Asia's Next Top Model season 2

Asia's Next Top Model, Cycle 2
Season 2
File:AsNTM2CastSmall.jpg Cycle 2 cast
No. of episodes	13
Release
Original network	STAR World
Original release	January 08, 2014 – TBA
Season chronology

Asia's Next Top Model, Cycle 2 is the current season of the reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of Asia's Next Top Model and a chance to begin their career in the modeling industry. The show features aspiring models from the entire Asia-Pacific region. Casting for cycle 2 closed on August 25, 2013. Nadya Hutagalung and Joey Mead-King returned for panel this season, while Daniel Boey confirmed his departure from the show. After weighing his options, Todd Anthony Tyler also withdrew from the show. He was replaced by Mike Rosenthal.

The second season features a larger cast. The number of contestants increased from 14 to 16. Nepal was not represented for this season. The show was filmed in Malaysia, and it premiered on January 8, 2014 on STAR World Asia and Fox Asia. Among the prizes, are a three-month contract with Storm Model Management in London, the chance to appear in a spread and on the cover of Harper's Bazaar Singapore/Malaysia, a cash prize from FOX International Broadcast, a Subaru XV car, and the chance of becoming the new face of TRESemmé for one of their 2014 campaigns. 16 contestants from twelve countries in Asia were chosen to compete in the show. The footage was divided into thirteen episodes.

This cycle's promotional song was I Love It by Icona Pop.

Casting

Casting calls was held in five countries, listed below:

• August 9 at HYVE Club, Manila
• August 11 at JW Marriott, Kuala Lumpur
• August 13 at JW Marriott, Jakarta
• August 15 at Siam Discovery, Bangkok
• August 17 at FOX International Studios, Singapore City

Episode summaries

Episode 1: The Girl Who Walks the Walk

First aired January 08, 2014

All of the contestants first arrived at their accommodation, the Ritz-Carlton Hotel at the vibrant capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur.

After visiting and discovering their penthouse, the girls met host and judge Nadya Hutagalung for the first time. Nadya introduced herself and gave the girls some information about the show. Joey Mead-King and movement coach Adam Williams revealed to the girls that they would be having a water catwalk challenge. Jodilly excelled in the challenge. Most of the girls were excited and nervous, while Jessie became fearful of the water.

Dressed in outfits designed by Gloria Mok, the girls were required to walk on a narrow strip of glass submerged in a pool while retaining their glamour and confidence. Most of the models struggled, especially Katarina, who was the only girl to fall into the pool. Jessie allowed her fear of water to conquer her, with the judges taking notice as they watched from the crowd. The majority of the girls received favorable feedback from judge Adam Williams.

After arriving back to the model house, Nicole received the news that her grandmother had passed away. Despite feeling sad, she remained strong and decided to stay in the competition, explaining that seeing her on the show to would have made her grandmother proud. Elektra was quickly alienated by the other girls, who felt that she was trying too hard to get attention.

The girls arrived to their set for their first photo shoot. Before starting with the shoot, Nadya revealed that there would be an elimination based on the performances during the runway challenge and on each girls' overall potential. As a result of being too fearful of the water and being unprofessional, Jessie was ultimately sent home.

• Eliminated outside of judging panel: Jessie Yang

The remaining girls met their photographer and judge, Mike Rosenthal. Dressed in outfits designed by Inai Red, each model was allotted ten frames as part of the opening titles for the show. Sheena, Josephine, Thao, Janice, Jodilly and Tia were among few of the girls to receive positive feedback from Mike for being confident and versatile. Tia was praised most for bringing energy and a vibrant personality during the shoot, while Adam felt Poojaa lacked energy during her session. Bona and Natalie struggled with giving their best angles to the camera. Nicole struggled with her poses, and failed to enhance her unique edgy look.

At the first elimination, Tia, Sheena, and Josephine received acclaimation from the judges, securing the top three slots in the call-out. Jodilly and Thao received positive feedback from the judges as well, landing themselves on top 5 as well while the other models were met with mixed reactions from the judges. Elektra, Natalie, and Nicole were all critiqued for failing to give a wide variety of facial expressions. The former two were also criticized for looking more being demonic than fierce. Nicole was the first model declared safe. After landing in the bottom two with Elektra, Natalie was given a second chance.

