Paula Lin­do

Tears and dra­ma seem to be stan­dard for any re­al­i­ty show, and even more so when it in­volves peo­ple liv­ing to­geth­er and com­pet­ing against each oth­er. Dur­ing the third week of the show Caribbean's Next Top Mod­el, that dra­ma cen­tred around makeovers and one par­tic­u­lar con­tes­tant.

Have you ever won­dered if peo­ple de­lib­er­ate­ly play to the cam­eras dur­ing these shows? Well Yugge from St Vin­cent was sound­ly chas­tised by host Wendy Fitzwilliam for per­form­ing for the cam­eras. She said Yugge's be­hav­iour was high­ly un­pro­fes­sion­al and un­ac­cept­able. Fitzwilliam said if her pho­to­graph hadn't been close to per­fect and she wasn't tal­ent­ed, she would have been sent home im­me­di­ate­ly.

Be­fore that, Yugge and An­tigua's hope­ful Nicoya quar­reled. Yugge com­ment­ed that some of the oth­er mod­els couldn't have an ar­gu­ment with­out talk­ing about vi­o­lence. Nicoya re­spond­ed that no­body would want Yugge be­cause of her at­ti­tude and Yugge ac­cused Nicoya of be­ing fake. Nicoya got up in her face scream­ing and had to be pulled away by some of the oth­ers. Yugge said re­main­ing calm would ul­ti­mate­ly ben­e­fit her in the com­pe­ti­tion.

The makeovers were an­oth­er source of dra­ma. Some con­tes­tants had no prob­lem with their new styles, while oth­ers lament­ed the loss of their hair. St Lu­cia's Ayana had to fight back tears when she heard she was go­ing to have her hair cut, tex­tured and coloured, be­cause she said she'd been grow­ing her nat­ur­al hair out and it had just got­ten to the point where it could be plait­ed.

Mackel­la from Ja­maica al­so had a prob­lem with her hair be­ing straight­ened be­cause she'd nev­er done it be­fore. Nicoya broke down in tears when her long hair was cut and the back shaved.

The theme for the episode was beau­ty, so the women did a make­up chal­lenge, judged by guest judge Bar­ba­di­an mod­el Lene Hall, who was the first Caribbean woman to land four ma­jor beau­ty cam­paigns–Revlon, Pre­scrip­tives, Clin­ique and Fash­ion Fair. Ja­maican Mackel­la won the prize of a per­son­alised make­up kit. She said she was over­whelmed to have won.

Fol­low­ing their makeovers, the mod­els did a pho­to­shoot, which was the ba­sis of the judg­ing pan­el, con­sist­ing of Fitzwilliam, Hall, Richard Young and pho­tog­ra­ph­er Pe­dro Vir­gil.

Our own Tri­ni beau­ty Lia won the over­all com­pe­ti­tion for this week. Yugge wasn't sent home, al­though her name was called last over­all, and Fitzwilliam told her to put her de­ter­mi­na­tion to win to­wards be­ing the con­sum­mate pro­fes­sion­al from now on. The bot­tom two were Rac­quel and Car­ol-Ann, whom Fitzwilliam said had great po­ten­tial, but fell flat in front of the cam­era. In the end, both were sent home.

Stay tuned for next week's episode, where the mod­els might pos­si­bly do­ing a nude (or close to it) pho­to­shoot. Which woman will next week's dra­ma cen­tre around? Will it be Ayana, Yugge or some­body else?

MORE IN­FO: Caribbean's Next Top Mod­el screens on Mon­day nights on Flow TV (Ch 99) from 9 pm and re­peat­ed on CNC3 on Mon­days from 8 pm. �2 For more in­for­ma­tion about CNTM, check their Face­book page: Caribbean's Next Top Mod­el or vis­it the Web site www.caribbeansnext­top­mod­el.com/