See yourself in our full-color 2016 national calendar! One of UNM’s traditions is our annual calendar, featuring our gorgeous national queens and 7 lucky state queens! Can you see yourself on the full-color pages of our 2016 calendar? Seven will be chosen to be featured and one of those seven will be named Model of the Year and receive $495 towards nationals! This fun and exciting contest is only $20 for the first photo and $10 for each additional photo. For $50, you can enter unlimited photos! Submit your photo to info@usanationalmiss.com and send contest fees through PayPal to info@usanationalmiss.com. Must be registered for nationals to enter.
On Wednesdays We Wear Pink! Each Wednesday throughout October, our state and national queens have been wearing pink to support
breast cancer awareness, in honor of our New York/PA state director who is battling breast cancer. Here’s a
glimpse of some of the pinkwearing, life-loving, cancerkicking UNM queens:
The UNM Boutique has undergone a massive makeover, and we are so excited to launch the newly redesigned UNM Boutique! Offering UNM logo clothing, accessories and more, the new UNM Boutique has everything a pageant girl needs. Be sure to go to ShopUNM.com and use coupon code shopunm15 to get 10% off your purchase through Halloween! Here are a few featured favorites:
National Royalty Head to the ATL Third Photo Shoot of the Year for the Super Six Our Super Six have been non-stop since being crowned less than three months ago! Be sure you’re keeping up with their travels, exciting adventures and the glamorous life of being a UNM queen by liking their Facebook fan pages. Where are they traveling next? Our royalty have an exciting third photo shoot in Atlanta on November 6 with South Carolina’s Amanda Ferguson Photography. Liz Everett from Florida will be glamming up the queens as UNM’s official hair and make up artist. The queens will be shooting all day long, for a variety of campaigns and promotions, then will stay for the weekend to participate in the UNM Georgia state pageant! Be sure to check our Instagram @usanationalmiss for BTS photos the weekend!
What Makes the Perfect Selfie? by Sofy Barahona USA National Princess 2015 Everybody is taking selfies these days. Supposedly, you need to have the perfect lighting, the perfect contour make up, and the perfect background in order to take the perfect selfie. But, I beg to differ. I think the perfect selfie is taken when you don't even know it. The perfect selfie is that picture someone else takes of you when you are being kind to someone, helping someone in need, or just being a friend. And sometimes it's not even an actual picture that's taken by a camera. Instead, it's the image you've left on someone else and didn't realize. So, here's my challenge to you...the next time you decide it's crucial to take that much needed selfie, rather think of one small thing you could do. Maybe it's using your phone to send someone a quick get well wish, or a simple hello. And what you'll find in return is that you've just created the perfect selfie.
Gracie is a 14 year old honor roll student who is extremely excited to be a freshman at Notre Dame Cathedral Latin high school. Gracie is an experienced Print Work Model and has been featured on multiple American Greetings Cards. She is a voiceover artist and also enjoys acting. Gracie’s true passion is dance. She studies ballet, lyrical, contemporary, hip hop, jazz and tap at Spotlight Dance & Performing Arts Center where she is a competitive dancer. She has earned many individual and team awards including 5 personal National dance scholarships over the last 4 years! She also thoroughly enjoys being a teacher’s assistant to the younger dancers at the studio. She danced last year with the Moscow Ballet’s “Great Russian Nutcracker” in the Arabian variation on pointe and is so excited to be dancing with them again this coming holiday season. Most importantly, Gracie loves giving back to her community. She was honored to have earned the “Distinguished Service Award” from the Sisters of Notre Dame in 2015 for her service efforts. She is active in Relay for Life, the Ronald McDonald House Charities, Rainbow Babies & Children’s Hospital among others. Gracie reads and leads activities to young children on anti-bullying and self esteem. She is very proud of being the ambassador for the nonprofit organization “Project Night Night” in her area for the past 4 years. With the help of her school, family and friends Gracie is able to help comfort homeless children by
giving them special tote bags filled with a stuffed animal, books, blankets and other goodies, helping them feel a little more secure and loved at a time when they need it the most. She aspires to become a NYC Rockette Dancer. It would be her dream come true to receive a scholarship and attend the Julliard School in NYC in the future! Gracie is extremely grateful for the opportunity to be USA National Jr. Teen and hopes to be a positive role model to girls of all ages. Follow Gracie’s journey on Facebook at UNMNationalJrTeen and on Instagram @USANationalJrTeen2015.