• First call-out: Tia Taveepanichpan
• Bottom three: Elektra Yu, Natalie Pickles & Nicole Lee
• Eliminated: Elektra Yu
• Featured Photographer: Mike Rosenthal
• Special guests: Gloria Mok, Kenneth Goh from Harper's Bazaar

Episode 2: The Girl Who Attracts a Following

First aired January 15, 2014

After receiving depressing news from her hometown, unfavorable comments from the judges, and landing herself in the bottom three, Nicole released her anger after panel by punching a board in one of the corridors backstage. The cameraman tried to record her breakdown, but Nicole proceeded to push him out of the way. The girls failed in their attempt to calm her down. Ji-hye felt glad that Elektra had been eliminated because she felt that she was not a model. Josephine admitted that Tia's first call out took her by surprise, and explained that she began to see her as competition. Janice and Tia begin to form a clique of their own, forming slight animosity between themselves and the other girls.

In the morning, movement coach Adam Williams visited the house along with model, DJ, and fashion blogger Bip Ling. Bip Ling shared her personal experience on stardom, and gave the models tips and tricks for taking a great selfie. The girls were then divided into three groups, with last week's top three, namely Tia, Sheena and Josephine as the leader for each team. Each one of them selected three girls to join their group. Nicole and Sneha weren't picked, and they were left aside as the fourth team in the challenge. They were immediately sent out to the streets of Malaysia to take their best selfies.

Group	Leader	Models
One	Tia	Janice, Marie & Thao
Two	Sheena	Poojaa, Jodilly & Ji-hye
Three	Josephine	Natalie, Katarina & Bona
Four	—	Nicole & Sneha

Josephine felt that her team created many interesting poses, while Sheena's team was repeatedly kicked out of their chosen locations by shop owners. Tia stressed that she wanted simplicity in their pictures. Despite the fact that she was a photographer outside of the competition, Nicole wasn't happy with the challenge. Sneha began to feel pressured by Nicole's overly bossy personality, as she felt that the mood in the pictures needed to be fun and joyful. The photographs were reviewed a while later, and Poojaa was revealed to be the winner of the challenge.

• Challenge Winner: Poojaa Gill

She was given the chance to spend one relaxing night at Pangkor Laut, and chose to share her prize with Katarina. The two later took a luxurious helicopter to Pangkor Laut. Meanwhile, Tia vocalized her displeasure and irritation concerning Poojaa's victory for the challenge.

The girls' were welcomed by Joey-Mead King at at Malaysia's popular tourist hot spot Batu Caves, the location for their second photo shoot. After introducing the photographer, Maurice Maricio, the contestants learned that they would wearing dresses from renowned fashion designer Melinda Looi's collection. Additionally, it was explained that they would only be given fifteen frames to capture their best take. The models were asked to give a wide variety of dynamic poses and facial expressions. While climbing their way into the cave with baskets of fruit, monkeys attempted to raid their offerings.

Thao became worried because she felt that her tired face would translate into her pictures, but Maurice gave her favorable feedback. Ji-hye delivered artistic poses. Maurice felt that she took a while to warp up, but improved significantly near the end of her session. He also felt that Janice was fun to work with. Despite being sick, she was able to hold her poses before he took her photos. Bona lacked variation, and Maurice felt that she was blank. Katarina received mostly positive feedback. Natalie did good, showing vast improvement from the previous week. Sheena successfully made her long dress flaunt. Maurice felt that she was consistent and delivered in most of the film. Sneha thought that her religion gave her a spiritual advantage over the other girls. Marie failed to think of good poses for the camera. Last week's winner Tia failed to give dramatic movement, while Jodilly and Josephine were praised for their amazing performances on set.

While Poojaa and Katarina enjoying their trip to Pangkor Laut, the girls in the house get their very own TRESemme goody bag which very much making the girls very happy. Sneha puts her messed laundry near the ironing section, eventually trigger roommate Janice temper as she feels disrespected, but Tia does not really care about it. Janice asks Sneha to clean it up, but strong-minded outspoken Sneha does not want to do it as she feels she is ordered. After Poojaa and Katarina are back from their trip, they shared their experience and memory, which much displeased Tia and Janice.

