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"Shear Genius" (2.06) recaplet: Undercolor Angels

There are seven stylists left on Shear Genius, including out guys Charlie, Daniel, and Paulo, and this week's episode involved a very dubious rule change, as well as an appearance from Kate Jackson, one of the original Charlie's Angels.

The two challenges on this episode were guest judged by Kim Vo and Kate — or as I like to call them, Scarecrow and Mrs. King — but Kim's challenge, which involved color, really raised my B.S. meter.

The stylists were instructed to color their client's hair as vividly as possible, which leads to a mini-crisis for top-heavy hottie Nekisa after her sink backs up and won't drain, which of course means Charlie gets to put his two cents in:

"Of course Nekisa has some tired ass excuse about how the sink was backing up and effed up her color, and I was like, somehow I don't think it was the sink."

The sink situation also leads to my second favorite line of the night, courtesy of Paulo:

"I wanted more of a Smurf sort of blue color, and I ended up getting what Papa Smurf s**t all over her head."

taste the rainbow

Kim judges the results, and the winner is Charlie, which infuriates fellow stylist Dee, who came in second place:

"That was some buuuulls**t. I was definitely first on that one, man. I don't know what crack Kim was smoking, but that looked like a fricking drag queen, yo, I'm serious."

I agree. Dee's client looked great, while Charlie's looked like Amy Winehouse stumbling through a paint store.

What's worse, winning this challenge means Charlie is immune from this week's elimination, and will not even have to compete. Okay, wait a minute ... Paulo won last week's "elimination challenge", and was told that unlike every previous show, the elimination immunities were over, and now Charlie gets immunity this week?

I have a feeling the producers might want Charlie to stick around for a while, if only for the drama he causes.

Speaking of drama ... Nekisa comes in last in the first challenge (again), which does not sit well with her, and as they all head back to the house, Daniel is afraid of what awaits:

"I am not ready to go to that house. I mean, it is going to be some sort of Alabama dog fight."

Find out what happens with the Charlie's Angels challenge, and who goes home, after the break.

"So what if my husband's new best friend is gay. I trust him completely!"

Back at the house, Charlie and Nekisa (who can fill out a t-shirt like I've never seen) finally have it out, which leads to my favorite line of the night, which is delivered by Charlie:

"Don't you have to be at the porn awards tonight?"

The next morning, the stylists arrive at the salon to see a stereo speaker in the middle of the table. As a voice comes through the speaker and says "Marning stylists!", a horrible realization dawns on me...

Rene Fris has swallowed Bosley!

Actually, it's the Charlie's Angels challenge, and Jaclyn Smith explains that there will be three teams of two stylists, and each team will work on three women to give them updated Angels looks. Because Charlie "won" the fist challenge, he gets to pick the three teams, and while he won't be competing, he will be there to help out. The teams he chooses are Daniel & Paulo, Glenn & Nicole, and Dee & Nekisa. Jaclyn explains that even though they're working as teams, they will be judged individually.

Jaclyn introduces Kate, who looks great for her age, and seeing the two of them together brought back fond memories ... and one not so fond memory.

True story: When I was in second grade, we were doing Mad Libs in class, and when the teacher asked me to name a "sexy star", I started turning red and fumbling with my words. As the other kids started laughing, I blurted out the name of the sexy star of Charlie's Angels, Kate ... Smith.

The challenge starts, and each team puts their own unique spin on the Angels' hairstyles ... with disastrous results.

Daniel & Paulo do the best out of all the teams, but that's not saying much. Jaclyn informs everyone that no one has won this week's competition, but Nekisa and Glenn are the bottom two.

Glenn ends up being booted off, and I'm starting to think the producers are also letting Nekisa stick around for "dramatic" effect, because she's been in the bottom two pretty much all season, but keeps scraping by (btw, the look on Paulo's face when Glenn is cut is priceless, and with that new nose ring, he now looks like a Half-Transformed Were-Bull).

So our three out guys survive another week, and now it's down to six. Next week's show apparently involves using ... seafood ... in hair?, and we'll be here to recap it for you.

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  • pantzini's picture

    Totally agree on Charlie's

    Totally agree on Charlie's style. I mean, that's a wig ok?
    DemonDeac's picture

    Charlie is ok

    I like  charlie on the show...he does add drama but at least he does have some skill...

     

    Nekisa..I swear...that girl has more lives than a freakin' cat.

    And Dee can be a little too much sometimes...I'm just not feeling her anymore...but it might come down to her and charlie in the end

     

     

     

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    cliffdvr's picture

    Ha dee ha ha!

    Fantastic recap!

     Still cracking up over the "Amy Winehouse stumbling through a paint store" and the "Scarecrow & Mrs. King" references.

     And, I guess I shouldn't be surprised by the sly "Making Love" reference!

     Great job! 


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