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I honestly don’t feel up to writing this, but may as well get it done so I can get onto the thing everyone loves most: statistics. Just kidding. I hate to agree with the judges, but Khrys doesn’t look great here. The facial expression is incredibly cheesy and fake. I do like how her body looks. Her legs especially look incredible, and the dress shows her figure well. Still, compared to the other two it just doesn’t really compete. Still, it is suspicious that she did so well on set, to have such a cheap shot picked at the end. Then again, with Drew still defending it, I feel it might just be that he is clueless, and thought this was good.

 I find it weird that this is my fifth first call-out for Jeana, yet she never actually received one on the show. Still, this isn’t an incredible shot, and is probably the worst of the five. There is something interesting about the broken-down legs, but the way they are hidden under the dress makes her look even shorter than normal. It does match the quirky style of having someone on the phone while literally on a phone. Her face looks beautiful though, I love the way she is peaking from behind the glasses, with the puckered lips. Of the three shots this week it feels the most Paper, and since Jeana killed the runway, I can’t help but feel Jeana was completely robbed too.

This was my favourite shot right off the bat, but like so many of Kyla’s shot her face has ruined it. Kyla’s body looks insane here; that dress is hugging her in all the right places, and the pose has almost a pin-up vibe to it. The long shot feels sleek and fashionable. As a beauty shot it is kind of awful. The judges were talking about how she has finally learned how to work her features, but all I see is something finding an angle that makes their nose look abnormally flat and large, and who has kind of dead eyes. I also think that blonde wig looks so bad against her skin tone, and that a darker one would have suited her far better. I am hoping when we finally see her full spread it is just like what happened with India last cycle, and that they kept the best images solely for the spread, as if the shots are all worse than this the whole thing is going to be disappointing.

Jeana’s shot is by far my favorite of the three, but it has its fair share of issues. Her lack of height was a big problem here and she should’ve angled her legs to the side to elongate her body and avoid looking so tiny. Still, her rag doll-like body language is fantastic. Her face is stunning as well; I love the way she’s holding up the glasses and she pulled off the pouty expression extremely well. Unlike Kyla and Khrystyana, she’s wearing the wig instead of it wearing her. Jeana deserved her spot in the final 2 on the back of the photo.

Kyla got a ton of praise heaped on her for finally owning her face and her features, which doesn’t make one lick of sense considering that this is one of her weakest face shots in her entire portfolio. She tilted her head down too far which doesn’t work for her features and caused her to lose her neck in the process. The wig is overwhelming her and the sneering expression is unappealing. Thankfully her pose is stellar and is super sexy without being sleazy. She looks totally chic and her body looks phenomenal in the dress. I still think that Kyla should’ve fallen short of the final two since this shot and her performance in the fashion show weren’t strong enough to overcome the other two girls remaining.

I have a feeling that a weak shot of Khrystyana was chosen to justify cutting her in 3rd place before the true final evaluation. That being said, I have to judge what’s given to me and this shot is the least successful of the three. The good thing is that her body looks amazing: the dress is hugging everything just right and her legs have never looked better. Unfortunately, her face tanks the photo. Her expression is so cartoony, fake, and almost drag queen-esque, plus she lost her neck. Despite having the weakest photo there’s no way Khrystyana deserved her elimination; it was difficult to see the most consistent performer go home without any strong justification.

I’m sure Jeana had better shots than this, but what else is new ?. Her pose here makes her look way shorter than she actually is by cutting off her legs, but because of the giant telephone on which she is sitting, it kinda works as it adds a doll-like vibe to her posing. That’s the reason why I think that sort of vacant gaze off camera looks great, it just completes that doll like quality she was going for, and I love how she is using her props but without being completely overshadowed by them. However the main downfall of the photograph might be the modelling of the dress and the shoes, who doesn’t look quite appealing from the angle we got to see them. But that’s still a solid photograph in addition to Jeana’s super strong portfolio.

This photo is the one that I liked the most while watching the episode, but now that I can analyse the high quality version of it, I’m just thrown off by Kyla’s face. I don’t think that tilting her chin down is an angle that works for Kyla, it makes her nose look wider than it actually is, and pretty much the rest of her features looses definition. The styling looks absolutely horrible on her (They should have known that blonde wigs don’t suit her after the PAPER cover !) but at least she’s doing her best with her body to work it properly. I really feel like she’s putting intention in all of her limbs and conveying energy with her posing, which is something she failed to do in her early weeks. That’s the aspect of the photo that saves it from being at the bottom of this shoot’s ranking in my opinion.