The legs are long, the eyes are big, the bodies curvaceous. Contestants in this Saudi-style beauty pageant have all the features you might expect anywhere else in the world, but with one crucial difference -- the competitors are camels. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Two men -- at least one of whom was a contestant in a beauty pageant -- were charged early Wednesday with using a trophy to beat a judge because they allegedly did not like his vote in the West Side competition earlier this month. picked by Bornbad 4 months ago

"Nuns are women above all else, and beauty is a gift from God," Father Rungi said. He told Corriere della Sera it was the nuns themselves who had suggested the idea to him while helping him to run prayer services on the beach. "Many have assured me they will take part". picked by muppet 1 year ago

Beauty queen Ingrid Marie Rivera beat 29 rivals to become Puerto Rico's 2008 Miss Universe contestant, despite being the victim of assault when someone spiked her makeup and evening gowns with pepper spray. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

Sarah Palin as Sarah Heath in the swimsuit competition of the 1984 Miss Alaska beauty pageant.

The guy who has the full tape is from Juneau, and he says she gives a rather amusing flute performance for her 'talent'. What HuffPo says about it. picked by suebe 1 year ago

Fernanda Lima parades during the Miss Brazil Transex 2008 beauty pageant in Sao Paulo late June 2, 2008. Lima won the right to represent Brazil in the Miss International Transex beauty pageant in Thailand. picked by bevissimo 1 year ago

Miss Universe 2007, the 56th Miss Universe pageant, will be held today(on 28/05/2007) at the National Auditorium in Mexico City, Mexico. 77 contestants compete for the title. Here are the videos and swimsuit photos of all the contestants. Enjoy! picked by SunSeven 2 years ago

Saudi Arabia has called off a camel beauty contest scheduled for later this month in the face of the mystery deaths of thousands of the animals that are a national icon in the desert kingdom.
Follow up to AutumLotus' earlier post picked by suebe 2 years ago

This is how beauty is manufactured and sold to us. Amazing to see how much they actually change the pictures with Photoshop that you end up seeing in ads. picked by shredtone 3 years ago

Across the tracks, away from the dazzle of downtown, lies a darker imagination, this one looking to grunge-ridden, dilapidated architecture for inspiration. There is a beauty that pervades this kind of urban decay and captured wonderfully through a photographer’s well-trained eye. picked by equinox 10 months ago

Saudi Arabia's oil giant has been sued for causing the death of a beauty pageant who fell into a large hole dug to store crude oil.

... a beauty pageant camel picked by ruthstark 1 month ago

Business owners and environmentalists in Australia are promoting camels as a source of meat to battle an explosion of the country's camel population.

*Camel, the other red meat. picked by kakana 4 months ago

BP says it's found a deep oil field in the Gulf of Mexico that could generate more than 3 billion barrels of petroleum. It'll likely be a few years before a solid estimate is made, and the depth — 35,000 feet — means prices would have to be at $70 a barrel to make it worth drilling. picked by Bornbad 3 months ago

At just age five, Brooke Breedwell and Asia Mansur were bitter arch-rivals, the top dogs in their age group on the Southern child beauty pageant circuit. The two were even featured in the 1995 documentary Painted Babies. picked by Bornbad 3 months ago

An event to be held in a remote town in Iceland. Its goal? To challenge Western ideas of beauty. picked by missy1979 3 years ago

A team of Texas A&M University researchers will soon be recovering artifacts from a 200-year-old shipwreck that lies more than 4,000 feet beneath the Gulf of Mexico, making it the deepest such recovery effort ever attempted in the gulf. picked by AutumnLotus 3 years ago

Mariyah Moten is a Texan born in Pakistan. She tried to break the mold by entering a beauty pageant in China. Pakistan is a primarily Muslim country and is angered by her participation. picked by musicgirldani 3 years ago

Navel-gazing may serve a useful purpose, after all. People may use belly button beauty to assess the fitness of a potential mate, according to Aki Sinkkonen of the University of Helsinki, Finland. picked by dollyllama 10 months ago

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, or so they say. If that is true, then these contests indicate that some peoples’ eye for beauty is nearsighted and cross-eyed. picked by AutumnLotus 4 months ago

Lead in your lipstick? Mercury in your mascara? Recent headlines about harmful ingredients hiding in beauty products are enough to make even the vainest among us want to go back to the good old days of rubbing strawberries on our lips to make them red. picked by muppet 2 years ago