Beauty Pageant Contestants Disqualified Over Botox Injections

[Skanky Vamp]

via NPR

Some pageant contestants hit a hump in the road this week. That is, a camel beauty contest in Saudi Arabia disqualified a dozen camels for receiving Botox injections to make them more attractive.

Saudi media reported that a veterinarian was caught performing plastic surgery on the camels a few days before the pageant, according to UAE's The National. In addition to the injections, the clinic was surgically reducing the size of the animals' ears to make them appear more delicate.

"They use Botox for the lips, the nose, the upper lips, the lower lips and even the jaw," Ali Al Mazrouei, a regular at such festivals and the son of a prominent Emirati breeder, told the newspaper. "It makes the head more inflated so when the camel comes it's like, 'Oh look at how big that head is. It has big lips, a big nose.' "

The festival provides a number of informative graphics about camels, including a diagram titled Standards of Camel Beauty. It is sadly unspecific about what makes for handsome nostrils and withers, though it does mention a "leathery mouth."

 

[Anyanka Bunny Slayer]

This is EXACTLY the kind of thing @vellavu would post. 😎

 

[Fool for Buffy]

The question we should be asking is, does having big humps mean a camel is overweight or has a nice body?

 

[November]

Wow, they are really going the way of extreme body modification for a show! What's the prize?

To me, it seems to make more sense (possibly financially as well) to breed quality stock to begin with.

And here equestrians are in an never ending argument over if its cruel to bone horses ears (this means trim the hair out, not surgically alter an animal. I doubt any of us would ever do that, well besides chopping balls off)
 

This is EXACTLY the kind of thing @vellavu would post. 😎

Wait, what? Isnt this the kind of thing you would talk about in the Bronze?

 

[Taake]

was caught performing plastic surgery on the camels a few days before the pageant

Society, people, things in general just suck. Like, really? Plastic surgery on camels! Leave the camels alone! No camel is beautiful.

 

[Skanky Vamp]

No camel is beautiful.

That's hurtful, insensitive and damaging. All camels are beautiful. Even their toes...

 

[Taake]

That's hurtful, insensitive and damaging. All camels are beautiful. Even their toes...

I see Kathy Kinney got some work after the Drew Carey Show, good for her!