It’s makeover day! You know what that means: 1. an awkwardly staged series of puns that are entirely unrelated to makeovers (in this case, Jay as a judge, ’sentencing’ each girl to a particular look). 2. No mirrors and a lot of shrieking. 3. Totally graceless product placement (AS IF any salon is actually using a box of Nice and Easy hair dye).
But since these girls all seem surprisingly well-adjusted (so far, at least – it’s still too early for the sleep deprivation to have kicked in), there’s a minimal amount of tears. Only Nikita doesn’t like her end result – she was promised “modern-day Bettie Page”, but instead received unflattering too-short bangs. She looks like a piece of Lego wearing a wig. Poor girl. Everyone else just looks like prettier versions of themselves. Only Rebekkah gets anything extreme – her dark curly bob is chopped and bleached and she looks like Twiggy, which is not that crazy by Top Model standards (I guess the weave budget is a lot lower up here in Canada).
Speaking of budgets, did they blow the whole season’s budget flying Nigel to that ice floe last week? They’re at freaking H AND M. 15 minutes running around the most cookie cutter chain store in the world trying to create a “look” does not a legitimate fashion challenge make. And that PR lady isn’t helping anything. Although she does look very excited to be on tv. So Rebekkah wins this challenge. Shocking. She’s the only one who actually looks anything like a model.
Ooooh, photo shoot at the AGO! There is no chance any of these girls has the chops to upstage that building. Not even with those creepy shoulder pads all the girls have been forced into.
The editors just have the best time on this show – they cut from Jill saying she thought her photo shoot went well to Nolé snickering over her photos. Mean! And…deserved. Jill goes home. Jay wears a great suit. The guest judge wears an amazing hat and shrieks a lot. Why am I bothering with this show?
