Fug Madness 2009 Sweet Sixteen: Madonna Bracket

Had to go with Ling on this one.

Bai bai, Xtina!

It's sad to say the I just expect craptastic-ness from Bai Ling. I look forward to it. X-tina on the other hand has every reason to dress well, yet doesn't. I think that makes her the biggest fugger.

I am really hoping that the final match will be Bai vs. Swinton.

Yeah, Bai's got this one. There's a reason she was last year's Fug Madness winner. She proves it again with the above outfit.
Xtina's fug comes from a place of skankiness. And, this cannot be said enough, a place of tranny whoreness (all apologies to tranny whores).

If you throw hellacious makeup into the mix - Xtina is the clear winner!

Don't let Bai's reputation cloud the facts; Christina is just horrendous! She should know better (whereas it just seems like Bai may be mentally ill)!

I had to go against the fold and vote for Xtina. I think I may be blinded by my personal annoyance at everything she does.

xtina's hair alone wins this battle. fried ends, overprocessed peroxide color.....ouch.

Bai - no contest.

This could lead to an inter-galactic face-off between Bai and SWINTON! Full-scale alien fug-war!

Come on, people. Bai dresses like an insane person because she's trying to draw as much attention to herself. Xtina actually THINKS she's being stylish. Bai is just annoying, Xtina is fug through and through.

Xtina wins on make-up alone. Her foundation is so heavy that in some photos, it looks like she rubbed refried beans on her cheeks.

How do I love Bai?
Let me count the fugs.
X-Tina fug and Janet Jackson fug are manufactured.
With Bai, you can tell it comes from the depth of her whacked out heart.
Counting it down to the Bai/Swinton Fug Off.

"There's no reason to wear your correct size if something smaller is available."

That's it, Xtina has my vote!

p.s. Is she actually holding her dress down in that first photo? It's so short that even SHE is uncomfortable? Yikes.

had to go with bai.

christina's dress isn't that bad. plus, she's hotter.

Wait - I just realized, we're heading for an inter-galactic face-off between the Madonna-Charo brackets, and the winners of the Cher/Bjork will surely be the 'Ho Showdown!

Bloomers with suspenders? Are you serious?!

The first Xtina pic wasn't bad, just made me want to deflate her fake gahoobies (girl, you are great, you don't need those!).

Had to go with Bai.

Bai brings the artistry of a true fug genius to this one. Xtina is just a one trick pony by comparison. As the possessor of a what used to be a very artistic and fugly wardrobe myself, I find something very sweet and personal about true fuggery. When it comes to fug, genuine oddballs always win out over prosaic trashiness for me.

Once again, I'm going for affected, skanky, inexcusable fug over wacked-out against-the-gran style. As others have said, Bai Ling doesn't care what we think, but Xtina thinks she's some kind of classy fashionista. Xtina FTW!

this has got to be the hardest matchup yet.....bai is the obvious favorite, but xtina turned the fug up a few notches this year. remember when she was in full-on gaga mode and denied it, claiming she didn't know if our lady of the ga was a man or woman? but, then again, bai hooked up with mickey rourke....that's a double fug right there....who to choose, who to choose.....

She's creepy and she's kooky, mysterious and spooky. She's altogether hooky, the fugly Bai Ling!

Christina put up an excellent fight, though.

I have to admit that I'm disappointed with the way this is going. I really thought that Bai would have been out in an earlier round, just because she won last year. But, I guess it's the fug that counts.

I have just discovered your blogging. Fugging love it. Cannot wait to read on.. Carla

I think you have to really consider Xtina's makeup. Ling is obviously just trying to get attention, Xtina seems to think this is a good look for her.

X-tina is all about showing skin. BAI is all about showing the FUG.

Case closed.

Low rider PLAID bloomers with suspenders--say it s - l - o - w - l - y. Accessorized with a metallic daisy target for her, um, lady flower.

Slutty over-processed Kewpie doll on Ecstacy simply cannot compete. Xtina is a fashionutsa.

Xtina brought her A-game this year. Fug On Over.

