Pangina Heals

Early life and education

Narkprasert was born in Bangkok to a Thai father and a Taiwanese mother. He attended Shrewsbury International School and Harrow International School Bangkok, where he experienced bullying and struggled with depression and bulimia. He later studied fine arts at the University of California, Los Angeles, living in Los Angeles for four years. After graduating, he returned to Bangkok and spent a year navigating the city's art scene. In 2010 he won a Lady Gaga lookalike competition, earning a trip to New York City to see her perform. Local drag performer Sira Soda taught him how to dress and apply makeup.

Career

Narkprasert chose his drag name as a reference to the drag queen Ongina and the supercontinent Pangaea. By 2011 he was known as Thailand's waacking queen and won T Battle 2014, the country's first reality TV drag competition. He hosted a weekly LGBTQI+ night at Maggie Choo's in Bangkok. He made his acting debut in the play The Lisbon Traviata, portraying Mendy, and opened for Tube Gallery's 20th anniversary fashion show.

He was part of the lineup for Melbourne's Drag Exp in 2020 and hosted Queer Got Talent in June 2021. In 2020 he opened House of Heals, a drag bar in Bangkok. As Pangina Heals, he won Thailand's Lip Sync Battle with a rendition of Lady Gaga's 'Telephone', won T Battle, and competed on Thailand Dance Now. In 2018 he was announced as co-host of Drag Race Thailand.

In January 2022 he was announced as a contestant on the first series of RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World, becoming the first person to have judged an iteration of the show before competing. He won the premiere episode after a lipsync to 'Say You'll Be There' by the Spice Girls and eliminated Lemon. In Episode 3 he won again after a lipsync to 'We Like to Party! (The Vengabus)' by the Vengaboys and eliminated Jimbo.

He was eliminated in the Snatch Game episode by Blu Hydrangea after his performance as Mariah Carey. His drag daughter Felicia Heals appeared in the casting special for the second season of Drag Race Thailand, becoming the first cisgender female queen in the franchise. Heals was profiled in Pailin Wedel's 2026 documentary film Heals, which premiered at the 2026 Inside Out Film and Video Festival.