It’s NEKKID Time!

Last week on Face Off: The contestants arrived and instantly faced a challenge. Tom and Gage were highlighted as some of the best but Gage won immunity. After, their first task was to pair off and create a human/animal hybrid. Tom and Conor’s elephant man was deemed the best and Conor won the week overall. Gage and Sergio’s elephant man and Jo and Jessica’s Ostrich Vegas Showgirl were the bottom. In the end, Jessica was the one sent home. Who will fall flat tonight? Find out!



Jo talks to Sam about being on the chopping block last week. She says she was surprised Jessica was the one to go. Gage talks about standing before the judges and says he’s used to being torn down.
The contestants go to their studio and McKenzie welcomes them to their foundation challenge. She says it’s about tattoos. They have two hours to design and apply a tattoo…to themselves. Their judge for this challenge will be tattoo artist Thomas Pendelton. McKenzie starts the clock and they go to their stations. Gage says there are different methods do making a tattoo. Anthony says he wants to put aspects of New York into his tattoo while Sergio wants his to honor his late grandfather. Sam also honors a family member—her mother in a side portrait tattoo. Tom decides to tattoo “Til Death Do Us Part” and Frank tells him that he had done it backwards. But Tom’s comforted by the fact that Sergio is bad. Gage goes to give Jo a “buck up, little camper” speech.

Thomas likes Jo’s idea not the placement. He isn’t too impressed with Conor’s but likes Anthony’s. Thomas likes how Sam’s looks like a traditional tattoo. Frank reveals he recreated tattoos he had which doesn’t impress Thomas. He calls out Sergio’s anchor and Frank’s tattoos. Frank asks about what the show is about and Thomas shoots it right back at him. Thomas liked Sam’s tattoo. And who is the winner? Tate! Because he liked the planning that Tate put into the work. McKenzie dismisses the contestants.

Tate thinks Frank is digging a hole and doesn’t seem to be putting in the work. Everyone walks into the studio where there are several canvasses. The models come out in robes, which McKenzie quickly tells them to take off.

Commercials!

We come back to naked models and blurred bits everywhere. McKenzie makes sure the contestants are okay before explaining the challenge is to paint the models to create living art. She explains that it is up to them decide how to blend in their model. And it must be worthy of a magazine cover. To help judge, she brings in Filippo Ioco. He gives them advice and Anthony thinks this breaks out of the “blood, guts and monster movies” idea of special effects artist. They choose

Tate: Rainforest
Tom: Stairway
Sergio: Tornado
Jo: Ocean
Anthony: Petrified wood
Gage: Museum
Marcel: Waterfall
Conor: New Orleans
Megan: Abstract
Frank: Elevator

Frank had asked Megan to pick the guy but she whispers back that she couldn’t as she felt uncomfortable. Jo decides to turn her model into a fish while Sam wants to do painted clothes. Sergio focuses on the pose first. Conor thought he had Venice, not New Orleans but he works with it. Frank’s model feels totally ignored by Frank and what does Frank do? Give up. Seriously man? A kid in like third grade does that if he doesn’t get what he wants. The rest of us SUCK IT UP AND DO IT!

Commercials.

We come back to Frank giving up but Conor tells him to SUCK IT UP AND DO IT! So Frank decides to paint him into the picture. Jo says she’s pretty intimidated as everyone seems to be doing amazing. Tom loves what Sam is doing with her model’s boots while Frank just doesn’t seem to be giving a damn about his model. Sergio is still behind. Gage confesses that Sergio needs to do more. Jo realizes that she grabbed the wrong paint and thinks she has to start again. She’s afraid she’s going to be on the chopping block again.

Coming Up: Last Looks!

Megan spots Jo’s mistake. Jo decides to use sealer and hopes it works. Anthony notes that it has to read on camera. A photographer comes out when it’s time. Sergio directs the photographer like he’s Jay Manuel wannabe. Conor notices his model is having trouble balancing and prays they get one go shot. Frank’s model gets the shot and Frank walks away to celebrate. They send him back to get the poor man. Megan keeps doing touch-ups and the others are afraid she won’t get a picture. She thought she had ten minutes to do touch-ups and then take the picture. Not that the picture had to be taken within the ten minutes as well.

The contestants arrive at Last Look. We have the panel: Glenn Hetrick, Ve Neill, Patrick Tatopolous and Filippo Ioco. Each photograph is revealed as the judges take notes.

Sam, Gage, Megan, Marcel, and Frank are called first. They are told they are safe and are sent back to the room. Frank’s safe? Seriously? Anyway, the others remain are either the best or the worst. Jo is first. She is worried about being torn apart again as we go to…

Commercials!

We return as Filippo asks if this was the first time she ever used body paint. She says yes and he congratulates her on a good job. Glenn agrees that it is a great job. Ve praises her as well. Patrick congratulates her on planning it out. Jo returns, breathing a sigh of relief. Tate is next. Glenn calls his work monotone and tells him to use contrasts. Tate agrees, which pleases Glenn. Filippo thinks he bit off more than he could chew. Sergio follows. Ve asks about his image. He says it’s an indigenous man caught trying to get food. She says it’s a long story for not a lot of paint. Sergio explains that he darkened his model and is told that his decisions were not good. By everyone.

Anthony is next. Ve calls his photograph “awesome.” Patrick loves the center of the orange skin. Glenn compliments Anthony on sticking with his decision. Tom is next. Glenn likes it. He praises Tom’s skill with the airbrush. Ve loves the weed patches, though she thinks the other one could’ve been moved from the model’s “derriere.” Filippo thinks the photograph makes it look like one wants to walk into it. Conor is last. Patrick likes the concept, not the execution. Filippo says it should look more weathered.

McKenzie asks the judges to name the week’s winner. This week it is Anthony. He shakes everyone’s hands. He heads to the center of the room while everyone else is dismissed. They ask him who should go home out of Tate, Sergio and Conor. Anthony says he would like to go against Tate and Conor in sculpting and it’ll improve him as an artist to keep the two stronger ones. He says Sergio. Before he is dismissed he gets a prize from Filippo. They discuss the three and come to a decision.

Sergio, Tate and Conor are brought back in. It’s judgment time.
After commercials.

Glenn tells Tate that his idea got lost on him. For Sergio, he says the judges feel he didn’t do too much with the time he was given. For Conor, the colors were muddy and the idea wasn’t expressed well. So, who is going home tonight? Sergio. Anyone have any doubts? He shakes Tate and Conor’s hands. He thanks the judges before shaking their hands. He says it isn’t a school, it’s a competition. He says his good-byes and says he’s leaving with more than the money.

Face-Off

Sergio
Tate
Conor
Jo
Marcel
Gage
Anthony
Tom
Jessica
Megan
Frank
Sam

So, that’s episode two. I honestly can’t believe Frank was safe. I didn’t much care for his attitude nor his design. Oh well. His attitude will get him eventually.

Next week: ALIENS!

Quote of the Episode

“It’s birthday suits as far as the eye can see.” –one of the contestants after the models drop their robes.