Christina is just your average insane attention whore, which will certainly earn her a crown in Fug Heaven. But you've got to get up PRETTY EARLY IN THE MORNING to out-fug my girl Bai. Bai has not only earned her crown in Fug Heaven, SHE RUNS THE PLACE.

Fug ladies, please excuse if you've covered this base already: are the pictures that you provide as "evidence" taken only from the year previous? I know that in the first year of fug madness, any year seemed to be up for grabs, but now that it's year two, are you using photos exclusively from 2008-2009? Bai reigns supreme, of course, but I have to wonder if she's been a bit tamer this past year. That's all. Carry on.

Bai Ling does it on purpose. Xtina just has bad taste!

I went against the grain on this one. Bai is crazy for the sake of crazy, Xtina should totally just know better.

No competition. Bai and her multiple personalities FTW!

Feh! I came here seeking pre-vote guidance, and everyone else is either-or!

Xtina is stagy, which makes her a "no" for me. She's not really playing into the fug, she's wearing a costume. Why else the clay masks? Although that ho-skank, omigod my crotch is cold thing is interesting, the very fact that she's pulling that skirt down tells me she's not sincere.

Bai goes to the 7-11 in her gets ups, you KNOW she does. She creates it all herself. She's not just seeking attention any way she can -- she could do that by being spectacular, too, and we've seen her do that -- she's going the whakadoo route from sincere conviction!

Just like the Great Pumpkin, I look for the most sincere fug. It has to be Bai.

XTina occasionally has lapses of good taste. Bai? Not so much. I'm for Bai - all the way to SWINTON.

I am torn torn torn, but ultimately voted for Bai Ling. It was the bloomers and the Very Important Message Band Aids.

Also, not to come across as all mom or whatever, but fellow commenters, it would be awesome if the word "tranny" wasn't used as an insult. Tacking a "no offense" at the end doesn't make it okay, it just handwaves over the fact that a negative stereotype of transsexuals and transgendered people is being perpetuated. We're here to insult celebrities' sense of style! Or lack thereof! Not each other. (because you don't know who is reading, right?)

I frequently find myself wondering what in the world it is that Bai Ling does. I forget that she occassionally "acts". Like that LOST episode where she just randomly appeared and seduced Jack. But really acting is just her job, fuggery is her profession.

I had to go Xtina.
Bai looks like she's having fun and just, you know, being Miley.
Xtina looks like she tries VERY hard and spends a LOT OF TIME AND MONEY to look like a 2bit prostitute from whatever era she's currently into. How long do you think it takes her to take her makeup off at night?That is truly fug to me.

Did anyone else notice that the jacket Bai Ling is wearing in the first picture of this post looks an awful lot like the jacket that X-Tina is wearing on the cover of whatever magazine she was the cover girl for when she was mega-preggers? It's in her archive, if you didn't see it.

I don't understand why people think Xtina should know better. Where would she have learned? The fashionistas at the Mickey Mouse Club's wardrobe department?

Give me Bai Ling's genius meth dream of couture over Xtina's sad trailer trash style.

Jen @12:32 - yes the Fug girls mentioned that this year is solely based on the period from 3/1/08-2/28/09, so that does lessen Bai's reign a bit

I work in a library and the book I just shelved had a call number ending in BAI. A sign, me thinks.

Oh who am I kidding, I'm voting for Bai anyway because she owns her fug, versus Christina whose fug I just find extremely tedious and old. Go Bai!

Yeah, gotta go with XTina. Just when you thought the O'Day mammaries weren't enough, XTina has to flash hers in our face. PUT THEM AWAY! That, combined with the makeup and the fact that Bai always looks like she's got a fun twinkle in her eye that indicates she might be in on the joke (and that's a big might), makes XTina the fugliest.

Not that you can say this enough, but we're having a blizzard here, and I can't think of anything else I'd rather be doing than Fug Madness!

weeeeheheheheheeee Go Bai Ling!

Now for those of you having trouble voting. Just look at Bai Ling's archive.

