INTERMISSION SEASONS: 1

1) Evgeniya Timakova (3.0)

2) Kseniya Timofeeva (3.4)

3) Irina Adadurova (4.2)

4) Anastasiya Zharinova (5.1)

5) Kseniya Victorova (5.8)

6) Kseniya Dmitrieva (6.0)

7) Elizaveta Ramuravelu (6.4)

8) Arina Perchik (6.7)

9) Karmela Amanda-Amadio (7.0)

10) Olga Timofeeva (7.0)

11) Mariya Lesovaya (7.1)

12) Evgeniya Frank (7.3)

13) Masha Minogarova (7.9)

14) Alyona Prokopova (8.3)

15) Elena Domashniya (11.5)

16) Valeriya Chertok (13.2)

17) Ekaterina Nikulina (17.0)

SHOWN CONTESTANTS:
Masha (4), Valeriya (3), Elizaveta (2), Mariya (2), Olga (2), Ekaterina (1) Evgeniya F. (1)

SHOWN PHOTOSHOOTS:
Underwater (3), Zodiac Signs (3), Bikinis (2), Bruno Banani (2), Snakes (2), MaxFactor (1), Seven Deadly Sins (1), Skyscraper (1)

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SHOWN CONTESTANTS:
Evgeniya T. (3), Kseniya T. (3), Elizaveta (2), Kseniya D. (2), Mariya (2), Anastasiya (1), Arina (1), Olga (1)

SHOWN PHOTOSHOOTS:
MaxFactor (4), Garden of Eden (2), Pin-Up Girls (2), Bikinis (1), Movie Icons (1), Seven Deadly Sins (1), Snakes (1), Underwater (1), Venus Razors (1), Zodiac Signs (1)

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FINAL THOUGHTS

I sort of touched on it in my week 13 post, but I actually really enjoyed this season. The cast wasn’t very strong, we had a few standout girls, but also girls who would never be considered as models. Plus, the elimination order was a complete mess. The final five this season was one of the worst final fives I have ever witnessed. And the photoshoots were pretty ugly on the whole, with the Garden of Eden body paint photoshoot being my favorite shoot of the season, probably. I didn’t care for how Russia’s Next Top Model basically reused some of ANTM’s photoshoots, and just made them thousands of times worse. As well as that, the winner was extremely poor, though there were worst choices, I guess. All in all, one of the weakest first cycles of an NTM, but still very interesting to cover. I had fun covering this season.

1) Evgeniya T. (3.0) 2/3/5/1/5/4/1/1/2/6

This girl was freaking amazing. Just look at that face! I am in love with everything about this girl. Her face is one of the most unique looking faces I’ve ever seen. With that said, I was really saddened when I found out this girl wasn’t doing very much modeling post show. Apparently, in Russia, people don’t exactly care for Evgeniya T.’s look, and while I do understand that her look isn’t made for everyone, she does have that whole international appeal. I think she could be major in many places around the world. Going back to this girl on the show – she destroyed the competition. Kinda disappointed that she doesn’t have a higher average, however, considering there were 17 girls this season, that still is a pretty awesome overall average. Her portfolio was quite amazing. She had many strong photos, and managed to receive three first call-outs from me, which is highly impressive. She only had one bad picture, which was her pin-up girl picture, but even then, her body looked great in that picture. I did touch on this during that week of the competition, but like, Evgeniya’s face isn’t meant for commercial work. It isn’t. She’s an editorial girl, and I knew she wasn’t going to do very well for that week. I’m still devastated that the judges always called her a one-trick pony, which ultimately led to her being eliminated. I do think that her face has limitations, though she did change up her expressions each week. Both her profile and her face full-on looked amazing. Plus, despite her being a little bit more on the short side (174.5 cm), her body was sick. She had one of the best bodies of the season. Considering everything, despite this girl not being able to do commercial shoots all too well, Evgeniya T. is my choice as the winner.

2) Kseniya T. (3.4) 3/5/3/2/1/9/2/5/1

Yes, that girl is Kseniya T. I don’t know about you, but when I saw this picture, I did not think that was actually Kseniya T. AT ALL. That blonde hair truly did transform her. Speaking of which, best makeover of the season! The brown hair surely washes her out quite a bit. I think that, if she didn’t receive the makeover that she got, Kseniya would have been sort of with Irina, delivering some strong picture, some mediocre pictures, yet still not performing bad, because that blonde hair was truly her best feature during her stay in the competition, if I’m completely honest. Her portfolio, overall, however, was still freaking great. She was probably the second most consistently good girl of the season in terms of portfolio, following Evgeniya T, of course. I think that she only took two blah pictures, but the rest of her portfolio was pretty awesome. I think her best picture of the competition was the picture she was eliminated for, which may I add was complete bs. Kseniya turned into a superstar once she got that makeover, and I think she could easily be in magazines such as Vogue, and be signed to many agencies worldwide. I think, though, that Evgeniya T. did outperform Kseniya T. just a little bit more in multiple occasions on the show, so I still stick with giving Evgeniya T. the win, therefore the second best girl of season is obviously my choice as runner-up.

3) Irina (4.2) 5/8/11/4/2/5/3/4/5/3/1/2/1

So beautiful. Irina was probably the most commercial girl of the season, but she was just so pretty. I don’t think that she should have ever made it to the final two, but given everything she really should have ended up winning this season. I don’t think I would have minded her winning all too much, because once Kseniya T. and Evgeniya T. were eliminated from the competition, Irina was by far the best girl remaining in the competition. Sure, her face didn’t have very many interesting features to it, and I do think she needs to work on her body a little, but she truly never took a bad picture. Yes, I did consider her to be in the mediocre category during many photoshoots, but she never did an extremely poor job. She did stay fairly consistent, and I do applaud her for that. Ultimately, I do feel that Irina’s average look wouldn’t allow her to do so well with my final six, therefore I would most likely eliminate Irina following the Seven Deadly Sins photoshoot, in which she did perform mediocre in, once again.

4) Anastasiya (5.1) 4/1/4/10/6/6/5

Biggest disappointment of the season! Anastasiya freaking rocked the first three weeks of the competition, but the rest of her stay in the competition was really weak and average. It’s like her and Kseniya V. switched modeling skills starting on week four, I really don’t know. I have no clue what happened to her. She was first place in week two and three, but then delivered that snake shot, and it just seemed like she gave up or something. She was the sexy girl of the season, I think, and her face was super photogenic. I think that, if this girl did remain in the competition, that she would have done a better job than how she was performing in week four to seven, because the rest of the photoshoots throughout the competition were a little bit more on the commercial side, and Anastasiya’s look is meant more for commercial shoots. I was going to take Anastasiya to the final four before, but now looking at it, I’d take her to the final five, because I think one girl deserves to be in the final four more than her.

5) Kseniya V. (5.8) 9/7/10/3/3/3

This one I was super surprised by. Talk about an underdog! I personally would have never thought this girl would have placed fifth overall this season. I knew beforehand that she had some great pictures, but never did I consider her one of the stronger girls of the season. She did have a pretty bland look, if I have to be honest, and she didn’t really have many standout qualities about her, but she was really starting to transform towards the ending of her stay in the competition. Her first three pictures of the competition were certainly bland, but I thought her last three pictures were quite amazing. Her elimination came sort of out of the blue, in my opinion. I thought she did a decent enough job during the shoot in week six, and she performed rather well the two weeks prior, so like, why was she eliminated? Eh – whatever, she goes to the top six for me, where I then would consider her look as being too bland to move on with my final five.

6) Kseniya D. (6.0) 1/10/2/11

Someone’s overposing, but damn – that face is gorgeous. One of my favorite faces of the season. With that being said, I’m highly disappointed in how early this girl was cut. She had so much potential, in my opinion. Her portfolio was a little inconsistent, but I think that if she managed to remain in the competition longer, that she would have became more consistent. Looking back now, I actually think that her picture in week four was her only bad picture. Her picture in week two is kinda growing on me. Anyway – despite staying for only four weeks, Kseniya D. did make a big impression on me. She was a little skinny, but her red hair and ghostly complexion, plus that beautiful face all worked together so beautifully. I think she would have blown me away in the Garden of Eden shoot and in many other shoots after her elimination. At the end of the day, I truthfully do think this girl deserved a place in the final three. She was quite amazing, after all.

