Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Challenge 8 Results

I SWEAR PEOPLE, I am never using blogger for an online contest ever ever again!
It just decides when it feels like loading for you. Blah!

So. Anyway. Welcome back everyone for the 3rd to last time until the very exciting final collections. It seemed you girlies had all kinds of fun this week, and for that I'm glad.

But the fun stops here.

Let's recap why challenge 8 was such a hoot:

Not to be confused with a few queens you guys worked with last challenge, this week you will be assigned an all new breed of client-Drag Queens! That's right, men dressing up as crazily extravagent women. There is not possible way you can play this challenge safe and come out okay-there must be decedence! Wearability is not so much a concern here. The goal is to capture the persona of your 'client' and go crazy.
You will be using woman's clothing for this challenge. Size, proportioning, all that is unnecissary, as long as that certain dragalicious vibe is still there...Don't forget to include makeup and a wig!

Honestly, everyone did much better than I feared. I don't know how you 6 possibly came up with sets for drag queens, but you did, and it was magnificent.
On the bright side, everyone made it this week. On the not-so-peachy side, one of you will be eliminated this morning.

Lets get on with critique!

CRITIQUE

The Bradlo-So, you have a wig, and a dress, and a white boot and they all are so perfect for a go-go-dancer drag queen named Marsha Mellow. But in the execution we feel you fell short. Yes, make-up is important in this challenge, but the way you presented it to us was a bit overwhelming and that visually appealing. It's not that it's a terrible set by any means, its just that we talked about space and balance for weeks now and we feel this late in the game it could be better. As one judge said, "It looks like you're hiding something from us. I wanna see! I wanna see!"

Lola-Out of all the contestants, we feel you did the best job getting that insane drag queen look down. The outfit is so crazy and wild and perfect! Your character you had is being played out really well, and it seems like you had a lot of fun doing it. Your layout is a little lopsided, at least compared to some of your other sets, which I think mostly had something to do with the heart clutch being in the right cornor and that being the only red thing. It works in the overall outfit, though. Keep it up!

Incubeautee-You always have such an excellent eye for detail, from the pies to the manequin husbands, its brilliant! Although your outfit, maybe besides the glittery shoes and the pagent/southern church in the 1950s costume feel, isn't the most...insane and drag-a-licious, this was made up for by your near perfect layout and hilarious creativity. With the right mix and placement of colors, you have done a great job of making what should've been a cluttered set incredibly visually appealing, at least I think so.

Ellie-We all the love Marie Antionette route-there's a lot of Over-the-top to work with there. The items you chose were great, though maybe a little soft dor Drag, worked for the theme [one judge does think lingerie would've been a great additon, and I agree.] What all the judges agree on is this is not your best layout. You have done mosaic beautifully in the past, but for whatever reason this one feels disjointed, a bit unbalanced. We think that it's the size and amount of items-there's nothing to achor the set in any direction, and our eyes get a bit overwhelmed jumping from place to place.

BBGal Well, I'm really proud of you because I think you are really listening to critiques regarding layout, and i like this wider one much better. Any other challenge this outfit would've belonged on a stripperl, but here you did a good job making a drag disco queen [I'm especially digging the shoes.]. Although one judge feels its a little sterotypical and expected, and another judge still wasn't so sure about the tiny nature of the left side of the set, I do feel you are imrpoving. Keep experimenting!

Tripmywire-Through the compition you have always been a strong competitor, but we feel your set this week falls short of your potential. As a judge said, "I think I see where she’s coming from, and maybe didn’t want to do the expected…but this is too safe." We feel that although a drag queen could wear this, so could a celebrity vixen. ""All in all, a good looking set, but it lacks the queer factor." The shoes are fun and the dress sparkles and the wig goes very well with your client, but we feel this is rushed and that goes for the layout too,which is a tad lopsided and unfinished.

Although I announced last week that immunity will no longer be rewarded, there will still be a winner tonight who can take home the happy warm feeling of do just that much better than the others.

Lola
Incubeautee
and BBGal.

One of you three will be taking home the cake.

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You have not one, but keep it up, my dear. We're so close now!
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And the winner isss...

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INCUBEAUTEE!
Congrats on your second win, my dear. We loved your set.
And Lola, not so shabby your selve. Can't wait to see what you do for us next week.
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And so, with out much more blahblahblah

Tripmywire
Ellie
and Bradlo.

one of you will be eliminated from Project Polyvore.
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You are safe for another round. Try to find the right balance.
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We are so sorry, but you have been eliminated from the compition.
Be proud of how far you made it though! From 20 to the top 6. We'll miss you here and hope you stick around. If you'd like to help out with judges, feel free to contact me.
Tripmywire, you have another chance to wow us. We hope to see more of you next week.

Thank you both.

And thank you all! I can't believe how close to the end we are. It's really...mind boggling.
But, until then, I'll see you all shortly

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