There are, when the planets are aligned and the sun is in the seventh house of pancakes and Courtney Love is having a moment of clarity, times when Bai Ling looks not only sane and modest, but GOOD.
True that those rare moments are beyond the realm of this competition, but they do show that somewhere deep inside her Bai Ling has a personality that knows how to dress properly.
BUT SHE DENIES IT!

and never ever forget BAND-AID CODES!

I can't stop chuckling over that pic of Xtina pulling down her dress... that's hilarious.

Yes, the final showdown will be Alien vs. Whore!

Honestly, it is going to break my evil little heart that Bai Ling and Solange can't both be in the championship

Bail Ling is a C List celeb at best- she's basically a teeny norks out version of an extra so she is fully responsible for her hellacious designs. However, Xtina PAYS SOMEONE TO MAKE HER LOOK THAT GAWDAWFUL!!! Xtine FTW- much as it breaks my heart to see Bai Go, Xtina has way too much to be WAY TOO MUCH- knowhatimean?

Easy - Bai Ling. Christina manages to dress just strangely enough that your reaction is "huh?" instead of plain old "skanky," but she doesn't look consistently all that bad. Whereas Bai Ling is totally batshit crazy in the most inventive way - the essence of fug.

As a side note: I love this site and the voting posts are my favorite, but I think it's a waste to post photos from singers' concerts. Sure, a lot of times their costumes are out there to the point where we wish they'd stay out there, but costumes are costumes after all, and they're supposed to be over the top. It seems a little unfair to nail someone for not looking chic when they are trying to stand out and entertain an arena of thousands. Just a thought.

Sigh. I knew that band-aid addled meerkat would win this round.

I voted for Xtina in defiance, in vain, on the meager hope that SOMEONE will make Bai crawl back into whatever spider sac she emerged from.

Bai Ling is very deliberately trying to be as outlandish as possible. Is there any other reason for her existence. It's a trick--and frankly, sort of a boring one after awhile. Christina A., on the other hand, is clearly trying to look cool & sexy & hip & whatever else--& failing tragically. (Yet entertainingly, always.) Which is, for me, the essence of fug.

Wow Francesca, you took the words right out of my mouth re: performance clothes. It doesn't make sense to include them at all.

I firmly maintain that crazy stuff worn while on stage doesn't count. Performing on stage just isn't subject to the same rules as everyday life.

My question is this: do we vote for the wacktastic or the one who makes us a little sad inside when we see them? Personally, I think the purpose of fug is to simultaneously horrify and delight. Bai.

I have to say that Xtina looks perfectly awful allof the time. If it's not tranny-fugly then it's too-tight fugly or circus-clown-fugly. Girl just never looks good. Never. I can't even give her a 'cute' evert now and then cause she never looks cute. I can give BaiLing cute. She can pull off 'cute' in some of those wackjob getups. But Xtina always always looks awful, from head to toe.
I give this round to Fuguelera.

xtina is worse imo. you know to expect the worse from bai ling, it's her thing. noone would call bai's outfits as real clothes.
xtina's though, I'm guessing there are some fugalicious ghettolicious people out there who instead of tranny chic think xtina is glamorous.
so she has to win.

I must admit, I don't get why performing-on-stage outfits are admissable as evidence. Something you'd wear on stage is not usually something you'd be seen dead off-stage in. (And if you do wear it off-stage, then you deserve to be fugged!) If performance clothing is to be compared to red carpet wear, performers will have a huge advantage in winning fug madness.
Not that Bai Ling is feeling the pinch!

Christina doesn't really do much that's particularly deviant, it's just too-too most of the time. Bai, on the other hand, I fully expect to show up somewhere wearing bedazzled pantyhose as a hat.

This is getting tough! I'm not sure I can handle the pressure! Must go with Bai Ling on this one, though. It's the bloomers.

I'm having a crisis of faith in my voting. What does it mean to be "fug" in a match like this? If I voted for the person who looks the worst, it would be Xtina all the way. If I voted for the person who takes fug to the most outrageous level you'd think is humanly possible and the surpasses it, all without ever appearing to break a sweat, it would be Bai.

