Beauty pageants do not 'pay' specifically but many require your presence for a number of days and some even for weeks. Therefore, most will provide accommodation (often to a high level) and cover all of your costs. Due diligence is of course a high priority as I have heard of some mild horror stories especially with regard to overseas competitions whereby girls are kept for weeks for endless rehearsals and unpaid PR for competition sponsors. Obviously, it is your job to do all the specific research before you get involved with anything! Sometimes dodgy competitions are organized as a means to just get free models so make sure you get out what you want to and don't get taken advantage of.
It is difficult to say there if there is one best way to perform in a beauty pageant if you want to win as they are all so different and therefore look for different things. Above all though some traits seem to be highly regarded. Confidence is essential, and a keen interest in meeting other people from all types of backgrounds. Big smiles and a happy disposition are also vital. The level of looks that is required differs enormously, some preferring more 'girl next door' looks than 'model types'. Also, the judging can consider so called 'intelligence' however, in my experience this is more to pacify opponents rather than actually to raise the IQ rating of entrants. In the Miss England competition they claim that this is a huge part of their judging. However, it is more than a rumor that one year they were so busy teaching odd routines for the girls 'Exercise Section' (a thinly veiled replacement for the swim wear section of yesteryear) that they 'forgot' to do the interview with the judges! It is also interesting that in a line up including those with Doctorates, Phd's and those that were successful young business women, a fitness instructor won the competition? No disrespect to fitness instructors but it was an interesting choice which can give us valuable insight into what is valued by beauty competition judges!
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