And So It Goes: Miss International in Japan

Saturday, March 07, 2009

Miss International in Japan

When N'Bow entered the beauty pageant, I ended up acting (and serving) as the contestant's supporter (พี่เลี้ยงนางงาม). We had to show up at the contest hall around 9.30 a.m. of Sunday, February 22. And my goodness, it took us approximately an hour to get there from where Bow lives. Because of accumulated lack of sleep, I was dead tired when we reached there. The worse part was that there was absolutely nowhere I could have escaped to take a nap. So I had to try to entertain myself walking around to pass some time. =P

For the contest, Bow went up the stage for 4 times with 4 different costumes. Firstly, she had to wear the sponsor t-shirt, except that you can design how to wear it freely. Some people cut it in pieces and resew it into their original pattern. For Bow's case, she had her acquittance who is taking a fashion design course in Paris to help with the design and Bow did the cutting herself!

Opening clothes

Then after a round of walking on stage, she went back to the dressing room and get changed into a dress to use for her talent show. Of course, Bow's talent is singing, so she put on a simple dress for it. My role was to help her with her hair dressing and double check the overall look -- quite easy! ;-)

Talent Show: singing thai song (Dao)

Then it came my challenge when I had to put Bow's super short hair up for Thai national costume. Thanks to my experience in Thai classical dancing. It really helped me deal with Bow's hair satisfactorily. One secret to be revealed is that..... underneath her fluffy hair, there was a bunch of white tissue papers in it. =P It was dang fun to try to cover up the white parts. hee hee.

my hair-do

National Costume

Close-up

Interview: What makes your beauty?

Then, last round was the evening gown.

p.s. the girl behind Bow was the one winning the competition

There were a few titles for this competition: Miss International in Japan, Miss Thailand in Japan, Miss Philippines in Japan, Miss Nepal in Thailand, Miss popular vote #1 and #2, and Miss 0033 (the sponsor company's special prize). I really wished N'Bow get either Miss 0033 or Popular Vote (primarily for the financial reasons), but nope, we ended up getting nothing. But it's ok. A kind of contest like this is really not "our thing" or well, to put in another words, "it's not our place to be". Just totally a different world from where I'm used to!! =P

for example...

All Contestants (Credit: P'Kul)

A portion of Bow's supporters (credit: P'Kul)

At the end of the day, we decided to go to Urayasu Station area (2 stops from Gyotoku station where the contest hall was located) for a nice dinner at MK restaurant. Thanks P'Kul for letting us know there is an MK sukiyaki there. Love it!