#cheandre

#7 Cheandre

I love this video of Cheandre, this was really up her alley as she looks better in motion than in still shots anyways. I love how active this video is and how dynamic everything she’s doing is. I love the shot of her laying on the couch seductively and I adore the superhero like moves she did at the end. She also looks like she’s genuinely having fun in the close-up, and the whipping of her hair looked really good in motion. She really made an impression of her and her personality in this video and she’s a stand-out here. It’s sad that it gets dragged down by her still shot because this could’ve easily reached the top 5 videos on it’s own.

10. Cheandre’s Safeguard Ad

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Model Ranking Tier 4: Win Contenders

Opeyemi: The Fiercest Competition

My Callout Average: 2.125 vs. Actual Callout Average: 3.75

Opeyemi was my favorite girl of the cycle, she’s exactly what I think of when I think of a model. She was the best photo model on the cast (her portfolio is spotless) and she had a strong runway as well, and I thought the judges really underrated her a lot of the time. While she wasn’t a huge personality she wasn’t a non-presence, she seemed pretty funny and she had good rapport with the judges. Plus I low-key live for how she would NOT hug the girls she was in the bottom with, she went straight for that photo because she knew what she wanted! Opeyemi had it all and could easily be a supermodel, but I think in terms of what Top Model is looking for I’d still give the crown to Aamito. From what I’ve read Opeyemi still booked a ton of work after the show so good for her!

Aamito: The Rightful Winner

My Callout Average: 3 vs. Actual Callout Average: 3.4

Although I’m obviously a big fan of Opeyemi’s I can’t deny that Aamito was the best choice for the crown; I think she’s one of the best winners the franchise has ever had and her abundant post-show work is proof of that. he entered the competition with a bang and kind of floated a bit in the middle but found her groove again by the end, and after she stomped all over the other two girls in the final interview challenge there was no other choice. She’s just the full package of looks, presence, and a great walk, plus she has such a quintessentially “African” look that makes her the perfect representative of the brand and what they were trying to accomplish.

Cheandre: The Narrator / The Robbed Girl

My Callout Average: 5 vs. Actual Callout Average: 4.7

4. Cheandre (Actual Callout: Eliminated)

Once again I’ve ranked one of my favorite shots of the week the lowest: I get a sense of fear from Cheandre here, her vulnerable body language makes it seem she’s been backed into a corner by the alien and she’s nervous about what it’s going to do next. In spite of this it completely falls flat as a fashion shot because she’s not really bringing any sense of modelling with her pose (her legs look good but her arms and torso just look so static) and the clothes are completely blocked by the ponytail. Cheandre screwed herself over this week by anticipating a “too sexy” critique because she stripped back her sexuality but didn’t really put in anything to replace it so the result is a bland shot.

5. Cheandre (Actual Callout: 3rd)

Cheandre and Joyce (the photographer) really connected on set and she had some of the most adventurous poses of the day, which is why it’s so surprising that she such a bland photograph. She looks like a business mom who took her son on a work trip with her and is telling him to wait outside. She’s just standing there with one hand on her partner and the other hand (awkwardly) holding the product, and while she’s trying to look fierce the wig isn’t letting it happen. Unfortunately I don’t think that she has the right build for this kind of styling either and she looks really short next to her partner, which is a shame because I can tell she’s trying to elongate herself.

7. Cheandre (Actual Callout: 5th)

This photo is... cute? I guess? I almost bumped her above the bottom spot because at least she’s giving something but I just couldn’t justify it. She’s having fun and giving a lot of energy, and the backbend pose is at least visually interesting, but she lost her modelling completely. However since this is a commercial challenge I’m willing to be a bit lenient on her because the cheesy, head thrown back laugh that she’s doing is an advertising staple. Losing the phone is unforgivable though and I can’t get over how she looks like she’s pegging the goat.

5. Cheandre (Actual Callout: Bottom 2)

Cheandre was screwed in a couple of ways this week: the headpiece she got looked made her look ridiculous, and then they almost completely cropped it out of the photo anyways. It resulted in a very confusing bottom two placement wherein the judges all acknowledged that the problems with this shot weren’t Cheandre’s fault and literally said during deliberation “I don’t want her to go home for something the photographer did,” but then pit her against Rhulani regardless.

You’ll notice that in spite of this I’ve placed her above three girls and it’s because this is actually my favorite photo in her portfolio. The attitude that she’s serving makes for a really fun photo, I love the “come hither” look in her eyes and it almost seems like she’s toying with the headpiece. Her photo has a completely different energy than the rest of the shots but I still think it works as a tourism ad, I wanna fly to South Africa so I can gossip with her.