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and so the Top 3 of Malaysian Dreamgirl has been decided upon.
last week's episodes were my favourites of the entire season! i always enjoy watching catwalk, so Kenny's catwalk challenge was good fun. though i do wish they had spent more time on this segment and showed the entire length of each girl's walk instead of splicing them all briefly. less of the random 'day out' things perhaps? am i the only one who thinks that the Body Combat gym session was too long and completely unnecessary? :\ it was interesting to see that Jay, Nadia and Hanis won this challenge, with Hanis getting replaced by Adeline after she was disqualified. i think a lot of people are of the opinion that this challenge was a good barometer of the talent in this competition, and that Jay, Nadia and Hanis deserved the most to emerge as our Top 3.
in the Escada commercial shoot, all the girls did very well, but undoubtedly it was Cindy, Jay and Adeline who kicked butt. they really knew how to work the camera. and how good did Adeline's legs look in that pink dress!!! the Couture Batik photoshoot is also my favourite shoot to date - exquisite dresses, gorgeous hair and makeup, and the floral-themed graphic design was a lovely touch. below are each of the girl's pictures along with my commentary; please read on only if you have watched the latest episode and already know who the Top 3 are :)
1. HANIS
Hanis' pictures is absolutely stunning and my favourite of the bunch. it is flawless in my humble opinion - face, posture, dress, mood are all 10/10. yes, i do think she deserves to be in the Top 3, and i wasnt surprised when Andrew of Andrew's Models singled her out as his favourite and the one with the most potential in the Top 6. like Cheryl Samad and Sazzy Falak, Hanis has the young and sweet look that has proven to sit very well with the Malaysian audience. she's pretty, chatty, has presence and a beautiful personality to boot. if she decides to further her career after the show, Hanis can go SO far as a tv host and presenter. can't you just see her hosting the next One In A Million or Akademi Fantasia? :D
contrary to what some of her detractors (and there aren't many) think about her complaining about the other girls too much, i believe it is important for people to have opinions and to be brave enough to speak up. and i also think even when she's complaining about other girls, Hanis still manages to be sweet and likable! haha. a remarkable ability. Hanis is going to make waves in the coming years :)
2. JAY
ah, Jay :( i know a lot of people think that she should be in the Top 3, but unfortunately she didn't make it. at the beginning, Jay was eclipsed by some of the more eye-catching girls like Eyna and Jean and the more controversial characters like Cindy and Nadia, but as the show went on it became obvious that Jay was a force to reckon with. she was hardworking, kind and had strong beautiful features that she knew how to use to her advantage. so many people support Jay and think that she's the best of the Top 6, but this was a support that either didn't translate to votes, or just wasn't enough to top the votes of the final three girls. haih. i voted several times for Jay this week, too :(
but Jay's picture is only just alright. when i was watching her pose in that episode, i thought that her final picture would turn out really good, but strangely enough this was the one they picked at the end. why! surely there were nicer pictures. her arm in the photo looks slightly disproportionate, and it would have made better composition if we could see her other arm behind her. her facial expression was very obviously mid-twirl because it's neither here nor there. where the other girls' pictures looked etheral, Jay's didnt.
i really like Jay and wished she could have made it to the final 3, but i suppose that is not to be :( when the four of us went to visit the Dreamhouse that one time, she was so very kind and polite to us. i watched her at MIFA and i thought she looked absolutely fantastic on the runway. she totally owned it :) Jay if you are reading this, i hope you take all the opportunities that the show has given you and pursue your dreams to the very end. you belong in this industry.
3. ADELINE
Adeline sure surprised everyone last week! she really broke out of her shell and did such a fantastic job in the Escada commercial shoot. she was smiling throughout the shoot, and like i mentioned before, her smile truly is her best asset, second only to her huge eyes. she's also visibly a lot more comfortable with the camera and is a lot more expressive than she used to be, and so her progress is quite obvious in that arena. but i still think she needs a lot more work when it comes to photos; the doped blur look she's had from the start is STILL there :(
her Batik picture is definitely her best picture to date, though still far from great. Adeline really looks like a fairy in this picture and her skin looks sooooo good. but like Jay's, this photo would look much better if we could see her other arm, as well as more of her dress. i think she mentioned in the previous episode that she was told to do certain poses, and this often resulted in her having bad angles.. well, if the Wella shoot was anything to go by, she should not do as they say, then!!
with some polishing and training, Adeline can do very well. Andrew of Andrew's Models mentioned that she has the potential to pursue acting, and when he said that i was a little bit surprised, because acting requires the kind of expressiveness that Adeline doesn't have cos she's so blur all the time! but then i thought about it and recalled the Escada commercial where she totally kicked butt, and i realized that Adeline DOES indeed come to life when she's acting. so, Chinese tv show producers out there, what are you waiting for! :) here's your girl.