During the second round of judging, Nicole, Jodilly, Sheena and Thao received positive feedback from the judges. They were also praised for their passion, hard work and effort, securing the top spots. The other girls received generally mixed reactions. As the judges deliberated, sparks flew in the waiting room. The girls are having drama which involves Tia, Sneha, Janice, and Katarina. Tia vs Katarina, while Janice vs Sneha. Tia and Katarina's feud ended quickly but Janice and Sneha's feud continued. Back in the elimination room, Bona, Marie, and Tia wound up in the bottom three. Marie was the first to be given a second chance. Last week winner Tia was deemed as having more potential, and was thus saved from being eliminated. Bona was sent home for giving flat photo, much to the dismay of the remaining contestants.

• First call-out: Nicole Lee
• Bottom three: Bona Kometa, Marie Nakagawa & Tia Taveepanichpan
• Eliminated: Bona Kometa
• Featured Photographer: Maurice Mauricio
• Special guests: Bip Ling, Melinda Looi

Episode 3: The Girl Who's Hot When She Is Cold

First aired January 22, 2014

This episode features the remaining 13 girls to have a great challenge on their fear of height - runway on top of Kuala Lumpur Tower the largest telecommunication tower in Asia. They are required to walk a short distance on top of KL Tower and end their ads with a smile as their commercial for Visit Malaysia 2014. Most of the girls received positive reaction for being brave enough to overcome their fear, especially Sneha, Nicole, Thao and Josephine. Furthermore, hometown girl Josephine did the best and won the challenge.

Challenge winner: Josephine Tan

After the challenge, the girls was 'spot check' by movement coach Adam Williams. He shares some useful beauty tips to the girls. Then, he revealed that last week photo shoot winner Nicole will have a pool session on top of their penthouse, which surprises all the girls, Pampered by sushi buffet and having their joyous moment at the pool, Nicole and 4 more girls, namely Janice, Poojaa, Jodilly and Sheena is having fun. The girls are even more thrilled when the workers there revealed international Hollywood stars like Michelle Yeoh and Jackie Chan also been here before.

The girls then have their third photo shoot at SnoWalk, Selangor with only 1/2 lingerie on, featuring guest photographer Jasper McIlroy. At temperature below 5 celsius, the girls needed to stay 'hot sexy' at the cold environment. Josephine, Nicole, Sheena and Natalie gave a lot and being edgy and creative at the photo shoot, receiving positive comment from Joey, Jasper and Mike. Jodilly also awed the guest photographer and was noted to be a photographer's dream. Katarina was also praised for having consistently improved. The other girls received mixed reaction, with Ji-hye and Janice received negative reaction for being dull, and their under performance was probably due to their sick body and they feeling unwell. Ji-hye, who was critique for being expressionless, later revealed her expressionless-ness was due to her childhood bullied. Sexy photographer, Jasper who was also a former model, was jokingly 'accused' for being too distracting because he is too attractive and hot.

On the judging panel, Josephine, who won the Visit Malaysia ads challenge, received acclaimed from the judges. Last week photo shoot winner Nicole was complimented for giving edgy pose and successfully enhanced her unique edgy look, secure her runner-up spot in the shoot. Sheena was praised for being creative and professional, ultimately maintain her top 3 spots for the third consecutive photo shoot consistently, being the first girl in the cycle to do so. Jodilly, Katarina, Thao and Natalie received lukewarm reaction from the judges. Poojaa was critiqued for being beautiful but don't know how to pose well. Sneha and Marie (unavailable at the call out due to evacuation to hospital as she shakes uncontrollably after the judging) were complimented for trying new poses and gave great curves, but their blank facial expression did not connect to the camera, resulting in blank and flat photos despite of great curves. Janice, who was suffering from terrible cold, and Ji-hye was in the danger of getting eliminated as they finished themselves at the bottom two. Both of them were critiqued for giving same 101 poses for the third week and their photo are expressionless and far behind the other girls. Janice, which has her past two week's photo at better ranking than Ji-hye, was given the second chance while Ji-hye was the fourth model sent packing.

