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Skin Wars season 2 episode 4 recap: The Drag Queens are here!

Ruth Boulet

I have a Skin Wars question – are we ever going to learn who did the body painting for the intro? Was it Craig Tracy? Robin Slonina? Some freelancer that didn’t want to audition? I’d like to know.

Ooh – I actually found out on Twitter. Rebecca was painted by last year’s winner, Natalie!

Skin Wars season 2 episode 4 begins with a bathing suit paint inspired by exotic locales. Aryn gets Miami. Miami? Exotic? Rio gets Louisville, Kentucky. With a barn? They know Louisville is a city, right? Dawn Marie gets outer space. That’s a weird exotic location that would actually be fun. The artists with typical exotic locations – Phuket, Great Barrier Reef – will probably more difficult to make unique & special.

The top 3 painters are Aryn, Avi and Cheryl Ann. Avi wins $5000 in glitter!

We quickly move away to the concept challenge. This time it’s an apparel look for male models – not any male models. Drag queens! I see some AWESOME queens that are going to mess with these painters heads. Who’s walking children in nature? Anyone? The pairings are:

Where’s Shangela? She’s all healed up after breaking her leg on that death drop. Come on 3/4 of the Haus of Edwards!

The painters have to transform their drag queens into their female icons. Kyle & Avi school the other painters back at the house at just how long drag queens take on just their facial makeup, so to do an entire look in 5 hours is damn near impossible. Peanut butter gonna be crunchy, y’all.

Aryn looked at old pictures of Detox (as I assume most of the painters did) and based her look on one of Detox’s existing outfits. Why? Because she’s smart.

Cheryl Ann is creating a Nicki Minaj ass with felt & something else that looks like a lumpy shelf. She obviously knows what she’s doing – she just has to paint over it. Trust her Vivianne! There’s no starting over & more than that she doesn’t need to start over, thank you very much.

Note to everyone else: when the drag queen tells you something is bad – outfit, makeup, the butt padding, you best believe & adjust. No ham, no pam, no thank you ma’am!

The drag queens school the painters on how to do drag makeup vs beauty makeup vs body painting. Alyssa wonders what’s up with the shower at the end of the room.  When she learns it would be for her to take a shower should her painter lose, she’s not having it. No, honey.

I know it isn’t about the drag queens but it’s too bad we didn’t get to see how weird Tammie Brown is. I would’ve also liked more shade. Let’s throw some, shall we?

Cheryl Ann keeps showing off Vivienne’s ass like it’s great. Not sure why. She must be going with the tactic that if she oversells that ass, someone will like it. Vivienne tells it like it is & reads Cheryl Ann the house down. Girl, it was bad. Cheryl Ann thinks Vivienne should’ve at least tried to like her ass.

Stop trying to sell the ass Cheryl Ann. No one likes it.

Laganja does her signature, patent-pending death drop with a “let’s get sickening!” Kyle is all over playing her backup dancer. The Ru cackle in response is awesome. I need it as a ringtone.

Back in the painter’s lounge – Cheryl Ann is still refusing to listen. She doesn’t know why anyone wouldn’t like any of her paints. The paint wasn’t bad, Cheryl Ann. It was the ass. And the attitude. When Fernello tries to tell her that she doesn’t listen & has a habit of bullying, Cheryl Ann just think’s that’s Fernello’s problem.

Ahem, Cheryl Ann, Fernello just told you you don’t listen. FERNELLO! It’s that bad.

Kyle and Sammie are safe. Avi, Dawn Marie and Aryn are the top 3 painters of the week. The winner is Aryn. In the bottom 4 are Rio, Lana, Cheryl Ann and Fernello. Cheryl Ann and Rio are sent to safety. It’s down to Lana and Fernello – with Fernello going home. The details didn’t say “This is Janet, not Latoya” and that’s a problem.

Hopefully Fernello takes this experience & grows from it. I think Cheryl Ann should’ve gone, but Cheryl Ann can paint. She just can’t listen. That’s going to bite her, hopefully sooner rather than later. Fernello gives Cheryl Ann a final “listen to the client” on the way out. Doubt she’ll listen. And it looks like next week is a group challenge. Fun!

Who do you think should’ve gone home? Do you agree with Aryn’s win? Are you worried that the season will be downhill from here with the lack of drag queens?

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