4. RINGO
her elimination was seriously the shock of the century. i think nobody expected it at all. i believe her downfall was her previous remark about how she didn't know where her votes were coming from. a lot of her fans must have felt slighted and stopped voting :( haih to be honest, i actually think that comment was blown out of proportion. i suppose it was only humble to say 'i'm really surprised that i'm still here', and she also said twice that she was grateful and thankful for all her votes. why did everyone choose to disregard that.
and also, it is the truth wat that her mom is her only family. many weeks ago, Mr BBQ and i were talking about Ringo's chances in the competition. i was of the opinion that if the votes were left untampered (which they can't be, because they're externally audited), Ringo was winning the competition for sure, because she has SO MANY fans. but then Mr BBQ pointed out that fans will only vote two or three times at the most, but it is family members who will vote for you a few hundred times in one go. doesn't that have a lot of truth in it? my votes in this show never exceeded 5 for a single girl. but i know that if my sister (if i had one) or even my cousin joined, i would be voting for her rabidly and campaigning like crazy. so i'm sure that's what Ringo meant when she said she doesnt enjoy the privilege of having a huge extended family like the other contestants. however, yes, she does have her fan base, which she should have acknowledged. but yknow, she did say she was grateful and thankful to whoever was voting for her :)
so to me, Ringo's biggest downfall was not the comment she made, but that she's too quiet and like Adeline, hasn't made much progress since the start of the show. her photo in the Batik photoshoot is good - i actually really like her face in this photo because it connected so well with the camera. (yaya i know the look was supposed to be 'blank' and everything but i think that's such a bad direction to give. 'faraway' look would have been better than 'blank') even though her face looked a bit small in the photo, it's still gorgeous, and she definitely made good use of the features in her dress, like propping up one leg to show the layers and holding up the veil at the back. to Ringo, if you are reading this, it's good to have you back blogging :) come out next week ok, Stewie buy us dinner!!!
5. CINDY
i LIKE this picture of Cindy! face, hair, collar area and that arched foot looks amazing. the only thing i would do to improve this picture is to see some movement in it; maybe stretch out the right leg and arch her back.
is it just me or has Cindy suddenly become a lot more likable? i see that she's dropped her accent for good and that makes me very happy, you kneow :D it was quite painful to watch everytime she put on that accent. she did a great job in the Escada shoot, but her catwalk is still quite bad. i dont know about the robotic part, but i do know that she walks way too fast for the runway. on another note, the model from Andrew's Models who was with Elaine Daly in the latest episode, the one called Tini? she was at MIFA too, and oh my god her runway walk is FAWESOME. she has a superstyle stomp :D i couldnt help but gape.
Cindy is a very pretty girl and many think she's hot, but with looks alone she cannot do much. so i think she needs a lot of honing before she can make it big as a model. i think she's made a lot of improvement from the start though, which is good cos it shows she's learning. i'm quite excited to watch her at the Malaysian Dreamgirl finale this Tuesday, just to see if she's getting better on the runway :)
6. NADIA
no i dont like this picture. it's mid-jump, the posture is bad and her facial expression is lost. her dress is magnificent but is not showcased properly in the photo. and you know what i think, i dont think it's Nadia's fault. she looked like she was doing a good job posing through the video, and i'm sure there were better pictures to pick from, but for some reason they chose this one.
even Ringo has commented that the photographer takes a few shots of her and calls it a wrap. i don't understand why, when you can spend a few more minutes with each girl and try to draw a perfect picture out of them. a nice picture in the first frame doesn't mean you can't get the perfect shot in the 6th frame. yes, the model plays the biggest part in making a good photo, but so does the photographer i believe.
Nadia is capable of much more than this picture, and a lot of people know it. but one thing with her is that she can get too technical. during this shoot, she was actually counting the number of koi fish in her dress? i mean, why! the knowledge of the number of fishes in your dress won't help your performance any. she reminds me of Allison in this season's ANTM, the one who was overly calculated and over-thought all her poses. and she's also got a bit of Melrose (season 7) in her ;) very cili padi. gorgeous girl too. my heart went out to her when she was eliminated this episode, because if there is anyone who REALLY wants to win this thing, it is Nadia. Nadia if you are reading this, don't give up :) you heard Andrew… take your gorgeous self, go out there and kick butt!!!
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and so we have our Malaysian Dreamgirl Top 3 - Adeline, Cindy and Hanis - and they will be competing to the very end this Tuesday the 29th of April at the Finale show in 1 Utama. i am extremely excited and i hope this involves runway :) hopefully they bring back the other 8 girls for a HUGE Malaysian Dreamgirl runway show! see you all at the finale.
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