, she looks exactly like the realest lumbersexual there is.

She even lip reads some of his greatest sayings, like “there’s only one thing I hate more than milk; skim milk, which is water lying about being milk.” Watch below.

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