Inspire Steemit #14. Born of Love! My Ms. & Mrs Earth beauty contest China experience🌏💃🇨🇳

A few days ago, I went through my mobile photo album and came across a few photos taken on May 20th last year. I'd lie saying they didn't make me feel kind of sentimental. I remember everything very clearly. It was exactly one year ago when I attended Ms & Mrs. Earth China coronation night. Although I did not receive any meaning award at the time, I felt flattered being the oldest participant of Earth team and thankfully I was able to enter the grand finals. I did not intend to get the award itself, but I got involved in the show, haha! It was truly a meaningful experience for me!

Miss Earth is an annual international environmental-themed beauty pageant promoting environmental awareness. Along with Miss World, Miss Universe, and Miss International, this pageant is one of the Big Four international beauty pageants- the most coveted beauty titles when it comes to international pageant competitions.

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The pictures below show some 'behind the scenes'. Every girl that attended the competition had to work hard before - practising cat walks, taking numerous physical trainings, to name just a few. I bet you thought it was a piece of cake, didn't you?

Well…, as you can see in the pictures, all the girls taking part in the competition had long legs. It’s like a trademark of the industry and a requirement at the same time. A strict one. Without shoes I am about 168 cm tall. That night I was almost the shortest one in the whole team. Most girls without shoes are between 170-182 cm in height. Another requirement was wearing 15cm high heels during the competition, which actually looks hot! 😉 You can try to imagine all these girls wearing 15cm high heels! Definitely not an usual view. Haha, the tallest girl wearing high heels was almost 2 meters tall!

The photo below was taken during the Miss Earth make up rehearsal. Haha, in the picture below I am wearing ‘a cheongsam’. It is a Chinese traditional costume, just like the one you can see below. Someone told me that that I looked a bit like a Vietnamese girl :)

After long selection and preliminaries, next stage was the press conference that you can see below:

Everyone was very busy during the press conference (maybe excluding me as I still managed to squeeze in some time to take a shot or two).

Finally the championship night came. There ware many people from widely understood media industry, who attended the Miss Earth finals! Every girl looked really beautiful. The whole event was divided into Chinese and English self-introduction part, talent show, T stage catwalk and many more…

On the day of the competition, each girl performed very well, must I say. The final champion was a girl from Shandong. Her performance was really outstanding, so the final decision of the jury did not surprise me that much. She will represent the Chinese division of Las Vegas in the next world-class Miss Earth championship, so let’s wish her all good luck!

Behind the scenes (a few more pictures)

What I learned from this competition was that not only how to improve my looks and style, but I also learnt what the team spirit is and in the end of the day – we all helped a bit in promoting the concept of environmental protection! Fair enough.