The second episode of Gok Wan's Miss Naked Beauty is on tonight, and after the furore over episode one, it'll be interesting to see how the whole blasting-make-up-off-girls-in-their-smalls concept develops.
What's rather disappointing is what's on the Miss Naked Beauty website. Because whatever careful thought may or may not have gone into the programme, it throws up a few bum notes. With a whole section devoted to achieving natural beauty through make-up (um, hello?) and links to heinous plastic-surgery enthusiast Nicky Hambleton Jones, we're getting a few mixed messages.
It purports to be 'the definitive hunt for a woman who embodies the confidence, sex appeal, spirit, brains and true natural beauty of a modern-day Eve' but everyone knows 'No make-up make-up' is brain-rotting nonsense dreamt up by ladymag editors to get you to buy five kinds of skin-coloured nothing in plastic pots. No one has four hours for exhaustive foundation blendage and nude (i.e. pointless) lipstick applying. Especially when the 'No make-up' look can be achieved in two seconds by wearing, you know, none. And what's so terrible about make-up you can see anyway? Half the fashion-forward popstars on the planet are doused in hot pink gloss. And very nice they look too.
The other thing which irks given Gok's current exposure levels is his insistence on peppering every sentence with the word 'bangers'. It took me all of five minutes to find the below comment, which expresses the point rather well (click to enlarge):
Hmn. So has Gok jumped the shark? And what's wrong with slap, anyway?