Same deal for anyone matched up against SWINTON. She wears her fug with such joie de vivre that it feels impossible to vote for anyone else, even though whomever she's up against invariably LOOKS worse.

I guess I just answered my own question: Bai it is. But it does make me wonder how most others feel during Fug Madness--is it about looking bad or about the brilliance of Good Fug?

I guess I'm going with whose fug is more ugh and less f-. Bai Ling's fug works, in terms of it being her own nutty style -- it's not exactly unflattering, it's just "what the?" Although her message band-aids are too bizarre and seriously give fug a run for its money.

But Xtina -- she went through such a pretty phase for quite a while, thus she knows better, and yet she is back with the fug. Breaks my heart. Unflattering and fug. No redeeming value here. Gotta go with Xtina for the win.

Come on people!! Christina has been assaulting our eyes with her heinous looks for SUCH a long time! She cannot go unpunished! Besides, Bai had her moment last year with the win.
Christina all the way!

I voted for Christina - but I'm not surprised in the least that Bai is way ahead at this stage of the game.

The big question is - will she be able to overcome Solange in the Elite 8? Solange is in it to win it, and the Madonna Bracket is hers to lose!

Bai, you are just so much fun. To look at, I wouldn't want to be within 20 feet of you without a surgical mask and a Purell bath first.

@Anonymous 1:30 - "is it about looking bad or about the brilliance of Good Fug?"

I vote the former. Most of the posts on this site are more of the "WTF DID YOU DO TO YOURSELF OMG" kind than the "wow, it's crazy, but it's brilliant" kind. In my mind, winning the Fug-off is not a good thing.

But...I like Xtina's dress. Even if it is dangerously short.

*hangs head in shame*

Haha fashionutsa! I like that.

This was incredibly hard. It's like if you vote for one, you are discounting the fug of another, and they are equally horrific in my mind. I'm also averse to voting Bai out of any misplaced sense of fug loyalty. I just made a hair appointment, though, because even my measly salary has room for personal grooming of the positive kind (I haven't had a pro cut my hair in like 15 years, so this is a big deal) and that makes me feel like voting for Xtina. I know, BELIEVE me, that those suspender bloomers will never leave my nightmares, but all of Xtina's fashion offenses, PLUS her skin, hair, and makeup, put her in front for me. She has the $$ to look great! I will not be eating for a few days to look a smidge better, and here she is traipsing about with that horrible haystack of bleached strands practically crying out for someone to cut it all off and put them out of their misery. Fie on you, Xtina! And put those mammaries AWAY!

Come on Bai vs. SWINTON!

Just have to say that I belive that performance clothes are, in fact, fair game. Yes, you're on stage and not running down to the 7-11 for a Slurpee, but you are still, of your own free will, wearing that crap out in front of people. Who are we to say that subjecting your audience to this stuff isn't as bad as subjecting the unsuspecting general public to it? And it could be argued that wearing such awful outfits on stage is actually worse, since the poor people who have to look at you actually paid for the privilege, and now the vision of your atrocity is seared into their retinas.

Perhaps certain concert tickets should come with a warning label: "the management is not responsible for the emotional scarring you may endure by witnessing the crazy-ass costumes that will be worn by the performer".

"What does it mean to be "fug" in a match like this?"

I had trouble with this question last year, but since the site's motto is "fugly is the new pretty," I just decided to vote for whoever succeeds most closely at taking fug to the next level, not who is the trashiest dresser.

Bai Ling is your All Natural Fug. She may wear plastic bandaids, but she doesn't have plastic face, plastic boobs, or plastic-colored hair.

And yet, as the bloomers-with-suspenders show, she understands the True Meaning of Fug.

AAAAAAGH My brain just tore in half! It's too hard! TOO HARD I tell you!

Not even a contest. Bai took it in ONE.

Though, the Death Star tunic accessorized with a bitchface that would put Kristen Stewart to shame made me have second thoughts.

Also: I'm all about the brilliance of good fug. Though, I'm alone in thinking that Beyonce is so trashtastically divalicious I'd have to choose her over the GREAT AND MIGHTY SWINTON.