7) Elizaveta (6.4) 16/2/1/6/10/2/6/8

Yet another girl that I absolutely love. Elizaveta was the definition of inconsistency throughout this competition. She delivered some of my favorite pictures of the competition. Her beauty shoot in week three still remains as one of my all-time favorite pictures from this season. Her pictures in week one, five, seven, and eight were all pretty awful, however. I personally would have loved for this girl to have gone further in the competition, but I can’t say that she didn’t deserve to be eliminated at the top eight. I mean, yes, she was one of the stronger girls in the competition at the time, but if it would have gone my way, Elizaveta would have been eliminated in the same position. There were just girls who delivered consistently good pictures, and that just wasn’t Elizaveta. Still though, I’m glad Elizaveta made it so far in the competition, considering she’s the only one with African descent this season (I believe).

8) Arina (6.7) 12/9/6/7/8/1/4

I liked this girl quite a bit for one reason: her picture in week six. I don’t know why, but I honestly think that’s the only reason why I like this girl so much. I never creamed over her, with the exception of that one occasion. All of her other pictures of the season were so average, so bland. That one picture, however, was breathtaking. I love it so much. I could look at it forever, if I’m being honest. Going back to her mediocre performances though – she never really stood out, other than in that one shoot. Her look is a bit boring, and her face isn’t very modelesque, but I ultimately find her to be a really beautiful girl, and I’d probably end up taking her a week further than where she went on the show, for the soul fact of how amazing her picture was in week six. Her pictures post show are also pretty great too though! With everything taken into considering however, I am basing this off of overall performance on the show, and I just can’t fully overlook all of Arina’s mediocre photos.

9) Karmela (7.0) 6/6/9

Another really pretty yet bland girl. Karmela certainly did not deserve to be eliminated as early as she did, but I’d be lying if I said I missed her. Sure, her portfolio consisted of all good pictures, but I ultimately found her really forgettable. I kinda actually forgot there was a Karmela in this competition. Karmela’s elimination was very shocking to me though. She was eliminated outside of the panel, but I don’t know, I still found it shocking. She was called first, second, and third all once during her stay on the show, so I assumed she’d go rather far early on, but then I noticed that the judges don’t even care about overall performance, seeing as Kseniya T. received three or some first call-outs from the judges, yet was eliminated in the top seven. Eh, going back to this girl – her body was pretty decent, she was photogenic, but she never really stood out to me. She’s the typical white brunette. She goes to the underwater shoot for me, nevertheless, because she could actually take a good picture here and there, unlike Masha, Evgeniya F., and many others who outlasted her.

10) Olga (7.0) 7/13/12/5/4/11/8/7/3/2/5

Olga was a pretty big disappointment for me. What could have been. Like, her and Kseniya T. are identical twin sisters for God sake, and Olga truly never met her sister’s level. Kinda weird how two girls that look exactly the same are completely different in terms of modeling skills. Overall, Olga took some decent pictures here and there, but she never blew me away. I liked she her pin-up girl picture a lot, and she also did well during the Zodiac Sign and Seven Deadly Sins shoots, but the rest of her performances were a bit lackluster. I don’t think she deserved to go to the final five, but she wasn’t nearly as bad as some of the other girls there. I can’t believe she was actually my second to win during the final five and such. Goes to show how poor the final five truthfully was. For me, I’d take this girl to the Garden of Eden shoot, so top 11.

11) Mariya (7.1) 14/16/14/9/7/10/10/2/4/1/2/1/2

Woah, Mama! Literally, Mariya looks pregnant here. Really gross, though this is still one of her better pictures in the beginning of the competition, which is truly lulzy. Overall, Mariya was a very poor winner. I see people actually calling her a decent winner, which is very surprising to me. I guess people only look for improvement, and not overall performance or something, because Mariya absolutely sucked during the first half of the competition. Then, something just hit her, and she started delivering quite good pictures. Not as good as Evgeniya T. or Kseniya T., but far from how bad she originally was. Her body absolutely sucked during the entire duration of the competition though, and I didn’t care for this girl’s face that much. Her nose is really odd looking to me, and she looks far older than she actually is. Considering how terribly awful this girl was in the beginning of the competition, there’s no way in hell that Mariya would last as long as she did on the show for me. Her portfolio just sucked so much. Like, it took her until like week eight or something to surpass Elena’s average, whom was eliminated in week two. Yeah, so I’d probably end up eliminating this girl second, because I feel like I’d end up saving Masha for having better pictures than Mariya in week one and two. Plus, I hardly even noticed Mariya in week one and two, so she would have been a very obvious early boot for me, truthfully.

12) Evgeniya F. (7.3) 8/14/13/8/11/7/7/3/6/4/4/3

UGH. That body. That face. Whyyyy? Why would a girl with one of the worst faces of the season end up having the best body of the season at the same time. It’s so devastating. If only Evgeniya T. and Evgeniya F. like merged together. Evgeniya T. doesn’t have a bad body, but Evgeniya F.’s body is out of this world, and she’s also like 180 cm, which is a dream height to have in the modeling world. To me, Evgeniya F. was one of the most forgettable girls of the season. I forgot she was in the competition literally half the time. How she never managed to receive an elimination vote from me is really shocking, and other than her body, nothing interested me about her. Her body only looked good when she didn’t pose, because some of her poses ruined her body for me. Her face, though, never really looked superb on the camera. Hide her face in each picture of her’s, then would I consider Evgeniya F.’s portfolio as actually being strong. Her being in the final three is highly surprising to me, since she really never deserved it, and she did get rather low call-outs from the judges in the beginning and middle of the competition. She just looked so old and uninteresting both in motion and on pictures, which means that this girl would no way in hell reach the final three for me if I could have controlled the elimination order. For me, she should have went for that Zodiac Sign picture; week five. I can’t believe I’m actually taking this girl that far, but her body keeps me from eliminating her earlier than that.

13) Masha (7.9) 10/15/7/12/9/8/9/6/7/5/3/4

Ewwie. I can’t stand this girl. I can’t stand her face. I can’t stand her body. I can’t stand that she outlasted both Kseniya T. and Evgeniya T. I can’t stand ANYTHING about this girl. Her portfolio sucked so much. She only took one or two good pictures here and there, with the rest of her portfolio basically ranking within the bottom 15 pictures of the season. Yeah, expect this girl to have more than one appearance in the bottom 15 pictures of the season. She just never performed absolutely amazing, other than maybe her beauty shot picture in week three, which I’m highly surprised she did so well in, considering this girl’s face and everything. Yeah, that’s really all I have to say about Masha. She never should have lasted to the final four, as she sucked so majorly. Even the judges constantly gave her low call-outs, and she found herself in the bottom two like three times before actually being eliminated. Can’t believe she managed to stay so long. I’d eliminate Masha in week four for that horrendous snake picture. Good bye officially, Masha.

14) Alyona (8.3) 13/4/8

This picture saddens me so much. Lately, I’ve found so much love for this girl, and I’m so devastated that she quit the competition in week three. This girl’s post show work is FREAKING AMAZING. Literally beautiful. She looks a thousand times better post show. On the show, I thought Alyona delivered probably two strong pictures, but she’s taking my breath away now post show. I don’t think this girl deserves to be ranked so far down in the overall averages, because I do NOT consider her on the levels of Masha and some others this far down. I’m actually considering bringing this girl to the final four, if I’m being completely honest. Her post show work just moved me so much, and I think that she could have very likely destroyed the competition had she showed more heart in the competition. Plus, the judges seemed to really like this girl, so I truthfully think that if she didn’t quit, Alyona would have made it all the way. Click to see some of her post show work. So freaking beautiful.

15) Elena (11.5) 11/12

Wow, to my surprise, I actually kinda like this picture of Elena. Probably her best picture on the show. Every aspect about this girl bored me extremely though. She was by no means absolutely terrible, but she never really impressed me. Her look does not entice me by any possible means, and her body is pretty weak, as evident from the above picture. None of her pictures are very good; she fell in the blah category each week during her stay in the competition. I don’t think she deserved to be eliminated second. I would have taken this girl a tad bit further, though not very much further. I would have brought her to the snake shoot, and would have eliminated her with Masha, because I just don’t think I’d be able to take this girl any further. She’s just not that type of girl who interests me. That’s all.

