My Tantalizing Twenty at the Press Presentation of Bb. Pilipinas 2011
Joyce Burton Titular, the blogging beauty queen and author of the blog "Adventures of a Beauty Queen"
I had the HARDEST time selecting my favorites in the Press Presentation of the Bb. Pilipinas 2011 beauty contestants, unlike last year where I was quick to choose my favorites. But I found out that if I divided my favorites according to what I liked in FACE, BODY and WALK, it made it easier than pie.
These selections, btw, are not my final ones but only my impression of the Bb. Pilipinas 2011 beauty contestants during the Press Presentation and how they looked and carried themselves on stage. My biggest disappointment though is that this bevvy of beauties is (on the average) not as tall as I’d hoped they’d be. Unfortunately, tall girls seem to get more favor in pageants; yes life is INDEED unfair at times.
Although I was at the Press Presentation and took photos, I relied heavily on the Youtube Vids of OPMB in making my choices in this particular post. Click to watch Group 1, Group 2, Group 3, Group 4, Group 5, Group 6, Group 7, and Group 8. Thanks so much to OPMB and Boyet Blas for being among the best in covering beauty pageants, what would I do without you?!
The Bb. Pilipinas 2011 Press Presentation was held after lunch on Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at the Luzon Ballroom of Sofitel, the old Philippine Plaza Hotel… and now, here are the girls whom I felt shined the most on stage! Those highlighted in RED are my major, major favorites!!!
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#2 Elizabeth Clenci (FACE) 5’4½”
How I wish my neighbors looked like Elizabeth Clenci. This Filipina-Australian has that perky girl-next-door look that I find refreshing. Her ponytail added much to over-all look, but I would have loved to see her tresses trailing down her shoulders.
#2 Elizabeth Clenci
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#4 Gianna Therese Quintos (BODY) 5’5″
Gianna Therese Quintos happens to be carrying a set of abs I wish were on my bod! Her legs look like a tennis player’s and just like the rest of her, carry not a whisper of fat. I wonder if this animal trainer gets her body from chasing and lifting the dogs in her class!!!
#4 Gianna Therese Quintos
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#6 Patricia Mae Tumulak (WALK) 5’5″
Fierce moves combined with a friendly smile! I think Patricia Mae Tumulak is one of the few girls in Bb. Pilipinas 2011 who can be be fierce and friendly at the same time. Must be part of the wealth of experience she gained from being Miss Philippines Earth 1st Runner-up in 2009!
#8 Patricia Mae Tumulak
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#13 Queenierich Rehman (BODY) 5’7″
Okay now how does Queenierich Rehman (the first human beatbox to join Bb. Pilipinas) make skinny look sexy? It must be because of the trim muscles she’s developed over the years playing varsity basketball from High School to college.
#13 Queenierich Rehman
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#14 Marish Alyssa Marquinez (FACE) 5’7″
I have a weakness for maamo faces and my eyes tell me that Marish Alyssa Marquinez, a Nursing grad, has the most maamo face in this batch of girls. I can almost imagine her playing the role of a sweet provicial lass washing clothes in a batis, making tampisaw the water and singing a happy Filipino ditty…
#14 Marish Alyssa Marquinez
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#15 Arabella Hanesh (BODY AND FACE)
Ayayay! This Arabella Hanesh is beautiful in front and BEHIND! Highly gifted in the curves department, she makes me wonder if another Filipina Indian beauty will strike gold in Bb. Pilipinas. Arabella Hanesh, a TV host for “MagTV Na Atin ‘To”, is one of my over-all TOP picks so far…
#15 Arabella Hanesh
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#16 Sabrinne Al-Tawil (FACE) 5’8″
This big-eyed Palestinian Filipina has one of the most striking faces in Bb. Pilipinas 2011! While Sabrinne Al-Tawil seemed reserved on stage, as if keeping a secret from the audience, her elegant smile shined through. I don’t know about you, but this Dentistry student reminds me of the lovely actress Nanette Medved… Sabrinne Al Tawil, btw, was one of the finalists at the Miss Friendship International 2010 held in China last year.
#16 Sabrinne Al Tawil
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#23 Luzelle Felipe (FACE) 5’7¾”
When Luzelle Felipe came out on stage, I thought, WOW, now THAT’S a Filipina beauty! She was one of the very few contestants that did not come across as flirtatious and instead carried herself with a regal quality. How this tricycle driver was transformed into a delicate beauty is still beyond me, but I approve 100%! Afterthought: Luzelle Felipe could pass for the sister of Bb. Pilipinas World 2010 Czarina Gatbonton.
#23 Luzelle Felipe
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#25 Isabella Manjon (WALK) 5’7″
Isabella Majon was one of best cat-walkers in this group of Bb. Pilipinas contestants. She’s like a human slinky, I swear! This varsity swimmer also has a huge presence on stage with her striking face and exotic widow’s peak.
