The name Sminty Drop comes from me being on a night out and wanting to kiss some boys, so I would always take some mints with me just in case. […] But I’m also a very clumsy girl so I would always drop said mints on the floor so… Sminty Drop I became.
—Sminty Drop,describing the origin of her stage name.[4]
Sminty Drop competed on the fourth series of RuPaul's Drag Race UK. She had been doing drag for approximately three years at the time.[5] She was eliminated in the fourth episode, after placing in the bottom two in an improv challenge and losing a lip sync against Baby to Mel and Kim's "Respectable" (1987).[6][7][8] After the show aired, she toured with her fellow cast members.[9]