The Shear Genius stylists had an hour and a half to create personality-inspired, compelling looks for their Short Cut challenge models. A little while in, Jaclyn Smith revealed that the stylists were “double-booked”, and their second clients were the identical twins of the first! Now the contestants had to uncover and exemplify the personality of both clients with their own individual styles. Her second surprise was that the short-cut winner would be guaranteed a spot in the final three. Hair stylist powerhouse Jose Eber was guest judge, and it was time to step it up! By taking a chance and completely changing the twins’ looks, Nicole took home top honors and secured her immunity for the week.

The elimination challenge was to create an avant-garde look to reflect the four seasons. The stylists were working with celebrity and fashion photographer, Michael Grecco. Basically, he introduced them to some really plain, boring sets and told them they had to make it avant-garde. Nice.

A couple people brought what they always bring. Daniel gave us big hair with lots of extensions. Dee brought that same cut with the same color throughout. Michael demoralized and demeaned every one of them, but he was especially tough on Daniel. He liked absolutely nothing about it and made that very clear, over and over again to anyone who would listen. Kim Vo even told him that his style was like taking a laxative and sleeping pill on the same night. Ouch.

Charlie won the challenge because of the flexibility of the style and his ability to make it what Michael wanted. He and Nicole were safe, so it was down to Dee and Daniel. The judges were sick of seeing the same look from Dee week after week, challenge after challenge. With Daniel, it was the disappointment of him not creating something at all appropriate for the photo shoot and using too much product (shocker there!) In the end, Daniel, the diva from Dallas was sent packing, leaving Dee as the third person in the finale next week.

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