Marlo Hampton and her painted face.

Last night at around 7pm I wrote up a recap posting of this past Sunday's ATL housewives.  It was full of snide remakes about Bravo dredging the bottom of the barrel to find new cast member Marlo.  She's pretty bad.  A "socialite" who has been arrested seven times and uses designers objects to derive her self-worth.  Actually that might sound like an interesting character if you've never seen the show but if you are watching, then you know otherwise.  She's loud and thoughtless and she'll scream 'faggot' if she's in an argument which is perfect for a show on Bravo.  This franchise is home to many batshit crazy people but, to me, she's not watchable.  She makes me mad.  In that posting I started last night, I also went into great detail about how horribly most of these women are behaving on their South African trip.  A trip which most people would relish and learn from but not the majority of these dames.  Lots of complaints and a lack of interest in experiencing the local culture and Marlo brought 29 pairs of designer shoes and a slew of handbags.  Why?  Because she insists we know that she has these things.  And in case you forget she has them, she'll bark about it endlessly.  Bleh!  So after I finished that posting I hit publish and typically a few seconds later and it appears on my blog.  But not last night. I hit publish and then an odd swirling icon which I've never seen before appeared on my screen.  Huh?  I was able to get on other sites so it wasn't an internet thing.  I left my laptop open until about 11pm and it was still stuck in that mode so I just had to shut it off and all I'd written was lost.  Oh well..... it's probably Karma for all the awful yet I feel accurate detailing I went into about Marlo.  Maybe it's best that posting is gone because I do not want to be the reason for mugshot number 8.  :)

What I drew from the episode was when the ladies went to a dinner party and their faces were detailed with some beautiful painted dot patterns.  There was no significance to the designs, they were just ornamentation.  

Were those painted dots to be emblematic of each woman's character, then Marlo would certainly have had this painted on her face.

I did that image from start to finish in about twenty minutes so if she looks like a dude then all the better.

Ink on sketchbook paper with digital dots.  :)

Comments

[seximommy]

OMG, I know that we are in a recession, but does BRAVO have to pick women that are this low-can they not find any other successful women - oh yeh, they probably wouldn't go on this show. She calls her self a socialite...are you kidding me - maybe social- "lite" like a lightweight when it comes to having any social graces. Is she supposed to be the Kim- big poppa, live off of men replacement, now that Kim is married? She's hideous! And I think NeNe is being totally a diva and disrespectful of the people in South Africa - she actually asked the women at the buffet to keep fanning the flies - are you kidding!! These women act like they have never seen any other cultures - Cynthia seemed the only cultured, respectable person...wearing clothing that was appropriate and fitting in the environment. Do they think they were going to a country club and not the jungle? Back to Marlo - take your chanel wearing, bed cover having, high heel walking big ass off the show!!! Too loud and obnoxious - yeeck!

[Lady Ice]

I enjoy watching her - if I want normal people I wouldn't be watchingreality tv...give me a hot mess like Marlo any day .... I think some folk out there are just a little sensitive to the F word and want to be all PC and stuff...I hate me some prissy hypersensitive queens!

[Bryan]

Uhhhh Lady Ice, what the fuck are you doing posting on a website run by a gay man? As for hypersensitivity, the same could be said for the N word and the people that get up in arms when you even mention the letter. And good reason both words are bad and those who use them should be shot on the spot.

I think one of the best descriptions for SOME not ALL of the the Atlanta tricks comes from a description given by the late grate southern sage of Atlanta Julia Sugarbaker,to someone who lived and behaved with the same lack of tact as they do. Julia I'm sure would have no problem enlightening said group of Atlanta tramps,

"They are Rude Lazy Horny and Dumb"

[Puhvis Kukk]

I agree - I thought she'd be fun to watch but she isn't. Too contrived, too hard, trying too hard.... And none of them seem to be that interested in the country as such. For all the talk of motherland etc, they are pretty ignorant. Even the model who got cornrows and the matching wardrobe (so we all know she is SERIOUS about this trip) is trying so hard to take it all in and be deep that it seems fake, and painfully boring.

[Cynthia]

Marlo is an annoying waste of time. Insecure, a wannabe, and dangerous. Gilmore - don't waste your artistic talent drawing her...

[Tara]

I'm sorry but all of the housewives shows suck anymore. Sometimes they are so painful to watch that I skip through half of the show. As an african american woman I take no offense at all to the poor representation of black women on ATL because most of these chicks are a joke. As far as Marlo using the "F" word, really?? I learned a long time ago not to give any credit to ignorant uneducated people who spew hate out of their dirty rotten mouths. She's a nobody, completely irrelevant. Just pray for her please.

[Brad]

Hi David.
I thought you drew a nice portrait of future Marlo.
Here mouth and eyes look a little tired like when Marlo ages a bit.
And she isn't aging well.
Not to be rude, but she looks a little like a crack-ho.
NeNe needs to step up from that expensive trash.
What the hell is wrong with her?

[stacie]

Can't stand the loud mouth in-ur-face trash on this show.

[Little Edie]

Carrying Birkin bags on safari? Beyond ridiculous.

The members of Atlanta's Piedmont Driving Club must be having the vapors over all of this.

[Bryan]

@ Little Edie, actually they are breathing a sigh of relief, for refusing all of the Atlanta house wives applications

[vv]

Thi$$ Marlo caricature goes into your Hall of Fame, David!:)
Brilliant!

[Mimi Le Fleur]

I can't stand this pig of a woman, either. I thought I'd seen it all on the Atlanta housewives with that giant cow, NeNe, but Marlo makes NeNe seem likable and fun. UGH!! I can't bear watching her. I do enjoy some of the other housewives, in particular that silly Phaedra. Sly one, that girl. She's smarter than she's letting us know.....

[Mona]

I think you are dead on with her. she is rediculas!