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Showing posts with label Shear Genius Season 1 Episode 5. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shear Genius Season 1 Episode 5. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Shear Genius Smorgasbord!

This post is all over the map, so strap yourselves in, bitches!

Yes, it's true.



He really is GOAWCHUSS.

Although we have to say, it's a little disconcerting to be introduced to someone and have the very first words out of their mouth be "You're the guys who were talking about my ass!" What do you say in response to that? Well, we have no class, so we responded with "How could we NOT? It's PERFECT!" It wasn't until a day later that we realized (with some relief) that he didn't say "You're the guys who were making fun of my accent!"

Rene is a real charmer and he insists that his ass is nothing to write home about. He attributes it all to the pants he wore. We tried to get photographic proof, but again, how do you stop someone in mid-conversation to ask them for a picture of their ass? "Yes, Rene. This is all very interesting, but would you mind terribly if we asked you to turn around and bend over?"

But enough fawning. Let's rip these bitches!

Oh, Tyson. You're so "street."


If there's one thing every guy with a septum ring wants, it's Liza Minnelli's hair. Look at him. You know he wants to cry.


And kudos to the totally heterosexual Dr. Boogie, who managed to take his client from "dude who works in the used record store" to "gay porn star." It takes real talent to make a garage band bass player look like the star of Puerto Rican Butts II.


Bitches in the kitchen, y'all! DELICIOUS. Check out that table. DRUNK bitches in the kitchen. The producers must've been peeing themselves with delight.


Have we mentioned our love for Tabs? Sure, she underestimated Figjam the weasel boy, but there's something about her raw competitiveness and naked disdain for reality show bullshit that makes for FANTASTIC television.


She likes to pretend that she's above it all, but when crunch time comes, she's rolling around in the mud and loving every second of it.


Somehow, we need to figure out a way to work this sentence into our conversations more. Turn it into a generic insult. "Oh Mary, you're really struggling with your up-do today, aren't you?"

Try it!

As for Figjam...

Puh-leeze, Mary.

Look, all reality show contestants play to the cameras to varying degrees. It would be boring if they didn't. On the other hand, there's a cutoff point. If you go to far, you wind up looking ridiculous.


You're not going into battle to fight the Persians, weasel boy. Tone it down a little. Besides, all this bowing and meditating might have been impressive if there wasn't an entire crew in there shooting the whole thing.

God, our lower backs ache just looking at those cheap-ass beds.

And speaking of cheap-ass...



Sweet Jesus, where did they get those ugly costumes from?

With each passing week, this show becomes less about the stylists and more about torturing the poor wig stands. Oh honeys, we hope you put bandaids on your nipples and a couple of pairs of industrial strength granny panties on your bits, because those dresses look like breeding grounds for skin diseases. We're pretty sure every wigstand goes home at night and sits in her shower, crying, as the scalding hot water does its best to wash away the bad memories.

And on that note...

PREVIEW TIME, POODLES!

The remaining competitors are introduced to yet another legendary stylist who needs subtitling just to understand him and Ben snaps under the strain. Here.

By the way, we never talk about Ben but we kind of love him a little. Not in a sexual way; more in a thank-you-for-entertaining-us way. We love hearing him talk about hairstyling like it's some sort of extreme sport. "Dude, I totally went Tarzan on her hair." We don't know what the hell that means, but we like it. And if you like Ben, then you REALLY need to click play (language warning for those of you with prissy bosses):


Who wants a motherfuckin' haircut? We do, Digital Korruption!!

Thursday, May 10, 2007

BEST. EPISODE. EVER.


"Ma'am, can you tell us which one of these men stole your purse?"


CONGRATULATIONS TAB!! You GO, scary girl!


Hello word, here's a song that we're singin'
C'mon get happy!

Some of the cuts on the men were SCARY-looking. Half of them came out looking like they were wearing toupees, but not our girl's. She did a fabulous job. Yes, little California garage band boy, you just might get a girlfriend now.


And how deliciously comforting to know that she's a girl after our own hearts. When you win, darlings, revel in it. Love it. Roll around in that feeling like a hooker on a heart-shaped bed. She CLEARLY enjoyed handing out the hair assignments.


Which brings us to our next point. DAMN, this show has good challenges. No offense to anyone in the hair industry, but we had serious doubts that this show would be all that interesting to watch. To our delight, they really manage to shake things up and add drama that's fun and bitchy, instead of too exploitive or even nasty, the way some other shows get.

This was just a fun setup, with one of those challenges that's tailor-made for the average viewer. Even if you don't know much about hair styling, you can't help but have opinions about the entries.


Although we've been watching so many musicals lately,we half-expected the wigstands to go into a medley of era-appropriate musical numbers after they flipped over the cards.

Producers? Next season. Trust us on this. We smell Emmy.


Plus, we just love that each round comes with its own advantage for the winner. It gives the competitors more of an incentive to do their best, instead of just doing enough to stay in the game. We laughed our asses off when she handed the Elizabethan box to Tyson, but honeys, it wouldn't be a rivalry if they weren't evenly paired and the editing gave away the win too early.


Congrats to Tyson as well. He's getting the "creepy" edit - and we'll admit, we love it - but he has to be commended for taking a situation that would have left a lot of other people either floundering or lashing out in a spectacular meltdown and really stepping up.


Tabs honey, we loveya, but don't give a talented rival the opportunity to blow the judges away by assigning him a near-impossible task. That's just waving a red flag to a bull.


We think the end result is a little sloppy-looking, but the fact that it was the most difficult and it only took him two hours to do is probably what gave him the win. It really was a spectacular job.


It sucks that Danna was let go. She was really starting to grow on us. Not just for her talent and willingness to be photographed without makeup, but because she was getting more entertaining with each episode. On the other hand, we couldn't argue with the judges' decision.


I'm so glad we had this time together
Just to have a laugh or sing a song...

Ouch. Sure, it's '40s. You can see it in every movie from back then. She was the bank president's secretary, the house mother, the haughty society matriarch, the wise-cracking sidekick. In other words, the ugly one. Baaad choice, even if it was well-executed. Sorry, girl!