Beauty pageants

Beauty Pageants: Selfless or Superficial? High glitz, glamour and beauty may sound like every girl 's dream, but is there more to beauty pageants than what appears on the surface? Many believe beauty pageants are a wonderful opportunity for women to raise money, gain confidence, find an enjoyable hobby, and better themselves. However, others find that pageants waste money and turn women into sexual objects. Also, critics say that girls are sometimes forced into the pageants by parents and are…

the author as a young girl watching beauty pageants in the living room. She’d watch the shows with her mother as she narrates what she enjoyed and envied about these women. She tells about her parents’ divorce and all the hopes her mother had for her, including winning a pageant of her own. She comes to know later that her mother knew she was too weird, chubby, and poor to ever win. During her pageant she stood out like a sore thumb, and ultimately lost the pageant. She’d lost before she’d ever…

The U.S.A is home to some of the most prestigious and most renowned beauty pageants in the world, such as Miss America. These events usually have no negative connotation associated with them, but their smaller counterparts have been getting a lot of heat recently. The ten pounds of makeup and fake eyelashes on a 8 year old isn’t the average person’s idea of a childhood. Child beauty pageants are negative to their contestants in many ways. They affect their life in later years, such as causing…

Another aspect that affects the reputation of pageants is the toll that such an obsession of body image and thinness has on viewers. As we look around, it is evident that not all connections of young men and women’s problems with their self-confidence and self-love in their own skin lead to pageants. Celebrities have proved to be thinner, which negatively affects all those who look up to said celebrities and want to be just like them. However, with recent campaigns and public attention, more and…

Are Beauty Pageants really worth all the hassle? The organization of beauty pageants was founded in 1921 by an Atlantic City hotel owner (Nussbaum). The main reason that he created the pageant life was to keep the tourist in town longer. It was a marketing tool for the hotel (Nussbaum). The term that everyone uses for beauty queen is ‘Miss America’, this was brought upon the world by a news reporter that thought it was a clever name (Nussbaum). Pageants were discontinued from 1929-1932 due to…

Beauty pageants have their origins in Ancient Greece, where they even have their own Grecian myth, “The Judgment of Paris.” However, in ancient Greece there is no real evidence of beauty pageants, so the most direct line of beauty pageant history takes place in the medieval era. The beauty pageants of the modern era can be traced back to Phineas T. Barnum in the 1850s. As can be seen, beauty pageants have been around for many years and have been formed from very much tradition. However, how much…

Children beauty pageants are common in lots of countries started from South America and they have lots of watchers including children and teenagers. Competitors in these pageants are usually blonde and they have blue eyes. Even if they do not have blue eyes, beautiful teeth, tanned skin or blonde hair, they use contact lenses, fake hairs and teeth, spray bronzers and makeup. Children watch them on television while competitors are displaying themselves with their makeup and inconvenient clothes…

Helen Rockwell Mr. Bertelsen English Three 10 November 2016 Beastly Beauty Pageants Children’s beauty pageants- their popularity has been on a rise in recent years. Shows such as Toddler and Tiaras or Here Comes Honey Boo Boo have brought the topic into the public eye. Although these shows are on-air for entertainment reasons, many people are outraged and are asking for a ban on children’s beauty pageants. Pageants for children should be banned because they cost more than the prizes that come…

Beauty Contests don’t serve any purpose Beauty pageants became a part of American society in the 1920’s. Child beauty pageants began in the 1960’s. Approximately 250,000 children participate in child beauty pageants in 100 beauty pageants all over the U.S. A child as young as three may take a part in a beauty pageant. Parents today are the reason to beauty pageants for children. They put their children in front of the stage light to build up their confidence rather then distorting their…

Abstract This essay, Glitz Beauty Pageants and the Ugly Truth, examines the role glitz pageants play on young adolescent girls. There are two major types of pageants which include natural and glitz. Natural pageants are morally appropriate and acceptable for young girls because they promote a much healthier lifestyle as compared to glitz beauty pageants. On the other hand, the impact that glitz beauty pageants have on young girls is highly negative. This particular type of pageant puts girls at…