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This would look great on a Pageant Examiner reader.
Beauty, confidence and personality. These three words codify the Miss and Mrs. US Beauties state title holders and through what many have as a state pageant competition, they continue with a preparation plan to be the best they can be while keeping up their appearances and obligations of love to families, work and volunteering only to compete yet again to find a representative best presenting beauty, confidence and personality from among them to be Miss and Mrs. US Beauties and represent the system on a national scale.
What is the US Beauties Pageant? Director Diane Wozniak says that it’s a pageant competition with roots in Plainfield, Illinois, 40 minutes out of Chicago. “Every woman has a success story,” Diane explains. Common themes from previous contestants have included having been homeless, weight issues, victims of domestic violence, yet they find themselves on a stage in stunning outfits as role models, competing with some of the finest women in the country. Tragedies, homelessness, domestic violence victims, these aren’t words that you’d expect to read in an article about pageant contestants. If the Pageants Examiner gets anything across to readers and the nation, it will be that pageants are no longer about presenting the ideal, but about thriving after struggling. Some women think they have suffered, then meet others who have had it worse and see that they only struggled in comparison, but everyone who has lived their lives and strived to do better has had struggles that they have overcome.
The judging is pretty straight forward and for women who keep to the tznius (kosher) rules of modest dressing, it is very possible to enter US Beauties and keep to the rules without having to flex.
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The personal interview is done panel style, where a panel of judges spends five minutes with each contestant, asking her questions from her biography.
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The next portion is “Trendy Outfit” where the contestant can wear sequined or beaded fashion wear, but the site warns that, “Wearing an elegant evening gown for high fashion is not allowed but you can wear a long skirt type trendy outfit.”
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The Evening Gown is to be “full length and to the floor.” This is where contestants wow the judges and say, “If you want to see more of me, you have to crown me!”
Scoring is calculated in the following manner: 30% Interview, 25% High Fashion, 25% Evening Gown, 20% Personal Beauty. What is personal beauty? The website explains, “20% of the personal score will come from inner and outer beauty projected during the pageant competition...such as facial & physical beauty is for the outer at 10% (5% each) and personality on stage is for the inner shown outward at a full 10%.”
A full twenty per cent of the contestant’s score is based on personal beauty projected during he competition. Does this mean that a contestant with a scar or a birthmark on her face can’t compete because it detracts from her face? Or does it mean that a contestant can’t be bigger than the “average” size? Nonsense! One of the aspects of pageants is for contestants to be their very best. Have you, dear readers, ever watched a Shakespearean play and forgotten that the speakers were speaking a different dialect of English than you are used to? That is because the actors are comfortable with their speaking. On that stage, their these, thines and thous are their character’s way of doing and speaking so we as the audience get pulled in. If your figure is less than Greek or your face is a little asymmetrical, it’s how you radiate on stage that matters as no one will care if they do notice it.
Who enters the US Beauties competion? Everyone from lawyers and doctors to housewives. Judges are not looking for someone to run he country, but someone to represent the US Beauties Pageant system. They go to grand openings, fundraisers, charities, fashion shows and hospitals.
With contestants who come from all the major pageant systems, US Beauties is not a starter pageant, but it helps contestants be more pageant ready than they were when they went in and if it is their first pageant, they are fast equipped with knowledge. From buying cake and flowers for a contestant chosen at large when she pays her fee to offering pageant coaching and help with non-mandatory public appearances if she wants to make them as a state or regional title holder, she is not left flailing on her own, trying to figure out what to do. Pictures go up on the national website, success stories go up, and they are members of a national US Beauties website where they bond with other state and regional title holders.
While there are many sponsors with US Beauties, one of their main ones is the new Tiara Magazine. Tiara’s approach to writing about beauty pageants and pageant competitions is similar to the Pageant Examiner’s approach on the focus being on the journey in addition to winning that title. US Beauties’ focus is on every contestant and the journey that each is taking not just as title holders, but as women.
Pageants Examiner will be keeping everyone updated with the new state and regional title holders of US Beauties as their year of growth commences, and there will be more on the national title holders coming soon.
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