Monday, January 23, 2012

beauty pageants and figure skating

This weekend I had a skating competition, as I was getting ready a thought came to my mind. Skating competitions are very similar to beauty pageants. For this reasons, today’s post is to discuss aspects of beauty pageants in other extra-circular activities, more so figure skating. I’m not trying to say that figure skating is bad and we should stop doing it all together, I am just pointing out the similarities of beauty competitions with figure skating competitions.We all know about the fake hair, and teeth, the wigs, pounds upon pounds of makeup and tanning all just to impress the judges. Like beauty pageants at figure skating competitions your goal is not only to complete your elements but also make yourself remember able. Maybe not to the extent of beauty pageants but there is plenty of makeup put on, on girls of all ages. Yes, even young girls put make up on. This is done to make you more presentable. Now about the hair, I haven’t seen anyone with fake hair, unless they are good at disguising it, but this is because your hair should be pulled back tight and out of your face.
Additionally, beauty pageants usually included three sections: beauty, talent and outfit of choice. As far as I am educated with figure skating there are two sections: free skate and interpretive. We can compare free skate and talent together. In both sections you are demonstrating your talent to the judges to be judged based on your performance and whether they like you or not. Similarly, interpretive and outfit of choice is pretty similar. You are able to choose what ever you would like to present, pretty much, your music and costume. It can be compared to a dance routine.
I don’t know how many people actually put the comparison together; it isn’t actually that big of a comparison. I know for a fact that skating can get away with this because figure skating isn’t about the beauty it’s more about the impressing the judges and completing your elements. Well, pageants are obviously all about the beauty.     

1 comment:

  1. The only comparisons that I could find with figure skating and beauty pageants are the physical looks of how they look like.
    The first thing I see when I watch figure skating are the dresses and what the male figure skater are wearing. Sometimes, they look amazing, but their routines are kind of .....weird. Other times, they'll be wearing pretty clothes, not as blinged up as others, but their routines are awesome!

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