16) Valeriya (13.2) 15/11/15/13/12

I didn’t know it was possible, considering there’s a girl named Masha who was in this cycle, but Valeriya was easily the worst girl of this season. Her portfolio sucked ass, and her look in general was absolutely awful. She looked like a man in her pictures 90 percent of the time, and the other 10 percent of the time she looked like a 50-plus year old woman. None of her photos interested me in a positive way, and it truly says something when you get 3 elimination votes from me in just five short weeks. That’s honestly kinda impressive that this girl managed to do the worst three times in a row. Maybe she was shooting for ugliness each week. If so, she certainly reached it. I can’t believe she managed to make it to the top 12. She should have been out WAY before then. I’m thinking third one out, considering that her picture was just so ugly during the MaxFactor shoot. How she managed to make it past that week, namely, highly impresses me.

17) Ekaterina (17.0) 17

Wow, week one seems like it was ages ago. I hardly even remember this girl, lol. Like, I actually just now had to go back to week one to actually remember how bad this girl’s picture was. Yeah, that picture was horrendous, and absolutely deserved her a seventeenth place ranking that week. I don’t think this girl’s the worst girl in the cast, but that picture was awful, and this picture as well isn’t very good. She deserved to be the first one out. Probably the only elimination I actually agree with. Haha.

WEEK 13

Final week of the competition! Thank God. This season of Russia’s Next Top Model took basically ages to cover for me. Honestly, despite there being some crappy eliminations, and extremely poorly executed photoshoots, this season was pretty fun to cover. I found great joy in posting mean comments towards Masha, and rooting on girls like the Kseniyas, Evgeniya T., Elizaveta, Anastasiya, and many more was honestly a lot of fun. Now, this is the final week of the competition, not the final thoughts, so I’ll touch more on what I thought I about this season altogether when I get to that update. Anyway, for a finale week, I thought this week was pretty boring and bland. Usually the finale weeks consist of good photoshoots or other things like that in most NTMs, and all we got out of this week was mediocrity. Oh, and before I forget, guess who was eliminated prior to this photoshoot? Evgeniya F. Thank God. That would have been pretty bad if she actually ended up winning. The judges were starting to basically cream over her in the past couple weeks, so I honestly initially thought she had this competition in this bag. As far as the winner and runner-up go, well it was between Irina and Mariya, obviously, and I’m not going to comment on my reaction or other crap like that just yet. Once I get to each girl, then will I discuss their final placements. With that being said, let’s get started!

1) Irina (Runner-Up)

Yeah, Irina didn’t win. Kinda sad, but I am glad Mariya at least improved a little bit in this competition before unrightfully being crowned. Going back to this girl – I am sad she didn’t win. She is actually modeling currently, and I think she was far better than Mariya, who apparently stopped modeling a little bit ago. I would have loved to see Irina win, because I do really like her. Her look is more on the commercial side, but between Mariya and Irina, she should have won. As for this photo – I kinda like this. Neither of the pictures this week were anything to sneeze at, but I think this is a very beautiful picture of Irina. I like how she’s smiling here, and Irina actually looks pretty youthful here. She wears the white extremely well, and I love the whole angelic feel to this photograph. All in all, this is a pretty great photo, considering this photoshoot wasn’t very good or interesting. I’m pleased with her this week. Glad she ended on a high note.

2) Mariya (Winner)

Mariya winning was really upsetting to me when I first went through this season. I thought she did not deserve it AT ALL, but she improved so much these past weeks. I still highly disagree with her winning, but Masha or Evgeniya F. winning would have been far worse. This picture of Mariya is probably one of her worst pictures towards the end of the competition. This still isn’t horrendous or something, just I don’t find this very appealing. Kinda surprised Mariya looks so good here though, to be kinda honest. I never thought she’d be able to pull off a commercial photoshoot all too well, and while this is a pretty mediocre performance, this is still better than what I thought she was going to perform. I don’t really like Mariya’s smile here. Her teeth look really weird, as do her eyes. Still not an ugly face, but surely not as good as Irina’s. Mariya’s body, however, is even worse than her face. I’m glad to see that Mariya didn’t improve her body AT ALL from week one. She looks wide, her skin looks odd, and I don’t really like that dress. It kinda looks like she’s wearing some sort of curtain. Yeah, a pretty damn disappointing winner, definitely.

AVERAGES
1) Evgeniya T. (3.0) 2/3/5/1/5/4/1/1/2/6 – (Eliminated Week 10)
2) Kseniya T. (3.4) 3/5/3/2/1/9/2/5/1 – (Eliminated Week 9)
3) Irina (4.2) 5/8/11/4/2/5/3/4/5/3/1/2/1 – (Runner-Up)
4) Anastasiya (5.1) 4/1/4/10/6/6/5 – (Eliminated Week 8)
5) Kseniya V. (5.8) 9/7/10/3/3/3 – (Eliminated Week 6)
6) Kseniya D. (6.0) 1/10/2/11 – (Eliminated Week 4)
7) Elizaveta (6.4) 16/2/1/6/10/2/6/8 – (Eliminated Week 8)
8) Arina (6.7) 12/9/6/7/8/1/4 – (Eliminated Week 7)
9) Karmela (7.0) 6/6/9 – (Eliminated Week 4)
10) Olga (7.0) 7/13/12/5/4/11/8/7/3/2/5 – (Eliminated Week 11)
11) Mariya (7.1) 14/16/14/9/7/10/10/2/4/1/2/1/2 – (Winner)
12) Evgeniya F. (7.3) 8/14/13/8/11/7/7/3/6/4/4/3 – (Eliminated Week 13)
13) Masha (7.9) 10/15/7/12/9/8/9/6/7/5/3/4 – (Eliminated Week 12)
14) Alyona (8.3) 13/4/8 – (Quit Week 3)
15) Elena (11.5) 11/12 – (Eliminated Week 2)
16) Valeriya (13.2) 15/11/15/13/12 – (Eliminated Week 5)
17) Ekaterina (17.0) 17 – (Eliminated Week 1)

ELIMINATIONS
Alyona: 0
Anastasiya: 0
Arina: 0
Ekaterina: 1
Elena: 0
Elizaveta: 1
Evgeniya F.: 0
Evgeniya T.: 1
Irina: 0
Karmela: 0
Kseniya D.: 0
Kseniya T.: 0
Kseniya V.: 0
Mariya: 3
Masha: 2
Olga: 2
Valeriya: 3

WEEK 12

This photoshoot is so blah, so bad. Like, the girls went to New York City, one of the many fashion capitals of the world, and now they’re doing a studio photoshoot? Okay, that makes no sense to me, but then again, this cycle has been sucking in every aspect of the way, so I’m not all too shocked by some of the productions and judges choices. Overall, only one girl truly impressed me this week. Everyone else performed blahly, but to my surprise, I don’t think any girl did outrageously awful. Oh, and also all the girls had two pictures, so just so you know, the picture that I put first is the one I prefer between the two pictures for each girl this week. Okay, now, the photoshoot this week was extremely poor. Yes, yes it was. I absolutely loved the elimination this week though. Truthfully any elimination here on out is going to make me rather happy, because none of these girls actually deserve winning this cycle. Yeah, but like, I didn’t care for the girl who was eliminated one bit. I’ve wanted her to go FOR SO LONG now, and she’s finally eliminated. THANK LORD.

1) Mariya

Mariya’s the only one this week who I believe did great. Everyone else falls into the mediocre category, but Mariya did quite a good job this week, in my opinion. Mariya is portraying Liza Minnelli here, and I think she does look the part. I think she looks like her in both of these above photographs. The one on the top, my favorite picture of her’s this week, is pretty awesome. I know it’s not for everyone, but I think how caught in the moment that picture is is nice. Her legs look great in the first picture, Mariya’s smile is perfect here, and I love the black. I like the second picture here as well. Nice legs and the black looks great on her. I also really like Mariya’s face here. I do, however, dislike Mariya’s midsection area in the second picture. I just think she looks a little bit too wide here. Either way, definitely an extremely strong performance from Mariya!

2) Irina

Oh looky here, Irina is playing it safe once more! Yeah, I don’t really care for either of these pictures all too much. I feel like they both fall into the safe and blah category, ya know? Because Irina just didn’t standout this week. I think she looks very much like Audrey Hepburn, the person she’s trying to portray, facially, but that’s truly my only positives about her this week. I do think Irina looks insanely pretty here, because she is an insanely pretty girl, but I don’t think Irina looks very much like a model here. I don’t really care for how Irina is smirking in both of these pictures. Her smile in both pictures simply looks unnatural, and I don’t think they work too well here. I wish she showed more versatility between both of her photos this week. Yeah, but nothing’s really bad about these pictures. Irina’s face is very pretty, doesn’t look aged again, and I like Irina’s body in both of these pictures. If she changed it up between her two pictures, and actually did something interesting in either one of these shots, then would I actually consider this a strong performance.