I don't know. B's kind of like Mimi for me - you know that when she travels, she carries 1 bag of luggage and 26 bags of crazy. And secretly, I think the feud that Etta James has going on with her is kind of awesome. (Etta would SO kick Bouncy's ass, though.)

Bai! Bai!! Bai!!!

Even though I was team Chloe last year, I voted Bai this time just because i am crossing my fingers for a bai / SWINTON showdown. I think people are giving Xtina "new mom" props.

Oh such choices!! I missed Fug Madness last year because I was doing the actual March Madness, and now that I've experienced it I don't know how I lived a fulfilling life without it.

Beyonce is definitely the fugliest of them all, but I just could not bring myself to push the button. I wish that she and her smug I'm-all-that-and-then-some-so-I-can-have-a-"fierce" (lame)-alterego-ness and her weird red carpet beach ball arms would JUST. GO. AWAY.

Oops! Sorry all, posted that in the wrong bracket...

What was Bai's blog again? It was proof of her honest fuggery. BAI LING FTW!

Bai Ling HAS taste... she's kind of consistent and meticulous and you can tell she thinks what she does is art.

Christina Aguilera does NOT have taste, and even when she stumbles upon a reasonable outfit, she blows it with the bad makeup or the size-too-small, and she wouldn't know art if it knocked her down and shaved her baldheaded (start over again with that hair, that's the only way). That makes her the fugliest, in my opinion.

I just can't condone that sort of makeup use on Xtina. In what reality is putting makeup on with a garden trowel acceptible? Plus someone needs to take down Bai.

Christina *almost* gets it right sometimes. If that first dress was longer and had a black camisole under it, it'd look cute. I can almost justify the second look as being stage wear--costumes are what performers wear nowadays.

I can't rationalize Bai Ling's clothing, ever.

I'm kind of bored with Bai Ling. I mean, we know this is her style. It's just out there.
Christina, on the other hand, is making me shake my head with disdain. She seriously looks like she's working a corner in that first pic. She won't win, but she definitely got my vote.

Am I the only one who finds them both just a little yawn-inducing? They either need to clean it up or REALLY go full out fug. They have before, obviously.

I'm recuperating at home today after being stricken with the horrible illness that seems to be sweeping the northeast... and logging on to Fug Madness has totally given me the will to sit up and maybe - eventually - shower.

That said: I'm surprised with how close Bai and Xtina are. I actually had to peruse their libraries of fug. However, Xtina tends to wear MORE clothing, and there is some credible modesty in that. Thus... I have to had it to Bai once again. For defying the odds and every basic principal of how to dress oneself appropriately.

in the long-run, yes Bai is the bigger fugger.
But I refuse to forgive X-tina for the year of the mama boobs. She showed some heinous cleavage this year, and yes, yes I am jealous.
She fugged those ladies to the max.

They're both attractive women but what with the hideous facemask Xtina wears in public you could never tell. Yes, Bai consistently dresses like an insane person but xtina's cake up just pushes her over the line.

Sorry Bai- I love you!

bai ling is wearing "blorts"

shorts + bloomers = blorts!

I just love the expression on Xtina's face in that last picture. She's like "Yay, I look like an idiot!" I just don't get her- the make-up puts her over the top for me. If forced to choose, I would rather dress like an alien than, er, Marilyn dayglo hooker. Honey, if your dress is riding up that bad it a) doesn't fit, and b) is making you look like a streetwalker. Not good.

At least Bai Ling isn't wearing a pound of make up. I can't believe I'm defending her!

I had to go with Bai, because Xtina is a performer. No, she's a PERFORMER -- girl is in costume whenever she's in public. Bai Ling... well, we're just lucky she's dressed in public.

I had to go with Bai as well, as she is, well, absolutely FUG! Seriously. She does have a good mid riff though.

Christina would be dressed so much better if she bought all those things in her own size.