• First call-out: Josephine Tan
• Bottom three: Janice Hermijanto, Moon Ji-hye & Sneha Gosh
• Eliminated: Moon Ji-hye
• Featured Photographer: Jasper McIlroy

Episode 4: The Girl That Embraces Change

First aired January 29, 2014

The remaining twelve girls had their very own makeover at Malaysia renowned celebrity saloon A Cut Above. Most of the girls are excited, while Sneha and Sheena were prominently worried and sad during the makeover. With the mirror covered, all the girls had their transformation revealed at a dark room, and given a surprise visit by their family member, boyfriend or friend, with Marie the only girl with no one to visit her. Furthermore, they are given a second surprise visit by their closed one at the model house. Poojaa was later finger-pointed by Josephine and Katarina as the 'second Tia' for boasting about her wealthy family and background.

For their photo shoot, they returned to the beauty salon for a 60's chic style themed photo shoot session while wearing Silas Liew new neon color-popping chic collection. Indonesian photographer Nicoline Patricia Malina was the shoot's featured photographer. For this week photo shoot, Nicoline requested that the girls be themselves with no inhibition of being quirky, sexy or edgy. Marie, Josephine, Nicole and Natalie were among the girls to received great feedback from the photographer, while Sneha, Jodilly, Thao, Katarina and Janice received negative feedback from the photographer for giving awkward poses and failing to deliver an impressive shot. Back at the house, the girls' poor hygiene condition was arising. Thao's mess in the kitchen made neat freak Nicole very frustrated and mad. Janice referred her as 'rich and famous diva'.

For the judging session, the models had their first-ever outdoor judging panel at the MBPJ Stadium, Petaling Jaya. Natalie, Sheena, Tia, Katarina and Janice were told that they were playing too safe and did not try something out of their comfort zone, while last week best photo winner Josephine, Marie and Poojaa had great shots with the latter two showing great improvement, securing the top three spots. In general, all of the girls were only able to give safe shots, and did not try something new. Most received lukewarm comments. Sneha, Janice and Thao landed in the bottom three and were in danger of having their top model dream crushed, with the former two having their second consecutive spots at the bottom three. Thao, who was deemed having weak shot this week was eliminated despite of better portfolio at the past three weeks than the former two.

• First call-out: Marie Nakagawa
• Bottom three: Janice Hermijanto, Phan Như Thảo & Sneha Ghosh
• Eliminated: Phan Như Thảo
• Featured Photographer: Nicoline Patricia Malina
• Special guests: Alfons, Lourd Ramos

Episode 5: The Girl That Runs Her Own Race

First aired February 5, 2014

The remaining eleven girls were woken by Adam in the model house by using a loud megaphone. Energetic Adam then announced it was the fitness week. The blurry girls then greeted by Daniel Remon, trainer from Technogym Kinesis and taught them how to use gym equipments correctly and safely, as it was very important for models to keep in fit shape. After the lesson, a bootcamp of obstacle course is followed. On the way to the challenge, Janice complained about Tia to Marie and Poojaa in the car, which makes the girls very confused about the 'BFF' relationship between Janice and Tia, and prompt Poojaa believes there is tension between Janice and Tia.

At the physical demanding challenge, they were greeted by Jason de la Peña, an English journalist, whom also presenter of Sky News, Russia Today, Sky Sports, and ESPN-StarSports, and a former cricketer. Before they start their group challenge, top 2 girls from previous week, Marie and Josephine was appointed team leader and they get to pick their desired teammates to form a team of 4.

Team	Models
Marie	Jodilly, Natalie, Pooja & Sneha
Josephine	Janice, Katarina, Nicole & Sheena
Tia	—

Since it was odd numbered, Nicole and Tia was the last two girls standing, with Josephine has to make the last pick. Nicole was picked instead of Tia, eventually form team Tia which consists only of herself. Joey then mentioned that this will be a team work challenge, the time only stops when all the models have reached the finish line. Tia being alone in her team, was in an advantage as she has no need to wait for others, and she will either make it or break it. Team Marie starts the obstacle course first, where they finished at 15 minutes 15 seconds, while Team Josephine finished at 7 minutes 50 seconds. Team Tia finished at only 2 minutes 03 seconds, resulting her the challenge winner and won her a pampering spa treatment at the Ritz Carlton Kuala Lumpur, where she picked Janice to enjoyed the price with her. Tia became the second girl after Josephine to ever won both best photo and challenge in cycle 2.

Challenge winner: Tia Taveepanichpan

Marie and Pooja then recalled what Janice gossiped about Tia in the car and share it with the other girls. Back at the model house, the girls had a surprised gift from M·A·C Cosmetics. Roommates Tia and Sneha thought it would be fair to gather everyone in the living room to discuss and arrange who should bagged the product, but Nicole was angry as she feels unnecessary to argue over 'small cosmetics'.

