Eorzea's Next Top Model - Round 1 - Bikinis at the Beach!

[LadyVal]

I am really curious to why everyone is voting Aila. Is it -just- because she is a Lalafel in a bikini? There are still 8 photoshoots to go in this contest, none of which are in a bikini. This is telling me that in Cycle 2 we can't have any bikini photoshoots because if we do, the lalafels will be immediately voted off. . . . . . . . . .

Yay time for me to be allowed to be technical. :P Working in the fashion industry, Aila stood out to me for the wrong reasons. Every other model captured a feeling, a moment, a story. You can get a feel of their personalities. Some are sultry, some are fun, some are carefree. To me I didn't judge based on how they looked in the bikinis themselves, but how they told a story. When I looked at Morina's picture, she looks like a tribal girl who adventured into a reef during low tide and a camera happened to catch her at the same time she caught it. Aila, to me, looks like she is an unhappy Lala who was just plopped onto a beach in a bikini, was told to pose, so she folded her arms and said "no."

I totally don't mean any disrespect to Aila, I just think her picture sent out the wrong kind of vibe. She just looks very serious and stern, unhappy. Almost the kind of image you'd want to portray for a soldier or a gothic girl or a rebel, not what you'd want to put forth in a beach bikini shot.

ETA I think her picture would have been more successful had she played on how cute the Lalas are, they make the funniest faces and can definitely amp up the cute factor that the other races don't inherently have. I understand the play on "America's Next Top Model" and kind of having the high-fashion/glamour look tied in with that, though I think even a Lala could take a beautiful shot by portraying an element of fun, instead of an element of glamour/sex appeal.