Glow-Up - Britain's Next Makeup Star

[han]

Anyone watching this on the BBC? Season 3 started on Tuesday. I loved Seasons 1 and 2, and this latest one looks just as good.

This first episode I was blown away by Lolli, with the 'fro - her celebration of her Nigerian heritage using makeup was incredible. As well as being very diverse, with a non binary person, a Muslim woman and a person with Aspergers, it's also stating people's pronouns next to their names which is great - I haven't seen that on TV before.

Anyway, check it out if you haven't seen it, it's great. There's so much creativity and talent in it.

 

[Petcha]

I didnt realise there had been two seasons already! I watched the first couple of episodes of this one and enjoyed it. It's like a mash up of bake off and drag race, whats not to like there.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I love Glow Up so am very happy to see it back on again.

And yes - Lolli's look was incredible.

 

[han]

I didnt realise there had been two seasons already! I watched the first couple of episodes of this one and enjoyed it. It's like a mash up of bake off and drag race, whats not to like there.

Yep, deffo watch the first two if you get the chance. They're both great. I particularly loved the winner of Season 2. His looks were outstanding and he came across as a really lovely person. Gentle and sweet.

 

[han]

Mashup of Bakeoff and Drag Race, excellent description!

 

[ska invita]

Slight derail, wondering if anyone can find that picture montage with 12 very different looking people and it turns out its all the same young woman with different make up on? Or similiar... Found that mind blowing.

 

[purenarcotic]

I love this show, I think what they can do is incredible. So talented. Very much looking forward to the rest of the series.

 

[WouldBe]

Mashup of Bakeoff and Drag Race, excellent description!

As long as you're not applying makeup with a piping bag.

Tend to have it on in the background. Yes Lolli's look was fantastic.

 

[han]

Great episode tonight!
I loved the fact it took place at the Rivoli Ballroom in Brockley and that the winning person is going to work on Pose Series 3.

People at the top last week, are now at the bottom. Just goes to show it's all about your latest look. The Northern Irish bloke's looks tonight were the strongest, imo.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Is it totally awful to say that I don't like the new presenter? She's just a bit...bland. I feel very unsisterly saying it but she doesn't seem to care beyond being a TV presenter.

 

[han]

Is it totally awful to say that I don't like the new presenter? She's just a bit...bland. I feel very unsisterly saying it but she doesn't seem to care beyond being a TV presenter.

I agree. The last one seemed to care much more about the participants

 

[AverageJoe]

I really enjoy this. The imagination they have and the ability to put their ideas into reality really pleases me.

 

[han]

Sophie and Samah really deserved those Ding Dongs on the challenge inspired by an artist. Sophie's interpretation of Francis Bacon was so incredible, and Samah's use of the spatula for colour was really innovative.

Dolli and Sophie both did brilliant period make up for The Crown. Love this programme. I was surprised Alex stayed in but her eye makeup was slightly better than Xavi's. More shades used.

 

[Petcha]

Is it totally awful to say that I don't like the new presenter? She's just a bit...bland. I feel very unsisterly saying it but she doesn't seem to care beyond being a TV presenter.

I miss Stacey too. The new one's perfectly good at her job but Stacey's compassion was a lovely part of the show.

The standard of the competition is a bit down on the previous two seasons as well imo. Doli and Sophie are good, but there's nobody on there up to Ophelia's standard from the previous series.

 

[girasol]

I prefer the new presenter to Stacey, her faux compassion can be very grating. It feels like she's more knowledgeable and part of the industry too. She is also beautiful and so is her voice. I love the name: Maya Jama. It has a great ring to it.

Maya Jama - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

oh, she used to go out with Stormzy... I mean, her CV is very good, and she is so young!

 

[Petcha]

I prefer the new presenter to Stacey, her faux compassion can be very grating.

i've seen her on other series, her docos etc and I think she genuinely is like that. I don't think she's putting it on.

 

[girasol]

i've seen her on other series, her docos etc and I think she genuinely is like that. I don't think she's putting it on.

Pretty sure she isn't putting it on but I find it grating. I've seen other series with her too. I think I saw her very first series on BBC3 (may not have been her first series) when she went around travelling and "investigating", doing the white saviour compassionate caring thing she does so well and so consistently.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I prefer the new presenter to Stacey, her faux compassion can be very grating. It feels like she's more knowledgeable and part of the industry too. She is also beautiful and so is her voice. I love the name: Maya Jama. It has a great ring to it.

Maya Jama - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

oh, she used to go out with Stormzy... I mean, her CV is very good, and she is so young!

She is indeed beautiful but I'm really not a fan of the indentikit-Kardashian look. Stacey has a lot more of an individual style which for me, fits better with what the show is all about.

 

[girasol]

She is indeed beautiful but I'm really not a fan of the indentikit-Kardashian look. Stacey has a lot more of an individual style which for me, fits better with what the show is all about.

