Tuesday, September 7, 2010
News Update: Miss Mexico Crowned Miss Universe 2010
22-year-old Jimena Navarrete was crowned Miss Universe at the 2010 Miss Universe Competition Monday night.
The former model and pageant queen is a native of Guadalajara, Mexico.
"I want the whole world to know about my country and my people," Navarrete commented. "I imagine that they're all going crazy in Mexico right now."
Navarrete beat out 82 competitors for the prestigious Miss Universe title.
Pulse Finds The Faces They Want
Sunday night's Caribbean Model Search (CMS) celebrated not only the talent of young Jamaican models, but also the return of Miss Universe first place runner-up Yendi Phillipps. Phillipps would initially watch the showcase that included Male Face of Jamaica, Petite Jamaica Fashion Model Competition, Full-figured model competition and the Jamaican Fashion model competition, before eyes would turn to her as she made a runway appearance.
A standing ovation was more than fitting as Phillipps showcased a design by Jaejolly.
Applause and cheers erupted as she made her first runway appearance since returning from Las Vegas more than two weeks ago.
Emprezz Mullings, host of the evening, was taken with the audience's response that she asked Phillipps for an encore.
However, Phillipps wasn't the only starlet of the night as R&B singer Shontelle delivered a very powerful set.
Taking to the runway casually dressed, she showcased her vocal ability with her hit songs T-shirt and Impossible and her new single Perfect Nightmare.
Shontelle had the audience swaying side to side and singing along.
Earlier in the night dressed in a Pablo Palair design, Angele Smith, a former Digicel Rising Star contestant also performed.
Downhill set
First, to Usher's OMG then two songs from his repertoire, were palatable. But Smith's set went downhill when he made an attempt at singing NeYo's Closer. The audience wasn't having it.
The fashion segment of the show had 100 girls parading in swimsuits by The Mushroom.
Later, the girls would return to showcase designs by Minka, Mutamba, Heather Lane, See me yah and Jaejolly.
Barry Moncrieffe's collection was a standout, as it highlighted the best in both male and female trends.
There was something for somewhat larger women as the Full Figured Fashion Model got off to a start.
The ladies dressed in fashions from Kerry Kays - the audience was happy.
Keneea Linton and Drennaluna also showcased on the CMS stage.
In the end, the Top 35 girls were announced in the Petite Jamaica Fashion Model section. Lara George was the night's winner.
Tara Wright was crowned as the new Full-figured Model winner.
Having lots to choose from, the ladies in the audience were at odds as to who was to become the next Male Face of Jamaica. The audience was still not sure about the eventual winner, Seth Verley.
Hanna-Kay Lettman is the Jamaica Fashion Model winner.
At the end of the night the patrons were entertained from start to finish, and despite the difference of opinions in regard to the winners the competition ended on a positive note.
Miss Australia's body of good work
Miss Universe Australia Jesinta Campbell has put her tiara where her mouth is and wasted no time keeping her promise of using her new found fame to help charities.
Fresh from the Miss Universe pageant in Las Vegas the model's first public event saw her lend her body to the Cancer Council for the launch of Girl's Night In to raise awareness of women's cancers.
Campbell walked the catwalk in a full piece body suit donning abstract artwork on the areas affected by women's cancers - including breast, cervical, ovarian, uterine, vaginal and vulva cancer.
"Sometimes it takes something drastic to raise awareness but it's something that I'm passionate about and we need to raise more awareness about women's cancers," Campbell told AAP after the launch in Sydney on Tuesday.
With one in seven Australian women affected by cancer, Campbell and her family have not been spared by the heartache the disease causes.
"Being involved in this campaign is really close to my heart," she said.
"My grandma had a cervical cancer scare and was actually operated on the night of the Miss Universe Australia competition in June."
Campbell says her grandma is now healthy and happy but the scare made her realise why events like Girls Night In are so important to raise awareness.
"It can happen to anyone we are all the same on the inside and we do need to go and have regular check ups, it's OK to do that and it's not something we should be embarrassed about, the cure is in the prevention," she said.
Campbell has teamed up with other celebrity ambassadors singer Danielle Spencer, Masterchef Juniors' Anna Gare, Faustina 'Fuzzy' Agolley and comedian Fiona O'Loughlin for the Girl's Night In campaign.
