It’s just incredibly cool to watch the artists pull and stretch molten glass, as flames flare toward their faces, and the resulting pieces are mesmerizing and ethereal, even with the limits of the holiday. I still love the show - I watched all four episodes in one sitting.
I love everything about this industry but favorite part is all the joy I get in making my clients look & feel beautiful I’m a color specialist, Master Make-Up artist & specialize in body sugar hair. In a contest about making skilled art - a process which is often very personal - it felt like the non-Christian contestants were limited by the dominance of Christmas, a holiday they lacked personal connection to. I’ve been in the beauty industry for over 25 years, and I’m a duel licensed cosmetologist and esthetician.
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To be fair, two of the challenges - to make a festive food in glass, and to create a winter wonderland - weren’t totally Christmas-specific, but they were still swathed in and judged by the language and aesthetics of Christmas one host even complained that Yamamoto was using an Easter color palette instead of a Christmas one, in case there was any doubt about creative license to stray from the holiday. Image by netflixīut if you’re blithely asking contestants who don’t even celebrate the holiday to make art guided by their favorite Christmas memories, it’s time to dial down the Christmas focus. How do you evoke a powerful memory of Christmas morning joy when you didn’t grow up with stockings or gifts?Īndi fires up her interpretive Christmas confectionary. Instead, the challenges were often very personal, such as asking contestants to craft a piece evoking the best present they’d ever received - “We want to see something that really encapsulates a memory,” said host Katherine Gray. Uhas also hosted the first two seasons of Blown Away, in which artists and participants compete in the Hot Shop to create unique masterpieces using glass blowing methods. On July 22, 2022, Netflix launched the third season of the program. Ten new contestants are set to test the glassblower in. On July 22, 2022, Netflix launched the third season of the program. Season 3 of Blown Away is set to return on July 22 with a new batch of talented artisans from all over the country.
Image by netflixīut for the Christmas special, they’ve eliminated the iconic and perfect introduction and replaced it with a glass-themed rhyming voiceover featuring lines such as, “‘Twas a time close to Christmas, and through strands of twinkle lights / Furnaces were cranked up to 2,000 Fahrenheits.” As the camera pans through the hot-shop, we see its industrial floors and furnaces decked out with nutcrackers, stockings and rustic-looking signs declaring “Merry Christmas.”Īdmittedly, Christmas is a big deal in the glass-blowing world, and, had the show focused on making pieces that were intended for commercial appeal or focused on historical techniques, it would still probably feel appropriate. Blown Away host Nick Uhas is returning for another season. Unlike most of the contestants, she has actual experience with Christmas. Cat Burns’s submission for the first challenge.