Top Chef's Style Spotlight Stealer

Today I want to show a little style-related love to someone who I think is always amazingly dressed and one of the most gracious reality-TV judges around! Of course I'm talking about Gail Simmons from Food & Wine Magazine and Bravo's Top Chef!

Before you start with your "what about Padma?", let me just say that looking good in clothes and on television is a piece of cake when you are a statuesque former model. Gail wears beautiful clothes that are figure flattering. When I see her on TV I don't think "What a beautiful dress", I think "What a beautiful woman". She has impeccable style and more than holds her own next to Padma.

I love that Gail doesn't shy away from bright colors and bold prints. She shows how colors and patterns can be more slimming and flattering than black with the right silhouette.

Gail is gorgeous proof that you don't need to be stick-thin or devoid of curves (and I'm not just talking about large breasts, we all know real women have hips, and hips are NOT usually without their own stubborn layer of fat) to look amazing, on TV or in life! If you have a womanly body like Gail's (I know I do!) take a style tip from her and try a bright, printed dress with a defined waist and a v-neck, or a high-waisted skirt with a v-neck blouse and heels to make the most of your sexy body.

As for make-up, with her amazing bone-structure and eyes Gail doesn't need much to look beautiful. To create Gail's natural look use a light foundation or tinted moisturizer to even out your complexion and then apply a bright but sheer blush or bronzer along the top of your cheekbones. Use black eyeliner to line along the top lid, making a thicker line towards the outer edge to create just the beginning of a cat-eye. Apply your favorite mascara and highlighting eyeshadow along your brow bone and you are ready to judge any meal that comes your way!

We would all be lucky (and very well-dressed) to have half the fashion sense that Gail posesses, so let's give her the recognition she deserves.

love, iCandy

ps.- On a snarkier note, for those of you who saw Top Chef Masters this past summer, who the hell is Kelly Choi? How did she even get that hosting job, it doesn't look like she has too much experience eating (cue the onslaught of angry Kelly Choi fans, lol).