Blaire looked great before. And while parts of her feminization surgery made a lot of sense (especially above her eyes when she showed her profile, and her hairline), I think she ruined her nose, and her boobs now look faker than Jessica Rabbit's. And it doesn't help that she's bad at makeup: she overdraws her lips (and wears the least flattering lip colors to boot), and her eyeliner makes her eyes look harsher (thus making her cheekbones stand out in a masculine way). Without makeup, I think that Blaire looks 100x better and 100x more feminine. I think that her wearing non-steetwalker clothes would make her look a lot more feminine, too.
She's still better at makeup and styling herself than Shoe, though. Granted, that isn't difficult to accomplish, but ... Yeah.
I do believe that Shoe is so competitive with other women that she befriends a lot of trans women to make her look attractive by comparison. For example, I've totally seen bridezilla types who purposely make their bridesmaids wear ugly dresses so nobody will outshine them. As a woman myself, I have heard and seen some crazy shit in terms of how hung up people can get about their level of attractiveness. And I'm assuming this about Shoe, because there is plenty of evidence to support it. Between the scarf girl bullshit and her "Disney Princess Waistline (tm)," it's easy to see that she's one of THOSE women.