Mental Meanderings of a Maybe Mad Man

Meanderings of a maybe mad man . virgo sun Libra rising Aries Moon Leo venus sadge Mars leo saturn . Yes I do astrology :), steam powered giraffe (yeah Ima Rabbit fanboy), anime, minecraft and kerbal space program

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Falling Down the "Glowhole"

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Chasing the Pink Rabbit

How did I get here?? Why is everything lit with neon and covered in glitter??  How did my Spotify get moved to “Hits of the 1980’s”  and why am I in a wrestling ring with pink ropes under a disco ball?   Last thing I remember is surfing Netflix  for something new and interesting . “Hmmm..I thought.. GLOW … could be interesting. Cannot be any worse than Lost in Space…

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  (THE Sheila / Ruth Ship )

Sheila. I really like Sheila . Of all the ‘B’ line characters, Sheila is my personal favorite . Why ? well, because of all the characters, Sheila experienced the most personal growth, going from a ‘friendless loner’ to having a dozen really good friends who accept her as HER.

Season 1 episode 4 also gave the writers an opportunity to show how well meaning and innocent comments can cause emotional harm to others. Especially when those others are affected by an emotional or psychological ‘disorder’.  IN Sheila, the disorder is “Species Dysphoria”  in particular  therianthropy.

In ‘pilot’ Sheila DOES come  across as pretty weird ,at first. She is the only girl to show up to the auditions in any sort of ‘costume’ , carried a crumpled up picture of a wolf as her headshot and goes all ‘wild animal’ on another actor when all she needed to do was a hair mare. In the final scene of ‘pilot’ while Ruth is doing her best “Hulk on a Hot Tin Roof” , Sheila keeps herself as far away from the rest of the girls as she possibly could, back in a corner while Debbie and Ruth fought for dominance.

Sheila is no less ‘weird’ in the second episode “Submit” where she gives Ruth directions on how to survive unexpected encounters with a more dominant person. A very funny scene, though, because Ruth follows Sheila’s instructions without question, even starting to get down on the floor.

In episode 3, Sheila is more comfortable in the group, but she is still distrustful of strangers. Notice that while all the other girls are doing the typical female behaviour when talking to a good looking, rich and ,seemingly, successful man: Laughing , giggling ,smiling telling him how funny he is.

Sheila is doing NONE of that . SHe watched Bash as if he might be a threat. Perhaps she just does not recognize human males as potential mates?  She finally relaxes a bit while at Bash’s house asking him meat related food questions.

Our first indication that there might be something more to Sheila’s “wolf act” than just an act is the pre title sequence for episod 4 “The Dusty Spur” where we see her “putting on her face”, getting ready for the day: Eyeliner, mascara, tooth coloring , and,finally, wig. She sighs a VERY deep sigh of relief as she looks at herself in her mirror.

( a brief gripe at the producers.. MAJOR continuity error in the next scene.. Why is Sheila dragging her trunk all over when she drives a flippin BRONCO!? –ab) We see Sheila dragging her trunk behind her. Then a cut to her walking up beside Carmen who is VERY excited . Sheila, Well we get a sigh of resignation. She is going to have to put up with ‘people’ 24 hours a day. She walks past the first room , Britannica and Machu Picchu and growls .. She is going to have to deal with a roommate. Next room is Stacy and Dawn’s. She watches them a moment as they smudge the doorway with sage.

She walks into the room she shares with Ruth and is immediately assaulted by Ruth’s overly cheerful demeanor. At times , looking towards the door as if she wanted to run and escape. All Ruth was wanting is someone to be excited with her and helping her find her persona.

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Sheila then explains to Ruth her special ‘rules’ , such as leaving all windows open at all times and no sounds or changes of smell when she sleeps. Ruth promises to do her best and Sheila seemed to be kind of , sort of , okay with that.

