Makeover magic for reality TV nerds

Before and after: Beauty and the Geek contestant Dane Gade. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied

Unlikely couple: Dane and Alin. Picture: Supplied Source: Supplied

BEAUTY and the Geek contestant Dane Gade and his geek cohorts are living proof that you can polish a nerd.

The 19-year-old reality show contestant last week underwent a makeover transformation on the show, along with fellow geek Cody Davies, with amazing results.

In this week's 90-minute special, the rest of the geeks weather the indignity of the tanning booth and the pain of waxing to emerge changed men – on the outside at least.

Gade promises them the regime is worth it – although his own transformation took a while to sink in.

It wasn't because of the shock of losing his beard, huge chunks of his hair and having his beloved runners consigned to the rubbish bin.

It's just that when celebrity stylist Henry Roth and his team made Gade ditch his heavy-framed glasses for a more up-to-date style, the wrong prescription ended up in the lenses.

"Basically, I couldn't see a thing," Gade confesses.

"I had to walk right up to the mirror, because I couldn't actually see myself."

"The whole night of filming I really wasn't sure how the makeover had turned out.

"It wasn't until I had the chance to put my old glasses on that I got to see finally see the full effect."

"Seeing myself without a beard was weird, because before it went I'd never had it so big and scruffy."

He has stuck with the new improved version of himself, but admits he lapses occasionally.

"I have tried to stay beardless, but I got a bit lazy," he says.

"My Gran tells me to shave it when it gets too much.

"It's difficulty to maintain the clothes, especially on a university budget.

""But I don't wear my joggers and jeans any more.

"Well I do, sometimes, but don't tell Alin (Alin Charles, Gade's "beauty" on the show) that.

"I do wear them occasionally, but I know that I shouldn't. So that's progress."

One thing Gade has no plans to replicate is his spray tanning experience. He didn't mind the result, but the humiliation wasn't worth it.

He laughs that he's still mentally scarred by the experience of having to don a C-string.

For the uninitiated, a C-string is a wisp of material which barely covers the nether regions, but ensures no tan lines when you have a spray tan. Basically, whether you're male or female there's pretty much no quicker way to strip your dignity.

"It didn't leave much to the imagination, put it that way," Gade says.

"It was virtually just a sock.

"My only regret of the whole show experience is the C-string. How do I stress just how awkward the tanning experience was? I haven't gone back. I'm still white as a ghost."

His advice as the rest of the geeks undergo their transformations this week is to just roll with it.

"It was like an extreme boot camp trying to get me from one point in my life to another point, and it worked," he says.

"At first you feel exposed and vulnerable, but then you see the response and yes, it feels pretty good.

"Alin described it best.

"She said: "Your voice is coming out but it just doesn't look like you".

He had never cared about his appearance, but says the experience has taught him two things.

Firstly, it's OK to care about outward appearances, and secondly, whether we like it of not, that same look can affect how you're perceived.

He warns that the biggest changes on the show might are not confined to the geeks.

"The geeks might have the biggest physical transformation, but to be honest, I believe the girls changed equally as much as what the guys did," he said.

"I know Alin never expected to be friends with geeks before and now she and I remain really good friends.

"I went on the show basically because I wanted to learn how to communicate properly with women in a way that I could convert friends into girlfriends.

"I just really needed help, apparently.

"I thought I was fine and then one of my friends told me to think back to my first girlfriend and my last girlfriend.

"Turned out they were the same person, and I was about 13 or 14. The most we did was hold hands."

He confesses that's changed now.

"I'm back at uni, exams are looming, I probably look a little less awkward at classes, and finding it a lot easier to break the ice with the girls."

He neatly dodges the question of whether he has a girlfriend.

Seems he's also learned the value of a bit of mystery.

Beauty and the Geek

Thursday 8pm, Seven

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