MISS NAKED BEAUTY: With Gok Wan and Myleene Klass
Fashion stylist to the stars Gok Wan and model, presenter and former pop star Myleene Klass launch a search for the woman who embodies the confidence, spirit, sex appeal, brains and beauty (inside and out) of a modern-day Eve. A panel of judges shortlist the women with real potential who then explore their ideas of beauty and confidence. During the series of make-under challenges the candidates are whittled down to a handful of finalists. The public then cast their vote to decide who will be crowned Channel 4’s beauty ambassador.
Tuesday 21 October 2008
8:00pm, Channel 4
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This was a really bizarre show -it makes out as if all enhancments/make up/piercings are bad…
is there no room for middle ground between totally natural and completely fake?? Just doing what makes you feel good?
And if they where looking for ‘natural’ beauty why did they let people through with boob jobs?? Just saying. Very unreality.
I thought it was so bizarre that it was actually good, I definitely want to see how it develops over time and how the characters change, or choose not to.
Cheap exploitative TV, like all the other so-called ‘reality’ programmes. This one seems to be an excuse to broadcast pictures of naked females (why is it never naked males?) before the 9pm watershed (are you watching, Mr Regulator?) whilst a supposedly homosexual man(?) views tham and avails himself(?) of the occasional grope. Why is this acceptable if done by a homosexual, when it would be prosecuted as sexual harassment if done by a heterosexual male? Surely most people must have noticed that the name of the ‘presenter’ has a very obvious anagram … ‘Go Wank’. This is so appropriate for this show that it surely cannot be an accident?
I actually really love the Miss Naked Beauty series.
It making many women feel a lot better about their natural selves.
The only this that bothers me is that Gok Wan is a make-up artist etc.
He’s completely contradicting himself!
It’s madness!
Like to watch it but I think there should have been a different presenter, even though I do love Gok.
I really love the episode tonight (taking off make-up and going back to natural hair color and style). It is SO inspiring!!!
I am happy to say I rarely wear make-up except (five days a week?) mascara and (once a week?) foundation, and I have never dyed my hair! Yay, go natural!
I also really loved the episode tonight. I hardly ever wear much makeup
and i think that we should all be more natural.
Does anyone think that the wrong girls were sent home last night? I really liked
amy (the short girl).
I love Gok Wan but this show is appalling!! These women are thrown into the deep end with tasks that they have never attempted previously, expected to bear their souls (and faces) & then slated by a panel of 3 “experts” which brings me to the point if this is Naked Beauty then how come Mica Paris, with her false eyelashes and half a ton of MAC, is allowed to make any comments? It’s so biased too! Poor Claudie seems to be disliked (although goodness knows why)so last week we saw no contributions from her during the show.
Honestly I was expecting something better from Gok but this show is just cruel.
This show is so unfair! – they invite girls to audition for a show under the pretence that it’s a beauty competition…. they therefore attract girls who enjoy looking good, wearing make up, nice clothes etc. They then tell the girls that they are actually looking for an ambassador for natural beauty. So they’ve instantly attracted a totally different genre of people. All individual thought and opinion must be quashed – plastic surgery, lots of make up – the contestants must now disagree with these things. Surely finding a confident, self assured woman who can be happy in her own skin but also make her own mind up over how she chooses to present herself is more important? – if a woman wants to doll herself up then why not – it’s what Gok usually preaches in his other show! – so long as she’s doing it for herself and not bowing to media pressure then that’s cool, no? Just feel they’ve gone about it in the wrong way.
I completely agree with you Lyndsey! I watched it last night and found the whole thing confusing and unclear! Talk about Vanessa interviewing those girls and saying how one of them was so unclear – well the whole programme is ambiguous! Gok has always been about ladies getting their glad rags on, changing their hair and putting makeup on to look great (How to look good naked and Gok’s Fashion Fix). Even in the How to Look Good naked he had airbrushed pictures taken of the ladies. When they were first on the show they were miserable about how they looked and what they wore then he transformed that by adding makeup, hairdressers and clothes. So now what? He’s scrapping that and talking about the Natural Beauty ambassador. How do we define a natural beauty? It’s a very subjective topic. Perhaps we do accept what we have, but we like to wear makeup to hide that spot or wear heals to make our legs look longer/ slimmer – this doesn’t mean to say we feel victimised by the media? Or is it? For centuries women have always had a certain perception of beauty. Once it was beautiful to be pale, then in the 60s it was beautiful to be tanned. Currently the new vogue is freckles! I have freckles, but I don’t care whether its vogue or not!
Agree with Lyndsey and Astaroth. This programme and the way it is being presented is an insult to women who carry brains and beauty in what ever shape, colour or form. Most of us aren’t stupid enough to want to go around looking like a plastic, peroxide Barbie Doll. The girls that have made it through this far have their eyes firmly fixed on the prize of becoming a celebrity and when under fire from Vanessa Feltz none of them really had a valid or credible or intelligent reason as to why they would suit the role of ambassador. I wouldn’t want any one of them to ’speak’ for me! They have thrown out the women who do voice an opinion such as the lady who said that cosmetic surgery is a freedom of choice and kept in sycophantic class swots such as Shona the eager puppydog says it all. They want a puppet on a string that they can mould into a celebrity NOT a strongminded, mature, experienced beautiful woman with an objective and realistic view of life. Freedom of choice and wisdom is what empowers women,NOT stripping them of their dignity!
I really fancied Lucinda. I did think she would win it. Oh well…
I love the way at the end of the last programme it says about for getting natural makeup tips.. *cough cough* I’m sorry, but since when was make up natural?
This programme wasn’t all bad. I was pleased with the winner, she deserved to win because she was happy in herself and it didnt seem as though she was obsessed with her looks.
I think that all these “real / natural beauty” programmes and adverts should stop focusing on the aesthetics of the woman / man. Not everyone out there is obsessed with the way they look and not everyone feels insecure about themselves and feels the need to cover themselves in “natural makeup” and walk around naked to feel like they are worth something!
It seems as though women have to prove that they’re amazing nowadays, they HAVE to look good apparently. I think its about time we stop being so obsessed as a society about our looks perhaps then we will stop buying those stupid magazines that talk to women as though they are a bible.
i think miss naked beauty was a really good programme it really inspired me to feel great about myself even parts of my body that i couldn’t even look in the mirror at. i am very pleased shoina won miss naked beauty as she was a real inspiration to everyone she always kept her head up high even on the toughest challenges. i hope miss naked beauty continues as a second series and continues making women come to terms with their body’s no matter what size or shape they are thanks joanne x