Good morning, everyone! Jaclyn welcomes the remaining seven would-be-geniuses to the salon and reminds them that Paulo won the last challenge and is now up on the Allure Wall of Fame. I have to add my two cents -- I finally was able to watch that episode, and he 100% deserved that win because that wig was beyond belief and his client looked amazing. (Also, thanks to Joe R for taking care of things while I was on vacation!) But back to this week. This week's shortcut challenge is for the stylists to color their client's hair with the most outlandish color they can come up with. This might actually explain Meredith's choice of hair color two episodes back -- she just did this challenge a couple of weeks early! The always delightful Kim Vo is there to judge them this week because apparently he is the God of Color (tm Daniel). He's done Fergie, Britney, and even, wait for it... Perez Hilton! Really, do we live in a world now where doing Perez's hair is considered noteworthy? Because that's a world I'm not sure I want to live in.

They each select a scissor box to find colored combs that will match them with their clients. The only thing of note about this is that the clients are all dark-haired, so this might be a little bit tougher. There's a collective orgasm as they're told they will have four hours to complete this challenge since it's about really vibrant color and they'll need time for the color to process. The winner gets immunity and will help determine the outcome of the elimination challenge. Now hang on a second -- if Paulo didn't get immunity for winning last week, why should someone doing a smaller challenge get it now? Once again, I am asking questions that I should just leave be, because we'll never know. For a split second the look on Paulo's face says he might just be wondering the same thing.

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