Hmm I thought this would be closer... I agree with people who say they're bored of Bai Ling (according to Wikipedia she's been busy working, but I haven't seen, much less heard, of any of these films!) BUT I still think she's fugging more than Christina. :P

If it were about hair, Xtina would have it hands-down. WHY does she insist on making her hair so crispy? So fried and dried? It's tragic. But alas, this is NOT about the hair, it's about the fug. And who knows fug better than Bai...?

Xtina definitely gets my vote.

Bai is wacky, and most certainly fug. But she's purposefully creating a crazy persona to help attract attention.

Xtina actually seems to think her Oompa-loopma orange skin, Make-up crusted face, crispy hair, and skin tight clothes look good! A far worse fug offense.

Fools!!! Yes Bai Ling is a whole pile of crazy - but she kind of pulls it off because that's how she's branded herself. Xtina is actually trying to look great. At least when Bai tries to look good - she does. As apposed to Drrty Lady freaking Donnatella Versace!!!

Xtina, god bless her, at least looks as if she's a member of Homo sapiens.

I voted for Bai Ling because I want my SWINTON v. Bai Ling showdown. Besides, if by some grace of the Fug Gods and Goddesses Bai Ling outfugs SWINTON, Bai could start her little Fug Dynasty. It'd be like the Chicago Bulls in the Jordan Epoch.

XD

Plaid bloomer shorts with suspenders and a cropped jacket? That's so much fug in one sentence I didn't even think it was humanly possible.

Yeah. For true-blue, clear-quill fuggitude, nothing can beat Bai Ling. Seeding schmeeding, I expect her to win the championship this year too.

I'm still not convinced that stage clothes are relevant in this competition. I've worked on stage, and I was playing a part, and the wardrobe people designed my clothes for that purpose. When I go to an event, or to the shops, I go as me, and then I deserve to be judged by what I have chosen to wear. I don't see how the slebs are any different.

I believe there is some sort of unnecessary button/pin of a plastic yellow flower on Bai's suspendered bloomer shorts. My vote has to go with her.

Does anyone else notice that Bai Ling and Paris Hilton are the same person?

Oh, I forgot to add that stage clothing (and makeup) is designed to be bold, exaggerated, over-the-top and visible from a distance. Yet another thing that separates it from red carpet wear or street wear.
Sorry to harp on about it. I will be quiet now!

Jane and others in the stagewear debate,

One of the things I take into consideration is how much the garb a person puts on to go to, say, a premiere or fragrance launch or some other public event resembles what they wear onstage. Because if there's not much disparity between the two, it seems likely that there is a certain cross-pollination of taste.

Janet Jackson wears some crazy-ass stuff in performance, and so does Sasha Fierce. But when you see them in public for some other reason, they often look comparatively normal--where, of course, we can all agree that the value of "normal" is and always will be hella variable. :)

But Xtina nearly ALWAYS looks like this. Even when she gets it together to put on a less revealing dress, she is always orange and overly made-up, and even her "modest" clothing is often Wet-Seal-clearance-rack-style trashy.

Also, I'm willing to bet that, once you've established the kind of sales track record that singers like Beyonce and Xtina have, you get a pretty fair amount of control over what you can say no to as stage wear. I'm not saying they design their own stuff, but I'm sure they vet everything that's proposed with a gimlet eye on the mirror and whether or not they think it flatters them.

Finally, thanks, all, for the guidance in my voting crisis. I am secluding myself in a mountaintop cave for the weekend, to subsist on rice and Gimlets, while I ponder the nature of Fug and what it means in the modern world. I am praying to SWINTON and Cate Blanchett for guidance. I would pray to Bai, too, but she only ever answers in unintelligible, high-pitched noises resembling a three-way cross between a cockatoo, a Siamese cat, and Elsa Schiaparelli.

Seriously? Bai just makes me giggle.

Of course, looking at her photos whilst at work in oppressive corporate cube-land means a lot of feigned coughing fits. Can't be too much of a nutbar around review time, you know!

Xtina is unsightly and poorly tended. Her People need to get on this, but she lacks true fug brilliance.

Bai is just whacktastic. I agree with the earlier poster that she's tamed it down a little this year, which could cost her the title, but in this match-up it's no contest for me. Radiant gold booties with the plaid bloomer-alls? Bai takes it.

