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There was a lot less complaining this year compared to last, but there is still plenty of pepole freaked about their new looks. Kim's new red hairdo is a lot more feminine than her old style, and she said that it just wasn't her. When she said that no boy had hair that color, and somebody reminded her that she was not a boy, Kim said, "Yeah, but it's my thing." Hmm, Wesleyan, lesbian, short hair, it's her thing all right; she just shares it with a lot of people. Whatever she thought the outcome was, it gave her face a softer look and Jay told her that she wouldn't have to change the femme boy look she came in with.

Overall, I would say that the changes were dramatic and for the better. You literally couldn't tell the difference between some girls and their previous selves. Sarah's new, shorter cut was perfect and she looked hot with her Ralph Lauren chic style. Coryn's new look was sophisticated, and I guess I would agree that her makeover accomplished that, but it's not like she regressed. Nik had a bohemian chic style that we will probably just call the "Stacie J" from now on. Ebony was given full-length braids that took thirteen hours to accomplish. I am not sure what the judges were going for, but it just screamed "Brandy" when you looked at it. Bre was confident when she saw that they really weren't changing much, meaning that she must have already looked good, but just in case she was thinking of getting a little cocky, Jay made sure to let everybody know that she was still ghetto fabulous by telling the stylist to pay extra attention to the nose hairs.

But of all the changes, the most impressive change was still Cassandra. She looked like she was still not quite ready for the whole thing, and Jay reminded her of what she said in her casting video, specifically "I'm really easy to work with, I'll do what you tell me." The other girls were shocked to hear about her new look, but they were even more shocked to see that Cassandra apparently did have some emotion. Sarah also tries to comfort her a little bit. I think after she had a little taste of Kim, she takes any chance she can get to caress another woman. I'm starting to think she is really starting to think about making her girl-on-girl experiment a full-time thing. Anyway, the judges told her that she had a great look and they did it for more reasons than just to chop off her hair; they thought that her face had a look that not a lot of people have, and the reason for the cut was to bring it out more.

I liked a lot of the makeovers, and although I am sure it helps that all of their before pictures were using polaroids with like no makeup, there were some dramatic changes. Here are the ones I consider most striking. I literally gasped after seeing Lisa and Kyle. (Click on pictures for larger versions).

They were at the salon all day, so when they got home, they learned of their next challenge from Tyra Mail and began to do their own thing. Cassandra still was complaining about her short hair. Some people might have thought she wasn't such a psychopath, with her newfound emotions, but she reminded us just how crazy she was by saying she wanted to sleep with her old ponytail, so she could wake up and be reminded of how her hair used to be. But why stop with just the hair, Cassandra, why not just go for the entire head? Jayla has hair just as long as yours used to be. Hell, why not just sleep with an entire body? I heard they just made a Tom Sizemore blowup doll, complete with special bonus threesome blow up "unknown commercial actress" doll.

For the first mission, the models make their way to the Luxe Hotel in Beverly Hills, where they come face to face with some crazy clown. At least it wasn't a scary clown, unless you consider a large, bald, gay man prancing around Beverly Hills in a Tang-colored outfit frightening, that is. The man was James St. James, one of the original club kids, just in case you couldn't tell that he was over 50 and unattractive, or if you had trouble imagining he did ecstasy and used to be half his current size. James told them that they would have $500 to try and emulate the style that Jay had given them. The girl he chose to be the winner would get to keep her outfit, and she would be the only one.

Now, they let everybody loose into the middle of Beverly Hills, so there was a LOT of things that they could have gone for. There are plenty of high-end places like Prada where they wouldn't get a pair of socks for their money, but there were also a lot of places that you would think was made for what they were looking for. Nik is looking for Bohemian Chic, why not head to Anthropologie? Sarah was told Ralph Lauren, why not walk a few blocks in that direction? Banana Republic, Miss Sixty, Club Monaco, bebe, they were all there ripe for the picking.

The reason a lot of them didn't go to different stores was that they were shopping in groups so everybody could help each other out. Cassandra, who was told to be mod, had absolutely no clue what she was doing, as was the case for Jayla, at least if you were listening to what Kim told her. When Jayla picked up a pair of stonewashed jeans with a pattern on them and wondered why those jeans could have been her style, Kim came back by saying, "because it's ugly." She was stating the obvious, but at least somebody told her.

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Posted by J-Unit on September 29, 2005 10:00 AM