Shear Genius Final Four

It's the final four, y'all. And what an unexpected final four. Well, Anthony and Daisy I can see, but Dr. Boogie and Ben? I'm still scratching my head over those two. I can't believe they sent Tabatha, their best stylist, home last week. I blame Tyson the Troll.

Anyway, we get right to the action this week. After we see Anthony and Daisy's winning wedding style on the Allure Magazine cover, Jaclyn introduces us to our guest judge, Kiyah White. She is a celebrity stylist for mostly African-American women such as Mya, Tyra Banks, and Gabrielle Union.

Short Cut Challenge: Kiyah brings out the models, all gorgeous black women, and explains that the challenge will be to straighten, cut, and style their hair in one and a half hours. Anthony gets first choice, then Daisy, Ben, and Boogie.

Anthony's model just colored her hair the day before, so he can't use a chemical relaxer. He'll have to iron it. Daisy decides not to color her client's hair. It's fairly straight already, so Daisy definitely has an advantage there. Ben is putting so much gunk in his girl's hair he's having to try and take some of it out. To no avail. It still looks heavy and greasy. Yuck. Boogie is the only one actually relaxing his client's hair.

The Results: Kiyah likes that Anthony consulted with his client before beginning, and understands why he made the choices he did based on that consultation. It turns out pretty well. Daisy also consulted with her client, but Kiyah wishes she had put some highlights in the top part. Ben screwed up. Nuff said. Boogie did a great job with the relaxer, but his style sucks. It makes his young model look middle aged. Anthony wins the Short Cut Challenge.

The stylists go to Matthew Rolston Studio. He's a famous celebrity photography who has shot everyone who is anyone, pretty much. The host who shall not be named (Except... did you read his creepy interview on the blog on Wednesday? He gave me the heebie-jeebies. Big time.) greets them, then sends them in to meet with Matthew and Mark, his producer. Where's Luke and John?

Matthew tells the final four that their challenge this week will be to style four different looks he's come up with for a shoot. There's Sex Kitten (wet hair), Diva Star (lighter than air), Retro-Glamour Girl (horizontal hair), and Rebel Rocker (vertical hair). I didn't get what most of that meant until we got to the shoot. I'll explain as we go.

Since Anthony won the Short Cut Challenge, he gets first pick, then gets to assign the rest. He chooses Retro-Glamour for himself, then gives Daisy Sex Kitten, Ben Rebel Rocker, and Boogie Diva Star. Sounds about right. Everyone seems very pleased with their styles.

Back at the loft, they find a huge gift wrapped box and a note from Jaclyn saying it's a gift for the top four. Inside, they find four DVDs. You needed all that box for four little DVDs? And I thought Tyra was overdramatic on ANTM.

How many stylists does it take to open a box?

The DVDs are messages from home. Boogie's is from his son. He cries. Boogie. Not the son. In fact, Boogie says, "tears started falling from my nose." Boogie, I hate to be the one to break this to you, but that snot tears.

Daisy's is from her girlfriend. Aww! Daisy doesn't cry. Anthony's is from his employees. Okay. He doesn't cry either. Ben's is from his girlfriend, his grandmother, and his mother. He cries like a little girl.

Elimination Challenge: It's the day of the photo shoot. They will be judged on how well they work with Matthew, their creativity, and the end product. They have three hours to get ready, but they have to share that time with the makeup artists, manicurist, and stylist.

Boogie is overconfident as usual. He's putting in a ton of weave and calling himself the best weaver in town. He's worked with celebrities and photographers before, so he thinks he has this one in the bag. Pride cometh before a fall, Boogie. And I'm not talking about a hairpiece.

Ben is not so confident. He's really struggling. He's started several hairstyles and abandoned each one. He doesn't want to add any extensions, and he's having trouble getting the vertical height Matthew said he wanted. Boogie gives him some tips, but only after their time is up. Nice.

Anthony is also adding a lot of weave. Matthew comes by and tells him to especially pay attention to her roots. He doesn't want them to show in the shoot. There isn't much Daisy can do with her model. Her hair will be wet for the shoot. Once again, she has the easiest job. At least, that's how it seems to me, but I'm not a hair stylist, so what do I know?

Photo Shoot: The judges are there. For some reason, this seems to surprise all the stylists. Um, you do remember you're in a competition, right? That means you get judged. Duh.

Daisy goes first with her Sex Kitten. Apparently, "sex kitten" means wet and kind of nasty looking. They have to keep hosing her model down. Her hair is dripping wet so it's not like there's really that much Daisy can do with it. Considering how complicated the other styles were, this seems very unfair to me. But again, what do I know?

Anthony's Retro-Glamour girl is next. The horizontal part comes in to play because Matthew is taking the photo from up above while she lies on her back with her hair splayed artfully. Matthew is unhappy with her hairline and asks Anthony to fix it on set. It takes quite a while and Matthew is not happy. It's a lot of pressure on Anthony. I'm a little worried.

