The Insider’s Guide to What it Really Takes to Win Pageants
Winning a pageant is an achievable goal, but making that dream reality requires understanding what it really takes to win a pageant, preparing well before you take the first step, continuing to prepare and improve throughout every step of pageant competition, and continuing to believe in yourself until the crown is yours.
How to Win a Pageant: The Insider’s Guide to What it Really Takes to Win the Crown (Shown: top 5 at 2013 Miss USA Pageant)
The 100′s of useful tips below will help you prepare for every aspect of pageant competition, from a complete library of pageant questions, to pageant tips for winning the swimsuit competition, the judges interviews, and the talent and evening gown competitions. We share secrets to catching (and keeping) the judges’ eyes quickly, avoiding mistakes that can cost you the crown, strategies for building a winning swimsuit body, what to wear (and why), how to recover from mistakes, and dozens of more useful tips.
We recommend bookmarking this page and returning to read each page until you have mastered the entire series. This is quite simply, the largest collection of pageant tips on the Internet… and we hope it helps you make the crown yours!
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Pageant Swimsuit Competition
You do not need to have the body of a goddess to compete well in pageants, but you will need to make the most of your natural physique. The bottom line is, you will need to develop the right muscles, have your body fat at the appropriate level, wear the best swimsuit for your figure, and learn to model confidently before the judges panel. Here are the tips to get you on your way to winning the swimsuit competition…
Tips to get you on your way to winning the swimsuit competition (Shown: Miss USA 2013 Erin Brady in swimsuit)
- The Key to Success in the Pageant Swimsuit Competition
- The swimsuit competition
- Pageant Swimsuits … Everything you need to know.
- How to Pick The Best Pageant Swimsuit
- Pick the Right Pageant Swimsuit for Your Figure
- How to Win the Pageant Swimsuit Competition
- The Pageant Diet™… What to eat to get a winning swimsuit competition body
- Swimsuit competition tips: Miss CA USA 2012 Ditches the treadmill and hits the weight room
- Pageant Tips: The Key to Success in the Pageant Swimsuit Competition
Pageant Interviews
Interviews with the judges are where pageants are won — or lost — so prepare well for this phase of competition! Here are tips that can have you walk into your judges’ interview fully prepared to wow the judges!
Interviews with the judges are where pageants are won — or lost. (Shown: Miss USA 2013 answering her final question)
- Pageant Interviews are a Job Interview
- What Judges Look For in Pageant Interviews
- How to Prepare for your Pageant Interviews
- Pageant Questions: 1000′s of questions from actual judges’ interviews
- Pageant Answers: Real-life examples of how major titleholders answered their interview questions
- How to Answer Difficult Pageant Questions
- Different Types of Pageant Interviews
- How to Manage Nervousness in Pageant
- Pageant Interview Mistakes You Must Avoid
- Be Prepared for the Unexpected in Your Pageant Interview
- Know the Different types of Pageant Top 5 Questions and On-Stage Questions
- Pageant Questions: What to do when you don’t know the answer
- There Are Different “Right” Answers to the Same Pageant Question
- Different “right” answers to judges’ questions in pageant interviews
- Pageant interviews can be full of surprises, so be prepared for everything!
- Pageant Interview Suits and Dresses | Tips for Choosing Pageant Interview Clothes
- Winning Body Language in Pageant Interviews
- Preparing for Pageant Interviews: Give Speeches in Public and Master Chit-Chat
- Score Points for Humor in Pageant Interviews and On-Stage Questions
- Tips for pageant interviews
- Pageant Interview Tip #3: Show the Pageant Judges Your Personality
- Pageant Interview Tip #2: Know the Pageant Judges and the Day’s Headlines
- Pageant Interview Tip: Show the Judges You Are Smart
- How to discuss serious or tragic personal issues during pageant interviews
- How to Answer When Judges Ask About Your Worst Fault | Pageant answers for tough questions
- What to do when judges ask you serious questions during pageant on-stage interviews
- Pageant Interview Tips: Don’t Stall or Ramble When You Answer
- How to use humor to win your on-stage pageant questions
- Is Your Voice Turning Off the Pageant Judges?
- How to nail your Top 5 questions in a pageant!
- The sexiest Miss Universe interview ever!
- Improve your Pageant Interviews with Mock Judges’ Interviews
- Pageant Tip: How to Handle Reporters Questions
- Top Five Questions and On-Stage Questions
- Tough Pageant Interviews Are a Compliment
- On-stage pageant interviews reveal your thinking skills to judges
- Charm the judges by saying something in a foreign language during your pageant on-stage interview
Winning Habits
Competing for the crown is ultimately a confidence game that requires as much mental and attitude preparation as competing in any sport. The attitudes and confidence to compete well are learned qualities — So before you step onto the runway, prepare your mind…
Winning habits and attitudes are crucial to winning pageants
- Don’t doubt yourself…You really can win the crown…
- Inspiring performances – dedicated to all the pageants contestants who have ever been made to feel they didn’t measure up….
- Pageant winners are young women who dare to believe in their dreams
- If you Don’t Win, Change to a Pageant in a Different State
- Be Willing to Sweat for Success in Pageants
- Your Past Does Not Limit Your Potential in Pageants
- To Win a Pageant, Believe in Yourself When Others Don’t
- What to do when you lose a pageant
- Winning Pageants is a Process
- The Top Habits of Pageant Winners | The Winning Attitude
Evening Gown Competition
When you walk onstage in the evening gown competition, you want to impress the judges as the obvious winner. To accomplish that, you’ll need to understand how to project the right image for that pageant, the best styles for your figure type, the best evening gown colors to wear (or avoid!), and how to walk like a queen. Here are the tips to help you dazzle the judges…
Evening Gown Competition tips (Mallory Hagan Miss America 2013 in her beautiful pageant gown)
- Pageant Gowns: Best Colors for Each Pageant System
- How to pick a pageant gown
- A Pageant Gown Must Fit the System | Picking Gowns for Each Type of Pageant
- What You Must Know About Pageant Gowns
- Choose a Pageant Gown by Body Type
- Tips to pick a great pageant gown: Best pageant gowns for your hair color, skin tone, and stage lighting
- Attire for Pageant Introduction of Contestants, Opening Production
- What do you wear under pageant gowns?