Much as I love this blog and this contest, I still don't get it: The whole point is CELEBRITIES who dress poorly when they have the resources not to.

Who is Bai Ling? Is she gainfully employed? Same with Phoebe Price. They aren't celebrities; they're some kinda LA club gals. She should be disqualified, even if she does put 10 syllables in fu-u-u-u-u-u-u-u-ug-ly.

Ahh Bai Ling. You're my oasis of calm in this frenetic world, for realios.

Bai Ling is an actress. She's been in LOTS of good stuff and lotsa not so good stuff. :)

It bugs me when people comment like that, just because they personally are under-exposed to information.
You should probably research before you comment.

I think Bai's bangs are fakes....and that she pulls her hair back in a severe ponytail and then clips the bangs on. That equates her with Paris Hilton in my world. Bai all the way.

Wait.....um, hang on. Xtina does look like a cracked out upwardly mobile blow up doll who got locked inside a Sephora over night and got bored and decided to try ALL of the makeup. Xtina all the way.

Or maybe Bai......yeah. Ok......but Xtina is *so* foul.......ok, here we go: rock/paper/scissors. Xtina! Yep. That's the Fug.

I think Bai's bangs are fakes....and that she pulls her hair back in a severe ponytail and then clips the bangs on. That equates her with Paris Hilton in my world. Bai all the way.

Wait.....um, hang on. Xtina does look like a cracked out upwardly mobile blow up doll who got locked inside a Sephora over night and got bored and decided to try ALL of the makeup. Xtina all the way.

Or maybe Bai......yeah. Ok......but Xtina is *so* foul.......ok, here we go: rock/paper/scissors. Xtina! Yep. That's the Fug.

I'll give Bai her dues: she's one-of-a-kind.

What with the plaid ruffling, the poorly angled bangs, the gratuitous midriff/underboob/nipple/lower back exposure paired with (what else, the theme of this year's Fug Madness) Pantslessness, it's Just Who She Is.

She draws upon the punk of Juliette Lewis, the public nudity of Paris Hilton, the dominatrix accents of Madonna and the underlying I-Did-This-Myself-ness of Courtney Love. For individuality she drops some band-aid messages and butt-baring saddle-bagged leotards in the mix and voila! We have us some crazy fug. She's her own art project. She sometimes makes me want to pat her on the head. It's sweet. Extremely misguided but sweet.

AND THAT'S THE POINT: some people just are the way they are. Why must we ask them to change? Bai may dress as though she were mildly retarded, but that is merely because she's, well, special.

This is why Xtina needs to move forward.

Xtina has put WAY too much money into looking like a horror show: The crispy hair, the other-worldy skin tone, the questionable lip colors, the accident-waiting-to-happen breast exposure, the ridiculous Bangs Period of fall '08, the Pucci overload--the list goes on. And every line item is vomitous.

We must not stand for this. Pull it together, X. Bai does not need help doing what she does, but YOU DO.

This is a no-brainer! BAI FTW!!!! I don't know if I can live in a world where Bai doesn't make it to the finals. Anyone who makes Sevigny look normal is automatically the Queen of FUG in my book.

Honestly, Bai Ling should be excluded from the competition. It's just not fair.
Other hot contenders will be seen in extraordinarily fugly outfits, but most of the time they are in a showbizzy context - on stage, on the runway - that they are put for specific reasons.
Bai Ling has no visible means of support, no movie to promote, no tour on the road, in fact no discernible career - she simply LIVES FUG.
Others bring the fug, but even they have good days - no one can come close for sheer 100% fug all day everyday.
Until Bai Ling is expelled form this competition, no one stands a chance.
That is all.

Dressedinthedark - Bai Ling has been in lots of films. Ditto for Phoebe Price. Ok, they may not have had any Oscar-nominated roles, but they are recognised enough in the industry to be invited to lots of red carpet events and hence turn up among the shots that the paps take and the fug girls see (and post on here). If you're not sure who someone is, it doesn't necessarily mean that they're not a celebrity. And as for "gainfully employed", well heck, that would elmininate half of the slebs on here!
P.S. Who saw Bai Ling on Lost? I almost couldn't believe it was her. It was weird seeing her without her weird outfits on.

