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Coco Rocha’s Final ‘The Face’ Blog: Everyone’s A Winner (But, Okay, One Person Actually Did Win)

Mar/27/2013 at 09:00 AM ET

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Meet supermodel (and star of “The Face”) Coco Rocha (left, with finalist Margaux) who has shared her experience filming the high-stakes modeling competition on Oxygen. Rocha, Karolina Kurkova and Naomi Campbell each selected four girls to compete on their team, with losing teams submitting models for elimination each week.

Rocha live-tweeted Tuesday night’s finale from our @StyleWatchMag account, and we incorporated some of our favorite Tweets throughout her final blog, in which she reflects on how far she and Margaux have come as a team — and who really wins in the end.

Well, here we are: The final episode of The Face. It seems like just yesterday we had 24 girls and now all of a sudden we’re down to four: Team Karolina’s Devyn, a mother from the Bronx who all three mentors fought for on day one; hardworking and sweet Ebony, also from Team Karolina; Team Naomi’s former Miss Universe China, Zi Lin, who has been one to watch all season; and finally the beautiful Margaux from my Team Coco, a quirky model after my own heart who won me over on the first day with her risky head shot. Together, for better or for worse, we never played it safe as a team and we always strived to think outside the box.
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Coco Rocha’s ‘The Face’ Blog: Hey Naomi, My Team Is Winning With the Fans

Mar/20/2013 at 09:00 AM ET

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Meet supermodel (and star of “The Face”) Coco Rocha (center, posing with her team of models) who’s sharing her experience filming the high-stakes modeling competition on Oxygen. Rocha, Karolina Kurkova and Naomi Campbell each selected four girls to compete on their team, with losing teams submitting models for elimination each week. In her sixth blog, Rocha dishes on model faux pas and backstage drama.

This week’s episode of The Face is all about being a brand ambassador. The most envied campaigns in fashion and beauty nearly all require that the model be able to speak, sometimes extensively, about a product. Learning how to communicate as a brand ambassador is a must.

Lights, Camera … : The challenge is a red carpet press event thrown by a magazine. The clients are journalist William Norwich and iconic model Pat Cleveland, both experts on red carpet etiquette, who will look at how the girls walk and hold themselves in front of press, photographers and fans, as well as they answer questions. Billy and Pat teach the girls how to pose for the cameras in their Guido Maria Kretschmer gowns, and remind them that “to admit when you don’t know something” is the height of intelligence. In other words, no making stuff up.
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Behind the Scenes of ‘The Face:’ The Finalists Take N.Y.C. By Storm!

Mar/19/2013 at 06:00 PM ET

If you’ve been following along with The Face mentor Coco Rocha’s weekly blogs for PeopleStyleWatch.com, you know that the show has had lots of drama and some very exciting challenges. But as the series draws to its close, the last models standing, including Jocelyn, Devyn and Margaux (below) are all about having fun with it. They exclusively share shots and stories with PEOPLE from their action-packed week in N.Y.C. Who will go home next? You’ll have to tune into Oxygen tonight at 9 p.m. EST to find out!

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“My favorite thing about N.Y.C. is the energy in general,” says Team Naomi’s Jocelyn (above, grabbing a taxi in style and having some fun with a cutout of mentor Naomi Campbell — we bet she’d never try that in person!)

“I love going for walks around the city, getting a coffee along the way,” she adds. “And I’m obsessed with pizza. This is definitely a place that’s known for good pizza!” Got to love a model who’s not afraid to eat!

RELATED: Read more about The Face from mentor (and guest blogger) Coco Rocha here!
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‘The Face’: Coco Rocha on Naomi Campbell’s Not-Nice Name Calling — and More!

Mar/13/2013 at 09:00 AM ET

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Meet supermodel (and star of “The Face”) Coco Rocha (center, posing with her team of models) who’s sharing her experience filming the high-stakes modeling competition on Oxygen. Rocha, Karolina Kurkova and Naomi Campbell each selected four girls to compete on their team, with losing teams submitting models for elimination each week. In her fifth blog, Rocha reveals her team’s latest trials and gives solid advice to wannabe models.

