Most Filipinos esteem beauty as it makes life more charming and fair and diverting. We are in awe of beauty in whatever we do and see. Our mind's eye is keen on beauty as perhaps it is highly enchanting and eye-catching. We are intensely eager, indeed avid, for beauty. Unmistakeably, we have generated beauty pageant machinery as every culture upholds beauty. Miss Dinagyang or Miss Sinulog or Masscara Queen or our Miss Barangay stands an example for this. Hence, this year Miss World and Miss International have been won by the Philippines. Our country has become a marque of beauty all throughout beauty pageants in the world. It’d be incongruous for the Philippines not to be on the top 10 list as Filipino beauty queens are distinctively graceful and jauntily confident and know their own mind.
The beauty pageant has become a way of life to many of us as we weave it into our life as we celebrate the beauty of life in the midst of our struggles. It gives our people individuality and style, helping them boost their morale and their true selves and implicitly raise the value of life in every way we think to be beautiful.
As a country of cataclysms and misfortunes, the Philippines has to be irrepressible and dynamic, making beauty as a means to deflect itself from the ordeal and pessimism and defeatism. It has to use beauty to overcome the dreariness of life and the desolation of its people. It has to exploit beauty to keep its difficulties and predicaments forestalled.
I watched the Miss Universe 2013 twice over. I stayed up late for Miss World 2013. For Miss International 2013, I just saw some posts of my friends on Facebook. Quite frankly, I didn’t expect that Bea Rose Santiago would make it, so I didn’t bother to keep tabs on her. I was in a state of great excitement when I read her name entered on the shortlist of 10 and 5.
I really expected much of Ariela Arida, but her gown was a jinx, a hoodoo. She had a very good answer during the Q & A, but her tawdry gown made of some cheap material withheld her of the Miss Universe crown. She looked then like a fake Barbie doll, two a penny at Jaro plaza. It was really naff. Had she been given the best gown, she could have been adjudged Miss Universe 2013. It was a wasted opportunity.
What I like of Ariela is her piercing black eyes. She looks slender-waisted, resilient, and very beautiful. Her waist-length hair lustrously cascades as she does her catwalks. She appears poised and calm.
Before the Miss World competition, I happened to see Megan Young on GGV. I had a gut feeling that she would make it. Megan Young has a captivating allure. She’s got a nice smile especially because she has very pretty straight teeth. She has a gorgeously warm speaking voice. She is a confident woman who is certain of her views. Her mouth is seductively fat and full. I love her interview on my favourite BBC. She is the embodiment of a perfect Miss World. Proud to be a Filipino, she thanked her countrymen. Then, a great cheer went up from the Filipino crowd carrying Philippine flags. It was spine-tingling. A cry of pride and happiness broke from me.
Bea Rose Santiago is dazzlingly beautiful. Her skin is clear and smooth. She also has a milky-white innocent visage. Her smile is captivating; her looks, alluring. I love seeing her wear the mikimoto crown and a woollen cape. She is more modest and shy, yet she tends to have an inner force.
I reviewed the video of Bea’s speech before the announcement of Miss International posted on Facebook. Yes, it was beautiful. It is particularly impressive. Her answer goes beyond being a beauty queen but as being a vehicle for her humanitarian intents.
Indeed, I can say that the Philippines is a beautiful country – a queendom for beauty queens. It is a place where beauty is prestige and treasure and as a symbol of resilience and transformation to combat poverty, inequity, and conflicts. It holds women dear and as they are received with adulation and value. Giving women the opportunity to flash about their beauty is a sign that we as a country are progressive and more caring and genial.
Beauty then proves to be a catalyst for change as it uplifts the mind and the spirit, so it has to be celebrated as it buoys our optimism and compassion. It speaks of our amazement and greatest admiration. It is paying homage to God for giving us all the beauty life can bring. It is what we yearn for as a human being as no one likes to be ugly and unlikeable. It is our muse that fuels our inspiration to live life with hopefulness and contentment. It lightens our discomfort and grief. It shields us against our horror and inexorable confusion.
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