Shear Genius 3- I'm Totally Stealing Your Model

Before any challenges can even begin this week, someone is already saying good-bye. 43 year old Giacomo decides to "gracefully bow out" of the competition after only one week of being on the show. His reason for leaving, he says, is that he has "3 beautiful babies at home that he's having a hard time without them." The rest of the stylists aren't buying his excuse for quitting, nor am I.

In this week's shortcut challenge the stylist's were faced with highly over processed blondes with their goal being to give them a more natural look. The real challenge was to restore the hair's condition and make it look healthy. Adee, who gets first pick of his model, already knows he's in "deep water" when he finds out it's a color challenge. To make matters worse, he picks the model with probably the most hair. While one model in particular stands out to Brig as the one she would never pick, she uses reverse psycology on Matthew who has the next to last choice. Watch in this video to see her plan.


Brig's plan seems to work when Matthew picks "her model" but Brig soon finds out that her plan actually backfires when Matthew takes the win in the shorcut challenge. Brig admits to having underestimated Matthew's color skills.

For the elimination challenge the sylists have to create a style inspired by a menu of Chef Jason Johnston. Executive Chef of Dakota Restaurant in LA. The dishes range from the Dakota burger to beet salad to tiramisu. Some of the stylist's who really impressed the judges, including guest judge Warren Tricomi, were Matthew with his yellow tail inspired style, Brian who redeemed himself from the shortcut challenge with his chocolate mousse dessert creation and Jon who was the overall winner with his beautifully crafted barrel curl scallops.

In the bottom 3 this week were Arzo with an "old lady updo" style inspired by a spicy tuna dish, Brig whose tiramisu inspired style resembled an "inter-ratial snowman" and Amy once again with her burger inspired style which Kim Vo said "looked like you stapled bologna to her head and threw her into a pirana tank." Ouch! You can see all the looks that the stylist's created in the Bravo Photo Gallery.

With all men in the top 3 and all women in the bottom 3 I hope the ladies step it up next week. In the end Arzo was cut, or "dissed" as she calls it. Disapointed because she felt she did some "kick ass" work and shouldn't have been eliminated second.

Although Amy has been in the bottom 3 the last 2 weeks there is just something about her that I really like and she remains one of my top favorties. My guess is that Brig will soon follow Arzo, but you'll have to tune in next week to find out whose style gets cut and who is Shear Genuis.

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