Posts with tag ANTM

Lisa Price is Carol's daughter, as well as the founder and owner of Carol's Daughter, an exceptional natural beauty store and online store. We stopped by her original Brooklyn location for an event with the new Carol's Daughter spokesmodel, America's Next Top Model and Modelville's Dominique Reighard (interview here), and fell in love with Lisa Price and her amazing products. This delightful and adorable woman really knows her stuff.

Merry Christmas everyone! Get what you wanted? Well, now you want this.

We caught up with America's Next Top Model contestant and Modelville winner Dominique Reighard at Carol's Daughter in New York City. Dominique is the new spokesmodel for Carol's Daughter, a truly exceptional line of natural beauty products, and she told us all about her favorites, Tyra, and life after ANTM.

A couple of months ago, we filled you in on the first transgendered contestant on "America's Next Top Model." Well, Isis King is now back in the spotlight, because Tyra Banks is making Isis' transformation complete -- she's hooking her up with gender reassignment surgery.

You would think that since America's Next Top Model is all about making it big in the fashion industry that Tyra Banks would try and teach these girls something about, well, fashion. Unfortunately, it looks like the Cycle 8 winner, Jaslene Gonzalez, never made it through a what not to wear class.

She always looks like she's trying too hard -- and she probably is. After all, a model from a reality show has a lot more to prove than anyone else in the fashion industry. She just needs to relax a little bit. She's an absolutely gorgeous girl and she doesn't need to try on every single trend at once in order to look stylish. In fact, I think overdoing it with trends has the opposite effect. I love Jaslene, and I'm impressed that she's been one of the most successful winners of ANTM. I just wish she would tone it down a little bit.

You just don't need to wear leggings, and moccasin boots and gold accessories and side swept bangs and fake tan all on the same day. Let Jaslene be a lesson to us all -- wear trends just one or two at a time. More than that is overkill. Browse through the gallery and see some more examples of what not to do. She's living proof that overdoing it can cheapen the look of even the most beautiful girl.

We are on -- what? the seventh or is it the eighth? -- season of America's Next Top Model? Out of all of those seasons, I have yet to see any "top models" come out of the show. Apparently I am not the only one who feels this way. In this week's Answer Bitch section on eOnline, a reader asks the question about the "Tyra curse" and why her models never seem to get any work after the show.

Answer Bitch went to his big time fashion industry insiders and got this juicy nugget for us:

The fashion industry doesn't take the show seriously. Clients are finicky about choosing their own faces. People like to select their own girls, and to be handed a girl that someone else has deemed fabulous -- that equation doesn't really work out."

Makes total sense. That's like me telling Anna Wintour to take my fashion advice instead of using her own instincts. Sure I have some great advice but Anna doesn't want to hear that crap.

The group on "America's Next Top Model" are nothing if not industrious, it seems like everyone has a side gig. Jay Manuel, the platinum-coiffed makeup artist and art director on the show is launching his makeup line Manual Override on QVC this Thursday. The products are designed to be used with your existing makeup regime adding a beauty boost with products such as Radiant Dimension Face Building Powder; the Lip Boost Compact with Lip Shimmers and Sealer; and the Five-Piece Perfect Brow Kit. In a press release he described the product line as a way to supercharge your signature look. If he has anything like the success another reality diva, Jonathan Antin, has had on QVC he should be styling indeed.