3) Evgeniya F.

Speaking of not being versatile, her’s Evgeniya F. I don’t know if you guys can tell, but Evgeniya got Marilyn Monroe to portray, which is pretty damn evident from the wind, white dress, and expression on this girl’s face. Going back to the whole versatility crap – I don’t think Evgeniya showed very much versatility between these two pictures. Yes, I know Marilyn is pretty known for that one particular look, but I would have liked to see a little bit more from this girl. I do think Evgeniya’s body looks freaking amazing here though. Lovely legs, and I think the white dress looks really nice on her. Her body is a whole lot better than her face this week. Having said that, I don’t think Evgeniya’s face looks very good here. She looks like Marilyn, for sure, but her faces basically look identical in both of these pictures, just in different angles. I absolutely hate how she didn’t really change anything up between the two pictures, and I even more so hate how cheesy Evgeniya’s expression is here. It couldn’t look anymore unnatural as it does here.

4) Masha (Eliminated)

BYE. Never have I’ve been so happy to see an individual eliminated. Despite all the shitty eliminations up to this point, Masha being eliminated literally gave me so much life. Her elimination was long overdue. Can’t believe she even made it to the final four. Should have been cut far before. Like I said in the first paragraph in this post, I actually don’t severely dislike any of these shots this week, meaning this is basically one of Masha’s better weeks. Neither of these pictures are my cup of tea though, and are pretty uninteresting, but I don’t think Masha did a terrible job this week. Miles behind everyone else this week, but that’s it. Okay, Masha got Barbra Streisand, which I honestly think is hilarious, just because both Masha’s and Barbra’s noses are their worst respective features, and also because they kinda actually look alike.. A little. I don’t think Masha looks all too good here, facially, however. I think she looks aged here, and as always, Masha’s face is very poor looking. Her poses in both pictures are super uninteresting, and yeah. I’m done talking about this girl. Good Riddance.

AVERAGES
1) Evgeniya T. (3.0) 2/3/5/1/5/4/1/1/2/6 – (Eliminated Week 10)
2) Kseniya T. (3.4) 3/5/3/2/1/9/2/5/1 – (Eliminated Week 9)
3) Irina (4.4) 5/8/11/4/2/5/3/4/5/3/1/2
4) Anastasiya (5.1) 4/1/4/10/6/6/5 – (Eliminated Week 8)
5) Kseniya V. (5.8) 9/7/10/3/3/3 – (Eliminated Week 6)
6) Kseniya D. (6.0) 1/10/2/11 – (Eliminated Week 4)
7) Elizaveta (6.4) 16/2/1/6/10/2/6/8 – (Eliminated Week 8)
8) Arina (6.7) 12/9/6/7/8/1/4 – (Eliminated Week 7)
9) Karmela (7.0) 6/6/9 – (Eliminated Week 4)
10) Olga (7.0) 7/13/12/5/4/11/8/7/3/2/5 – (Eliminated Week 11)
11) Evgeniya F. (7.3) 8/14/13/8/11/7/7/3/6/4/4/3
12) Mariya (7.5) 14/16/14/9/7/10/10/2/4/1/2/1
13) Masha (7.9) 10/15/7/12/9/8/9/6/7/5/3/4 – (Eliminated Week 12)
14) Alyona (8.3) 13/4/8 – (Quit Week 3)
15) Elena (11.5) 11/12 – (Eliminated Week 2)
16) Valeriya (13.2) 15/11/15/13/12 – (Eliminated Week 5)
17) Ekaterina (17.0) 17 – (Eliminated Week 1)

ELIMINATIONS
Alyona: 0
Anastasiya: 0
Arina: 0
Ekaterina: 1
Elena: 0
Elizaveta: 1
Evgeniya F.: 0
Evgeniya T.: 1
Irina: 0
Karmela: 0
Kseniya D.: 0
Kseniya T.: 0
Kseniya V.: 0
Mariya: 2
Masha: 2
Olga: 2
Valeriya: 3

WEEK 11

So the girls went to New York, and this is the first photoshoot they did. LOL. You usually would assume that the first photoshoot overseas would be actually pretty good or something. But nope! Not Russia’s Next Top Model. It’s basically the complete opposite; this is pretty much one of the worst photoshoots of the season. I feel kinda like I say that every week, but I don’t know, the photoshoots just seem to get worse and worse and worse. No improvement at all, though I don’t think this is as bad as the underwater shoot in week 7. Still though, I’m not interested in this photoshoot at all. Nothing good. Hardly even looks like a photoshoot. Kinda just seems like a whole bunch of candid pictures or something. I don’t know. None of these girls did amazing jobs, because they’re all pretty damn average, so not surprising. I truly just want to get this season done with already, now that my absolute favorites have been eliminated. So yeah, let’s get started.

1) Irina

… Yeah, just take in this being the best picture of the week. Highly laughable, is it not? Probably the worst first call-out of the entire competition. With Evgeniya T. and Kseniya T. being gone, truly any mediocre picture can snatch first call-out very easily, because these girls aren’t very good. A very weak final five, for sure. One of the worst final fives. Now, let’s discuss Irina here, because I am getting a little sidetracked. I don’t care for this picture all too much. I think Irina looks good here, but that’s about it. Her pose is pretty catalogue-like, and all that Irina’s face looks here is pretty. Nothing more than that. She has some nice legs, but then again, they don’t look outrageously amazing. Her face is truly the only reason this is ranked first.

2) Mariya

Yup, she’s still near the top of the call-outs! Pretty impressed by her, to be honest. Despite me ranking Mariya first this week, I don’t like this picture all too much. I prefer her picture two weeks back to this, which she received a fourth place call-out for. I actually think I like her Zodiac Sign picture more than this, now that I’m thinking about it. Yeah, well, I like Mariya’s face here. I think she went for a little bit too much intensity in her face, but still, the second best face of the week. I don’t like how her nose appears here though. As for this girl’s body – I don’t know. It’s good, I guess, but it doesn’t read natural to me. It’s just alright, and yeah – that’s all. Her legs look nice, but she could have worked her body far better than how she did here.

3) Masha

People ranking this girl last this week is seriously stupid. People can seriously be biased, it’s not even funny how biased some people can be. I think this girl did a fair job with everything considered this week. I mean, her body looks decent. I like how tall she looks here, and I also kinda like her pose. Also, her legs look extremely long here. Body-wise, I personally couldn’t ask for anything more from this photoshoot. I don’t like Masha’s face here, however, which is something I said plenty some before. I simply don’t like her look, which is something else I’ve said before, and considering that there’s so photoshop being used in this picture, and also, she’s not wearing makeup, I’m not going to like her face here all natural-like.

4) Evgeniya F.

So many people like this picture why? What’s so “good” about this picture? I don’t see anything great about this picture. I think Evgeniya’s pose is extremely boring, and too modeling 101-like. I kinda like the outfit she’s wearing, but that’s basically the only thing I like about this picture. Her legs look kinda bad here, to be honest. Probably the worst they’ve ever looked. Like, they have a tint of black to them or whatever, and her knees look a little ashy, which isn’t very appealing. I don’t even want to get started on this girl’s face. It’s just bad. What is good about that face? I seriously question it, because all I see is some sort of 50 year old woman or something. She looks severely aged. The only thing that looks good about this girl’s face here would be her cheekbones, but even then, I don’t appreciate them too much, because the rest of her face looks so aged. Plus, that raccoon-like hair doesn’t appeal to me at all. With all that being said, why do so many people like this photo again?

5) Olga (Eliminated)

Yeah, Olga was eliminated. So what? I would have liked Masha or Evgeniya F. to have been eliminated, but it’s not like Olga was any big loss. All she was was a girl who took a good picture every here and there. This being her worst picture of the season, probably. I hate Olga’s face here, and her pose is so blah. I’ve never truly been impressed with her body, and there is no exception here either. Her skin looks veiny and not good at all, and that outfit is NOT GOOD WHATSOEVER. What is an absolute mess even more so than this girl’s body here, however, would be Olga’s face. Just disgusting. She looks constipated or something. Hate whatever the hell that expression is on her face, and Olga’s hair looks a hot mess here. Not upset that this girl was eliminated at all. Now that Evgeniya T. is gone, I don’t care about whoever gets eliminated; all I want is for this season to be over with already.

