I think there are so many shades of red, that there is one that will work for every coloring.

As someone who spent nearly 15 years trying to find that shade before seeing the light and switching to blue, there's really not. I spent my entire adolescence looking mildly jaundiced before finally admitting to myself that no, red hair was not a good look for me. (There are a few deep deep jewel-toned reds out there that will work for about three days, but then the purples wash out and I'm left looking brassy and orange again.)

I haven't seen the ep in question (I thought I loved Tim Gunn, but apparently I only love him on PR because I watched about 5 minutes of this show and it was just so mean I had to turn it off). But I think there are very few skin tones that really look good with red hair.

Having access last night to all the fancy TV channels I don't have at my house, I somehow found myself watching Big Brother After Dark last night. I could not turn it off! For minutes I was watching people just sit. Mostly they were talking, and it was kind of interesting, but STILL. The shame.

What was interesting was they were talking a lot about the logistics of the game -- when the last day was, how much money non-winners would get (it's apparently about $3K/month?), and a producer told them to stop, but not in scary Big Brother voice or anything, just conversationally, which they noted as being unusual.

I believe the sequester people all get $9000, so, whatever that works out to a month/week.

Ah -- that's what they were saying, that if you stay three months you get nine grand.

Random BB thought: they didn't show Daniele's bday party, did they? And did anyone care that she lied about her age the first day?

They showed her getting a b-day card from Nick, no? And I'm not sure that anyone ever found out that she lied about being 21, but really, why would they care?

Yeah, I was just curious, because usually a birthday is a nice happy filler thing for BB. I guess they were too busy showing Jen get BURNED WITH CIGARETTES.

From Keckler's TC recap:

Some would say that bread pudding was invented as soon as the first loaf of bread staled in ancient times, but since "bread pudding" has also come to mean different things, it's impossible to tell. So, I won't quibble overmuch with Hung's eight hundred year idea, but mainly because I like the idea that the first recipe for bread pudding was written on the back of the Magna Carta.

Design Star:

I think Kim was the clear winner tonight. Todd - whew. Could he BE any more grating?

I don't know. . . I mean, to me there was no surprise in either room. They both used color palettes they've used before, Todd did another ocean themed room and I just felt bored with them both. I think that I wouldn't necessarily watch a show with either. I will say that I think Kim is more to the taste of most people and Todd is more original in the way he uses space. Neither of those things are new observations either.