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Children & Beauty Pageants Tiffany Wong

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  • 1.Children & Beauty Pageants
    Tiffany Wong

2. What is a child beauty pageant?
A child beauty pageant is a beauty contest featuring contestants including and younger than 18 years of age. Divisions include talent interview, sportswear, casual wear, swim wear, western wear, theme wear, outfit of choice, decade wear, and evening wear, typically wearing makeupas well as elaborate hairstyles. The contestants wear custom fitted and designed outfits to present their routines on stage.
3. History
Beauty pageants started in 1921 when the owner of an Atlantic City hotel struck upon the idea to help boost tourism. However, the idea had already circulated through "Most Beautiful Child" contests held in major cities across the country. The Little Miss America pageant began in the 1960s at Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey. Originally, it was for teenagers from 13 to 17 years old, but by 1964 there were over 35,000 participants, which prompted an age division. The modern child beauty pageant emerged in the late 1960s, held in Miami, Florida. Since then, the industry has grown to include nearly 25,000 pageants. It is an increasingly lucrative business, bringing in about a billion dollars a year.
4. Laws
Besides the laws that regulate child education, pageants are a relatively ungoverned program. Child contestants are not considered "working", so pageants are exempt from federal child labor laws. Pageants also have different rules, so it becomes hard to set a law that will cover every pageant. New York, Texas, Massachusetts, Arkansas, California, Vermont and Maine do not have any laws regulating pageants.
5. Pageant
Contestants spend about two hours or less in actual competition and no longer than 90 seconds on stage for talent or 45 seconds for modeling routines. All pageants have slightly different guidelines, rules, criteria for what they judge on, and events. Events may include sportswear, swimwear, evening wear, talent, interview, writing skills, and modeling. Children are critiqued on individuality, capability, poise, and confidence.They compete to win a variety of prizes, such as electronics, toys, scholarships and grants, cash, tiaras, sashes, robes, and trophies. Trophies can be taller than the contestants themselves; in the Little Miss pageant, the World level trophies can be 5 to 6 feet tall. Some pageants do their best to make every child feel like a winner. There is a queen for every age division and there are Ultimate Grand Supreme awards, Mini supreme queens for certain blocks of age divisions (0-5, 6-11, 12-16, 17 and up). There are also side awards and overall side awards. Pageants may cater to the "natural" contestant (who typically wears minimal makeup, only her own hair, no false teeth, no spray tan, and unmanicured nails) and/or the "high glitz" contestant (who typically uses any and all of the above listed techniques to enhance her appearances).
6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Cost
Besides travel and lodging expenses, pageants require an entry fee that usually ranges from fifty to several hundred dollars, depending on the type of competition being entered. Makeup and hair is typically done by a professional makeup artist. Spray tans and other accessories also must be paid for, as well as clothing and outfits. Dresses can cost anywhere from $200 to $6000, depending on the designer and the amount of adornment on the garment. Some parents hire pageant coaches to teach their child professionally choreographed routines. There have been cases of families going into debt or losing their homes because of overextending family resources to cover the costs that the pageants required.Contestants may sell sponsor tickets and get ads for ad books to help with the cost of competing. Sponsor tickets range in price from $1 to $10 and are entered in raffle drawings for cash prizes. It is estimated that the attire and props as they relate to costs of putting a child through a beauty pageant can range from $300 and upward of $5000 depending on the level of competition.
11. Pros
Girls feel important
They getto dress up
They get to wear makeup
It raise their confidence
Self-esteem booster
Being Beautiful
Make friends and meet new people
Scholarships
Winning prizes
12. Cons
Not Winning
not feeling pretty enough
Dealing with jealous girls who want to sabotage
Embarrassment
Disappointment and jealousy toward other girls
Doing stuff like starving yourself to prepare
Having a distorted concept of beauty
Costs to prepare for it
13. Reality television series
Toddlers & Tiaras
On any given weekend, on stages across the country, little girls and boys parade around wearing makeup, false eyelashes, spray tans and fake hair to be judged on their beauty, personality and costumes. Toddlers and Tiaras follows families on their quest for sparkly crowns, big titles, and lots of cash.
The preparation is intense as it gets down to the final week before the pageant. From hair and nail appointments, to finishing touches on gowns and suits, to numerous coaching sessions or rehearsals, each child preps for their performance. But once at the pageant, it's all up to the judges and drama ensues when every parent wants to prove that their child is beautiful.
14. Before & After
15. Crowns & Trophies
16. The price of being Beautiful
Surgeries
Dieting
Starving
Eating Disorder
Being skinny
Perfect white teeth
Perfect skin
17. 18. 19. 20. Reasons
The most cited reason parents give for putting their children into beauty pageants is to boost their childs self-esteem, as well as teach poise, public speaking skills, tact, and confidence.