Girls Just Need One Attribute!
That’s a very interesting question! And I receive calls like this regularly from young women, parents and prospective contestants asking, “What do Girls Need to Participate in a Virtual Pageant?. My response is always the same, “Girls just need one Attribute” to compete in a well respected pageant system, and that is “just be you”.
The definition of “Beauty” in this blog is defined as ones “Outside Attribute”. Moms, Dads, and interested advocates for young people. Our world is full of girls and young women who struggle with their body image, hair texture, face features, height, weight and levels of learning abilities. These girls would love to enhance their overall personal development skills by participating in a beauty pageant competition. They work very hard to qualify, but many pageant criteria and rules for many of them are too high.
Parents, If you speak with a pageant owner, director of a pageant, or a pageant coordinator who tells you, “I really like your daughter, but she is just not pretty enough to compete in this pageant”. “RUN”! Run as fast as you can away from these type of pageants who base their winners solely on outside looks.
When girls tell me these type of experiences, I make it my business to speak directly with their parent(s). I am a mom of five daughters, and have been a pageant owner, and in the pageant industry for 19 years, I still could not define “beauty” by looking at the girls themselves. It’s her overall personality and demeanor that defines her beauty to me.
Pageants are to help girls and young women build their confidence and esteem. They do not compete with other candidates. They are judged on their own merit. Girls should never be told by anyone they are not beautiful enough to be accepted in their pageant competition.
I have told many girls in my pageant to work on her confidence in speaking in public, because that is one of our pageant requirements. Each girl will introduce herself to the judges, and speak for about 30 seconds about on her future life goals. We also provide a class that prepares the girls for these task. Our goal is to prepare girls for future success.
A good Pageant owner will focus more on what the pageant can do for the contestant, and encourage girls to give their pageant an opportunity to serve them. Our Judges are trained to judge the girl’s character, personality, inside and outside image, confidence, personality and public presence. This allows each girl to be judged on her own abilities, and not the ability, or lack of ability of someone else.
The goal should always be to enhance the beauty and esteem in every girl to be the best that she can be. Confidence does not begin on the outside. It is an inside characteristic that girls need today – they are not born with it.
When pageants focus on a girl’s outside beauty and characteristics only, girls have a tendency to be more revealing in the way she dresses, and also may wear lots of makeup to cover any blemishes or imperfections on her face. Girls feel her looks defines her. But inside, she is hurting and empty.
For this reason, I have began my first Virtual Pageant to reach girls around the world in hopes of enhancing her inner beauty and potential. The pageant will be outlined in the same manner as a local pageant. Girls will compete by video taping each category. This way, girls will not see the other girls in the competition. I am reaching out to moms and dads and interested advocates for youth to support me in this endeavor. Encourage girls from across the states to be a participant.
It was amazing to see the number of girls in my pageant success class explain why they wanted to compete in our pageant. The reason was to enhance her personal development skills and confidence. When girls are true to themselves, they will do wonderful things in their pageant experience. In most instances, they will walk away wearing the CROWN.
Pageants are a wonderful experience for young girls and women. It has in many cases, lost it’s true purpose. I would recommend it to EVERY girl who aspires to compete for the right reasons
Parents, it is your responsibility to do your research and assure your daughter that the pageant you chose for her is right for her. I would be interested in hearing your comments.
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