This is just a brief note to say that we’re proud of our TRANSform Me girls (not that we weren’t to begin with), who sit alongside the likes of Project Runway and Top Chef in the GLAAD Awards’ Outstanding Reality Program category (although: WTF with the Drag Race snub?!?)! The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation’s awards ceremony is set to take place in New York on March 19 (there will also be a ceremony May 14 in San Francisco and one in Los Angeles on an as-yet-announced date). From VH1′s official the press release:
The GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.
Congratulations to everyone who have worked so hard on this series!
To learn more about the GLAAD Awards and the nominees, please click on the link to read GLAAD’s press release.
Nina is TRANSform Me‘s style expert, but she is also the show’s comedian and linguist. Outside TRANSform Me she’s just as multi-talented: She moved to New York to do fashion illustration, but she also works as a makeup artist, and when I called her she was in the middle of re-touching a client’s photos. She’s also an actress and model, having starred in Kenneth Cole’s “We All Walk In Different Shoes” ad campaign. Below she talks about why she moved to New York (she was born in Saigon and grew up in Orlando) and explains some of her vocabulary on the show.
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Jamie Clayton says she isn’t a shy person, but while talking to her, it seems like she is, at the very least, the most private of TRANSform Me‘s three makeover experts. She loves talking about color and products, but her life outside the show? Off limits. “I don’t talk about my personal life ever,” she says firmly. “That’s a big rule for me now.” Clayton’s Observer profile remains the best source of information on her background (besides her website). But for this interview she was happy to talk about the advice she gives to TRANSForm Me‘s makeovers, why doing makeup is an intimate experience, and one of her favorite beauty products for the summer.
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Laverne is too kind to point out each makeover’s problem areas. But here’s a clue.
They’re all gorgeous on the inside. They just need to do something about that face.
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