Weekly Bold and the Beautiful Must Watch Moments April 21-25: Bold Fashion & Liam’s Dying
It’s a dramatic week on B&B that you won’t want to miss!
The Bold and the Beautiful must-watch moments for the week of April 21 – 25 promise a week full of drama featuring a fun Forrester fashion show, crossovers and guest appearances, and Liam’s dying. You won’t want to miss a single bit of the action, so be sure to tune in every weekday to CBS or Paramount+ to see every bit of it!
Week of April 21 – 25
Let’s start with the fun part: a Forrester Creations fashion show is headed our way, and you know those never disappoint. It’s glitz, glam, and a whole lot of drama—though let’s be honest, it’d be even juicier if the Forresters had a rival fashion house strutting onto their turf.
Special guests include reality TV duo Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, along with influencer Markell Washington, all set to give their thoughts from the front row.
Also grabbing a seat is The Young and the Restless crossover queen Lauralee Bell, aka Christine Blair, who just can’t resist popping in for a dose of runway intrigue. Who could blame her?
Backstage, things take a wild turn when Taylor (Rebecca Budig) and Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang) end up in a room together—and no, it’s not an escape room challenge. When Ridge’s “destiny” realizes what’s happening, she blurts out, “What have you done?” Classic Brooke.
Now for the not-so-glamorous twist: Liam’s (Scott Clifton) reportedly dying. Steffy (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) feels it’s her responsibility to break the news to her ex. But don’t expect Liam to go gentle into that good night. Instead of embracing whatever peace he can find, he could flat out refuse to accept his grim fate.
Fashion shows, feuding exes, and a life-or-death storyline? This week’s B&B is bringing all the drama—and then some.
In Mazda’s hometown of Hiroshima, Japan, there are artists whose families have been making traditional Japanese lacquer work for generations. Lacquer is an artistic process that starts with the resin of the native urushi tree which is then ground and mixed with pigments to create a bold, smooth coating that can be applied to wood, or spread over a paper form to create a light, strong, and very beautiful finish on furniture or housewares. It’s a time-consuming art. A single lacquer bowl can require more than 100 layers and take more than four months to complete. The result is unlike any other paint process. It’s glossy and deep, with colors like a sunset or a butterfly’s wing.
You won’t find any lacquer artists in the paint department at Mazda, but there is no doubt that Keiichi Okamoto, head of the design center, finds inspiration in that traditional Japanese craft. If you’ve ever walked past a ruby-red CX-50 in a parking lot or caught a glimpse of a bright gem of a Miata on the highway, you have Okamoto and his team to thank for that eye-catching color. To make a red so vibrant, Mazda’s paint team had to develop a whole new paint process.
Takuminuri translates in English as “artisan coloring,” and it refers to four of Mazda’s most dramatic colors: Soul Red Crystal, Machine Gray, Rhodium White Premium, and Artisan Red Premium. What makes these colors different from standard metallic finishes is the size of the metallic particles and the way the paint is applied. Where normal metallic paints use larger flakes and only a few layers, a Takuminuri color uses much smaller flake and a translucent color layer before the clear coat. This is a similar technique to the “kandy coat” colors of custom cars in the 1960s, where a layer of metalflake or pearl was sprayed over by a transparent color. Unlike those early candies, which were notorious for becoming blotchy if not applied perfectly by a skilled hand, Mazda has managed to program its factory robots to lay down thin, even coats of each layer to maximize the shine and avoid any imperfections.
To achieve the sheen without the glitter of metallic, the actual flakes in the first layer of paint are a mere 12 to 15 microns thick, barely bigger than what the human eye can see. The layer contains both metallic and light-absorbing particles, which mimics the effect of a flake sprayed over a dark base coat—a trick for creating depth under the eventual candy top coat.
For inspiration, Okamoto looked at gemstones, freshly machined metal, red wines, and, we’d guess, at local lacquerware. The result is shades that highlight the shape of the cars in unbroken lines and with an underlying glow. It’s the perfect match for Mazda’s unfussy, simple design language, much like a lacquer sake cup in a traditional black and red finish.