TV Talk: Face Off Episode 7.13 “Beautiful Disaster”

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This week, host, McKenzie Westmore took the final five to the War of the Worlds plane crash site on the Universal Studios backlot to reveal their next spotlight challenge. Which was quite an interesting mash up! Fairies. Cig was not too thrilled about that. Totally not his style. Fairies aren’t for everyone. Beauty makeups don’t interest everyone. But he could make a killer fairy, we all knew, so I wasn’t too worried about his lack of enthusiasm here.

But what about the wow factor of the challenge? Well, they had to create their own elemental fairy born from the destruction caused by its element (fire, water, earth, and air). George was also not too thrilled about this challenge, moreso because he was intimidated by the challenge of creating something pretty (the fairy) and then incorporating a disaster within it. Totally understandable. I’d be concerned too! There was also more doubt thrust upon him when Michael Westmore came in to inspect everyone’s designs and mentor them along the way. So, this was probably one of the more stressful weeks for George, I’d say. Yikes!

I’m quite fascinated with natural disasters so I absolutely loved this aspect of the challenge. Fairies are hit or miss for me so I was very intrigued with seeing how each artist was going to bring these two concepts together. Cig chose avalanche. Drew picked earthquake. Stella chose wildfire. Dina picked flood and George settled on oil spill.

Cig was the one who wasn’t all that excited at first about this challenge yet he turned out making the absolute best look. The best. His final look was exquisite. It’s no surprise his look was the top look from the judges. Go, Cig! Dina aced her concept and did a wonderful job but for some reason, I just didn’t connect with her look at all this week. Still, her look was beautiful and she did a fabulous job. I don’t think George’s look had enough makeup in the sense that it seemed too simple. That said, I loved the look head to toe and think that he also aced his concept – even though I was expecting something more drastic for earthquake.

As for the bottom looks? From a distance, I loved Drew and Stella’s designs but up close, the makeup jobs were not smooth. Taking into account Stella’s troubles this week and Drew’s last minute troubles, they’d get a pass…if no one had to be eliminated. Which one of them had to be. That one was Stella. No! I really wanted her to stay this week! No. No. No. Ugh. Eliminations were tough this week. And last. Gosh. Stella and Sasha both gone. No! So sad. Ugh.

Also, there are a few episodes of Charmed that I’d love to mash up so these fairies from Face Off could magically go back in time and live on this show.

Face Off airs Tuesdays at 9/8c on Syfy.