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‘The Face’: Coco Rocha On Busting a Move, Having Doubts & More!

Mar/06/2013 at 09:00 AM ET

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Meet supermodel (and star of “The Face”) Coco Rocha (center, posing with the final two models on “Team Coco”, Stephanie, left, and Margaux) who’s sharing her experience filming the high-stakes modeling competition on Oxygen. Rocha, Karolina Kurkova and Naomi Campbell each selected four girls to compete on their team, with losing teams submitting models for elimination each week. In her fourth blog, Rocha reveals her team’s latest trials and gives solid advice to wannabe models.
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‘The Face’: Coco Rocha on Timing and Tumbles

Feb/27/2013 at 09:00 AM ET

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Meet supermodel (and star of ‘The Face’) Coco Rocha, who’s sharing her experience filming the high-stakes modeling competition on Oxygen. Rocha, Karolina Kurkova and Naomi Campbell each select four girls to compete on their team, with losing teams submitting models for elimination each week. In her third blog, Rocha reveals her team’s latest trials and gives solid advice to wannabe models. 

This week’s episode of The Face starts out with a quick-change challenge. Runway models often have two or more looks in a show, leaving us mere seconds backstage to throw on the next look and walk the runway. The girls are all done up in heavy red lipstick and slicked hair — the perfect look to be totally messed up in a hasty change. Karolina teaches the challenge and sets the bar mighty high by changing into a runway look in just 41 seconds.

Timing Is Everything: Team Naomi’s Zi Lin goes first with a time of 1:18, which she says is not good enough for her. Aside from being a magnificent beauty, Zi Lin is refreshingly humble in this competition — something some of the other girls could definitely learn from. Devyn of Team Karolina beats her time with 1:09, but Margaux (Team Coco) beats her by two seconds and wins a $5,000 shopping spree. Devyn complains that it isn’t fair because Margaux “wasn’t completely composed,” which a slo-mo recap proves to be false. Karolina is not impressed with her teammate’s poor sportsmanship and lets us all know it.

A Surprise Move: On a Sunday afternoon when we aren’t shooting, I’m called in unexpectedly to see my girl Marlee. She tells me that her family is facing financial difficulties back home and she needs to leave the competition. This comes as a total shock to me but at the end of the day family always comes first, so I completely understand and respect Marlee’s choice to leave.

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‘The Face’: Coco Rocha on Why Mean Models Finish Last — and More!

Feb/20/2013 at 09:00 AM ET

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Meet supermodel (and star of ‘The Face’) Coco Rocha, who’s sharing her experience filming the high-stakes modeling competition on Oxygen. Rocha, Karolina Kurkova and Naomi Campbell each select four girls to compete on their team, with losing teams submitting models for elimination each week. In her second blog, Rocha explains why she questions Campbell’s behavior and why mean models rarely “make it.”

This week’s episode begins with Christy (Team Karolina) making obnoxious remarks. She ignorantly claims Stephanie (Team Coco) needs to “work out every day.” There’s no such thing as one perfect body type, just like there isn’t just one ideal skin or eye color.

One thing that does make or break a model’s career is her attitude, and this girl has a horrible one. At the end of the day the only thing you can’t work off at the gym is an ugly personality. With very few exceptions, mean girls do not make it in my industry.

“She Won Fair and Square:” The 60-sec. test shoot involves striking as many usable poses possible while modeling eyewear. I teach the challenge, showing the girls my “160 poses in 60 seconds” routine – they get the idea that it’s OK to let go.

Team Coco does fairly well, but I’m really impressed with Madeline and Devyn from Team Karolina. Zi Lin never once thinks to actually put the glasses on her head and Sandra ends up with hair across her face in almost every shot. I later realize all of Team Naomi are in the bottom three and it was me who put them there. This will go over well.

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