AVERAGES
1) Evgeniya T. (3.0) 2/3/5/1/5/4/1/1/2/6 – (Eliminated Week 10)
2) Kseniya T. (3.4) 3/5/3/2/1/9/2/5/1 – (Eliminated Week 9)
3) Irina (4.6) 5/8/11/4/2/5/3/4/5/3/1
4) Anastasiya (5.1) 4/1/4/10/6/6/5 – (Eliminated Week 8)
5) Kseniya V. (5.8) 9/7/10/3/3/3 – (Eliminated Week 6)
6) Kseniya D. (6.0) 1/10/2/11 – (Eliminated Week 4)
7) Elizaveta (6.4) 16/2/1/6/10/2/6/8 – (Eliminated Week 8)
8) Arina (6.7) 12/9/6/7/8/1/4 – (Eliminated Week 7)
9) Karmela (7.0) 6/6/9 – (Eliminated Week 4)
10) Olga (7.0) 7/13/12/5/4/11/8/7/3/2/5 – (Eliminated Week 11)
11) Evgeniya F. (7.7) 8/14/13/8/11/7/7/3/6/4/4
12) Mariya (8.1) 14/16/14/9/7/10/10/2/4/1/2
13) Alyona (8.3) 13/4/8 – (Quit Week 3)
14) Masha (8.3) 10/15/7/12/9/8/9/6/7/5/3
15) Elena (11.5) 11/12 – (Eliminated Week 2)
16) Valeriya (13.2) 15/11/15/13/12 – (Eliminated Week 5)
17) Ekaterina (17.0) 17 – (Eliminated Week 1)

ELIMINATIONS
Alyona: 0
Anastasiya: 0
Arina: 0
Ekaterina: 1
Elena: 0
Elizaveta: 1
Evgeniya F.: 0
Evgeniya T.: 1
Irina: 0
Karmela: 0
Kseniya D.: 0
Kseniya T.: 0
Kseniya V.: 0
Mariya: 2
Masha: 1
Olga: 2
Valeriya: 3

WEEK 10

Meh. It’s kinda funny when a photoshoot of this low of budget is actually one of the better photoshoots of the season. Kinda ridiculous, honestly. I personally always love a pin-up photoshoot, which is probably why I consider this a decent shoot, because I’ve noticed a lot of other people don’t care for this shoot all too much. To me, I don’t think this is anything amazing; however, considering how poor the photoshoots have been lately, this’ll do for me right now. Overall, I thought all but one girl delivered strong pictures. The girl who delivered the only bad picture this week was eliminated, and my thoughts of her being eliminated are as followed: BULL TO THE SHIT. I can’t. First Kseniya T., and now this girl? These judges have no damn taste in decent, high fashion models. She could really work internationally, but these judges just ruined it. I don’t even care about the rest of this season anymore, if I’m being completely honest. This one girl in particular being eliminated (plus Kseniya being eliminated) just ruined this season for me. I’m sure what I just said basically told you who was eliminated, and sorry if you didn’t want to be spoiled, but I had to express my frustrations with this elimination. Worst elimination of the season; I don’t even care how bad her picture was. It was her first screw up, and then she gets eliminated for it? Okay.

1) Mariya

Yeah, well this competition basically just took a 180. Remember when Mariya was receiving a crap ton of bottom two appearances and other sorts of low call-outs from me? Well, now she’s basically the one to beat. Well, that is for basically the remainder of the competition. I don’t even know what happened with her. She just like all of the sudden started taking really strong pictures. Kinda confusing. I’ve never seen anyone take as big of a 180 in just a few weeks like Mariya did. Anywho – this picture is pretty damn amazing. I think this is my favorite picture of Mariya, but I’m not entirely sure. Knowing that Mariya’s going to deliver a picture that may be stronger than this is actually pretty nice. I’m glad that she’s improved so much in such little time. Well, I mean, she hit like rock bottom in week 7 or whenever that underwater shoot was, and now she’s receiving a first call-out from me? Who would have thought? Mariya’s body looks insanely good here. She’s giving me so much sex appeal, which is also extremely shocking to me, because I’ve never considered Mariya as a sexy girl. Love, love Mariya’s pose here. It’s cute, and pin-up like, but it’s not cliche, nor is it boring or too contrived. It works perfectly, in my opinion. I love how Mariya’s holding the hat she’s wearing in this picture. Even more so, I freaking adore Mariya’s face here. Holy hell. That face is freaking flawless. I seriously wish I had a close-up. From the looks of it, Mariya’s cheekbones look freaking amazing, jawline is superb, and her lips plus her eyes look spectacular here. I also love how her hair is popping out of the hat like that. This is simply a perfect picture.

2) Olga

Another girl who surprised me a lot this week. Olga’s picture isn’t nearly impressive as Mariya’s, in my opinion. This is still a great picture, though I don’t exactly agree with people calling this the best picture of the week. For me, all this is is Olga’s best picture of the competition. I don’t think it’s super amazing, only because I find that what Olga’s doing in this picture is a little bit of like a cliche pin-up pose and face. The whole duck face thing is cute, but I see that so often when looking at pin-up girl pictures. Plus, the pose, just like the face is cute, and while it does work, it still is a bit more on the cliche side. Olga just didn’t do anything original in her picture this week, in my opinion. She put on a character, and while I do think it worked, I would have liked her to standout for doing something original and different. Mariya did interesting things, and took a different route from the cliche pin-up girl, and her picture worked, so all I would have liked is if Olga did the same. Nevertheless, though, this picture is pretty damn amazing. Lovely face, and pretty damn beautiful body. Love the pose, though like I initially said, a little bit unoriginal. All in all, a great picture from an average girl.

3) Irina

A tad bit drop in quality from the rather stunning top two this week, though still not bad. This week’s execution, on the whole, was quite good if you ask me! This picture of Irina, for me, is probably her best picture in some time. I don’t think I would call this Irina’s best picture of the competition, though I’m glad that I don’t exactly think this picture of Irina is average, seeing as her pictures lately have been so mediocre. I see a lot of other people calling this an average picture though, but I think this works kinda well. I love the whole hitchhiker pose that she went for. I think it’s adorable, and works rather well. I like that she went for something different; something that I would have liked Olga to do as well. I love how Irina’s standing here, and I am in love with how small Irina’s waist appears here. I don’t really mind that she put her left hand on her hip all that much, because Irina’s face, and the whole hitchhiker thing she went for still makes this a rather interesting and nice picture. I think what I dislike most about this picture is also something I like about this picture at the same time. While the thumbs up thing is pretty neat, I don’t like how her arm looks here. I don’t like how Irina’s arm looks a little bit bent here. It just looks kinda odd to me. However, all in all, I really like Irina’s body here, and I also like her face here as well. I think what she’s doing, facially, is really cute and works well for the given brief. I like how she widened her eyes like that, and to my surprise, she doesn’t look old this week! Definitely glad about that.

4) Evgeniya F.

OMG. That body is freaking insane. Do you see this girl’s body? I don’t care how much I dislike this girl still being in this competition, that body is still absolutely amazing, nevertheless. My favorite thing about this picture is, obviously, Evgeniya F.’s body here. I just adore every aspect about Evgeniya’s body here. Love her legs, love what she’s doing with her arms, and I think she’s working the hell out of that outfit. Plus, she looks TALL here, and it’s always good when a model looks good in a picture. Also, I think Evgeniya’s outfit is my favorite of the week, which just makes me like this girl’s body even more. Now, the negatives. There always has to be something bad about a picture of Evgeniya, and this just so happens to be this girl’s face here. Yeah, not surprising whatsoever. Facially, nothing works for me here. I was actually going to rank this girl in the bottom two initially, because of how poor her face appears here. I don’t care for the expression on Evgeniya’s face here. I absolutely abhor the whole scared-emotion thing she went for here, which doesn’t work for me at all, might I add. It’s actually kinda odd looking. Why she decided to look frightened is something I want to know. I don’t like how cheesy Evgeniya’s face looks here either. I hate the open mouth, and I don’t like Evgeniya’s eyes here either. Still though, this girl’s body looks too damn flawless to rank any lower than fourth.

