Hi Gasmii! P-Baby here, ready to bring to you the makeover edition of America’s Next Top Model. Does anyone not look forward to this episode in anticipation of full blown meltdowns and the atrocities that are sure to occur? I had the fortunate luck of Mr. P-Baby joining me for this week’s viewing. 90% of the time he hides in our room watching whatever professional sports event is on TV but perhaps because I got him liquored up over dinner, he was feeling a little saucy and decided to throw in his two cents about The Banks.
Mr. P-Baby: “Who put that lady in charge of this show? She was never even awesome. The only way I’d bang her is because I have a rule to bang any famous person who wants to bang me. Or if I was really drunk.”
P-Baby: “What about Kathy Bates?”
Mr. P-Baby: “Yeah, well, she’s pretty famous right?”
P-Baby: “Yes, she sure is, that there is an Oscar winning actress.”
Mr. P-Baby: ”Well then…you heard the rule.”

So the ladies arrive back at Chateau Shitshow and discover an Alice in Wonderlandesque “Pull Me” rope dangling in their living room window. This program is not cool enough to generate a guttural fart sound upon pulling of said rope, so instead a sign falls with a bunch of non-sensical words scribbled all over it that look like a page ripped out of Pervy Uncle Nigel’s diary of naughty thoughts.


Admittedly, some of the makeover ideas sound a little iffy but I find it ironic that Rat Tail Rhonda is the one most upset about what is sure to be her makeover of manly short brown spikes.

The next day the girls arrive at Prive Salon in Hollywood and meet the Js who will be running their makeovers today. Yes, that’s right. These two are in charge of overseeing the makeover transformation to turn these girls into real bookable professional models.

A cute old man named Laurent D credited with the hair styling of Tina Fey and Jennifer Garner pops out from around the corner and I guess he runs the place so he needs to make sure no disasters happen lest he never touch the tresses of Mrs. Affleck again. Miss J tells the girls after their makeover they will jump right into a photo shoot to show off their new looks which we all know by now because this is the 16th cycle of this shit.
So the makeovers commence and all appears to be running smoothly for now. Laurent D chops off Brittani’s hair in a few snips and girlfriend goes from having hair down her back to being on the brink of having a new mortal enemy.
PS. Completely unrelated but if I ever wake up in the middle of the night and see that creepy Dutch Boy asshole staring back at me, I would shit my pants for the rest of my life.
So Brittani’s rocking this dutch boy thing and she’s pretty enough to pull it off but I for one can’t style my hair worth a shit so I’m curious to see how this looks on her like a week from now when left to her own styling devices.
Jaclyn’s makeover idea is Big, Gurly, and Curly. So aside from the fact that we apparently misspell words on purpose to be cutesy, Jaclyn looks exactly the same. Which I suppose is fine because she had pretty hair to begin with but how is this going to lead to totally awesome Rosemary’s Baby Mia Farrow hair tantrums? Boring.

Guys, Monique is a bitch. Plain and simple. I can’t figure out who her personality reminds me of because she’s more of a bitch than starlets will let on publicly. Anyway, she’s happy because she also looks exactly the same as she did before, only now instead of regular hair, she possesses the same stuff on her head that can turn into this.

Monique’s not going to make it in this line of work. She needs to sashay the attitude, eye-fucking face, and sex appeal three lots over to the set of Co-Ed Confidential. (PS. Cinemax After Dark is genius. Don’t watch in HD, though. You’ve been warned.)

Sara’s up next and the very first thing that happens is that her rat tail is set free into the wild. She wants a weave in the worst way and I want her to never, EVER offer her rat tail up for licking in my presence again.

Also, something else that should never happen again? This.

So Sara sees the writing on the wall and realizes she is the recipient of manly, brown spikes. I actually thinks she looks better than the shit she had on her head before but she’s not into it. Doesn’t matter anyway because 1. As clearly displayed by Sara’s neck, her hair grows like wildfire and 2. Like, does she honestly think she’s going to win?

