PAGEANT PANDEMIC.

From Friday Arrival in a COVID-Free Sydney location to having the whole hotel to ourselves before the Monday Morning hotel closure. You better believe you have never experienced a pageant quite like this!

Last Friday we arrived at our Australian Regency Hotel for the 2021 Recency International Pageant Filming. Our NSW crew were excited for our activities to begin and after a very successful Saturday Optionals Competition... We were ready to perform in our most important section, Sunday Morning.

Saturday night, news came out that the whole of Sydney would be going into a lockdown that night. You can imagine we were pretty terrified and nervous... Would we be able to compete? will we be able to get back to our families?

From about 2 pm - 4 pm on Saturday, our director Kim was making phone calls to NSW Health, our Videographer, Hair & Makeup Team and more. Would this be the end for Team Australia?

After a wait that felt like hours, director Kim returned to the room with tears... followed by a thumbs up. We could film the following day as long as we didn't leave the hotel for non-essential reasons, spectators would have to watch us via Facebook Live instead of in-person and our fabulous production and media team would be able to make us look amazing once again!

We gave our Sunday show all we could give! We rocked it, we nailed it and we made it!

Other than the unexpected restrictions and lockdown, the weekend was absolutely amazing! Our NSW girls really bought the BAM for vegas and so many beautiful, hilarious and exhausting memories were made.

Due to the Official Regency Finals being towards the end of July, our Aussie team are holding off on posting as we all want to live in the moment and present as if we were competing with every contestant in vegas!

So, for now, you will have to wait but that doesn't stop us from thanking our fabulous Team!

- Wye Creative Hair and Makeup

I did my own Hair & Makeup but let me just say, The Wye Team made all of our girls look absolutely stunning! If you want to look like a bombshell, go and book with Wye!

- Motion Mad Media

Henrietta & Carlos from Motion Mad Media, THANK YOU! for being our incredible videographer team and taking the time to come and record our very special Aussie/International Finals.

- Katherine Musgrave Studios

Mumma Bear of one of our gorgeous queens was kind enough to take a million photos of our girls and the photos... are FIRE! I can not wait to post them next month.

- BEST DIRECTOR EVER.

THANK YOU to the most incredible Director, Kim, for everything you have done to make this event happen, we can only imagine the stress and tears but we are all extremely grateful for every moment.

- Ruby xxx