Reavealing the stylist responsible for Caster's 1st makeover...

I am so scared what is going on with Caster its sad. After much effort of You magazine's disastrous stylist that dressed her for her make over. It turns out that we will all be seeing more of the Caster Makeover headlines. Boring as hell how all these magazines and shows think thwey can change what Caster might look like if she wore dresses.

NEWSFLASH: SABC3's Lifestyle show Top Billing is also going to have a Caster makeover as part of their show next week, so will many other magazines.

But what seems to be the talking point around this "makeover" is the fact that designers are shrieking after the alleged stylist responsible Nthato Mashishi's had Caster wearing liquid tights and "akward looking clothing". In defense Mashishi, said he was "handed the clothing by the publication and did as best as he could with them".

I think as a stylist, surely he did some research or could have mixed and watched those clothes in a different way... But I guess all people will always hold him responsible even though he claims it was not his doing but the clothes were disastrous... Shame!

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Athlete says she enjoyed going girly, but others object to it.

World 800m champion Mokgadi Caster Semenya has worn a dress for the first time in ages.

The 18-year-old traded her takkies and tracksuits for make-up, heels and jewellery for the cover story of You magazine.

Semenya had asked that there be no dresses or heels for the shoot but, after much convincing, she donned stilettos.

She told The Times yesterday she had enjoyed dressing up.

"I didn't do this to prove a point but rather to have fun. I don't give a damn what people say about me. I like me the way I am and who cares what other people say?" the Pretoria University student said.

"I enjoyed the shoot, wish I could do more, but I can't because I don't have time for them. I have training to prepare for the Commonwealth Games, which are soon, and [studies] to get through at the same time."

Semenya's gold at the World Althletics Championships in Berlin was eclipsed by controversy when the International Association of Athletics Federations announced she would have to undergo a gender test.

In one of the pictures in the five-page spread in You, Semenya is dolled up in metallic tights, a shimmering top and towering stilettos. In another, she wears a black-and-white mini dress, her hair, usually in corn rows, is combed out and her nails are painted.

"I'd like to dress up more often and wear dresses, but I never get the chance. I'd also like to learn to do my own make-up," she said.

There were mixed reactions to her transformation.

Socialite and co-owner of a clothing line Uyanda Mbuli said she had wondered when someone would dress the athlete up - she had wanted to do it herself.

"I can't wait to see the inside pictures, but I saw the cover on the Net and think she looks great. She's more of a tomboy so you really can't push her into wearing bling and shimmer, but on the cover she looks great. They used neutral colours for her make-up so it does [reflect] what she looks like. I like it," she said.

5FM radio show host Poppy Ntshongwana said although she thought Semenya "looked great" on the cover, she had reservations about the makeover.

"We know that she is not a skinny jeans and liquid tights type of girl, so why make her wear something that doesn't suit her personality and body shape?" she said.

Colleen Lowe Morna, executive director of the Gender Links advocacy organisation, said: "It is amazing how, in order to accept her, we have to turn her into our stereotypical image of what a woman should be. She's made it clear she does not like dresses, high heels or glamour. Celebrating diversity means accepting women and men in all their shapes, sizes and forms, not moulding them into some typecast image of who we want them to be. Let Caster be Caster!"