Alexandria’s turn and after getting her abysmal black roots fixed, she starts freaking out about the extensions getting glued to her head. On top of being a model and a gourmet barbecue chicken chef, Alexandria is apparently a jack of all trades and knows everything there is to know about hair extensions. I won’t fault her on the fact that she doesn’t like fake hair because, really.

But I will fault her for talking down to the hairdresser, crying, and saying the words, “My way is the right way.” Oh, she also looks the same. What the hell, makeovers?

Dominique’s hair is going red with matching eyebrows. Dominique bores me, so here’s a summary. She cries, then gets a weave put in, then likes the end result.

Molly. Oh, Molly. This is going well, isn’t it?

Molly is the recipient of something that looks like it’s going to go just horribly wrong. Laurent D puts it brilliantly.

Even Miss J defects a little bit, acknowledging it looks like a shit sandwich, trying to figure out a way to style it for the photo shoot and then attempting to fix it after the fact. Molly is handling having a Glam Rock Hair Band wig sewn to her head pretty well. I like Molly. She can stay.

Mikaela is the third model to just get extensions to go with her already standing head of hair. So…she looks the same, only even more Vulturri-ish.

Kasia gets the same kind of hair as Molly, only for some reason, Kasia’s doesn’t look like shit. Well, it kind of does but that’s not the point. The point is Kasia’s head can pass for normal.

Dalya gets a long, straight-haired weave sewn to her head. This is the most of weavings and extensions I think I’ve ever seen on this show before. It seems like in seasons past there was a lot more playing with colors and edgy hair cuts, etc. Maybe the Italian Vogue influence told Tyra to stop fucking around with 1998 haircuts.

Hannah got highlights and her eyebrows lightened. She seemed to have a ton of hair on her head to begin with so it appears as though she escaped the weave nonsense and got her color palette a little more cohesive.

So the makeovers are over. Half the girls look exactly as they did prior to arriving at the salon, albeit with better makeup and longer hair. Molly played her cards right, not complaining at the salon but blowing a gasket in the car ride home, away from the professionals, and away from those who would chastise her and tell her that models don’t get to complain or have opinions. Her natural hair is already visibly rejecting the weave that sits atop it and this face makes me want to be her BFF.

Doesn’t it feel like we’ve been talking about hair for 8 hours? I’m positively exhausted. Good thing there’s Tyra Mail to rescue us. ”Tomorrow you’ll learn about photosynthesis.” Shockingly, Sara seems to know that photosynthesis has something to do with plants and guesses that they’ll be dressed as flowers.
The girls arrive at the photo shoot the next day and meet photographer Pamela Hanson and stylist Lori Goldstein. Lori Goldstein was adorable last season, I think, and is equally as cute this season. The girls are going to be wearing couture designs and posing in groups because there’s still 11 of them and group shots are the lazy man’s way of determining who’s going to be a standout this season.
Lori gets busy styling the girls in these over the top dresses that I am totally digging and it almost seems like it’s a little too early into the season to be putting these girls in outfits like this. I feel like episode three should be like modeling the I-N-C Macy’s brand stuff rather than Carolina Herrera. Not that there’s anything wrong with I-N-C stuff, but come on. These girls are only a couple weeks out of their American Eagle jeans and H & M shirt vests.

Side note: Am I the only one that misses the days where people knew how to dress for the Oscars?




First up in the shoot are Molly and Kasia. Molly’s hair is disguised by a Mad Hatter concoction and both girls look very pretty. Since their shoot is fairly uneventful, let’s go back to Alexandria who is busy crying in her chair AGAIN because her head hurts or something dumb like that. Then, her lip starts swelling because of a “pimple.”

Gasmii, this photo shoot is pretty boring so I don’t think we need to beat the dead horse. Here are a few photos from it. Takeaways are that Alexandria was mean to Monique so Monique didn’t pose well, Sara is struggling with her androgynous look (which is odd because I know she didn’t just all of a sudden look like a man. That shit’s been going on for years.) and Dominique is the third wheel in her photo.


