By Lauren S
Finally, Linda meets with Dee and asks if she thinks she's got enough of a range to be versatile. Dee tells her that her strengths are cut and color, not style, but she doesn't go so far as to admit that it's always a variation on the same cut. What Dee seems to take away from this is that she isn't good at taking risks, which hopefully she gets out of her system before that loses her the competition (before it even starts). Her favorite challenge was the rainbow hair and she loved the cut, and Linda very nicely encourages her to not overdo the same cut with the long piece in front.
Once they are all done, René sits them down to give them the challenge -- they must "tell the story of one woman through her hair." And this is different from all the others how, exactly? Oh, they're doing different hair styles, showing what this woman might wear at ages 18, 30, 45 and 60. They'll have four clients and only three hours, which elicits screams of terror from Charlie. They will also choose the wardrobe. Each of them then chooses a scissor box, Charlie's with a lock of blonde hair inside, Dee with red hair and Nicole with brown; They are to use the locks of hair as inspiration in the challenge, and with that they are sent home to contemplate.
At home that night, they all have journals and work on their ideas. Charlie sketches ideas and puts in words to describe what he's doing for, while Nicole seems to be writing out an actual story. We'll see how that goes. Charlie tells us about how he wants to win to be even more famous. Dee just talks about her idea, which is of a girl who is passionate about music. Once they've sketched and written, they sit down and muse about their difficult upbringings (Dee), wanting to take their parents on a cruise (Nicole) and paying off bills and getting plastic surgery for their boyfriend (Charlie). At least he's honest!
The morning they head to the salon. They all look like they might vomit as René again describes the challenge and then introduces their clients. Before he sends them off to shake it, he asks to hear the story that they have come up with about the woman and the four different stages of her life. Oh wow, sorry Nicole -- I didn't realize he was going to make them tell their actual stories, I thought the hair was supposed to narrate things for us. Dee tells of a redhead with a passion for music. At 18 she moves to New York, gets her big break and makes a CD at 30, at 45 she's through two divorces and has raised three children, and at 60 she has grandkids but hates being called grandma, so they call her "Mamma Red," and her spirit is still young. Charlie's story is about a blonde child star, who at 18 tries to prove herself as a serious actress, at 30 has won an Oscar, at 45 appears in a Hitchcock-type suspense film, and at 60 she directs her first film. Dude, Charlie, if you're dealing with a child star, you have to have a drug-induced downfall in there somewhere, come on. Nicole's story is about an average woman who grew up with not a lot of money but who was, and I quote, "the 'it' girl," who was a cheerleader. This must have been at age 18, because Nicole then jumps to age 30, where she decides to raise a family and meets the man of her dreams (which is so absolutely how it works, I have to say). At 45, she's raised money and become successful, and at 60 she looks at the pictures of her grandkids and feels good about herself.
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