5) Masha

Oh, Masha. I’m so over you already. Go home already. All rude remarks aside, I will admit, this is a pretty nice picture of Masha. Probably one of her better pictures of the competition, yet this still is the second to worst picture of the week for me. Being truthful, once more, I do like this picture. I don’t exactly think anything looks bad here. Overall, I do find this a little bit more on the boring side though; however, I don’t think Masha looks bad here at all. I don’t understand why people seem to dislike this picture so much. I mean, I too absolutely hate Masha, and think she should have gone home ages ago, but there are some positives about this picture. My biggest complement to Masha this week would be that her body looks amazing here. I just love how long and lean Masha looks here. Her legs look long, and I actually don’t have a problem with her arms here for like the first time ever. What turns me off from Masha’s body, though, would have to be her pose. I’m just not interested in what she’s doing at all. She did go for a more subtle pose, and it doesn’t look contrived at all, but I’m just a little bored by what she’s doing here. Her hands do look a little odd here. As for Masha’s face – I really like how she looks here. I like the kinda evil smirk; it works. It’s kinda sexy, yet not too sexy. Plus, she looks attractive, and Masha does very much look pretty damn feminine here. Her face simply looks good here. Probably the best it has ever looked all throughout the competition. But yeah – if this girl’s pose stood out from the rest just a little bit more, then I would actually consider this a contender for best picture of the week.

6) Evgeniya T. (Eliminated)

Worst. Elimination. Of. The. Season. These eliminations lately have been so horrible. Kseniya V., then Arina, then Anastasiya and Elizaveta, then Kseniya T., and now Evgeniya T.? They basically just took out some of the best girls of the season one by one, and kept Evgeniya F. and Masha both in this competition. (I would include Mariya, but lately, I’ve been kinda warming up to her.) Yeah, so like, I didn’t think Evgeniya was going to do that well in this photoshoot. Being a pin-up girl requires sex appeal, and/or looking cute. Like, appealing to men and crap, and Evgeniya’s look just doesn’t work for that. The whole Garden of Eden shoot didn’t really have a theme to it, which is why Evgeniya pulled that off, but in this shoot, there was a brief: to be sexy, and Evgeniya kinda failed at that. What she’s doing here just looks so unnatural. Like, it reads that the photographer asked her to look surprised or some shit, and then she’s like second guessing what she’s doing, because she knows her look won’t appeal to everyone. At least that’s what it looks like to me. I hate her face here. She looks like a full on drag queen here. The expression just adds to it all. Hate how cheesy her expression is. Worst face of the week. Wow, can’t believe I said that about this girl, because I’ve constantly complemented her on her face. As for this girl’s body – I like it. A little bit on the bland side, but I think it works. Kinda reminds me of her pose last week, but I don’t really mind that – I still like it. Her body’s freaking awesome, and she showcases that here. She showed off her body well, I just wished her face was a little bit more attractive. Still, I completely disagree with this girl being eliminated at the top six. She’s definitely my choice as the winner, and I don’t really care that she couldn’t pull off the whole sexy crap. She was meant to do high end editorials, not commercial shoots, and we’re all going to have to accept that. Not every model does everything. Some models do runway, some do editorial work, some do commercial work, some do high fashion. Evgeniya was bound to fail at this photoshoot.

AVERAGES
1) Evgeniya T. (3.0) 2/3/5/1/5/4/1/1/2/6 – (Eliminated Week 10)
2) Kseniya T. (3.4) 3/5/3/2/1/9/2/5/1 – (Eliminated Week 9)
3) Irina (5.0) 5/8/11/4/2/5/3/4/5/3
4) Anastasiya (5.1) 4/1/4/10/6/6/5 – (Eliminated Week 8)
5) Kseniya V. (5.8) 9/7/10/3/3/3 – (Eliminated Week 6)
6) Kseniya D. (6.0) 1/10/2/11 – (Eliminated Week 4)
7) Elizaveta (6.4) 16/2/1/6/10/2/6/8 – (Eliminated Week 8)
8) Arina (6.7) 12/9/6/7/8/1/4 – (Eliminated Week 7)
9) Karmela (7.0) 6/6/9 – (Eliminated Week 4)
10) Olga (7.2) 7/13/12/5/4/11/8/7/3/2
11) Evgeniya F. (8.1) 8/14/13/8/11/7/7/3/6/4
12) Alyona (8.3) 13/4/8 – (Quit Week 3)
13) Mariya (8.7) 14/16/14/9/7/10/10/2/4/1
14) Masha (8.8) 10/15/7/12/9/8/9/6/7/5
15) Elena (11.5) 11/12 – (Eliminated Week 2)
16) Valeriya (13.2) 15/11/15/13/12 – (Eliminated Week 5)
17) Ekaterina (17.0) 17 – (Eliminated Week 1)

ELIMINATIONS
Alyona: 0
Anastasiya: 0
Arina: 0
Ekaterina: 1
Elena: 0
Elizaveta: 1
Evgeniya F.: 0
Evgeniya T.: 1
Irina: 0
Karmela: 0
Kseniya D.: 0
Kseniya T.: 0
Kseniya V.: 0
Mariya: 2
Masha: 1
Olga: 1
Valeriya: 3

WEEK 9

The Seven Deadly Sins. Another photoshoot from ANTM 4. How original! ANTM’s photoshoot in cycle 4 was SO. MUCH. BETTER. THAN. THIS. It’s actually kinda laughable how much better ANTM’s photoshoot was to this. I will say though, that this week’s photoshoot is a lot better than that Zodiac shit they did back in week 6 though. Yeah, so I don’t exactly think the styling was very good this week. ANTM’s styling was a load better than whatever this is. Truly one prop basically determined which sin each girl had, in my opinion. There was little to no creativity in the styling. There were some good pictures this week though, with the best picture this week possibly being my favorite picture of the season. (I’m not exactly sure yet though.) As well as there being good pictures, there were also some ugly ass pictures this week. My bottom two this week did horrible, with everyone else basically falling in the average category. Now, having said all that, this week seems like it was pretty average, does it not? Wrong. ABSOLUTELY wrong. This week was shit. Wanna know why? The elimination this week. I’m so damn pissed. I can’t. I seriously can’t at this one girl being eliminated. SHE PERFORMED THE BEST, FOR GODSAKE! These judges have no damn taste. UGH.

1) Kseniya T. (Eliminated)

Bull. Fucking. Shit. Excuse my language. I try to refrain from using the f word on my blog, but truly no other word can express my displeasure of this girl being eliminated… with the best picture of the week BY FAR. Kseniya T. being eliminated this week gave me an even bigger reason to place this girl first – to show those stupid judges off. I can’t stand these judges, I seriously can’t. I love absolutely everything about this picture. I think the sin, envy, that Kseniya was given is the absolute hardest sin to portray, and I personally think she portrayed her respective sin the best this week. Envy, or jealousy, is honestly the first emotion that came to mind when first looking at this picture. The way she’s looking at the camera reads enviousness to a T. I freaking love Kseniya’s hair here, and she’s rocking the hell out of those huge, black solid eyebrows. She can honestly rock anything extremely well. Her face is honestly giving me some chills. That face could easily be on Vogue. I even love this girl’s body here, even though she’s wearing that awfulll outfit. I love how simple the pose is. I think everything in this picture works extremely well. These judges wouldn’t know high fashion if it saved their lives, cuz this is HIGH ASS COUTURE. Love this so much.

2) Evgeniya T.

Believe it or not, this girl was given sloth to portray. Yeah, a rope on the head isn’t what I would consider as sloth either, but apparently in Russia, sloth means both lazy and depressed. Didn’t know that; certainly interesting. Now knowing that, I don’t exactly see the Russian meaning of sloth here. I don’t see depressed at all. This is a killer picture, but Evgeniya T. missed the brief for me. That’s basically the only reason I ranked this picture second and not first, because I was all sorts of ready to rank this girl first before I knew of which sin each girl was given to portray. Okay, so I cannot get over how freaking amazing Evgeniya’s face looks here. Yeah, I know that her look is not everyone’s cup of tea, but if you were to look at this picture in a couture point of view, then I think you all would agree that face is freaking awesome. Killer ass face, beautiful eyebrows – ugh, it’s all just so stunning. The rope on her head is a little distracting, but now that I know what sloth means in Russia, it does work here. My only complaint about this picture is that Evgeniya T.’s body is a little bit on the boring side this week. I’m mostly saying that, because that outfit is a hell to the effing no for me. Absolutely hate that dress. Everything else about this picture is great though.

