Housewives Borrow Well-Heeled Stylist From Tears, Shears & Beauty!
KIM SEARCHES FOR PURPOSE
Mashup! Real Housewives' Borrow Well-Heeled Stylist from Tears, Shears & Beauty!
WITH NOTHING ELSE TO DO, KIM ZOLCIAK, real housewife of Atlanta with no husband, decides she wants to start a wig line.
She practically says, "Gosh, who wouldn't want to look like me." Maybe she did say that. Or maybe it was just that all her girlfriends want to look like her so she assumes that means everybody.
She promptly summons someone else to do all the work. That someone turns out to be none other than Atlanta hairstylist Derek J, leading proponent of men in heels. If you don't believe me check out the new high-heeled besties. (Please God let there be a garment under that black bag). From what I've seen Derek J's daily get-up consists of tight top, loose capris and 4 inch stilettos.
I shouldn't have been surprised to see Mr. J since flamboyant characters abound in that nighttime soap. 
The Housewives themselves seem to have gotten more over the top this season. And Derek did win the Bronner Bros. International Hair Show this year. And, and synergy and all that. But I want to tell you about the show where I first saw Derek J -- Tears, Shears and Beauty! Although I promised myself I'd continue to check for it, I forgot about the second season of this real life hair show. It's nothing like the funny but campy movies Hair Show and The Big Tease, It's more like Toddlers and Tiaras. Everyone has a great passion for hair, fashion, makeup, modeling and awards.
Apparently I'm not the only one who has a difficult time finding the damn thing. It's on BET J and according to a poster at Lipstick Alley comes on Wednesdays at 8. But I just saw two half-hour episodes Monday at 8 pm and two more Tuesday at 7 pm. I think the season just began earlier this month and I caught it just in time because the season finale is next week, if I can find it. Go figure.
Another beef I have with this show is the sound quality. It varies from high to low, but is mostly too low. With my sound as high as it can go I still strain to hear. I try reading lips but some dialogue I just don't hear at all. But I do hear the music clearly. Other than those two things I really like this show and wonder if it's just me and the chicks over on the Lipstick Alley board who are watching.
T, S & B highlights the very hard work that goes into any large production. Eight contestants from the East Coast are spotlighted as they prepare for the yearly show, celebrating its 60th year in 2009.
I've been to a couple of hair shows and they can be quite the spectacle of fantasy. But finding the right models, hiring the right choreographer and getting the best seamstress and costumes consumes these stylists' entire lives in the weeks before the contest.
We also see glimpses of their private lives. A steel drum rendition of Happy Birthday at Janel’s Brooklyn salon. Boston's Tarsha playing pool with her husband. We see all business Muffen, also from Boston, as she forms partnerships with other entrepreneurs and visit one of Philly's many Asian beauty stores to choose weave hair with Naeemah.
"I'm addicted to weave," shouts her friend Mia. But it sounded to me like "I'm addicted to weed." Which woulda been another show all together.
T,S&B is hosted by fine, diamond-earring'd chocolate drop Darrin Henson. You can tell he takes care of himself. How? Because we see him announcing commercial breaks while getting a haircut or in the middle of a pedicure. Peculiar…
but not. Not for a show that's all about beauty. While Henson says stay tuned for the drama, I find there really isn't any real drama. Just young people getting together with a goal and achieving it. Can't wait to see the show.
SexyChattyCatty is a regular contributor at CrabbyGolightly.com where she writes frequently on TV, America's favorite snack food.
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