Shear Genius VS. Top Design

7) The stylists get to choose the models in innovative ways. Tyson walking through the line of models while touching their hair was priceless and a little creepy. (I love creepy.) In the second episode, only the top three short cut challenge winners got to see which celebrity hairdos their models wanted. Cool. In the third challenge, Tyson got to try his hand at strategy. Even better.

8) Most of Shear Genius is focused on the actual competition. Top Design wasted too much airtime following the judges around, and filming them taking notes or walking through the design sets. Their snooty discussions were so tiresome that I kept yelling at the screen – “Show the designers, you morons!”

9) Jaclyn Smith’s voice is sexier than Todd’s. And, despite that fact that she's worn the same hairdo since the middle ages, she knows hair.(Padma could take some hostessing lessons from her!)

10) Rene Fris.

There are more reasons why this show rocks, and one can never predict chemistry. I and a few million other people are having fun watching Shear Genius and that’s all that counts. Ms. Place

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Anthony, who's talented and interesting and yummylicious.(He's this week's winner in the center.)
Daisy who cries at the drop of a hairpin and who reminds me of my good friend Leslie.

Dr. Boogie. 'Nuff said.

Then there's Theodore, who worked without a shirt. ICK! His armpit hair hung over his model's face! Double ick. It's a wonder she didn't upchuck her lunch when he was working on her.

Paul Jean was the first hair artist to get CUT!
Dahlings, he deserved to get booted. In fact, his terrible "do" reminded me of Cruella de Ville.

In fact, can you see a resemblance between his "peak" and the stylists' first toast? Even though Paul Jean came from Nice, he didn't come across as very nice. Ta, ta, dahling. I wish you all the best.
As for our second auf'd designer - Jim - personally I liked him, but boyoboyoboy did that beet hair color suck.
His model should receive an Emmy for pretending to be calm, cool, and collected. Look at her "Little House on the Prairie" smile as she stood in front of the judges and you'll see what I mean!

When I saw her hair, I was reminded of Chuckles the Clown. (A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your pants!)
Congratulations, Bravo, for getting it right this time! I love this show. Love Jaclyn. And am salivating over Rene Fris. Hubba, hubba, hubba.

Dahling, take your finger outta your mouth or I've gotta go and douse myself with ice cubes.


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Roots: the Nexxus Generation

At the start of the episode some guy from Nexxus tells the geniuses what their quickfire challenge will be:

Nexxus Guy: "You need to turn the hair on your mannequin head as red as this sample I have here. This is a level 8 red and you have two hours to reach it."

Tabatha says she wants to hit Evangelin with her mannequin head and then sprays herself in the face with water:

Tabatha: "You see, this is why I usually have a shampooer make my catty remarks for me so I can concentrate on what I'm doing."

Jim is frantically looking through the color books to find exactly the right color of red. Boogie turns the hair a lovely color of blue. How did he do that? Lacey is complaining:

Lacey: "How am I expected to bleach in $100 boots?"

What difference does it make if you're wearing cheap boots?

Lacey: "These aren't cheap boots! I didn't get them at Pay-Less! I got these at Wall-Mart!"

Well, the quality obviously matches the rest of your outfit.

Lacey: "Oh, thank you!"

Sure. Anyway, Tabatha wins because she's an expert on dying her own hair. Evangelin and Ben round out the top three and they have an advantage in the elimination challenge.

Rene is waiting back at the apartment. Ooh, I wonder what the challenge will be!

Rene: "Sssst! Zip it!"

Wow. Relax.

Rene: "You know when a client walks into your salon and has ..."

Geniuses: "Rutabagas, rutabagas, rutabagas."

Rene: "Exactly. Well, that's what this challenge is going to be about."

What?! I have no idea what they said! What's the challenge?!

Rene: "Sssst! Zip it!"

Jeez, what a bitch. Seriously, what the hell is Rene's problem? He is really annoying in this episode. Anyway, apparently the challenge is about making your client look like a picture of a celebrity. The winning geniuses from the quickfire have a major advantage this time. Not only do they get first pick of the clients but they will learn what celebrity their clients want to look like ahead of time. The rest of the geniuses won't find out what celebrity they need to turn their clients into until the challenge begins. How exciting!

Rene: "Sssst! Zip it!"

I've had it with you! You are not going to appear in the rest of this recap. OK, so the challenge is to take their client and a picture of a celebrity and then turn their client's hair bright red.

Well, if that actually had been the challenge, Daisy and Jim would have done a great job. Daisy talks to her client for an hour and a half and then dyes her hair red and pulls it back into a bad prom do. This is supposed to make us think of Christina Aguilera.

Eminem: "Christina Aguilera better switch me chairs."

Whatever you say. Jim bleaches his client's hair and then dyes it red to make her look like Gwen Stefani:

Jim: "Well, the color was all uneven so I just dyed the whole thing this beautiful Ronald McDonald red. I really saved the fucking day!"

The judges don't think so. Poor Jim. At least he tried. He really attempted to do Gwen Stefani; he just failed miserably. But I still think he deserves more credit than Daisy, who didn't do anything at all except complain.

Judges: "Daisy, if your client said she wanted something impossible, you should have just told her to go someplace else."

Daisy: "Um. But then I wouldn't have had a model for this challenge."

Judges: "Oh, yeah. Never mind."

Jim is out and Daisy is safe. Sorry Jim; we'll miss you!

I can't quite remember who the rest of the celebrities were but it was something like this:

Tabatha was supposed to make her client look like Baby Spice.

Ben was supposed to make his client look like Lady Diana.

Evangelin was supposed to make her client look like Chuck Berry.

Tyson was supposed to make his client look exactly the same.

Danna's client was supposed to look like someone but nobody knows who.

Anthony's client already looked exactly like Jessica Simpson so he made her look like Jaclyn Smith.

Theodore's client wanted to look like Jessica Simpson but nobody cared because they were too interested in how stupid he looked.

Lacey's client wanted to look like Ross from Friends.

Dr. Boogie's client wanted to look like a walking skeleton.

Once again, Jaclyn Smith chooses the the hair that looks like her own. Anthony wins!

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