3) Olga

Olga’s best picture in weeks! Thank God she finally took a semi-decent picture. I was starting to consider her apart of the atrocious trio of Masha, Mariya, and Evgeniya F. This week, Olga found herself in the bottom two, which I found extremely dumb. They were obviously pulling some ANTM 7 shit, by putting the two twins in the bottom two, then saving the lesser of the two. Olga is no Amanda though, so this situation is even more upsetting. Olga got lust, and Christina’s portrayal of this deadly sin was FAR better than Olga’s; however, I don’t think Olga did a poor job. This is a little bit more on the average side, though there are some positives about this. I like Olga’s face here quite a bit. I definitely see lust, so good for her for following the brief. I don’t exactly care for the fake eyelashes though; I don’t think Olga wears them all too well. I do like both Olga’s nose (again) and mouth here though. Between her face and body, I personally prefer Olga’s body. I think her stance is both sexy and confident, and I think it works for the given deadly sin. I love the red, black, and her rather pale complexion altogether; it makes her kinda look like a vampire (though she is wearing silver), and I dig that. She’s rocking those long, red nails. All in all, a very strong picture from Olga. Can’t complain about Olga’s performance this week.

4) Mariya

Glad someone is still delivering decent pictures. I much rather prefer this Mariya to that of the one we saw two weeks back. I remember when I actually had this picture in second place, but gradually my love for this picture has dispersed a little. Still one of Mariya’s best pictures (her second best picture now), but I simply find this picture a little bit boring. I like her face here. Best face she delivered so far, but the pose is blah. Positives first. The amount of intensity in Mariya’s face here is certainly ideal for me, considering that she had to portray wrath. Also, I think Mariya is working the hell out of those eyebrows! I will say, though, that I think she should have been a little bit more pissed off looking. Not as much as Kahlen is in her picture in ANTM 4, but still a little bit more moody. I think that would have made me overlook Mariya’s bland pose then. Speaking of her pose, I don’t care for it one bit. Truly nothing about her pose reads wrath to me. She needs to do some severe toning on her body, especially her arms. She looks wide and thick, and it just all doesn’t work too well together.

5) Irina

Someone’s continuing their averageness… It’s kinda sad that Irina’s now my second place to win now that Kseniya T.’s eliminated, if I’m being honest. Her look is so damn bland, and if Irina were to end up winning, I’d be highly disappointed, although there are girls less deserving of the crown. It could be worse, I guess, but let’s stop playing the what-if game, let’s instead discuss how boring this picture is instead. Okay, so Irina is portraying greed, and I do see the deadly sin here. The money obviously tells me that this is greed, but I also think Irina’s expression on her face reads greedy. I don’t like the emotion on her face all too much, but she did follow the brief she was given. The smirk does, however, age her. I’ve said Irina looked aged many times before, so maybe it’s not the smirk, but I don’t like it either way. I don’t like how she put her hand next to her face like that either. Her hand looks extremely big, which is a turn off for me. Plus, I absolutely hate the styling in this picture. Awful hair, and even more so, awful outfit.

6) Evgeniya F.

716, is that you? Drag queen version of 716, I mean. Yeah, I’m not feeling this picture at all. It’s a huge drop in quality from Irina’s average picture. I don’t see pride here at all. If her trying to portray Angelea Preston is her interpretation of pride, then damn bruh, this girl needs to get a dictionary or something. I don’t like how Casper-esque this girl’s face appears. She looks kinda dead; I would have believed that she was portraying sloth far more than pride. I absolutely hate how this girl carries that makeup, and Evgeniya F.’s hair looks awfully thinned out, which ultimately does age her here. The only pride-like thing about this picture would be Evgeniya putting her hands on her hips, but even then, the pose is extremely boring, and could mean many different things other than pride as well.

7) Masha

Can this girl GTFO already? I’m so tired of seeing her face, even more so than Mariya and Angelea’s Evgeniya F.’s. Yeah, so Masha is trying to portray gluttony here, and I use the word “trying” extremely loosely here, because if there weren’t any food in this picture, I would have no clue what deadly sin this girl got. Speaking of the food, what the hell is that? Looks like some frozen chicken and noodles? Whatever, the food doesn’t matter; how ugly Masha looks here does, though I’d rather focus on the food more than Masha herself, because I’m so over this girl. I’m just going to keep it simple, because I’m so over this girl. Ugly, terrible, gross face. Stupid expression. Weird pose, and this girl’s arms look really odd here. Be eliminated already! Please, Masha. I’m begging you to leave already. Please and thank you.

AVERAGES
1) Evgeniya T. (2.7) 2/3/5/1/5/4/1/1/2
2) Kseniya T. (3.4) 3/5/3/2/1/9/2/5/1 – (Eliminated Week 9)
3) Anastasiya (5.1) 4/1/4/10/6/6/5 – (Eliminated Week 8)
4) Irina (5.2) 5/8/11/4/2/5/3/4/5
5) Kseniya V. (5.8) 9/7/10/3/3/3 – (Eliminated Week 6)
6) Kseniya D. (6.0) 1/10/2/11 – (Eliminated Week 4)
7) Elizaveta (6.4) 16/2/1/6/10/2/6/8 – (Eliminated Week 8)
8) Arina (6.7) 12/9/6/7/8/1/4 – (Eliminated Week 7)
9) Karmela (7.0) 6/6/9 – (Eliminated Week 4)
10) Olga (7.8) 7/13/12/5/4/11/8/7/3
11) Alyona (8.3) 13/4/8 – (Quit Week 3)
12) Evgeniya F. (8.6) 8/14/13/8/11/7/7/3/6
13) Masha (9.2) 10/15/7/12/9/8/9/6/7
14) Mariya (9.6) 14/16/14/9/7/10/10/2/4
15) Elena (11.5) 11/12 – (Eliminated Week 2)
16) Valeriya (13.2) 15/11/15/13/12 – (Eliminated Week 5)
17) Ekaterina (17.0) 17 – (Eliminated Week 1)

ELIMINATIONS
Alyona: 0
Anastasiya: 0
Arina: 0
Ekaterina: 1
Elena: 0
Elizaveta: 1
Evgeniya F.: 0
Evgeniya T.: 0
Irina: 0
Karmela: 0
Kseniya D.: 0
Kseniya T.: 0
Kseniya V.: 0
Mariya: 2
Masha: 1
Olga: 1
Valeriya: 3

WEEK 8

Another meh week, though miles upon miles better than last week. Well, I mean truly any shoot would have been a crap ton better than last week. So like, this week they did yet another advertisement. Why are they doing advertisements all of the sudden is what I’m wondering. I don’t know. Russia’s Next Top Model is infamous for their photoshoots being actual ads, but I’m kinda curious why they decided to start doing ads in like the middle of the competition in season one? Eh, I don’t know. Anyway – this photoshoot was well, mediocre. One of the more forgettable photoshoots of the season, in my opinion. I don’t think anyone did a superlative job this week, though truly no one screwed up majorly. Overall, I thought this being a paparazzi-like shoot, and then them having to advertise Venus Razors was a little too much. I think one concept would have been enough. Plus, I hardly even saw the whole paparazzi aspect in this shoot, so I guess that didn’t even matter all that much. Either way, I didn’t care for this photoshoot at all. As for the elimination – I’m super sad this girl was eliminated. She wasn’t the all-time best model ever, but she had her share of great pictures, and I really liked her. Her picture was the worst of the week for me though, so I’d be lying if I said she didn’t deserve to be eliminated; however, given who all is in this competition at the moment, she didn’t deserve to go. Oh, and also, I kinda said this last week, but just a reminder – Anastasiya was eliminated outside of the panel before this photoshoot, Rachel (ANTM 13) style. Yeah, complete bs.

1) Evgeniya T.