For the photo shoot, the remaining models traveled to Studio Image Rom and participate in a futuristic sports theme photo shoot, featuring Malaysian photographer Loh Lin Shan. For this week photo shoot, Loh requested that the girls to fully utilized their given sports prop while giving futuristic, avant-garde poses, but no to be robotic and boring.

Model	Sports Prop
Janice	Baseball Bat
Jodilly	Ping Pong
Josephine	Boxing Gloves
Katarina	Tennis Racket
Marie	Cycling Helmet
Natalie	Football
Nicole	Golf
Poojaa	Snorkeling
Sheena	Soccer Ball
Sneha	Hockey Stick
Tia	Basketball

Jodilly, Nicole and Sheena were praised and compliment by the photographer. Natalie had great improvement from previous weeks, showing her best yet while Janice was praised for enhancing her energy on set despite the photographer felt that she was shielding her feelings. Previous week top 3 Marie, Josephine and Poojaa all seems to be confused and have a huge step back from their previous week performance. Katarina and Sneha consistently giving very safe and boring poses, especially Katarina who seems to not trying at all. Sneha was criticized for looking aged. Tia was criticized for having the "Tia Expression" and ignoring mentor Joey and Mike when they were giving her directions.

After the photo shoot, the models found out that the kitchen in the model house was closed, followed by a Nadya Mail stating that Poojaa and Sneha were chosen to prepare a three course meal for the house. Both of them were first time cooker but the outcome were surprisingly delicious and delighting. After the dinner, Janice saw Jodilly, Katarina and Nicole sitting in their room, assumed that they were bitching about her. Nicole quickly invite Janice to sit down so they can have an intervention, when Nicole mentioned about Tia being her "BFF" in the house. Furious Janice defended herself by saying Tia is only her 'pretend BFF', as they gets along "best" doesn't mean they're best friends. The girls were left confused. Then, Janice quickly recalls that she heard her name being mentioned several times from the other girls during the photo shoot, prominently Sheena and Natalie, and snaps into an argument with everyone in the house, which results disappointed Tia changing her bed to another room.

For the judging session, the models went back to their judging panel studio, with special guest Malaysian Supermodel Amber Chia joins the panel. Natalie was praised at panel for delivering a great photo. The judges were surprised by Nicole's shot and praised for her consistency. The judges are also happy to see that Jodilly and Sheena has stepped up their game. Janice's energy look drained at panel, where she express her feelings of living with other girls in the house has caused her a lot of stress, but the judges acclaimed she had improved since the previous weeks. Josephine, Marie and Poojaa has a huge step back despite having good photos last week, with dissapointed Joey then added Marie's shot was a "flop". Poojaa is being criticized for her signature "hands-on-hip" poses every week, and does not gives any variation at all, while Sneha and Katarina being criticized for being too safe every week. Challenge winner Tia has been slipping back gradually. Even worst, Mike later brought up the 'ill-mannered' issue that had happened during the photo shoot. Nadya then quickly mentioned that this is the worst performance throughout the competition, and warned the girls to step up their game. As the judges deliberated, Tia broke down in tears after being accused for ignoring Mike and Joey during the photo shoot. Natalie received first call out, and Jodilly has her second best photo runner up. Nicole and Sheena also secured the top 4 spot, making Sheena extend her record of being the girls with most Top 3 appearance in the cycle with 4 times. Josephine, Poojaa, Sneha and Tia landed in an unusual bottom four, marking Sneha third consecutive bottom 3 appearance and Tia second bottom 2 appearance. Poojaa, whom was in top 3 last week, was unsuspected eliminated after she gave the same poses for the fifth consecutive times.

• First call-out: Natalie Pickles
• Bottom four: Josephine Tan, Poojaa Gill, Sneha Ghosh, Tia Taveepanichpan
• Eliminated: Poojaa Gill
• Featured Photographer: Loh Lin Shan
• Special guests: Amber Chia, Daniel Remon, Jason de la Peña

Episode 6: The Girl Who Works The Room

First aired February 12, 2014

The remaining top 10 girls were happy to stay in the running towards becoming the next Asia's Next Top Model. Poojaa's departure left a deep impact and much frustrated some of Poojaa's closest friends, most prominently Nicole, whom also from Singapore. Feeling much disappointed and sad, Nicole was sad that all the kind-hearted girls need to leave while attention-seekers remained.

