Jessica had a hard time walking the fine line between making Alex's makeup job bad because she doesn't know what she'd doing, but not so bad that she seems incredibly dumb. I think she did a great job. And holy shit, some of those panels of Alex posing are delightfully cringy.
Those two ninjas are spying on her?!?!?!?
Just doing their ninja duty of scoping out the neighborhood, searching for a magical ninja glove, and, of course, putting to rest their argument over her gender.