So this entire time I thought there were 12 girls left because that’s normally what there is but there’s actually only 11 and I feel dumb. Oh well. So after this panel and elimination, there will only be 10 girls left. I’m half-Asian. I’m supposed to be half good at math. Guess those genes aren’t as strong as I thought. Thanks for nothing, Mom.
Back at the house, everyone is afraid of Alexandria because Alexandria is confusing being competitive and strong with being a royal bloody bitch. I’m sure this will come to a head, like her “pimple” at some point but tonight is not that night.
At panel, the Talleywhacker is back!!! Thanks cattyfan for coining the moniker! I was concerned that after choosing the most perfect name for Andre’s friend that it would be gone but no, fortunately as we’ve seen on seasons past, insane panel fashions have a tendency to stick through an entire cycle.

Let’s get to these critiques and photos.
1. Monique and Alexandria. These two idiots hold hands walking down the runway to the panel like Monique didn’t just sit and pout for five minutes because Alexandria was mean to her. Alexandria looks like Marcia Brady tonight but she does rock a pair of mom jeans way better than Jessica Simpson ever did.

The judges love their picture, with Alexandria getting kudos for rocking the picture but scolded for being a brat behind the scenes.

2. Brittani and Hannah. The judges love this picture too, with Brittani being called out for her makeover turning her into a star.

3. Dalya, Jaclyn, and Dominique. Dalya and Jaclyn are applauded for whatever they’re doing in their picture and poor literally red-headed stepchild Dominique is basically told she ruins the picture.

4. Sara and Mikaela. These two twigs leave much to be desired. I think Mikaela is going to fall victim to being very striking in person but unable to translate it into being a “model.”

5. Molly and Kasia. The Banks tells Molly if she stays that they’ll have to take care of that hair. Which leaves me to wonder, if she gets eliminated, would she just leave as is and be responsible for fixing the nightmare Banks just attached to her head? That seems sort of fucked. Not that I’d expect anything less. Never fear, though, as the judges love the picture and think Molly was the standout in it.

In the end, the judges hand over best photo to Alexandria but warn her that her diva antics are bullshit and to cut it out. I’m sure giving her best photo is going to change her attitude henceforth. Sara and Dominique land in the final two with Dominique getting the heave ho from The Banks. Gasmii, what did you think of the makeovers? Is Tyra over it? Why does everyone look the same? Come back next week for the return of my little lovely cannoli Francesco Carrozini!!