She looks like a Kardasian how? You could say the same about two long haired blonde women, or two redheads and so on ... Maya is Somalian/Swedish. The Kardasians are... well from a look at google, world citizens from a lot f places, including Armenia. I don’t know if Maya had the extensive work someone like Kim has though. Is it more acceptable to you if she looks like she does naturally?

 

[Mrs Miggins]

She looks like a Kardasian how? You could say the same about two long haired blonde women, or two redheads and so on ... Maya is Somalian/Swedish. The Kardasians are... well from a look at google, world citizens from a lot f places, including Armenia. I don’t know if Maya had the extensive work someone like Kim has though. Is it more acceptable to you if she looks like she does naturally?

I mean that style that so many women have. The long, straightened hair, big long fingernails, plumped lips, false eyelashes, super-groomed eyebrows etc. Just that general look that everyone follows and I associate it with the Kardashians.

 

[Petcha]

She is indeed beautiful but I'm really not a fan of the indentikit-Kardashian look. Stacey has a lot more of an individual style which for me, fits better with what the show is all about.

Yep, Stacey came out of nowhere like these kids are wanting to do. From memory she stole the show on a random doco in India in amongst a group of other kids, was the only one who actually gave a shit about the Indian kids they were living with and it all went from there. A far preferable basis to a career for this kind of show I would have thought.

 

[girasol]

Stacey's CV is very impressive too, bringing social issues to a younger audience (just lifted from Wikipedia).

Dooley first appeared on television in April 2008 when she travelled to India as one of the participants on the documentary television series Blood, Sweat and T-shirts.[8] Dooley and the other participants were selected to illustrate the typical fashion-obsessed consumer. Thanks to her appearance on the show, and partly because of her interest in labour laws in developing countries, a series was commissioned with Dooley as presenter. Stacey Dooley Investigates began in August 2009 and a two-part special was shown on BBC Three throughout August and September 2009. It also aired in Australia on ABC2 from 2 June 2010.[9] In October 2010, BBC Three aired two further programmes, the first on former child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the second on sex trafficking and underage sex slavery in Cambodia.

In 2011, BBC Three aired Tourism and the Truth: Stacey Dooley Investigates. Over two episodes, Dooley investigated how tourism in Thailand and Kenya affects employees there, in particular with regard to wages, corruption and environmental changes.[10] Dooley also presented the CBBC series Show Me What You're Made Of.

Shot in Dooley's native Luton, My Hometown Fanatics was broadcast on BBC Three on 20 February 2012. In the programme, Dooley interviewed Islamists and the English Defence League. A three-part series titled Coming Here Soon was broadcast on BBC Three in June and July 2012, in which Dooley explored the lives of young people in three countries affected by the global financial crisis: Greece, Ireland and Japan.[11] The programme on Japan was criticised by some because it ignored the Samaritans guidelines on reporting of suicide.[12] While Dooley was in the United States in 2012, she created two series of Stacey Dooley in the USA where she investigated issues affecting teens across America such as: Girls Behind Bars, Border Wars, Homelessness and Kids in the Crossfire.[1] In 2015, Dooley created the documentary series Beaten By My Boyfriend where she investigated domestic abuse within the UK.

In 2016, Dooley presented Stacey Dooley in Cologne: The Blame Game, about the 2015 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany, which aired on 29 January. She also presented Stacey Dooley: Hate and Pride in Orlando where she travelled to Orlando, Florida in the aftermath of the Pulse Bar shootings. On 30 July, Dooley appeared on the BBC's Celebrity Mastermind where her specialist subject was the television series Girls.

In November 2016, Dooley appeared in a BBC Three series Brainwashing Stacey, where she went to a US anti-abortion summer camp and then to some African big-game hunters. Stacey also made a documentary Sex in Strange Places for which she travelled to Turkey, Brazil and Russia to explore people's different attitudes towards sex and prostitution.[1]

In December 2016, Dooley was stopped by police in Tokyo while filming Young Sex For Sale In Japan, a documentary about child sexual exploitation in that country. She was held on the street for two hours by police who were investigating their confrontation with two men "protecting" some of the girls, who had called the police on the film crew. After initially being confronted by two men who demanded "no movies", the pair tried to use physical force against the film crew to make them leave the area. The story was released a few days before the programme was made available in February 2017.[13]

In 2017, Dooley presented CBBC's The Pets Factor. She also presented the documentary Canada's Lost Girls in March 2017 in which she travelled across Canada investigating the various factors which played a part in the disappearance and murder of over 1200 Native Canadian women. Dooley narrated the documentary The Natives: This Is Our America where she investigated the lives of young Native Americans, and the Dakota Access Pipeline

I think she left because filming schedule clashed with something else. I do think her replacement is more than adequate, given that it's a show about makeup.

 

[Petcha]

I think she left because filming schedule clashed with something else. I do think her replacement is more than adequate, given that it's a show about makeup.

Is it just a show about makeup? It's quite telling that virtually all of the contestants appear to have 'issues' of some sort and see makeup as an escape, which is what makes it so interesting really. I'm more interested in their development than a smoky eye really!

My first thought on seeing the change of presenter was maybe it was an attempt to level up the racial balance amongst the host/judges, as this series seems to have done (admirably) with the contestants themselves this time round.