- Tips for Pageant Shoes: How to choose the right shoes for the evening gown competition
- Six tips to pick the best evening gown for a pageant – Your gown is your portrait…make it a masterpiece.
- Choose a color that coordinates with your skin tone and hair color – Pageant dress shop tips
- Reflect the best facet of your personality in your gown – Pageant dress shop tips
- Six tips to pick the best evening gown for a pageant
- Pageant Tips: Considerations for choosing pageant dresses
- Pageant gowns for beautiful ladies
- Best colors for pageant gowns
- Six tips to pick the best evening gown for a pageant
- Pageant Tips: Considerations for choosing pageant dresses
Pageant Makeup and Hair
Did you know that there are specific images and hair styles that win the crown? If you plan to win, you’d best understand what hair styles will help you move closer to winning – and not cost you the crown! Here are the tips for winning pageant hair, makeup and image…
Pageant Makeup and Hairstyle tips: understand what hair styles will help you move closer to winning.
- Guide to perfect pageant makeup
- Miss USA 2011 Alyssa Campanella: Get her winning look with Rain Cosmetics
- The Winning Pageant Smile
- Pageant Makeup Tips from Rain Cosmetics and Miss USA 2012 Olivia Culpo
- Pageant Makeup Tips: The Right Cosmetics for Pageant Interviews and On-Stage
- Pageant hair style #6 – Straight blunt-cut
- Pageant hairstyle: the Pageboy
- The #5 best hair style for pageants – Elegant and easy
- Pageant Hair Tips: #4 Great hair style for teen pageants
- Non-traditional pageant hairstyles can win too… Pageant hair tips
- Does pageant hair color matter?
- Pageant Hair Style Tips: The #3 best hair style for pageants
- Best Pageant Hair Style #2 – Another beautiful hair style that wins the crown
Getting Started
When should you start competing? How to you being? What types of pageants should you enter? how do you get off to a successful start? Here are the tips you will need to start competing in pageants…
You can learn how to win a pageant (Shown: Miss Universe 2012 Olivia Culpo, a bright college musician – who was NOT a “pageant girl” – won the most prestigious of pageant titles!
- Getting started: Find pageants to enter
- Find the right pageant systems for your personality, style and skills
- How to know which pageant system is right for me?
- Pageant Entry Forms
- When should I begin competing in pageants?
- When should I start to compete? How long will it take to win?
- Your entry form and contestant fact sheet
- What is the difference between glitz pageants and natural pageants?
- Attire for Pageant Introduction of Contestants, Opening Production
Pageant Mistakes to Avoid
Pageant mistakes to avoid
- Pageant mistakes to avoid
- Warning for Pageant Contestants: Watch What You Tweet!
- Pageant Question Mistakes
- Pageant Interview Mistakes You Must Avoid
- Avoid Mistakes in Your Pageant Gown
- Contestant Reminder: You are a titleholder and rolemodel…Don’t dress like a “street walker”
- How to handle microphone problems in the pageant talent competition
- Is it true that only singers win pageants?
- Protecting Girls From Negative Media Influences, With Family Expert, Dr. Tim Kimmel
- Does Breast Implant Scandal Affect Pageant Contestants?
- Four-Year-Old Girls Wears Padded Breasts and Buttocks on Toddlers & Tiaras
- Uproar over the Pretty Woman Scene on “Toddlers & Tiaras”
Pageant Talent Competition
If your pageant has a talent competition, it provides an ideal opportunity to stand out from the crowd and gain the judges’ attention. Knowing the secrets to choosing winning music and costuming is essential, but so is understanding how to perform in a way that conveys tons of personality and confidence. Here are the tips to knock ‘em dead in the talent competition…
The pageant talent competition provides an ideal opportunity to stand out from the crowd and gain the judges’ attention (Shown: Miss Alabama ventriloquism)
- Pageant Talent Competition
- Miss America Talents: The Complete List
- Can Unusual Talents Win Miss America or Other Pageants?
- Unusual Pageant Talents of Miss America Pageant Winners
- Is it true that only singers win pageants?
- What Judges Look for in the Pageant Talent Competition
- How to Prepare for the Pageant Talent Competition
- Pageant Talent Tips for Singers
- Tips for Classical Singers in Pageants
- Best Pageant Music for Singers
- Pageant Music for Classical Musicians and Dancers
- Best Pageant Talent Music for Musicians
- Best Pageant Music for Dance, Ballet, Gymnastics, Baton, Acrobatics in the Talent Competition
- Pageant Dancers Have it Made! The Many Types of Dance Used as Pageant Talents
- Pageant Costuming for Dancers, Baton, Gymnastics in Talent Competition
- Outfits for Pageant Instrumental Talents | Costuming for Pageant Musicians
- What Should Pageant Singers Wear? | Best Pageant Costuming for Vocalists
- Your Pageant Talent Costuming Sets the Mood for Your Performance
Pageant Sponsors and Entry Fees
- Pageant Tips: Contestants can now collect sponsors without leaving home
- Raise pageant tuition with crowd-funding