Ruth  goes on  to try to complement Sheila at how committed she is to her character. This causes Sheila some distress with a gasp and a “What character?” . As Ruth goes on about how fully realized and crystalised the “She Wolf” is , she is totally unaware how her well meaning ‘compliments’ are causing Sheila emotional distress. Sheila finally ends the conversation by escaping ,with her trunk, to the bathroom.

Later , during the night, Ruth wakes up to go pee , flushes and almost makes it back to bed when the pipes moaned LOUDLY. Startling Sheila who sits up with her wig sliding off one side of her head , realizes that Ruth just saw her out of ‘character’ and Sheila freaks out begging Ruth to stop looking at her. Ruth , not understanding , tried to calm Sheila by saying it’s okay to sleep without your wig. Not knowing that that made things even worse.

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Which brings us to the next morning , where Sam makes Ruth team up for practise with Sheila and Ruth makes a flub of it by insisting talking about what happened the night before and makes it even worse referring to Sheila’s looks as her ‘gimmick’ , calling it a ‘werewolf thing’. Bash ( being clueless as he often is )asking “Whoa , are we doing a werewolf gimmick?” does NOT help. Sheila has to tell them both that it is stupid because she is not a werewolf and that werewolves are mythical creatures.

THe entire mess finally comes to a head after Ruth finds the dead squirrel that Sheila hid in her bed( a very wolf thing to do) ( that she found and didn’t kill) , followed by Sheila insisting that Ruth sleep somewhere else. Ruth uses a towel to get the squirrel out of her bed , then tells Sheila to take her squirrel and SHE can go sleep somewhere else “You goddamned wolf!” . This takes Sheila totally off guard because no one ever calls her a “Goddamned wolf” but a “goddamned freak”.

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Sheila sets the squirrel outside their door and opens up to Ruth about what and who she is. That ,spiritually , inside, she is a wolf, she knows she is human, and that how she does her makeup and her hair and her clothes is for HER . It isn’t an act or a gimmick. IT is how she IS .    When Ruth called Sheila a ‘goddamned wolf’ ,  it told Sheila that Ruth wasn’t being purposefully cruel just acting from ignorance  of how Sheila sees herself.  So she decides to open up to Ruth.

  I can relate completely with Sheila’s having to put up with inadvertent barbs and insults ( I guess these would be called microaggressions) from those who really do not know what is going on inside of us  and just assume everyone feels the same , inside, as they feel.   I also understand that the best way to come to an understanding is to take a breath and explain (often over and over again) how you feel and believe.  In my case, it is not Therianthropy / species dysphoria  but Persistent Depressive Disorder and the ‘microaggressions’ are well meaning people telling me “Go for a walk” or “just think happy thoughts” or “lots of people have it worse than you , cheer up!”  none of which do anything but drive even more guilt ( I have no right to be depressed when other people have it worse and Inability to have happy thoughts is the entire DEFINITION of depression)    That I can empathise with Sheila’s situation before GLOW is what makes her my favorite ‘B’-cast character for this reason alone. Okay, not that alone.. I like how she can communicate so well with her eyes alone. a very Wolfen trait.

New Blogpost ! "Oh Sheila! " #GLOW #Netflixglow #GLOWnetflix @GLOWwrestling @Glownetflix (THE Sheila / Ruth Ship ) Sheila. I really like Sheila . Of all the ‘B’ line characters, Sheila is my personal favorite .

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Pity Posts

New post "Pity Posts" #GLOW #GLOWnetflixx #ClassicGLOW #Mentalhealth #Dysthimia # Depression #depressivedisorders #persistantdepression

      This is not my usual posting topic ,but it will tie into my originally planned post “Oh! Sheila!”  They relate. Sort of.

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And So On and So On

Latest posting from the #GLOWhole And so On #GLOW #Classicglow #Retromercials #netflixglow #Glownetflix share with two friends @Glownetflix @GLOWwrestling

Hey GLOWbugs! If you may or may not have noticed , I haven’t posted in a couple of days . I have been neck deep in writing a “feature length”  post about my favorite “B-line” Netflix GLOW  character , Sheila the She Wolf.