Boogie's turn. His lighter than air hair for the Diva Star? Not so light actually. What's worse, though, is the way he keeps stopping the shoot every five seconds so he can fuss with the model's hair. "Stepping in," he yells over and over. At one point, he even calls for makeup, prompting Michael Carl to quip, "The part of Matthew Rolston will be played today by Dr. Boogie." Matthew, for his part, does not look amused.

Ben Rebel Rocker is up last. At first, it doesn't look good for Ben. His model's hair isn't vertical enough for Matthew. Ben plays with it some more on the set and suddenly, it looks great. Matthew loves it. I've decided Ben is the luckiest contestant on a Bravo reality show ever.

Apparently, I too look like a Rebel Rocker first thing in the morning.

Judging: The judges feel Anthony took too long to find a solution to the hairline problem. Matthew is still pissed off that he told Anthony to address it before the shoot and he didn't. They all thought Daisy did well (doing what?) but Matthew thought her model's hair came close to looking tortured. Isn't that a form of torture? Getting sprayed with water over and over?

Matthew loved Ben's rocker hair; Michael not so much. Michael feels he lucked into it. Well, he did. Matthew wasn't pleased with Boogie's style and felt he took over the set. Well, he did.

Deliberations: Anthony should have seen the problem and fixed it before they got on set, but at least he fixed it eventually. Daisy had good presence and did a great job (of combing wet hair). Ben turned it out. Or lucked into a decent look. Whatever. Boogie's arrogance annoys Michael, but Matthew thinks it's insecurity and fear. Either way, nobody wants it on their set.

The Winner: Ben and Daisy are top two. Daisy wins. For combing wet hair. I could have done that! Sheesh.

The Cut: That leaves Boogie and Anthony. (Please, oh, please cut Boogie!) Boogie is cut. Whew. Buhbye Boogie. I won't miss you. At all.

Next Week: The finale! Can someone please explain to me how Ben is in the final three?

Reunion Special! Bonus! I'm also going to give a quick recap of the reunion show. These things are always train wrecks and this one was no different. I wish Bravo hadn't stopped getting the cast liquored up before the reunions, though. That led to some of my favorite Project Runway moments. Who can forget Lupe's nonsensically rambling monologue that ended with Tim Gunn asking her what the hell she'd just said and her admitting she had no idea?

There's nothing quite like that here, but there is a whole lot of gay folks. I mean, first there's host Andy Cohen, judge Michael Carl, and whatever Rene is, then there's Anthony, Jim, and the adorable Theodore all playing for the boy's team. For the girls, we have Tabatha, Daisy, and judge Sally. Plus whatever Boogie is. This is now officially the gayest show ever.

Right away, we learn Tabatha has become the celebrity she deserves to be. Will someone give her a show of her own, stat? She looks great. Andy asks Anthony to rate Tabatha's bitchiness on a scale of one to ten, and he says a six. Tabatha says she's a solid ten. Tyson thinks she's an 11. Whatever, troll. Actually, he's had his hair cut and he looks decidedly less trollish.

Not so trollish now... at least as far as looks go.

We learn that Boogie is still an overconfident camera whore and Evangelin is still crazy. Some things never change.

Good news, fellas! Anthony is single and available. He doesn't come out and say he's gay, but we happen to know he is, so there you go. The other contestants seems to be ganging up on him a bit, saying the success has gone to his head. I'm not sure what that's about. Jealousy much?

Jaclyn joins the fun and tells us that Tyson's Elizabethan style was her favorite and Ben's red carpet monstrosity was her least favorite. We also learn that she got very emotional about the eliminations. She's so cute.

There's an agonizing clip of Rene that feels like it will never end. After his interview here on the blog on Wednesday, he seems weirder and creepier than ever. Finding out he was part of the Fab Five on Denmark's version of Queer Eye doesn't help.

Boogie, who still insists he's straight, is still hot for Rene. He says he wants to get him drunk and take him home. Why can't Boogie just say he's bi or pansexual or even omnisexual? Something? Anything except straight. The man is clearly not straight.

Sally and Michael come out and Evangelin says she cut her own hair with the hedge clippers. You can tell.

No, really? You did that with hedge clippers? And a blindfold? With one hand tied behind your back? I never would have guessed.

There's a fun little bit where everyone gangs up on Tyson and we discover that — shock of shocks — no one liked him. Also, he sicced his mother on Tabatha. Wow. Seriously? No comment.

Then we revisit Hedge Clipper-Gate. Again. Must we? I'm so tired of hearing about those damn things. Why can't we just lock Evangelin up somewhere secure and padded and just pretend it never happened?

Tabatha wins the $10,000 fan favorite award. At least she won something. She should have been in the final three.

The other contestants agree. No one thinks Ben deserves to be in the finals. At least we're all in agreement. The majority seem to think Anthony will win, although Daisy has a sizable cheering section as well. No one picks Ben. I mean, would you?

So who will win? Will it be Anthony, Daisy, or will Ben luck out again? We'll find out next week. See you then.