I won a beauty pageant once, but I really don't think it was worth the effort. How do you feel about beauty pageants?
Well, growing up in Texas they were part of the landscape! I know they're trying to update them from the traditional judging and ranking of the physical attributes only....how was your experience?
It was a long time ago, but pageants seem to be very different now. I think they're very expensive! Do you know about how much it costs to enter a pageant?
From what I understand it's a *huge* investment of time and money. I guess each pageant can set entry, age range, "theme"....was it expensive when you competed?
Not really. The cost to enter the pageant was around $200 I think. But nowadays it seems like in order to compete, you need expensive dresses, shoes, hairpieces, make-up and spray tans. That seems excessive, don't you think?
, and be "virtuous", "amateur", and available for promotions, besides other criteria. It may also set the clothing standards in which contestants will be judged, including the type of swimsuit.
Beauty pageants are generally multi-tiered, with local competitions feeding into the larger competitions. For example, the international pageants have hundreds or thousands of local competitions. Child beauty pageants mainly focus on beauty, gowns, sportswear modelling, talent, and personal interviews. Adult and teen pageants focus on makeup, hair
we released Wilson and Harrison we kept. The circumstances—I know of the incidents, they are completely different. In fact, when I say we don't condone these things, we don't, but we do have to look at the circumstances that are involved with other players and things like that, so they're not all the same. What James Harrison was doing and how the incident occurred, what he was trying to do was really well worth it. He was doing something that was good, wanted to