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Not all people have the beauty and/or charm to win a pageant or even be there, instead the most important thing a person should have regardless if he/she joins pageants or not is INTEGRITY. It might not assure everyone a crown or even just a placement, but sticking to our morals will surely bring us to more and better places.

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HOW TO LOSE IN A PAGEANT?

PART TWO: Don't exude charm.

BEING BEAUTIFUL DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN BEING NOTICEABLE.

Beauty and charm are two different things, the latter is the ability to not just attract but also persuade other people.

This holds a truth in pageants especially now that they evolved into businesses in need of faces to represent their respective brands and rake the most moolah possible.

In order to achieve such financial goals, international pageant bigwigs nowadays are allegedly doing this one thing:

The cherry-picking by international pageant owners for their potential pageant winners and semifinalists are now allegedly happening during the nationals. Yes, they already choose their potential winners and semifinalists from the official candidates of the national pageants in which the franchises were given, or they don’t in case none of the candidates have the potential at all which usually happens to franchisees from weak-sash countries.

The bad thing - worse for some - about this scheme goes like this:

If ever the winner of the national contest for the international pageant is not the chosen candidate by the international pageant owner, expect that she’ll just clap for the chosen semifinalists come international pageant’s finals.

Even if she gave solid performances in the preliminaries.

There are obviously pros and cons on this scheme on the pageant aspirants’ part. They can easily get the crown with their charm, but might lose their integrity as would-be public figures especially if their “victories” won’t be substantiated with solid performances in the competition and authentic advocacy.

Pageantry is a gamble. You’ll never know if you’re gonna win or even pass the first cut even if you bet all your chips in, so better make the most out of your pageant journey instead of just aiming for that one elusive crown.

You can make pageantry as your platform for the following:

REPRESENTING YOUR MARGINALIZED SECTOR IN PAGEANTRY (LGBTQIA+, married people, parents, ethnic and religious minorities, people in their prime years and beyond, etc.)

YOUR ADVOCACIES (must be genuine, much better if niched)

PROFESSIONAL NETWORKING (You can actually make work connections in pageants!)

IT'S BETTER TO LOSE VICTORY THAN WIN WITH REGRET!

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The common height of Miss Supranational winners is 5'9", but she managed to not just bounce back from Miss Universe loss in 2016 but also clinch the first Supra crown for her country even if she only stands at 5'5" tall! Will we see another cutie win the crown this year?

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The last time a dusky-skinned candidate won Miss International was way back 2014. Meanwhile, no black candidate was crowned yet, but only managed to bag runner-up positions in the said pageant. Will we see a black winner this year?

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HOW TO LOSE IN A PAGEANT?

PART ONE: Don't meet pageant prototypes.

While most pageant systems nowadays are embracing inclusiveness by easing restrictions on their candidate qualifications (raising or eliminating age limits, eliminating height requirements, accepting transgenders, parents, and married people as candidates), some others retain their strict qualifications especially when choosing its winner.

There’s this pageant system that allegedly prefers fair-skinned candidates to be their potential winners especially that a skin clinic serves as its major sponsor annually.

Then there’s also this pageant system that strictly imposes its height requirement especially that they’re based in a country where height crazily matters. One candidate was actually disqualified for being just a centimeter below the height limit right on the pageant’s venue, and so she was shamefully sent home.

There’s also a pageant system that allegedly prefers candidates who meet or even exceed a certain height limit (based on its winners’ patterns) to be their winner.

And then there are these two “rival” pageant systems owned by persons of the same flag, one inspired by the other’s past / “returning” era, that prefer candidates from a certain region as they’re allegedly having the vibes of the known models of a then-famous lingerie brand.

NOTHING STILL BEATS BEING YOURSELF!

In case you think you don’t meet pageant prototypes, then choose a pageant system that’s inclusive not just on its candidates but most importantly on its winners - much better if it’s an established system in the pageant industry. Don’t worry because pageant systems nowadays are just like fishes in the sea - they’re plenty!

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The person who might say this bears the name ANNE.

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What kind of fusion dish will you choose, the Asian-TexMex or the English Asian?

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