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clowniing — Rhiannon (Fire) (Total Score: 36 pts. // 90%)
Style:9 • Creativity:9 • Motif:10 • Description:8
Comments: Mama phoenix bird rising from the ashes. This is research done right. Dare I say, the best look of the week. The description ran a tad longer than I would've liked, but I liked what I read. The outfit itself is gorgeous. Totally something that I would want for myself. I just love that this reads fire without being overwhelmed with red, yellow and orange. This entry just gives me the peak example of "phoenix rising from the ashes". Shooting myself in the foot here, but clown ate this up. I love the black and white to represent charcoal and ash, both associated with fire, which is smart. I'm also just impressed by how clown portrayed their elements' qualities and strategically encapsulate those qualities and create this beautiful of a representation of what fire represents and what it means, in a symbolic sense. Though I will say, the orange skirt does slightly stick out like a sore thumb. I get the intention, but it would've been nice to see a better blend of the white and orange in the outfit, for that nice gradation that the colors of fire tend to have. Outside that, this is majestic.

HELLPRIEST — Seren (Water) (Total Score: 25 pts. // 62.5%)
Style:4 • Creativity:7 • Motif:7 • Description:7
Comments: Oh my... I'm 50/50 on this entry. I read the description (it did read a tad long for my liking), and I see what the vision is, the problem is I don't necessarily think it went to a direction that HELL wanted it go to. Let's go to the positives, I like that they went with the 'Goshiki' color scheme, as the blue of that color scheme read koi fish on sapphire waters. I like that it isn't blue on blue on blue, which would've been an obvious route to go to, and could've been fatal on HELL's part, considering we've seen HELL put Seren on blue many times before. I like that they took a page off of Dickjoke's book (I'm aware that part's a reference to ANTM's water challenge), and had Seren submerged in water, which makes so much sense with their given element, water. Now, onto the negatives, Seren's look feel and reads heavy. For HELL trying to encapsulate 'flow' to match their element's association, it reads the opposite of what they're going for. The bottom has so much going on, that it's weighing down Seren, and it doesn't help they're underwater, in a sense that it looks like Seren's drowning from how heavy her garment is. I know that that's kinda the intention, with their ANTM water challenge inspo, but it doesn't read well. Accessory-wise, some choices don't make sense with the element. The kitsune mask, with a moon hairpin? For a water garment? I don't see the vision of it. It's tough seeing HELL be at their worst at the worst time, but this entry doesn't give me the HELL that I knew and love throughout the cycle.

Detrimentum — Helena (Wind) (Total Score: 32 pts. // 80%)
Style:8 • Creativity:7 • Motif:8 • Description:9
Comments: One main thing I associate wind with is movement, and for Detri to capture that with their entry is really beautiful to see. Helena looks lively and animated, very fitting for the wind element. I definitely see they've done their research, with how they incorporated elements that associate with their assigned element. Helena's outfit looks flowy and easy to move in. This is one of the only times I'm fine with Detri going flouncy and bouncy with the outfit. Props to Detri for using items that we clocked other contestants for using and using it to their favor, because it's working out for them. Though I do have negative notes, still. I am 50/50 on the filter, because while I get the intention of the use of it, it does distort the beautiful colors of Helena's dress and the scenery. The filter also, by itself just reads as smoke to me, which doesn't necessarily fit the scene Helena's in. Also, the gold accessories on the face. It doesn't add anything or take away anything to the look, outside the fact that it looks good on Helena. Overall, this is a passable, A-Okay look. Nothing that I haven't seen before, but not bad in any way whatsoever. It has its charm, but it's nothing that gives me life.

mythological irony — Sumati (Earth) (Total Score: 33 pts. // 82.5%)
Style:8 • Creativity:8 • Motif:10 • Description:7
Comments: Wow! This looks a lot like the paintings I see at art exhibits, in the best way possible. I often see artwork, when they wanna portray earth, I see along the lines of what myth has done here. This has a cultural feel to it that I really enjoy. Sumati's giving me earth goddess without being on-the-nose goddess. I also appreciate that this isn't too on-the-nose earth either. Maybe it's just me that got the vision, but this gives earth to me 100%. Something about this entry just feels like something we see at our local festivals in the Philippines. This entry just that indigenous element to it that I like. Out of all the entries, this feels the least intricate outfit, comparatively, but the simplicity of it added more to that cultural feel I've mentioned. I wished myth sees the cultural vision, because they had the chance to tap into it more in their description, and this would've been rated higher. Overall, I'm just intrigued by this entry. It's enchanting.