Oh, except according to Dictionary.com, Malnurtured is not really a word. Oh Brie Bella. If my face were an emoticon, it would be the frown face one.
Yes, it’s me. Not only am I the resident Khaleesi of Diva Dirt Live, I’m also your Raw Redux writer, at least for this week. I’ve overthrown Steven, high-jacked his Redux, and now I ‘m going to grace the minds of each and every reader with my opinions of what went down this week. You’re absolutely on the edge of your seats, aren’t you? It’s been a hot minute since I’ve written one of these thanks to the lack of action of SmackDown, as well as, an out of town trip on my part. Forgive me if it isn’t up to my usual low standards. I’m just giving you all fair warning.
We all follow the Bella twins on Twitter, right (twitter.com/thebellatwins)? Earlier in the night they teased that they were going to reveal the truth about Diva’s Champion, Kelly Kelly, which I reckon was their way of building heat for the Brie versus Kelly title match this Sunday at Money In The Bank. It followed a match featuring the rarely seen Diva known as Melina, who took on the champ. There is also a random guest appearance by Eve Torres. Lets take a look at how everything went down, shall we?
Raw comes back from break with Melina in the ring, playing to the crowd. If you’re anything like me, you were shocked by this (not to mention overjoyed, estatic, happy, insert other adjective here…), and the moment was cut short when they switched to the Bella twins over at the commentary booth. Brie, and Nikki Bella, are being their wonderful selves. We have all the makings of an epic Diva segment, right?!
A lot of women try to emulate that classic pin-up look, to decidedly mixed results. The usual pitfalls are that the look is too cheap, trashy or overdone. The key, in my opinion, to pulling off the look is to keep that vintage aesthetic so that you look like you could have really been one of those girls, not just a girl in the 21st century wearing polka dots, putting on red lipstick and rolling her hair. Beth has decided to give it a go here, dressing in a polka dot halter top, a gray high-waisted pencil skirt and nude pumps. Her hair is done-up too in a period appropriate wave. All together, it’s great look that manages to be both modern and pin-up–the color choice is modern, and the silhouette is pin-up. Her sculpted frame may not exactly fit with the “softer” look of the mid-century models, but I think it’s the way she positions her body–i.e., the poses–that make me overlook that slight inconsistency. Most of her poses, with her carefully bent knees and cheery disposition, fit the theme and make me feel that, if this were many decades ago, Beth could have been one of those models. My usual gut reaction to shoots like these is to notice how deliberate and cheesy the Diva or Knockout in question looks in a “vintage” look, as if she’s playing dress-up rather than crafting a look for a photoshoot. Beth, though she doesn’t fit the “classic” look of a pin-up, pulls off the look rather well, and sells it further with her poses. It’s moments like these when she puts the “glamor” in “Glamazon”.
This is a rather standard Bella Twins photoshoot, including a few tandem shots and a few solo ones. Brie and Nikki are posing in matching camouflage ring gear, doing the usual mix of haughty smirks and smiles. There isn’t too much of this photoshoot that stands out, but I really like their positioning in some of these photos, where they slightly overlap each other, one in the foreground and one in the background. It’s a simple touch, but creates much more dynamic photos that ones where they’re simply standing hip-to-hip. I’m sure shooting numerous photoshoots together gives them ideas like that, and I’m glad to see that they’re coming up with different ways of posing together, since it seems like 9 times out of 10 they’ll be having shoots together rather than separately. Other than that touch, this photoshoot is the usual Bella fare, which isn’t a bad thing, but just isn’t all that exciting. I have to say, though, that I prefer this kind of photoshoot to the highly-themed, prop-laden ones they do every so often. Subtlety, a lot of the time, creates better photos.
