I want to get my daughter in beauty pageants (shes 5) and I need some help on where to start? Any webs sites?

Question

and I also wanted to know how does it all work??

I under stand that pageants are not the best things but my daughter loves to dress up alot and sing and dance and all that stuff.I am not looking to put her on stage to be judged.I rather have her doing like commercials and things like that......

Answer 1

Well, you are probably looking for a "natural" pageant instead of a "glitz" pageant. You can enter any pageant to try them out by just entering the "formal" or "Beauty" part of the pageant. No, they do not suck you dry. You can find many in your local area that are "natural". You can enter for about $40-$50.

Natural Pageants:
www.ourlittlemiss.com
www.cinderellapageant.com

Both also incorporate talent, interview.

These 2 also do not allow you to wear false teeth, hair, and make-up at the age of 5 and do not allow overdone clothing.

Answer 2

If you want to get your daughter into comercials, acting, and modeling go to a talent agent, it's a lot cheaper than pageants. My daughter just retired from pageants at almost 4 years old, and please listen to my advice. NO matter what type of pageants you do glitz or natural, local or national, her feelings will get hurt along the way, and there will be plenty of tears (not to mention TONS of wasted money).

Now, had someone told me that 6 months ago, I would have ignored it, and you may too, but here's how it works. Pageants exist to make money for those that run them. It is a business. They don't care that you little girl is only 5, and seeing another girl get a pretty sprakly crown when she doesn't get one hurts her feelings, all they care about is acquiring your money...period. My little girl started at 11 mos old, and won every single pageant (around 15 I think, I lost count) until the last one she did a few months ago. It's all great until you loose. I am completely non-competitive, I did it with her because she "liked to play dress-up" and go onstage too. Let me tell you, it only took the one pageant that she didn't win, and the 4-5 hours that she cried off and on to learn my lesson.

When your beautiful sweet child looks up at you through her tears and asks, "Why didn't the judges think I'm pretty enough, Mommy?" you will change your mind about pageants REALLY fast.

If that's not convincing enough, how many thousands of dollars in spending money do you have availible to blow on pageants? We only did locals and pre-lims and here is a break-down of last year's expenses:

competitive dress: $500-1000
hairpiece: $150
photography: $500
touch-ups for headshots & protfolios shots: $150 per pic
hair & make-up: $100-200 per pageant
tanning: $75
optional category outfits: $75-250
($500+ for western wear)
entry fees: up to $1000+ per pageant
lodging: 2 nights stay at a hotel plus food...

For all of the money that we shelled out all we have to show for it is a shelf full of trophies and crowns (crowns sell at Claire's for $10-15).

Now you may think you're not going to do all of this, but guess what, if you live anywhere where there are a lot of participants in pageants, you will have to, or your daughter will not be able to compete with all of the other girls. I speak from experience.

If you are determined to do this, nothing anyone can tell you will discourage you, I know that because I was you 3 years ago, but please try to consider the advice that I'm offering you and save your little girl a lot of heartache and save yourself a lot of money. It's fine for babies and toddlers who are too little to understand, but at 5 she is plenty old enough to be affected by this.

Answer 3

I'm one of those people who get kind of an icky feeling from this, so I didn't research any how-to sites. If there's a particular pageant that is taking place locally, you should be able to search on the pageant name to get the company name that runs the pageant, and start by doing a search on the name and seeing if they have a web site or contact number.

Here's a link to an article on child beauty pageants and their affect on the kids who participate. It does list some positive results in with the negatives, so it might be helpful to you.

Answer 4

I know this isn't what you want to hear, but in my opinion (and it's just mine.....take it for what it's worth), your daughter would be better off you you'd look into ways she can spend her time devolping her mind or talents. There's NOTHING like a beauty with a brain, with athletic abilites, talents in music and art... someone who has "it all."

Don't you think she would enjoy, say, art classes or swimming lessons or violin classes. There are soooo many ways to help your daughter develope into a wonderful, well rounded, self-accomplished beauty.

If, after you've researched the cut-throat industry that is called "beauty pageants" PLEASE make sure you're doing it for HER and not you and for the right reasons, too.

Beauty pageants place A LOT of pressure for young girls to place an inflated value on appearence. Sure, winners gain a lot of self esteem but what about the losers? Children especially can walk away feeling like a reject or an "ugly duckling" when, in fact, they are beautiful in many ways.

I am not anti-pageant for adults or young women who choose to enter contests to win scholarships, etc, but if your daughter is a child please make sure you understand what you are getting her into.

Nonetheless, here is a link which may provide the information you've requested.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=HPID,HPID:2005-18,HPID:en&q=pageant+information
Good luck to you and your daughter in whatever choice the two of you make.

Answer 5

It's a gd pia.

My daughter was drop-dead gorgeous from the day she was born. I fended off all efforts to exploit her sweet little innocent face, and she's the happiest gorgeous girl in medical school, with a healthy attitude and people still falling all over the her feet over her finely-chiseled bone structure, her peaches and cream complexion, her big, deep soulful eyes, her straight, pert little nose, her rosebud mouth, beautiful hair and perfect figure.

But she's unfazed. A kind and sweet-natured person who never learned to judge other people or herself by their looks.

After all the nasty battles between preteens your daughter experiences in beauty pageant land, you won't be able to say the same, and what will you have to show for the coarsening of your daughter?

--Lots of money spent entering cattle calls.

--Lots of money and TIME and EFFORT spent on silly frou-frou dresses.

--Lots of angst worrying about makeup and looks for a gifted, blessed child who shouldn't have to be concerned.

--Lots of wasted effort, with nothing tangible afterwards.

Let her go to dance class, gymnastics, enter triathalons, go to fun camps. You can indulge your need to spend money on a kid (they are expensive hobbies, anyway) without destroying their view of their own bodies and lowering their value for themselves by seeking out constant rejection through beauty pageants.

Answer 6

It doesn't work for children at all. Please, consider the pressure you're going to put on your kids. Have you heard how hard is for adults? imagine that on a child.
Besides, beauty products aren't meant for children, so you would be ruining her skin and hair, and deprive her of a normal childhood. Children are made to be children, no their parents' toys.
Today, there are lots of psychos that can't tell the difference between a dolled up girl and a small prostitute: you would be risking your baby too much.

Answer 7

Why would anyone take a five year old child -- tart her up with make-up and provocative clothing -- and make her strut around in public?

How about this? -- Get her involved in art, music, learning a second language... Stuff that will someday keep her off the pole and out of the trailer park.

No offense to the many fine folks out there living in single, double and triple wides.

Answer 8

This is a huge commitment of time and money and emotion. It can take over an family's entire financial future and usually doesn't turn out successful in the end.

Think about why you would want to inflict (YES, INFLICT) this nonsense on your child. Is it because she's the prettiest, cutest, most talented child you've ever seen? Well, I would suppose that there are millions of mothers and fathers who believe the same thing and yet do not inflict (YES, INFLICT) this on their children.

Answer 9

well of course she will compete against other girls. You will need all different kinds of outfits okay?? But you really should ask her if she wants to do this. She should have a choice in her life. try this website it should help

www.pageants.com

after jon benet ramsey i dont understand why anyone would want to do this. But dont let her be prodcasted on tv do local pageants but plz give her a choice.

Answer 10

start by checking out the Hawaiian Tropic web site. they sponser a pagent...it is good and reputable...all ages up to 18 and very luctrative. it is respectful and fun..there are parents who do take it to extremes and there are people who, like my sis and nephew do it for the travel an model experience... he is 5 and has a model contract from one year of pagent work