The second morning, the girls warmly visited by model mentor Joey Mead-King with experienced make-up artist from M.A.C., !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Sharing some tips on being classy and beautiful, she gave all of the girls a goodie bag of M.A.C. cosmetics. Joey then joyfully announced that they are having a cocktail party challenge at Malaysia high-end bar Marini's 57, which was located at the 57th floor of world tallest twin tower, Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC). Malaysian girls Josephine and Sheena feels they are in advantage as they know some of the familiar faces of local popular iconic figure here. Required to be sociable, classy and poise, the girls need to impress the crowd and be the most memorable model among the pack. However, Nadya and Joey did not told them that there are one undercover judge, which was Subaru Asia Region manager !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All dressed in the amazing cocktail dress by Malaysian multi-winning designer !!!!!!!!!!, the girls all look gorgeous and glamorous. All of them are excited and happy, which much annoyed Janice as she feels the girls are too silly to be excited for such event. She then starts to alienate herself from rest of the girls. In the cocktail party, every of the girls are warm and friendly. Generally, all the girls did well. All of them were sociable and glamorous. However, non of the girls seems to entertain the undercover judge, with only Natalie, Marie and Jodilly talked to him. Natalie and Jodilly both received great feedback from the undercover judge for entertaining him. However, Jodilly, who was deemed to be honest and classy, and left a more remarkable impression on !!!!!!!!!!, was appointed as the winner. Her prize was an extra 15 frames for the next photoshoot.

Challenge winner: Jodilly Pendre Special guest: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

After the cocktail party, all the girls were waiting at the hotel lobby. Janice suddenly apologize to the girls, especially Nicole and Tia. Argument starts to fired up as the girls did not feel sincere from Janice, most prominently Katarina, Tia, Sneha and Nicole. Janice feels she has lost all her dignity to apologize, but the girls are referred as mean as they don't accept her apology at all. Since then, the girls are shown not to bother to entertain Janice anymore.

This week, the top 10 girls are required to be edgy and try to take risk for their photoshoot at the Subaru car factory in Malaysia. The girls will be joined by two muscular male models this week. This week featured photographer was !!!!!!!!!!! while wear beautiful fairytale-ish elegant gown by !!!!!!!!!. They were hoped to break free from their shell and be a brave risk-taker as last week photos were mostly unimpressive. Jodilly, Josephine, Sheena, Sneha and Nicole are among the girls to received great feedback from the photographer for being very versatile and able to deliver some story behind the shoot despite of the lousy environment, especially Jodilly and Sneha whom was comment gave great shapes and move gracefully, which they ace the shoot. Natalie, Tia, Katarina and Janice however disappoint the photographer as they were lost and fail to impressed the photographer. Generally, the girls did great.

In the judging panel, Jodilly, Josephine and Nicole was acclaimed by the judges, securing the top 3 spots, giving Josephine her forth top 3 appearance, the most than any other girls so far. Marie and Sneha shows improvement and received mixed reactions from the panel. Jodilly and Josephine both gave romantic shots, with Josephine slightly off the concept as she seems to pay more attention to the male models than the car, which outcast the main character of shoot. Tia and Janice were most significantly critique by the judges as they seems to lost quickly and consistently delivers nothing through their shots. Tia was seems to deliver ego message, which was an utmost contrast concept of the photoshoot, while Janice 'pull-my-hair' poses was awkward, despite her swagger at the shoot impress Joey and Mike. Last week best photo winner Natalie, whom was slowly improving, seems to be stepping back her game as she looks like staggering in pain. Generally, all the girls shows slight improvement. At the backstage, drama heats up as Nicole felt offended by what Janice told the judges about her making Nicole cried. Janice defends herself and made the other girls felt bad and tense. It was later announced by Nadya that this week, non of the girls was sent home. However, just before Nadya hands out both photos to the respective models, Nadya confessed that they were actually both going home, probably due to the dull performance their gave, but since this was a predetermined non-elimination bottom 2, both girls are lucky to stay. As a lesson for both girls, they would have 5 lesser frames than the remaining girls for next photoshoot. At end of the episode, Janice, are shown to alienate herself from the whole group, again.

