Saturday, June 15, 2019

Search Belles

Apparently voting has closed for the model search. My pick, Manuela Hernandez, had a good showing.


But for some reason, her pics didn’t live up to her search photoshoot.


Where her model search shots are sultry, making her look so hot that water beads on the surface of her body...


...her SI shots are a little more straightforward, even tame somehow.


I think this might be the Emrata Effect. You take a model who flourishes in dirty, sultry, even campy scenarios…


…and try to turn her into a sunshiny bathing beauty…


…and you end up with a little cognitive dissonance. The thing that made her sexiest doesn’t perfectly translate to the new venue.

That said, I think it’s true of all the contestants. The stark, color-saturated photography and the sleek, black bikinis created a cool and specific mood that doesn’t come through in the girls’ magazine appearances.

Manuela

Jessica

Raine

Brooks

Erin

I assume we’ll hear who won soon, and then we can notch the first rookie for 2020.

Stay tuned!

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