antm cycle 9

first impressions from episodes 1-3:

heather - has a form of autism, was the awkward girl in high school, completely rooting for her!

lisa - rough childhood, is a "bikini" dancer, seems really nice, completely gorgeous

saleisha - really cute face, she's just adorable

sarah - heavier girl, face photographs beautifully, seems nice

chantal - at certain angles, she looks like trishelle from RW Vegas but less hoochie

ambreal - reminds me of yaya vaguely

jenah - said something about pretty was in her genes = thus annoying me since day 1

ebony - was cocky in ep 1 but has since tried to keep a low, slightly meek profile pictures aren't great but looks good in person

bianca - just can't say anything nice to anybody, gets into it with saleisha and tells her she's borderline plus-size, if saleisha is plus-size, then the rest of the world is mammoth

ELIMINATED - WEEK 2

kimberly - good riddance to this bitch,

completely insensitive to heather and complaining how she didn't want to be friends with her bc she didn't want to be her "go-to" person, she looks like a skanky adriana lima

ELIMINATED - WEEK 1
mila - just annoyingly happy

what happened to britney's VMA act??

britney 2007 VMA's

old school britney - totally hot

poor britney - i was really rooting for her. i wanted her to be able to put her troubles behind her and start anew, but her performance was completely lacking. the camera pans in on britney's face - she's sporting blue contacts and looks good. Wearing a sparkly bra and panty-esque set, she seems slimmer but still not her hot bod from pre-kevin federline days.

blah and mediocre, she lip-synced and seemed to half-ass her performance. her dancing was minimal and consisted of some thrusting with alot of walking around the stage. i can understand not wanting to provide any more fodder for paparazzi, but this was her opportunity to show us and the world that britney was BACK.

also, i didn't see any of the hyped criss angel mirror and magic act. did i miss something??

man band? seriously?

vh1 is now airing a show called Mission Man Band - a culmination of has-beens from boy bands of yesteryear. so who exactly is in this show?

bryan abrams - color me badd
- don't remember him, but now he's 300 lbs or something

rich cronin - lfo
- you remember this asswipe? he's the guy who was in the short-lived boy band singing "summer girls" and professing his love for jennifer love hewitt
- first impression when i saw him on the show: who the f#%* is this guy? so i looked him up on wikipedia...oh it's that guy... and then i thought: what in the world happened to his face?
- upon deeper digging, i found out he has leukemia - then i felt really horrible about the above comment
- after even more digging, i found he's still a prick and having leukemia hasn't changed him. case in point: he's clearly still obsessed with making fun of chinese people - not sure what's up his ass (see "chinese salsa" on youtube and you'll see what i mean)
- also see this perverted email to someone he dated under "dulcejesus 2007-08-04 01:01pm" (http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/14388366.html)

jeff timmons - 98 degrees
- looks the same and is still relatively attractive
- don't really know much about him

chris kirkpatrick - n'sync
- ahh, the least successful of the 5 former n'sync members
- looks the same
- did you see the picture of him on perezhilton.com with mary carey? (http://perezhilton.com/?p=2468#more-2468)

Real World Sydney - 1st Impressions

L to R: kellyanne, parisa, shauvon, isaac, dunbar, cohutta, trisha

the 19th season of MTV's the real world started out with cattiness galore. the 4 girls in the house almost immediately divide into 2 factions - bimbos vs. non-bimbos. let's start with first impressions of each cast member.


the girls:

parisa - persian new yorker, love the name, seems to be a tad on the dramatic side, but definitely has a brain, the only girl thus far that doesn't seem to be an idiot

shauvon - blonde #1 with large boobs, friends with parisa, makes out with isaac, kinda seems like she belongs on bimbo side more than parisa's

kellyanne - i'm already seeing her being referred to as "kellyanus", texan, young, slutty, catty, immature, very high school "prep"

trisha - dumb & bitchy, blonde #2 with large boobs, friends with kellyanus, kinda racist??? made a remark about how she couldn't handle talking to a recent immigrant who didn't have perfect english speaking skills, also slutty and stupid, the perfect embodiment of an airhead

the guys:

cohutta - cute guy from georgia

dunbar - already the object of affection between kellyanus and parisa, though i'm not sure he's worthy of the attention, cohutta is cuter

isaac - not a big impression on me thus far, made out with shauvon, is obsessed with breasts

the cast seems overwhelmingly americana???

perfect french manicure

this is a little off-topic of what i usually discuss, but i couldn't resist sharing this little tip i learned yesterday.

i recently purchased the sally hansen french manicure set with the white tip pen. i was hoping that this would be the end-all be-all of at home french manicures. the kit came with the pen, a base polish, a sheer nail color polish, and tip guides. pretty self-explanatory. i put on the guides and went to town with the pen. when i peeled off the guides, i was disappointed that the white polish seeped underneath the stick-on guide and made a mess on the rest of my nail. i tried correcting it with nail polish remover - but i'm not coordinated enough to make it look like it never happened.

then i thought, well maybe i just need to practice. 5 full painting and removing cycles later - i was annoyed and extremely frustrated. i googled french manicure and found a forum comment saying that they tried painting underneath the nail and it was pretty goof proof.

lo and behold, it works! the white polish i got on my skin was easily removed and what's left are nice and even white tips. the white isn't as bright as in a typical french manicure - but i'll take less than blinding white tips over endless, demanding precision of normal application.

for those people who actually are coordinated, i also saw that you can use scotch tape instead of buying stick on guides. i love the internet!