Joslyn poses for her embarrassing celebrity moment at the Fiercee Awards. Photo courtesy of The CW.

Sheena poses for her first international photo shoot on the shores of Amsterdam. Photo courtesy of The CW.

SPOILER ALERT

My sincere apologies for not being “on top” with the top model blog. I’ll give you all a recap of last week’s episode, Now You See Me, Now You Don’t, before we get into this week’s.

Elina and Marjorie discuss their European commonalities, which seem to only include crying. The immigrants stand their ground though as Sheena and Samantha gang up them. (Obviously I’m on team America here. GO USA! There’s so much to be happy about in the Land of the Free.)

The Aswirl Twins from ANTM cycles 6 and 8 returned to show the girls how to incorporate versatility into selling accessory garments. For the challenge, the girls premiered in an avant-garde fashion preview for fashion designer Nony Tochterman’s Petro Zillia invisible model collection. Elina won the challenge and chose Marjorie and Analeigh to accept the prize with her. They were treated to a holiday fashion shoot for “Seventeen” magazine’s December/January issue.

Back at the house, a catfight broke out between Sheena, Marjorie and Elina. Marjorie didn’t have much to say, so Elina spoke up for the both of them.

The girls arrive at a beautiful abode in Bel-Air for this season’s first CoverGirl Commercial where they advertised CoverGirl’s new Eye Enhance Blast Shadows collection. Each model got five takes and a teleprompter, which should have taken the edge off a bit. However, a little too much aswirl and twirl made our girl Joslyn hurl. Joslyn had been sick all week and threw up before her commercial challenge, yet she managed to pull off a decent performance.

Overall: Samantha had great energy, Elina looked pissed off, McKey was a little clueless and Sheena remained fierce as always. Analeigh really rocked the commercial though.

At panel this week it was announced that the girls are going abroad to Amsterdam. But before anyone goes clogging across cobble-stoned Holland, there’s still an elimination to get through.

After deliberation, Analeigh won the honor of best commercial, with Sheena as runner-up. Elina and Joslyn ended up in the bottom two.

Unfortunately, Joslyn got the axe. Although she managed to do the commercial, the judges don’t award pity points. Unless you’re French and awkward. (Not pointing any fingers Tyra…)

This week’s episode: Planes, Trains and Slow Automobiles

The girls arrive in Amsterdam and right off the airplane they meet Daphne Deckers, the host of Holland’s Next Top Model. In order for the girls to learn about their surroundings, Daphne splits them up into groups and challenges them to be the first to arrive at the new house. The winners get 50 extra frames for the next shoot. The team of Elina and Samantha is the first to cross the finish line.

The house is quite splendid, decked out with cycle 10 winner Whitney’s photos, a grand spiral staircase and steaming a hot tub of love. In celebration of their arrival, Elina, Marjorie and Analeigh all decided to take a bath together. I think McKey said it best –- it was like a va-jay-jay shaving party.

Challenge

The girls meet Mr. Jay in the heart of Amsterdam’s famous Red Light District, where they learn about the Red Light Fashion project, which aims to put a new face on Amsterdam’s brothels. Throughout the district there are various locales where prostitutes advertise themselves, and the project looks to turn the brothels into fashion design locales where models can show off designer’s pieces. The girls work in teams for this challenge and must adhere to the designer’s theme.

Elina and Analeigh struggled to make the clothes look good, but Elina handled it with more control.
While McKey and Samantha were supposed to be dolls, but Samantha did a better job looking lifeless and stiff (I like her much better when she’s not talking). Lastly, Sheena and Marjorie were poised to be edgy but high fashion. Marjorie yet again used awkwardness to her advantage and stole the spotlight.

The winning models, McKey and Samantha, will be invited to work for the Amsterdam International Fashion Week.

Photo shoot

Amidst the rocky seas off the coast of Amsterdam, the girls get to wear mid-century dresses with a modern twist aboard a classy Amsterdam ship.

Mr. Jay really loved McKey. She was super creative and you could tell she was trying to break out of her shell.

For Samantha it took some pushing, but she managed to look decent.

Elina stopped paying attention to Mr. Jay altogether, blaming it on her “focus”, something that will not sit well with the judges.

Panel

McKey won and was the first to be called, and Analeigh was the runner-up.

Sheena and Elina were in the bottom two this week. Elina can take a pretty picture, but the judges don’t see a model in front of them, and her control is turning into stiffness in her photos. On the other hand, the judges feel that Sheena is the opposite — full of personality, but not so interested in being in control, with photos at the bare minimum.

So who goes home?
Bon voyage to Sheena, but I don’t think this will be the last we see of her. On another note, team Majorie/Elina has to end, so Tyra please don’t act crazy.

Stay tuned…