I warned him. ……….I warned him.

Like all of my ‘major’ posts , this one is taking more time than I estimated as a result of falling into , not so much a rabbit hole, as a…

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Keep Calm .Add Glitter. #GLOWon @NETFLIX @GlowNetflix #Glownetflix

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Liberty Belle says Get out and VOTE! Y’all

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After listening to a variety of reviews , podcasts and youtube and print, I am  very disappointed at how these commentators and watchers  seem to fail to do (Or just do not bother to do ) due ‘deep diving’ (aka research)  into the actual persons and history of the ORIGINAL GLOW  when discussing the the Netflix ‘Bizzaro’ GLOW.

I very well understand that GLOW creators and writers,  Liz Flahive  and  Carly Mensch , have had to bend and twist and blend and combine and modify persons and events in the Original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling saga to prevent being creatively shackled into a ‘mockumentary’  of Original GLOW.   This post is to point out those differences for those people who have not bothered to fall into the GLOWHole of the events and history of the ORIGINAL GLOW timeline.

  The Original GLOW was the creative brainchild of David McLane, who had this brilliant idea of forming an all women Professional Wrestling while living in Indianapolis  . In Netflix GLOW David McLane is replaced with the character of Sebastian (Bash) Howard , a massive wrestling fan and enthusiast .  Where this difference is is that David McLane is not ambiguously or unknowingly  gay ( that anyone knows of or speaks of)  NOR is he from Malibu area ,NOR was he from “Old Money” , NOR did he have a butler (Or a GLOWBOT ) .

Things David McLane DIDN’T own. Possible exception on the Elvis costume

TIMELINE and LOCATIONS

Much of season one was accurate on a larger scale, but the storyline mixes some elements and changes a few others  .   In the Netflix story , the first audition and training takes place in “Chavo’s Gym”  (easter egg nod to Chavo Guerrero , the cast’s wrestling trainer) in Reseda ,Ca that was bought instead of rented, by Bash  .  In Original GLOW , David  held initial auditions at a GOLD’s Gym  ,then moved everything over to the Broadway Boxing Gym in Watts, L.A.  Where training was initially started by Mando Guerrero ; Uncle of Chavo Guerrero Jr  who trained the actors of the NEtflix series.  In the series script, Mando is replaced by  Salty “The Sack” Johnson (played by wrestler JJohn Hennigan aka Johnny Impact (TNA IMPACT!) and Johnny Mundo (Lucha Underground) .

Just as “The SACK” was inexplicably replaced  by Cherry Bang in the Netflix show , Mando was also inexplicably replaced by  Professional Wrestler Cynthia (GLOW name ‘Pepper’) Peretti.  The scene where Cherry puts a sleeper on Melrose (girl had it coming), to prove to her how ‘real’ wrestling is , is totally based on truth , except it was Mando that “Sun Tzu – Art of War ” moment.**  According to the ‘myth’  , he left her “flopping on the mat like a fish”

Naptime for Rosen- oh and that look on Cherry’s face ? I am NOT gonna mess with her because of that look.

***(Sun Tzu was once hired by the King of Wu  to train an all women’s bodyguard composed of the King’s Concubines .  When the women failed to take training seriously, he , personally beheaded the woman who he had made their capitan for failing to have those women take training seriously–AB)

THIS  is where Netflix had jiggered the official timeline.  Netflix GLOW puts the moving of GLOW to Las Vegas FAR later than it actually was .   Netflix put the hiring of a director (Sam Silva) WAY earlier than the real GLOW .  In Original GLOW history, a director (Matt Cimber) wasn’t hired until AFTER GLOW moved to Vegas.

David McClain WAS the ring announcer for original GLOW seasons 1 and 2 (recorded 85  and 86 ) They DID get that part spot on with Bash Howard doing the Announcing.  Chris Lowell /Bash did a great job replicating  David McClane’s announcing style.