 

[girasol]

 

[Petcha]

Lolz at their faces this week when they're introduced to their challenge...

'this week, you will be creating a look for a video on one of the fastest growing online platforms... drum roll

TikTok!

I assume this slash in glamour is down to lockdown but the confused, deflated look on their little faces.

 

[han]

Stacey's CV is very impressive too, bringing social issues to a younger audience (just lifted from Wikipedia).

Dooley first appeared on television in April 2008 when she travelled to India as one of the participants on the documentary television series Blood, Sweat and T-shirts.[8] Dooley and the other participants were selected to illustrate the typical fashion-obsessed consumer. Thanks to her appearance on the show, and partly because of her interest in labour laws in developing countries, a series was commissioned with Dooley as presenter. Stacey Dooley Investigates began in August 2009 and a two-part special was shown on BBC Three throughout August and September 2009. It also aired in Australia on ABC2 from 2 June 2010.[9] In October 2010, BBC Three aired two further programmes, the first on former child soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the second on sex trafficking and underage sex slavery in Cambodia.

In 2011, BBC Three aired Tourism and the Truth: Stacey Dooley Investigates. Over two episodes, Dooley investigated how tourism in Thailand and Kenya affects employees there, in particular with regard to wages, corruption and environmental changes.[10] Dooley also presented the CBBC series Show Me What You're Made Of.

Shot in Dooley's native Luton, My Hometown Fanatics was broadcast on BBC Three on 20 February 2012. In the programme, Dooley interviewed Islamists and the English Defence League. A three-part series titled Coming Here Soon was broadcast on BBC Three in June and July 2012, in which Dooley explored the lives of young people in three countries affected by the global financial crisis: Greece, Ireland and Japan.[11] The programme on Japan was criticised by some because it ignored the Samaritans guidelines on reporting of suicide.[12] While Dooley was in the United States in 2012, she created two series of Stacey Dooley in the USA where she investigated issues affecting teens across America such as: Girls Behind Bars, Border Wars, Homelessness and Kids in the Crossfire.[1] In 2015, Dooley created the documentary series Beaten By My Boyfriend where she investigated domestic abuse within the UK.

In 2016, Dooley presented Stacey Dooley in Cologne: The Blame Game, about the 2015 New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany, which aired on 29 January. She also presented Stacey Dooley: Hate and Pride in Orlando where she travelled to Orlando, Florida in the aftermath of the Pulse Bar shootings. On 30 July, Dooley appeared on the BBC's Celebrity Mastermind where her specialist subject was the television series Girls.

In November 2016, Dooley appeared in a BBC Three series Brainwashing Stacey, where she went to a US anti-abortion summer camp and then to some African big-game hunters. Stacey also made a documentary Sex in Strange Places for which she travelled to Turkey, Brazil and Russia to explore people's different attitudes towards sex and prostitution.[1]

In December 2016, Dooley was stopped by police in Tokyo while filming Young Sex For Sale In Japan, a documentary about child sexual exploitation in that country. She was held on the street for two hours by police who were investigating their confrontation with two men "protecting" some of the girls, who had called the police on the film crew. After initially being confronted by two men who demanded "no movies", the pair tried to use physical force against the film crew to make them leave the area. The story was released a few days before the programme was made available in February 2017.[13]

In 2017, Dooley presented CBBC's The Pets Factor. She also presented the documentary Canada's Lost Girls in March 2017 in which she travelled across Canada investigating the various factors which played a part in the disappearance and murder of over 1200 Native Canadian women. Dooley narrated the documentary The Natives: This Is Our America where she investigated the lives of young Native Americans, and the Dakota Access Pipeline

I think she left because filming schedule clashed with something else. I do think her replacement is more than adequate, given that it's a show about makeup.

Wow! I never knew about her background. Very interesting.

Well I think Dolli did great with the Fresian cow look, and although she didn't do well on the filter challenge, I think that still, her and Sophie are the frontrunners. Plus the northern Irish bloke who is consistently good.

 

[han]

The alien looks were incredible weren't they? I particularly loved the one done by Ryley - the complete blocking off of the eyes was so original, and the whole look was soooo unique. The level is really stepping up. So glad Dolli survived, it would have been so wrong if Samah had stayed instead of her. I think Dolli, Sophie, or Craig are consistently doing the best at the moment, but any of the others could pip them to the post.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Yes Ryley's really was brilliant and Samah's really wasn't. It was right that she went - especially as she did the final challenge completely wrong.

 

[han]

Yes Ryley's really was brilliant and Samah's really wasn't. It was right that she went - especially as she did the final challenge completely wrong.

Innit.
Now the best of the best are left!

 

[Petcha]

The quality is really really down this season. Maybe I'm noticing it more as I didn't know about this show until I saw this thread a few weeks ago so binged the first two seasons. But none of this lot would've made it this far on those seasons. Has something gone wrong with the selection process? You can almost see the judges desperately trying to say nice things about any of them at all sometimes.