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Yeah! P-Baby, thanks for a great recap. I felt soo bad for Molly, they were bragging before the trainwreck that is her weave, how this was a such a “cutting edge” weave that they flew in an expert to do it. It was unbeweavably bad (sorry I couldn’t help myself!!) That Alexzandria girl gets on my last nerve, she reminds me of the girl (I cannot remember her name), that was blonde and lived in Hawaii, had a husband and a baby and all the girls hated her. I don’t like that Sara either. I’m routing for Hannah (who looks just like Anilee (sic).
If Brittani has straight hair like I do, and since I generally refer to it as “trailer park hair”, then the quality of the cut will pretty much dictate whether or not it looks good. I can’t style my hair worth a damn because it doesn’t hold any style, but whenever I’ve gotten a high-quality bob, I could just blow it dry and brush it into place in the last minute of drying and it would look fine for the rest of the day. But then, my hair doesn’t even frizz in humidity.
Also, I remember watching an episode of “The Agency” where Sean Patterson from Wilhelmina actually balked at a client wanting to cut and color one of his newer model’s hair for one shoot because, as he said, she was new and the style would limit her ability to book more jobs for several months unless the other clients wanted that exact look. According to him, extreme and specific hair can be achieved with wigs so a model’s hair should actually be as non-descript as possible.
But I’m surprised no one told Alexandria she looks like Jerry Hall in that picture because she totally looks like Jerry Hall. But not awesome like Jerry Hall was in the late 70s. Just kind of a dead-eyed version of Jerry.
HATE ALEXANDRIA !!!!! Hope she has a meltdown at a photoshoot and has a horrible picture. Not sure any of the girls this season have a “likeability factor” or not this go round. And the diva’s have no style or finesse, just bitchiness in abundance. Still hoping for a girl that I can root for or a true diva that I will love to hate.
And featherhead, I think you are trying to remember Renee Alway from cycle 8
Melrose, Featherhead! I thought the exact same thing, but for whatever reason, Alex is like a hired pro bitch. She is destined to be an evil step mother, or house mother for an orphan school, or just queen bitch of the universe. Sadly, she’s a lock for top three, with Brit and Molly and thankfully one of them winning, Brit I think.
Make overs were pretty boring, and i felt pretty bad for Dom, forgot to mention, I actually liked her photo from last week, so unusual, weirdly like an Ivory Snow ad, updated to include racial diversity . . . ahem . . . why god, why!? I’m cursed, cursed!
It’s taking more effort for me to continue liking Mr. Tally . . . he’s more mean girl than ever. BTW, Mr. J was very sceptical of that approach to a weave–she could have at least dyed her hair to match. I did think Molly was a tad bitchy about it, at least her puss was.
The clothes were gorgeous, and Tyra certainly has infused the show w more credibility and talented name people. i hope it’s worth it for them!
Thanks P and Mr. P, I kind of agree on the fame f ing, but more than many times, I’ve come across a few . . . it’s amazing what the light of day can reveal in shallowness, and what a screaming turn off it is.
Someone mentioned Scott Glen . . . hate to shit on him, but no, I mean I would love to shit on him, but hate to ruin (possibly) anyone’s fantasy. When I first came to LA, low about 17 years ago, we stayed in a fancy hotel, due to some connections of my brothers, but boy were we out of place! We weren’t there ten minutes before we spied Mr. Glenn at the end of the hall, headed to the elevators. He looked at us like we were pond scum, like we were going to rush him and beg for autographs or something. That look of discust will never leave me, and I hate, hate, hate him for it. Even if it were so, that is no way to reguard fellow human beings, and I didn’t then, and don’t now consider him some kind of super star, so suck it Glenn!
P-Baby — My first screengrab in my Desperate Housewives recap was of Annie Wilkes too. Great recappers think alike.
Featherhead — you’re thinking of Renee (Cycle 8), who is one of my personal favorites (she should have won). I think Alexandria is much, much more of an arrogant diva than Renee ever was.
No featherhead is right, Hannah looks JUST like Analeigh. I don’t know the number of the cycle, but the one with marjorie and Elina. Mckey was the winner of that cycle, I think.
Alexandria’s 35, right? Isn’t that a bit old for modeling these days?
Brittini (huh?) and Hannah are both cute. I’ll take ‘em. Could someone wrap them up for me? I like the angry blonde chick with the weave too.
But obviously, if I like a girl on this show, it means she’ll be cut soon enough. Sigh. If fashion were run by hetero guys, all the girls would be naked.
Thanks for the recap. My VCR hates me…or maybe it hates Tyra. I’m not sure. Either way, I did not get to see this episode.
Thanks, too, for letting me name the garish chapeau