The “Dusty Spur /GLOW-tel” (though it MIGHT be possible the GLOWgirls when the training was taking place in Watts MIGHT have been housed in a motel. I have no history from that era to go with — AB) . -Netflix got this MOSTLY right . There was no “Dusty Spur” that I am aware of while GLOW was training in LA  but the rules were the same, no booze, no drugs, no boys a 10 pm curfew AND, (in case of the ORIGINAL GLOW girls)No watching themselves on television ( The GLOW producers ensured this by not allowing syndivation in Vegas) . Of course, just like the Netflix GLOW girls, the Original GLOW girls did have their rules breakers . (Coff coff HOLLYWOOD coff coff )

The Original GLOW girls were later housed in apartments they dubbed “The GLOW-tel”  with same restrictions.   Of course, some GLOWgirls went with the rules , some did not.. (coff coff ..Hollywood.. Coff) some got away with it , some did not. I assume  there were plenty of  “Rosen” types who liked to snitch.  A big difference between the Original GLOW  and NETFLIX GLOW is that the original glow girls were required to ALWAYS be in character . They were always to refer to each other by their ring names ..Full on “Method” acting.  The  ‘Sweethearts’ and the ‘Killers’  were not even allowed to fraternize with each other except during rehearsals  , working matches and doing the skits.

This never happens

Bash and Debbie going to NAPTI season 2 happened ; real world season one.  There was a trip to NAPTI , (who actually WENT is currently unknown)  but with better results , gaining distribution in 30 US markets and 6 overseas.  I think that , maybe, in season three, there is a more successful NAPTI visit?  Hmm you will have to see my season three predictions posting.

  The crush Carmen has on Sebastian, the creator  / producer?  Well, in actual real life, Mountain Fiji ( Emily Dole ) actually DID have a crush on the director of REAL GLOW  , Matt Cimber.  She admitted her crush to him in 2012 during a reunion for  the GLOW documentary .    Watch the NETFLIX GLOW Documentary for more on that  .

Carmen and Sebastian, sitting in a tree…

The Dance number between Zoya and Chola Junk Chain was an ACTUAL thing! But it was Ballet where Zoya and Junk Chain did breakdancing .

Col Ninotchka and Susie Spirit Dance sketch  :

Casting

I am not talking the actors playing the characters, I am talking the characters themselves .

Creator / Producer –  David McLane / Sebastian Howard . Other than what I  have already covered,  It seems NETFLIX did a pretty fair job with representing Mr. McLane.

Director -Matt Cimber / Sam Silva  The only traits that Matt and Sam had in common was having a long directorial background.  Oh, and a fair bit of sexism.

Executive producer(s)  – in seasons 1 and 2 of Netflix GLOW doesn’t have any “executive” producer  ,unless you want to count Birdie Howard as the executive producer, since Bash;’s money came from HER .  Real world – Executive producer  was Meshulam Riklis , ‘owner’ of Rapid American Corp and owner of the Riviera Hotel and Casino .

Owner- In Netflix Glow , there was no actual “Owner” unless you want to say it was Bash Howard, but he was more of the “father” of GLOW. In Original GLOW, Jackie Stallone was written in to be the ‘OWNER” of GLOW . IT is no outside realm of possibility for a “Scripted in” owner to show up in NEW GLOW .

Managers-  Professional Wrestling has a long tradition of ‘managers’ who ‘owned’ either individual wrestlers or a “stable” of wrestlers. There were no managers in season one and two of Netflix GLOW. Original GLOW had two managers, Jackie Stallone ( also ‘Owner’) managed the stable of “good girls (baby faces) ” called Stallone’s Sweethearts  and Actress Kitty Burke Municino was brought in to play “Miss Kitty” , the Manager for the “bad girls” “Kitty’s Killers”

Wrestlers/Ring Personas

Liberty Bell/Debbie Egan –  Every wrestling promotion in the 80’s and 90’s had an “all American Patriot”  in GLOW it was ‘Americana’ who was succeeded by ‘Liberty’ .  Debbie added a good touch of “southern belle” personality and accent so add in any of the three “Southern Belle” wrestlers .