Anonymous 6:27 pm - I want you to be my new best friend. I know that sounds totally desperate (and who knows desperate more than GaGa, but I digress), but seriously - I too want to pray to the gloriousness that are Cate and Tilda. We must all start a retreat after fug madness is over.

Gotta go with Bai for sheer volume, if nothing else. Xtina's fug from this eligibility period only goes halfway down the first page of her archives; Bai's covers almost a page and a half. And it's not like Bai's fug is mundane and boring - she's a frequent fugger, and an accomplished one at that!

PORGE, read up about her first. You are completely wrong!

PORGE
There you go. All you ignorant people who are too lazy to read up before you comment. Bai Ling's credits.
She has a huge resume, and is working currently. You look foolish. Well done.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000499/

Madonna invented the pantless performance look.

Bai Ling is Bai Ling, but I took one look at that first X-tina outfit and literally thought to myself, "Oh, my word." Christina Aguilera turned me into my grandma, and for that vote for her.

I had to go Xtina, because I just can't bear to give Bai the attention. Suspendered bloomers are the equivalent of a nuclear temper tantrum; you just have to pretend you don't notice them.

I love Christina's black and teal dress. Anyone know where I can get one or one similar? No. Seriously. Oh, and Bai Ling, hands down.

Close, very close--but I've gotta go with Bai. She fugs with such *panache*!

Bai is truly a national treasure... I think she deserves to have a bracket named after her someday!

Also, for anyone who wants to probe the inner recesses of Bai's mind, I present to you HER BLOG: http://ling-bai.blogspot.com/

I love both! They both don't care at ALL what everyone else thinks of what they're wearing! (Although perhaps they should... what ever happened to the basic rules of public decency??)

Errr who is Bai Ling exactly anyway?
I suppose when you are a bit of a non-entity you have two options: dress so fabulously that everyone bows down in your presence (difficult to do as proven by this website even if you do have a team of stylists) or dress so fug that the media falls over themselves to stick you in their publications.

Stage costumes are an unfair representation of fugliness...

Bai Ling's fug reigns supreme.

How I love Fug Madness. I haven't washed a dish since it began. Last night I drank my wine out of the gravy boat.

Bai all the way.

Is it odd that I don't think performance wear at concerts should count against them? I mean, Lady Gaga wears that stuff in public!

I love all your commentary, but frankly I am shocked that you failed to point out Bai's shoes! They look like disco fever cross-polinated with a cheap Disney fairy tale and decided to step out for a rousing rendition of "Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves" while stomping around a fire pit. With a few curly wrapping ribbons to finish it off in style!

I agree there should be a separate performance catagory. Lady Gaga and Beyonce could still fug hard without concert attire.
Xtina. Bai is crazy, and loves it that way. Xtina is just fug.

I had to go with Xtina if for the caked on make up

In a weird way, I think Bai Ling almost makes it work in anime character turned slutty kind of way. ( almost!) Xtina on the other hand.... the fake tan, horrible make-up and lack of pants... that is just straight up FUG no debate needed.

Gotta go with Xtina! Bai Ling is just being the crazy Fug girl that she is, and always will be! At least she wears whatever it is she wears in the right size!

I hate to admit this, but I have sort of a soft spot for Christina. I don't know why, since her fug is so fugtastic. For some reason though, I just can't hate her. I guess I feel too many people do and so I feel sorry for her. Besides, I think Bai puts a lot of work into looking fug at all times, and I just don't want to make all of her efforts be for nothing.

Based SOLELY on that picture, I kind of LIKE Bai. I know. Crazy. But she's got the ghetto-pirate-whore look down pat, and that is something that I wish I had the guts to strive for in life.
Xtina it is.

I voted for Xtina because as crazy as Bai is, she still manages to look good (in an insane way) while Christina just looks... trashy.