• First call-out: Jodilly Pendre
• Bottom two: Janice Hermijanto & Tia Taveepanichpan
• Eliminated: No elimination
• Featured Photographer: !!!!!!!!
• Special guests: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Contestants

(Ages stated are at time of contest)

From	Contestant	Age	Hometown	Height	Outcome
China	Jessie Yang	22	Toronto	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	Eliminated outside of judging panel in Episode 1
Hong Kong	Elektra Yu	21	Central	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	Eliminated in Episode 1
Indonesia	Bona Kometa	27	Jakarta	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)	Eliminated in Episode 2
South Korea	Moon Ji-hye	20	Seoul	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)	Eliminated in Episode 3
Vietnam	Phan Như Thảo	26	Cà Mau	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)	Eliminated in Episode 4
Singapore	Poojaa Gill	22	Singapore	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)	Eliminated in Episode 5
Indonesia	Janice Hermijanto	21	Yogyakarta	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Thailand	Tia Taveepanichpan	17	Phuket	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Malaysia	Josephine Tan	23	Pahang	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Philippines	Katarina Rodriguez	21	Makati	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Japan	Marie Nakagawa	24	Tokyo	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Taiwan	Natalie Pickles	25	Taipei	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Singapore	Nicole Lee	24	Singapore	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Malaysia	Sheena Liam	22	Selangor	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
India	Sneha Ghosh	23	Kolkata	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Philippines	Jodilly Pendre	20	Mandaluyong	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)

Summaries

Call-Out Order

Nadya's Call-Out Order

Order	Episodes
	1	2	3	4	5	6
1	Tia	Nicole	Josephine	Marie	Natalie	Jodilly
2	Sheena	Jodilly	Nicole	Josephine	Jodilly	Josephine
3	Josephine	Sheena	Sheena	Poojaa	Sheena	Nicole
4	Jodilly	Thao	Katarina	Nicole	Nicole	Sneha
5	Thao	Katarina	Natalie	Natalie	Marie	Sheena
6	Marie	Natalie	Tia	Tia	Janice	Katarina
7	Sneha	Sneha	Thao	Sheena	Katarina	Marie
8	Janice	Janice	Poojaa	Katarina	Josephine	Natalie
9	Bona	Josephine	Jodilly	Jodilly	Sneha	Janice
10	Katarina	Poojaa	Marie	Sneha	Tia	Tia
11	Poojaa	Ji-hye	Sneha	Janice	Poojaa
12	Ji-hye	Marie	Janice	Thao
13	Nicole	Tia	Ji-hye
14	Natalie	Bona
15	Elektra
16	Jessie

  The contestant was eliminated outside of judging panel

  The contestant was eliminated

  The contestant was part of a non-elimination bottom two

• In episode 1, Jessie was eliminated outside of judging panel before the photo shoot as a result of having performed the worst during a runway challenge.
• In episode 3, Marie was called out in absence after having to leave the set due to medical reasons.
• In episode 5, Josephine, Poojaa, Sneha and Tia were called forward as the bottom four.
• In episode 6, Janice and Tia landed in the bottom two. Neither of them was eliminated.

Photo Shoot Guide

• Episode 1 Photo Shoot: Opening Stills
• Episode 2 Photo Shoot: Malaysian Couture Goddesses in Batu Caves
• Episode 3 Photo Shoot: Winter Wonderland Scene in Stylish Lingerie
• Episode 4 Photo Shoot: 60's Chic in a Hair Salon
• Episode 5 Photo Shoot: Embodying Futuristic Sports
• Episode 6 Photo Shoot: Couture Gowns in a Subaru Car Factory

Makeovers

• Janice: Chestnut brown and wavy curls
• Jodilly: Trimmed with pin up fringes
• Josephine: Victoria Beckham inspired bob cut
• Katarina: Dark brown and fringes added
• Marie: Maroon afro inspired by Whitney Houston
• Natalie: Wavy shoulder length hair
• Nicole: Rocker chick pixie cut
• Poojaa: Shoulder length hair
• Sheena: Bleach blonde with light pink highlights
• Sneha: Modern bob cut with curls
• Thao: Hair darkened and straightened
• Tia: Hair darkened and fringes added

External links

• Official casting website