The initiative will see more than 200,000 women get together at Girls Night In events across the country and pool the money they would have spent on a big night out into charity.
Campbell will be killing two birds with the one stone on her Girl's Night In this month, using the event to catch up with her girlfriends on the Gold Coast for the first time since being overseas for the Miss Universe competition.
"It'll be a pink theme and we'll be watching Sex and The City with chocolates and pink cupcakes," Campbell laughs.
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Is Miss Universe For Plastic Surgery?
Taking the title of the most beautiful woman in the world will certainly add weight to your opinion on beauty. This must be why the web is buzzing with opinions expressed by Miss Universe 2010 on having plastic surgery. Jimena Navarrete, Miss Mexico, was quoted online as saying, “I am for plastic surgery. But I haven’t gotten any.”
No one would argue that the Mexican beauty is not all natural. She did not reveal however whether she would consider plastic surgery in the future. Her comments were made during an interview weeks ago. Having taken the title in Las Vegas recently, her comments are now getting more attention.
No one would argue that the Mexican beauty is not all natural. She did not reveal however whether she would consider plastic surgery in the future. Her comments were made during an interview weeks ago. Having taken the title in Las Vegas recently, her comments are now getting more attention.
Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Miss Polish NEW!
The last show beauty of Polish at the international Miss Universe come out best. Miss Polonia, Maria Nowakowska, despite its very funny video, Which has provided answers to standard questions, do not even got to the second stage of elections. On Sunday, held the long-awaited Miss 2010 on channel Polsat. Of course, besides the beautiful Polish women appeared doubtful doublethink beauty presenters - Chris and Tom Kammel Ibisz. Rivalry for the crown won by Agata Szewiola. Do Szewiola will have a chance in a confrontation with grown beauties from South America? We hope that further training of their English;)
Creative national costume
If you've been following the pageant over past years, you'll have noticed that the national costume event is no longer limited to traditional concepts of each country's national dress, which went out with Porntip Nakhirunkanok when she won best national costume _ and went on to win the crown _ at the Miss Universe pageant in 1988.The national costumes event is now open to creative interpretation, and designers love this category.Pukluk's costume was named ``Siam Aiyara'', deriving from the elephant that is a symbol of Thailand. The design drew inspiration from the ceremonial costume of a royal elephant combined with the costume of a court lady during the reign of King Chulalongkorn. The Thai silk pantaloons were fitted at the calves, and worn with white stockings and a flowing shoulder cloth. The fitted blouse had one puffed sleeve that resembled the ear of an elephant, while a gold fan in her other hand represented the other ear.The most outstanding part of the costume was the headdress, which resembled an elephant's trunk. It stood out from most of the other national costumes; from Miss USA's golden eagle costume with golden wings, Miss Puerto Rico in her ``green canopy'' costume, Miss Belgium's tennis ensemble or Miss Switzerland's red warrior princess.Can't wait to see what's in store for next year.
Monday, August 30, 2010
Current Google Insights trends: Miss Universe, Hotmail, calciomercato
Jimena Navarrete from Mexico was crowned the winner of annual beauty contest Miss Universe on August 23. The 22-year-old winner is the first woman from Mexico to wear the Miss Universe crown since 1991; the contest dominated the top two search terms.
"Hotmail Login" was the third most searched for term this week; some web users have recently criticized the remote email access site over security problems.
News about Italian football generated several of the most popular searches with Italian sites calciomercato, tuttomercatoweb and tuttosport appearing fourth, fifth and sixth respectively in the most popular search terms over the last seven days.
French employment site "pole emploi" was the eighth most popular search term, and the name of Brazilian internet company uol.com.br was the ninth most popular term. UOL is one of the biggest internet sites in Brazil and provides content relating to news, sports, entertainment and sports as well as internet-related services and products.
The search terms with the most significant growth worldwide in the last seven days as measured by Google Insights, recorded on August 30 at 10:30 AM GMT are:
1. miss universe 2010 (+550%)
2. miss universo 2010 (+350%)
3. hotmail login (+130%)
4. calciomercato (+90%)
5. tuttomercatoweb (+60%)
6. tuttosport (+50%)
7. barclays (+40)
8. pole emploi (+40%)
9. uol.com.br (+40%)
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