To be very honest, the MassKara Festival is one of those rarest festivals, where you will get everything that is directly or indirectly associated with entertainment.
After Street Dancing, Parade, and Concerts, there is one more thing that makes this festival “Best in the World” and that is “MassKara Queen”.
So what does all this mean?
Yes, apart from traditional dances and competitions, the MassKara Beauty Pageant also pulls quite a huge number of the audience every year.
What is MassKara Queen?
MassKara Queen is a local beauty Pageant, where the beautiful, young ladies from Bacolod City showcases their prettiness in the Festival.
It is a great opportunity for the local beauties to express themselves on the grand stage. The beauty contest is not just a competition for these beautiful ladies because there is a lot at stake for them in this contest.
That’s when it hit me!!!
Because, the winner of this competition get a lot of recognition and respect from the local community, and that’s why this contest is a life-savior for them.
The participants of the beauty contest wear beautiful, stylish Filipino gowns, which catch the eyeballs of all the spectators present at the contest.
Not only that but also the different top designers have loads of interest in this competition because they are in hunt of the most beautiful models, which can be seen easily in this event.
All in All…
You can say that the Beauty Pageant, is the one, you must have to explore and watch at the wonderful Bacolod Festival 2017.
Activities in the MassKara Queen Beauty Pageant:
The Bacolod Beauty Pageant is comprised of many interesting activities like:
- Beauty Contest.
- Makeup Competitions.
- Fitness Challenges.
- Talent Hunts.
- Modeling.
- Photography.
The tale doesn’t end here!
Because the winner of this contest become the celebrity overnight and gets an exclusive Photoshoot from the top level photographer.
Other than that.
The newly crowned Queen also gets the privilege of attending the Charter Day celebrations, that is held on every 19th of October in the Bacolod Festival.
As if that’s not enough as well.
Because, apart from all these luxuries, the Queen also gets an enormous amount of offers from the different modeling channels, and Media.
So, I think that’s more than enough for any young lady.
Interesting Facts:
- MassKara Queen was first scheduled in the year 1982, and since then, it is the part of the festival till now.
- From the year 1982, till 1993, the title of this pageant was “Miss MassKara”, but from 1994, the title had been changed to “MassKara Festival Queen”.
- The participants of University St. La Salle have won the most number of titles in the history of Queen and that is 10 times.
- The defending title holder of the Festival Queen is Valerie Escamilla from John B Lacson Colleges Foundation, which she won at the MassKara Festival 2016.
- Multiple participants from this event went on to represent themselves for Bacolod City in Lin-ay sang Negros. So, that’s a big boost for the other models.