  Zoya the Destroyer / Ruth Wilder – Easily based ring persona on Ninotchka /  Lori Lynn Palmer. Alison Brie (Ruth/Zoya) has stated in an interview that she studied Ninotchka for hours  to get Zoya right.

Machu Picchu / Carmen Wade   With no doubt in the least, Machu “the gentle Giant” Picchu was directly based on the GLOW wrestler Mt. Fiji / ZEmily Dole .  Both were the largest wrestlers in the showa and both were ,indeed , “Gentle Giants” . Even the Heels ,out of ring, liked her .

  Cherry Bang/ Junk chain  we already cover her , she was very likely to have been based on  “Soul Patrol”  .  Where Cherry Bang differs from Ms. Pieretti is that Cherry has NO previous wrestling experience but TONS of stunt work experience .

  Cherry Bang / Black Magic There are two GLOW wrestlers that were drawn from one more than the other , Big Mamma the Lousiana Voodoo Queen  and The Princess of Darkness  for the ability to control other wrestlers with a “spell” . Black Magic used zombie powder, Dark Princess used a “mojo bone”  .

  Sheila the She-Wolf / Dementia   They  few similarities..  primarily “Crazy eyes” makeup  animalistic tendencies outside the ring , seldom speaking ( I think Dementia only spoke ONCE – in Japan)   and being brought to ringside  tied up or in a cage or both.

The Beatdown Biddies- KKK women -Toxic Twins / The Housewives (Arlene and Phyllis) – the Hicks – Heavy Metal Sisters  – These two sets of persona’s  were NEARLY verbatim.

  Melrose – well she seems to be more unique But she DOES come from a family with  more than a little money. The Rich Girl..Daddy’s money girl   she has qualities of  the tag team of Tina Ferrari and Ashley Cartier  or Roxy Astor  and  Tiffany Mellon  with a healthy dose of Early Madonna .

  Beirut the Mad Bomber  / Palestina  the Terrorist.. ALMOST EXACTLY  one to one .

Britannica / Godiva and Zelda  An interesting pairing, but I supposed had to be . Goddiva the British Bombshell and Zelda. Beauty AND brains ( whis is ironically hilarious because Rhonda is a bit of a ditz).

  Scab –  Justine’s persona is also a difficult one , she is a bit of “Hollywood and Vine” blend ,being a ‘lawless’ little punk rock girl.

  Fortune Cookie  / Matilda the Hun    No!No! No! bear with me with my logic  .. Both China and East Germany were allies with Soviet Union , but where Matilda is large  lumbering  strong and not very clever,  Fortune Cookie is small, agile, quick and sneaky.  Some I have seen will say Little Fiji and even though Little Fiji is/was of an asian descent. Seeing as Wrestling Personas are /were built on stereotypes, this MAY be possible but I think it is more of the russia-china-germany relationship.

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  Welfare Queen . I am also giving Matilda the Hun influence on Welfare Queen for no other reason than to provide balance against Machu Picchu. Giantess to Giantess

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Chola Junkchain .. totally lost on this one . From what I can tell, she is ALSO a unique persona .clues will develop in season 3 . Thought it was important for her to be in storyline to show the comings and goings of wrestlers  within GLOW AND to give Arthie somone to crush on 🙂

But if I were to  really stretch things, Chola Junkchain would be paired with Spanish Red ESPECIALLY visually last half of season 2

GLOW

    Well , GLOWbugs, that seems to be all I have, for now,  covering the “plot deviations” between Original GLOW and the “Looking glass” Netflix GLOW. If I made any errors in timelines, or missed any plot point / historical deviations or just want to argue ( okay DISCUSS) the recharacterizations between the REAL GLOW  wrestling personas and the NETFLIX ones, shoot me a line at either Twitter or Facebook ( I don’t IG for  I am not photographically oriented.  I do ,occasionally , Tumblr but not often )  or in the BLOG comments OR email me through the CONTACT ME page. Until next posting,

