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The most important meal of the day
One of the nicest breakfasts I've had recently. Note the robin egg's blue cup of espresso.
I didn’t win! But I learned…
... that I'm fine the way I am, and that my favorite girls, Dana and Runa, were ROBBED of the title. D: The girl who won is in the middle: My roommate Dana is on the right, she placed in the top five. More coherent thoughts later on the whole experience.
My scary pageant face
So it's about an hour until I have to leave, and I'm slathered in spray tan makeup all over my body. I'm wearing so much makeup I'm afraid my skin will never recover. My false eyelashes are coated in black mascara goo. My hair is teased within an inch of its life. Beauty is so, so ugly.
Final show for Miss NY USA 2010 in three hours
... wish me luck! They'll be announcing the top 20, who will walk again in their evening gowns. After that, it'll be narrowed to the top ten, who switch into their swimsuits in a frenzy of nakedness and boob-adjustment. Then the lucky top five will be announced - and they'll quick change again into evening gown and answer really easy questions off their bio sheets. I'm currently 1) groggy. [...]
Behind the scenes at Miss New York USA, Day 2
Welcome to another day of hair teasing, fake eyelashing, and uh, sitting around. A lot of being in a pageant involves two activites Getting "ready" This takes at least two hours and 20 products and half a can of hairspray. Essential to the process is the tease-and-curl (not some crunk dance move) of backcombing strips of hair to create that 80's mall diva allure. I failed at this for [...]
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