Always assume the hate is directed towards Tyra.
My top three this season are Brittani, Molly and Hannah. I like Jaclyn, but she definitely won’t be in the top 3. Hate Alexandra and Monique is a cow too.
Also, I am IN LOVE with that dress that Jaclyn was wearing. I want it, RIGHT NOW.
ding ding ding, that’s the one, Hypno-I was picturing her on the boat looking Sharon Stone-ish. Just got my top three bitchy blonde wrong.
Itchy, does that mean Andre’ would be wearing the emperor’s new clothes-nooooo!!!
Alexandria and her creepy huge forehead terrify me a little and I don’t think I’m alone in thinking that Dominique looks like a drag queen with a bad, bloaty hangover.
Vallegirl, YES – that’s exactly what I thought. Jerri Hall without the fun infusion = wicked queen. And not the good kind of wicked queen!
Oh judd, in the real world, that Andre guy would be working in a Dunkin Donuts. On the Midnight to 6 am shift.
I think Brittani looks a lot like Analeigh Tipton from cycle 11, anyone else see that? Dom got the shaft in that third wheel photo. Also, this season I think the looks of the girls have gone a bit down the tubes from previous seasons, or maybe just the makeovers are bad or something.
I think you mean Hannah. Brittani is the girl who got the dark brown bob. Hannah is in the picture with her.
I just realized who Sara looks like- Christopher Eccleston, the second Doctor Who! Speaking of ugly/hot dudes I’d bang like a drum (Eccleston, not Sara).
Ah yes, Analeigh. So she has an actual career now? Good for her. Maybe I’ll watch the Green Hornet after all.
I was on Alexandria’s side in chicken-gate, but she was pretty bitchy this episode. However, it feels like strategy to me. She knows the bitch gets all of the camera time, so she might be amping it up for that reason.
I don’t think it is Tyra that is pulling in the big names. I think it is Andre who is pulling in the big names. He has actual weight in the fashion industry and has Vogue to back him up.
The makeovers were a bit meh, but I did think that Brittani’s was great. She looks like she should be in a French film noir. Gorgeous. And I also thought the quirky androg girl looked SO much better with the makeover. I didn’t really see anything in her before but now she sort of looks like a model.
Thanks for a great recap!
I never have a hard time believing that people who act like assholes really are assholes. Because if your go-to “strategy” is to be a bitch then, well, you probably didn’t have to go anywhere to enact it.
You misunderstand. I’m not saying she isn’t a bitch. That is pretty obvious.
What I am saying is that she may be exaggerating it to get more air time. She definitely seems like a schemer to me. And in that sense, she does remind me of Melrose. But I agree with some others that her look sort of reminds me of Renee (who I honestly thought didn’t entirely deserve her edit).
I understood, I just read that every season of every reality show I watch and I think it just gives the contestants too much credit for thinking beyond “Who’s a pretty pony?”
I think there are two contestants I can name who I believe genuinely crafted a persona for their respective shows that garnered them more attention during filming and in post, and they’re Dr. Will from BB and Miles from WoA, and both kind of outsmarted their fellow contestants more than anything else, but both also have actual performance experience in their background.
Alexandria is just a dumb arrogant OC blonde who can look like Jerry Hall from the right angles. I have no doubt that was more than enough to make her the cooze she is on the show, without plotting to be even worse.
oh yeah thanks vallegirl totally Nikki looks like Analeigh who actually managed to get some cool jobs since the show! I think the bitch girl, is it alexandria? she is a plant on the show for drama right? she has kind of that smoker look with wrinkles already – I think she must be a chain smoker. they never show em smoking or drinking anymore, how boring.
LOL itchy, if a hetero guy ran fashion, you will see more normal size women with bigger boobs on runways, not the toothpicks we see all the time.
Having said that, there is the risk of seeing “glamour” model girls that you see in penthouse and those types of magazines in our faces, and i dont want that LOL everytime im at the supermarket these “girl next door” magazine covers and their Double D boobs make me laugh. straight male fantasies are weird….
anyway the makeover’s were dull, but then again 3 episodes in and the most drama we saw was uncooked chicken in the fridge.
I want more CRAZY ass challenges, hang these girls off wires, with monkeys & bats, upside down from a skyscraper to model jimmy choos.
screw the “personality” shit, nobody cares, look at kate moss, bitch got caught with coke and burberry signed her for another 3 years!
they probably thought, “ahh kate, 12 grams of coke…that girl is looking after her weight”
and what is tyra’s problem with swimwear, i have not seeing any swimswear photo shoots in 3 cycles. there are plenty of high paid girls who do swimwear as well. its like a global $13 billion industry.