When will this girl mess up? She’s been at the very top of this competition for some time now, and is actually at three first call-outs now. Pretty impressive, if you ask me. Despite me naming this the best picture of the week, I don’t think this photo is out of this world. None of these pictures are absolutely breathtaking, like I said before, but this is the closest picture to being flawless that could possibly come out of a photoshoot like this. Overall, Evgeniya T.’s face looks great here. My only negative about her face here would have to be that her nose looks a tad bit big in that angle, but everything else is flawless, facially. Love how her eyes are closed, love her eyebrows, lips – very beautiful face. Best of the week, once more. What I really love about this picture would have to be Evgeniya T.’s body here, however. She looks freaking amazing in that small, black dress. It contrasts absolutely beautifully against her pale complexion here. Love how she lifted up her leg like that too, it helps to showcase her legs being smooth, which was the brief after all. Easily the best of the week, so why the hell was this girl in the bottom two? She’s so freaking underrated! These judges seriously bother me. Their favoritism is so obvious.

2) Mariya

Speaking of favoritism, here’s Mariya – the judge’s favorite! Yeah, so here on out Mariya does deliver some hella strong pictures. I wouldn’t consider this very strong, but it is the second strongest picture of the week, so yeah. Uhm, I like this girl’s body here; however, considering she was supposed to advertise a razor blade, why aren’t her legs as noticeable as they should be? Like, this looks far more like a phone ad than a razor blade ad, to me. That’s probably what I dislike most about this picture. Everything else is pretty good. Her body looks decent here, for once, and I kinda like her face here. I don’t care for how she tilted her head down like that, but overall, pretty nice. One of the better faces she’s given this season definitely. Still, the phone being up to her ear like that is surely problematic, in my opinion, as that just doesn’t make this seem very much like a razor blade ad, like I said before. Easily her best picture in the competition so far though. Expect this girl to get continuously high call-outs from me here on out.

3) Evgeniya F.

Woah – two of the worst girls of the season are actually stepping up there games? Who would have possibly thought that!? I didn’t see that coming. I mean, it is pretty hard to not go up from tenth and seventh from last week respectively though, right? Anyway – this picture is quite nice. Evgeniya F.’s best picture of the season for me. Her body looks absolutely insane here. Those legs! Holy hell. They go on for days upon days. Plus, I gotta give this girl props for actually making this look like a paparazzi photo. I certainly do see the whole paparazzi-thing. I think she did the best for that part of the photoshoot, but again, I’m not really looking at that part of this shoot on the whole. And also, like Mariya, I don’t care for this girl using a phone in this picture. The bags, phone, razor blade – all that crap is far too much for me. I do think she’s using it much better than Mariya though. As for this girl’s face – uhm, well, she’s looked worse! Lol. Yeah, uh, I don’t really care for her face here. She’s just looking off to whatever in the background. She looks meh, facially. Could have been way worse.

4) Irina

Mediocrity. Every week this girl falls in the same category. To me, Irina nailed the whole paparazzi thing this week. The guy, who may I say looks insanely stiff all throughout this photoshoot, looks like he’s trying to get something something from Irina, you know what I mean? And I think it works for the given brief. What turns me off from this picture, however, would be Irina’s reaction to him basically touching her butt. I mean, like who would respond with that expression? What is that even? I would’ve preferred her looking pissed or something at that guy for touching her in public. Eh – I don’t know. The only positive about her face here, for me, would have to be her jawline. Love it so much. The emotion doesn’t work for me, like I said, and is what ruins this picture for me. Plus, she does look a little bit more on the old side. I don’t really like Irina’s body here either, though I don’t think it’s terribly bad. Her legs look nice, which was the brief, but it kinda looks like she’s about to fall, as her right ankle looks bent here.

5) Kseniya T.

Certainly the biggest disappointment of the week. This picture is basically the same as Irina. The guy is touching her hip, kinda pulling up her dress, and then Kseniya T.’s reaction to him touching her in public is enjoyment? Woah girl. Yeah, that just doesn’t work for me. Also, I don’t really care for the color of her skin on her legs. Not sure whether this girl’s wearing leggings or not. Whichever it is, I don’t like her legs here. She looks like Casper. Finally, I don’t like Kseniya’s face here. I don’t like how she’s smiling like that, and looking at his chest? It’s all just a little bit weird. What the two are doing is provocative though, so all in all, this does work for the theme, I guess, which is why I ranked this girl fifth, and not last.

6) Masha

Hm, so Evgeniya F. and Mariya both stepped up their games this week, and Masha, and Olga, to a lesser extent didn’t? Eh, whatever, I guess. I will say, though, that Masha’s body looks freaking amazing here! Probably my second (or third) favorite body of the week after Evgeniya T.’s. Her legs look so damn long, and I think she’s wearing that weird ass outfit pretty nicely. Now, having said that, let’s get onto the bad part about this picture (because Masha can never deliver a perfect picture): Masha’s face. Yeah, well, her face hardly ever looks decent in pictures, and there’s no exception here. The expression on her face here is a complete and utter mess, and her hair looks like complete shit. I absolutely hate how she’s looking off to the right like that, and her nose and mouth both look extremely odd here. Her head also looks kinda big in comparison to her neck. Her body can only save her face so much.

7) Olga

Another girl with a good body, but completely ugly face. I think Olga’s body is executed very well here. I love how the male model and her are both walking towards the camera, and I think her legs and arms both look nice here. The outfit is a little plain Jane for me, but overall, her body looks pretty great here. Now, let’s discuss this girl’s face. Yeah, well, not good. I absolutely hate how she’s looking at the male model like that, with a full ass grin. It’s not attractive at all, and you can hardly even see her face in this picture, because of the angle. I don’t like how she’s squinting her eyes so much like that while smiling, and I don’t like how defined that mark next to her mouth is here. Plus, the guy’s reaction to Olga smiling at him like that reads that he’s creeped out by Olga, which doesn’t work for me at all. The interaction between the two of them is kinda awkward to me.

8) Elizaveta (Eliminated)

Elizaveta’s elimination upsets me a lot. I’ve always had a soft spot for this girl in my heart. Her portfolio is crazily inconsistent; however, she seems like such a sweet girl, and I really dig her look. I wouldn’t consider this Elizaveta’s worst picture on the show, though it’s definitely one of her least impressive pictures. I simply dislike how this girl seriously could have destroyed this photoshoot, had she didn’t have her back turned from the camera. We all know this girl has outrageously amazing legs, and she decided to show her calves to the camera? How upsetting. Plus, that orange skirt throws me off here. It kinda looks like it’s the day of Halloween or something in this photograph. Also, this girl’s face doesn’t look very good here. I don’t like how she’s smiling, and she looks pretty aged here as well. Her hair also does not look very attractive here. Sad to see this girl go, but she kinda did deserve it. She’s been far too inconsistent throughout her entire stay in the competition.

AVERAGES
1) Evgeniya T. (2.8) 2/3/5/1/5/4/1/1
2) Kseniya T. (3.8) 3/5/3/2/1/9/2/5
3) Anastasiya (5.1) 4/1/4/10/6/6/5 – (Eliminated Week 8)
4) Irina (5.3) 5/8/11/4/2/5/3/4
5) Kseniya V. (5.8) 9/7/10/3/3/3 – (Eliminated Week 6)
6) Kseniya D. (6.0) 1/10/2/11 – (Eliminated Week 4)
7) Elizaveta (6.4) 16/2/1/6/10/2/6/8 – (Eliminated Week 8)
8) Arina (6.7) 12/9/6/7/8/1/4 – (Eliminated Week 7)
9) Karmela (7.0) 6/6/9 – (Eliminated Week 4)
10) Alyona (8.3) 13/4/8 – (Quit Week 3)
11) Olga (8.4) 7/13/12/5/4/11/8/7
12) Evgeniya F. (8.9) 8/14/13/8/11/7/7/3
13) Masha (9.5) 10/15/7/12/9/8/9/6
14) Mariya (10.3) 14/16/14/9/7/10/10/2
15) Elena (11.5) 11/12 – (Eliminated Week 2)
16) Valeriya (13.2) 15/11/15/13/12 – (Eliminated Week 5)
17) Ekaterina (17.0) 17 – (Eliminated Week 1)

ELIMINATIONS
Alyona: 0
Anastasiya: 0
Arina: 0
Ekaterina: 1
Elena: 0
Elizaveta: 1
Evgeniya F.: 0
Evgeniya T.: 0
Irina: 0
Karmela: 0
Kseniya D.: 0
Kseniya T.: 0
Kseniya V.: 0
Mariya: 2
Masha: 0
Olga: 1
Valeriya: 3