Venezuela Beauty

Venezuela is known as the country of beautiful women.
Venezuelans have been crowned queen in close to 60 international beauty pageants.
In the last three decades Venezuela has won more beauty titles than any other country: six Miss Universes, five Miss Worlds and six Miss Internationals.

It is no exaggeration to say that entering beauty competitions has become a national pastime – almost an obsession – in a country that buys more cosmetic products than any other. No country had ever achieved back-to-back wins before.

If Venezuela has a secret weapon in its quest to conquer the world -- or at least the world of beauty queens -- it can be found in a large pink building in northern Caracas. It is the home of the Miss Venezuela School, a kind of Olympic training academy for extraordinarily beautiful women.

Each spring, several thousand young Venezuelan women eagerly apply for the pageant. Their numbers are quickly reduced. Ultimately, a few dozen go through intensive training -- four months of rigorous drills in makeup, bikini modeling and walking effortlessly in four-inch heels (apparently, no easy feat). Twenty finalists are selected.


Since a very young age, girls in this country grow up dreaming of becoming Miss Venezuela. And make no mistake, in Venezuela, beauty pageants are a national sport. The scene outside the arena in Caracas last month on the night of the Miss Venezuela Pageant was par for the course.


The streets throbbed with screaming fans waving signs with provocative pictures of their favorite finalists. Marching bands and a stilt walker added to the sporting atmosphere.

Venezuela train their woman to look their best. However, plastic surgery helps too. It is a very common things that Venezuela female undergo plastic surgery. Maybe it is because plastic surgery costs very cheap in this country. The price of plastic surgery in Venezuela is half of the price in United Stated. When daughter reach teenage, father will send her undergo plastic surgery as her birthday present.


You walk down any street of Caracas at 6am and women will be perfectly coiffured, manicured, pedicured and impeccably made up. People here, from all walks of life, will get into debt for a pair of stilettos or a boob job. Whatever it takes.

The demand for surgery is such that banks offer attractive loans for procedures, with slogans such as: "Have your plastic on our plastic."

Clients will often fly in from around the world to be treated in Venezuela. "I see five or six clients from abroad each month," said Roger Galindo, a plastic surgeon. "Venezuela is a pioneer in this field and we have excellent professionals, and we also have a generation-old concern with aesthetics that is not the product of surgery but of the amazing cultural intermixing this country saw."

With beauty contests, the miracle is even more radical because the transformation is physical: the girl who arrived with a natural attractiveness leaves with Botox-filled lips, breasts recently removed from their packaging, a chiselled waist and six well-rehearsed phrases from self-help manuals or Unicef brochures.