Before The Pageant: A smile and saying hi to the judges when you accidently meet them in the hallway, elevator, restaurant, parties or restroom is
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Optional competitions provide
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Understanding the scoring and judging methods of a beauty pageant can be confusing at times. Sometimes, members of the audience, or even the judges for that matter, walk away from a pageant scratching their heads wondering how the end results came to be. The first step to demystifying pageant judging is to understand the different
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When it comes to natural pageants for girls and teens, National American Miss (NAM), American Coed (Coed), and International Junior Miss (IJM) are the popular choices for many families. Because these three pageant systems have similar categories of competition when you prepare for one, the transition is easy to compete in the other two. The
Doing more pageants may not get you better results. In fact, doing too much too soon is the fastest way to burnout. There is a fine line between
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Comparing yourself to other pageant contestants will only end in defeat. When a contestant starts focusing on the other girls (or ladies), the tendency is to compare their own perceived weaknesses to another’s perceived strengths. It’s like comparing an apple to an orange. The two aren’t similar at all. They’re totally different. Which would you
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One of the wisest thoughts my pageant coach shared with me when I was competing was this: in order to improve in pageantry, you need to advance to the next level of competition. There was no way I was going to become an elite pageant titleholder if I continued to compete in small pageants where
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Our family of five just returned from a week at the America\’s National Teenager Scholarship Organization (ANTSO) pageant. Two of my three daughters competed and I know firsthand how stressful and crazy it can be for a family at a national pageant. We drove 8 hours to Philadelphia for the pageant and I wanted
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Before becoming a full-time pageant coach, I enjoyed my years as a pageant contestant. The decades have been filled with the overwhelming joy of hearing my name called out as the titleholder many times; but the disappointment and depression of being a runner-up even more. Wait, did I say depression? Oh yes, I did.
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You have your dream dress and you’re physically ready for the pageant. You’re feeling confident and excited, and then it happens. You arrive at the pageant and you see her, Patty, the national queen from the age division below you. Patty has aged up and is now in your division. Quick, what are you thinking?
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