Every week, following WWE.com and TNAWrestling.com’s photoshoot updates, we’ll take a look at the newest Diva and Knockout shoots and give you the opportunity to voice your opinions on them in a feature we lovingly call Unwrapped. Let’s unwrap this week’s eye candy, featuring Brie and Nikki Bella, Kaitlyn and Rosa Mendes:
Brie & Nikki Bella
To match their attitudes, the Bellas are wearing black dresses. To show a slight difference in personality, their styles are different: Nikki’s sporting a tighter dress, messy hair and leopard print tights while Brie’s dress has a fuller, frillier skirt and her tights are solid. It shows that they’ve put some thought into their outfits and I like that. After all, they don’t have to be clones of each other, even if they are both heels. Their poses are more serious and seductive, and it makes the photos look much less staged–I think I’m so used to them doing cutesy twin poses that I’m surprised at how interesting a photo with them just standing next to each other can be. They let their personalities show. When I’ve complained about their more gimmicky photoshoots, this was what I was asking for: simplicity. Here, the Bellas show that they’re more than capable of making ‘simple’ look interesting.
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Kaitlyn
Kaitlyn looks perfectly relaxed and comfortable in her poses, but perhaps too comfortable. They’re not very diverse, and make for a rather dull photoshoot. Wearing a frilly top and leopard print skirt was probably an effort to bring interest to the shoot, but it’s not enough. There’s just an obvious lack of personality in the photos, and while that may be due to the fact that Kaitlyn hasn’t really developed a character, this photoshoot is just rather lifeless. It reminds me of the early photoshoots from Kaitlyn’s fellow NXT rookies: pretty, but boring. I know she’s capable of pulling off interesting shoots, because her first full WWE photoshoot as a Diva had me hooked. This one must be her sophomore slump.
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Rosa Mendes
Rosa looks like she’s modeling for a Nike catalog, clad in stylish active wear and posing with weights. It’s cute, and her fun poses really do look like something from a catalog. While that distinction is not always a good thing in terms of WWE photoshoots, I don’t think this outfit could have been pulled off in any other way. It’s really fun, and while Rosa is demonstrating an ability to sell breathable fabrics, it’s the Diva in her that brings interest to the photos. She has a personality that pulls off a shoot like this–a more serious Diva would look cheesy lifting a barbell, but Rosa has just the right amount of seriousness and silliness in her to make this photoshoot work.
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