  Did you know: The Original GLOW girls first trained at the Broadway Boxing Gym in Watts .It is still in business in same location retweet & #GLOWon After listening to a variety of reviews , podcasts and youtube and print, I am  very disappointed at how these commentators and watchers  seem to fail to do (Or just do not bother to do ) due 'deep diving' (aka research)  into the actual persons and history of the…

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Every Potato Comes with a Receipt

Please RT - Every Potato Comes with a Receipt #GLOW #Prowrestling #nowyouknow @GLOWwrestling #netflixglow @GlowNetflix #GLOWhole

     When I first read the title of the season 2 Netflix GLOW closing episode, I thought this was just a Soviet Union/Russia joke ,such as Zoya being from “Potatograd , Russia” .

. I THOUGHT it was like a Russian proverb RUTH made up FOR Zoya such as “reaping what one sows”  or “dropping the other shoe” . This made plenty of sense to me, at the time, because of the story arc of Zoya kidnapping…

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Asking All Those Questions

Asking All Those Questions

There are many #GLOWbugs who are new to GLOW (Netflix and Classic)  that are wondering  “What about Season 3?   Is there going to be a season three?  THERE BETTER BE A SEASON THREE! The answer is “Yes,Virginia, there IS a season three, and it is due out july 2019.   For more details and information, check out this clip from Digital Spy GB  :

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PSA for November 1st 2018

PSA for November 1st 2018

The following is a Public Service Announcement from the Editorial staff of The GLOWhole.

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Oh! Did I ever! Guys, I screwed up. Was a pretty big one, publishing wise . In the  Blogpost I <well> POSTED  Yesterday ( 10-30-81) , 

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Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling and WOW Superheros Tag Teams 2018 LA Comicon

Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling and WOW Superheros Tag Teams 2018 LA Comicon

 The Past and Future of Women’s Professional Wrestling ; The ORIGINAL Gorgeous Ladies Of Wrestling and the Women Of Wrestling Superheros ,  tag-teamed the 2018 LA Comic Con.

Both of these promotions are the children of  David McLanewho had a singular vision, the creation of of an all women’s wrestling promotion; a journey that started 33 years ago with GLOW – The Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling …

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What's GLOWING on 11_30_18

What’s GLOWING on 11_30_18

GLOWBUGS!    How GLOWs everything?

Fabu!  So a quick post about updates to The GLOWhole .  I have been busier than a giant in a three midget handicap cage match!  (haha! Just VISUALIZE that!)  Um, I have been in a flurry of activity :

I have added an ABOUT ME page .

     I have disabled the menu listing for the women’s wrestling history library

This is temporary as I accumulate more videos and…

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I Dressed Like It Was 1987

I Dressed Like It Was 1987

    Safiya Nygaard  nocks this one out of the park!  Touched on there of the most popular fashion trends of the mid to late 80s! 🙂

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Beware the OVERGLOW

A psychological disorder brought about by falling down the “GLOWhole”

Symptoms include:  BIG Hair  (often accompanied with the stench of permanent wave treatments);

an affinity towards GLAM makeup and face painting ;

a sudden ,inexplicable interest in groups such as “Missing Persons”  “, “Run DMC “, and David Lee Roth ;

Overwhe…

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#Glow 80’s Quick, Cheap and Easy Makeup Tutorial Another wonderful tutorial ! Thanks Kena!

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Makeup Tutorial: Ruth Wilder from #Glow

Makeup Tutorial: Ruth Wilder from #Glow

A great  FASHION magazine recreating Ruth Wilder’s look from Sam’s “Vision” / fantasy wrestling match .

    Makeup Artist Grace Lee and Beauty Director Lesa Hannah

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