couture garden party was yawn.
I mean HELLO isnt 1950s glamour in season for the past 2 seasons in paris/new york? why hasn’t she done anything like that?
bitch doesnt know trend if it hit her fat ass.
anyway couture garden party is boring as cardboard, if you are doing couture, you have the license to go all out crazy!! ITS COUTURE.
should be done an alice in the wonderland theme or something wacky.
the girls in the photo didnt know where to look, i mean mikaela was looking down???
anyway that girl who got eliminated, she is the second girl not to kiss tyra’s ass. in her post interview, she said this “isnt” a modelling competition. ah duh!
but she said, nobody ever gives them directions that makes sense “i.e make your bone structure softer…”
and she also said, they take lots of photos, and you never get to see the other photos, you only see 3 minute clips of their 2 hour photoshoot showing the “struggling” bit and then panel time. tyra picks “the bad” photo and you are eliminated.
OMG i was soo obsessed with ranting i forgot about Francesco Carrozzini.
OH that FINE PIECE OF MAN is going to be on next week!!!
hands off ladies! its nice to be ghey and appreciate his fine italian.
P-Baby i hope you devote like 3 pages ALONE for screenscrab of him.
he is one fine man candy! yes he is! okay, im calm.
Pretty uneventful for a makeover episode i might say.
Aside from Molly and Dominique’s weaves, there were no disasters and aside from Brittani no really drastic changes.
I steel enjoyed a few things.
1. At last, a real high fashion shoot with a famous stylist at work and gorgeous dresses and gowns.
2. Lori Goldstein saying : “A little John Galliano never hurts anyone” while styling one of the girls. I was like : “Yeah, unless you are jewish”.
It is surprising that this little tidbit was not edited out after the Galliano antisemitic meltdown.
3. Jaclyn saying that if Alexandria kept being a huge bitch, she would confront her. Could you imagine Jaclyn having a fit ?
It would be like… a baby poodle barking at you in a southern accent.
4. Molly having a fit in the limo about her horrible weave. It just lacked Willow Smith’s “Whip my hair” as musical bacground while she was tossing her hair.
Seriously, it is one of the worst makeover in the history of ANTM.
As for Alexandria, I had high hopes for her a the start because I like crazy delusional bitches but in the end… bitch is no Jade.
She will probably be sent overseas like every other bitch with potential that ever came to this show and then be sent home during the last two weeks because she looks old.
My pick for final 3 : Brittani, Molly and Hannah(Leigh).
Lovely recap as always P-Baby. This season is very disappointing.
Oh, loopygorilla, I grew up in a time when the fantasy girls on the magazines still had actual breasts instead of airbags. AND they had pubic hair. Yes, it’s true, once upon a time, girls still had pubic hair, this is not just another one of your grandma’s crazy stories.
One thing that’s interesting is how Tyra’s size and shape changes from season to season. And this season she appears to have been eating more. Too bad Andre got rid of his mumus.
Alexandria looks like she’s 35 — didn’t they get rid of that other blonde because she photographed ‘old’? (Gasp! she looked like she was almost 20, the old hag). The fashion industry is just ridiculous.
Can we keep Sarah (rat-tail) around for a few more episodes to see if we get more quotes like what she said about feeling like “dirty Smeagol in the corner” after the makeovers. Or is my inner geek showing?
anyway Itchy, im gay but i do take a sneak peek at boobs sometimes, lol i dont know why.
But i cant stand those fake double FF/GG whatevs. seriously, if i was straight, i doubt id be into those gigantic size boobs that dont look natural at all, anyway clearly i dont understand guys who are into giant pamela anderson types.
Anyway Yes its sad that we have all being brainwashed to say 20 years photograph old lol.
But you know Alexandria will get the same feedback that Chelsea in the last cycle did, they will say she looks “last season”.
And i hate to admit it, but she does, i followed NY fashion week and all those toothpicks who walk looked like fetuses.
Its the reason why Australia and New Zealand’s next top model allows 15 years and 9 months old contestants, and 23 year olds never make it past 5 episodes, because the judges start with the “you are too old” story.
And its actually abit creepy when you watch AusNTM and NZNTM and the 15 year olds are glammed up like pussycat dolls and told me pose “like you are selling sex”.
Plus one of the “mentors” aka the “Mr Jay” on AusNTM was kinda fired from that role, cuz dude is like 32 years old and he bonked one of the 16 yr old contestants.
So last season the producers decided to be safe and brought in a gay dude mentor instead (Yes he cries with the girls ALL the time and dresses like its circa Studio 54 and performs jazz dance moves with JAZZ HANDS) but at least he wont get it on with the underage girls.
Anyway, this season needs some red bull or something.
bring back the male models, start affairs, DO SOMETHING!