#25 Isabella Manjon
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#26 Shamcey Supsup (FACE, BODY AND WALK) 5’7¼”
When I first saw photos and videos of the Bb. Pilipinas 2011 candidates, Shamcey Supsup was my main choice for the Universe title. And in the Press Presentation, she entered the stage like a winner. While her figure is slight, Shamcey Supsup has lovely proportions! She also happens to be one of my picks for Miss Talent…
#26 Shamcey Supsup
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#28 Ma. Paula Bianca Paz (BODY)
The temperature in the Luzon Ballroom of Sofitel went up a couple notches when Ma. Paula Bianca Paz stepped out on stage. This busty beauty sashayed on stage like she was on the white sands of Boracay. White sparkly teeth behind a sultry smile perfected her look. This is Ma. Paula Bianca Paz’s 2nd time to go for one of the Bb. Pilipinas crowns; she was a contestant in 2009, the year Bianca Manalo won Bb. Pilipinas Universe.
#28 Maria Paula Bianca Paz
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#29 Krystle Ann Grant (FACE) 5’7″
This is not Krystle Ann Grant’s first time to do battle in a beauty contest. She has proven herself to be winning material after placing 1st Runner-up in Miss Philippines Earth 2007. What I love best about this Pinay from California are her eyes which are ever so slightly turned down at the corners.
#29 Krystle Ann Grant
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#30 Kathleen Subijano (FACE) 5’6″
Kathleen Subijano has the face of someone I wouldn’t mind seeing everyday on TV. I could almost picture her as a morning show host, waking up the world with her bright smile! Did I mention that this free-lance writer comes from beauty queen stock? Kathleen Subijano is the younger sister of 1994 Bb. Pilipinas World Cara Subijano!
#30 Kathleen Subijano
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#31 Samantha Purvor (FACE) 5’6¼”
Fresh-faced Samantha Purvor makes daisies blossom in my heart when she smiles! This UP Sports Science graduate reminds me of Miss Philippines Universe 1977 Anna Lorraine Kier.
#31 Samantha Purvor
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#32 Jenn Roe Gubat (WALK, BODY, FACE) 5’6″
This is my second time to put Jenn Roe Gubat in an ABQ list. She was one of my picks in the Mutya ng Pilipinas 2009 beauty pageant where she placed in the semi-finals. This Bulakenya has blossomed over the past two years since I saw her and now has the mark of a winner!
#32 Jenn Roe Gubat
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#33 Dianne Necio (WALK, FACE) 5’5½”
Well, it’s so nice to see you again Dianne Necio! I am impressed that you didn’t take a break from pageants after placing 1st Runner-up in Bb. Pilipinas 2010 last year. And, now that you’re 18, you finally meet the age requirement for the Universe title. Oh, and Miss Baton Twirler, it was smart of you to iron your hair flat – seeing long curly tresses on every contestant can get quite tiring…
#33 Dianne Necio
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#34 Mary Jean Lastimosa (BODY, WALK, FACE) 5’5½”
Mary Jean Lastimosa is my Best In Swimsuit winner. My mind kept saying oo-lah-lahhh over her guitar-shaped body as she pranced around on stage. Furthermore, I could not help but help envy the flatness of her tummy. Mary Jean Lastimosa is proof that Arab-Pinoy DNA mixes are gorgeous from head to toe!
#34 Mary Jean Lastimosa
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#35 Suzette Hernandez (BODY)
I’ve seen this lass before! Suzette Hernandez was one of my picks in the Mutya ng Pilipinas 2010 beauty pageant where she landed on the 1st Runner-up spot. And now, I’m putting her in my list of girls who sparkled in the Bb. Pilipinas 2011 Press Presentation. What I like about her? She’s got nicely sculpted abs!
#35 Suzette Hernandez
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#36 Camille Alexis Baltazar (FACE) 5’5¾”
What does Camille Alexis Baltazar have in common with Pierce Brosnan, John Travolta and Jude Law? They all have the most adorable cleft chins! I first noticed Camille Alexis Baltazar when she sang at the Bb. Pilipinas 2011 talent show at Ali Mall and thought she was the cutest thing I saw on stage that day. But she dropped the cute in the Press Presenation and brought out the wooo-man!
#36 Camille Alexis Baltazar
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#37 Sarah Nicole Clenci (FACE) 5’5½”
I opened my list with a Clenci and I end it with another Clenci. Yes, the Clenci sisters from Down Under both made it into the Top 40 of Bb. Pilipinas 2011 and this particular Clenci makes me want to drink a whole pitcher of lemonade! Sarah Nicole Clenci is hot, hot, HOT!
#37 Sarah Nicole Clenci
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The ladies in the official roster of the Bb. Pilipinas 2011 are:
1. Zephorah Mayon
2. Elizabeth Clenci
3. Carolyn Ty
4. Gianna Therese Quintos
5. Jennielyn Natividad
6. Patricia Marie Tumulak
7. Angelia Ong
8. Ma. Kristina Marasigan
9. Bernadette Aguirre
10. Hazelyn Santos
11. Diana Arevalo
12. Carla Lacson
13. Queenierich Rehman
14. Marish Alyssa Marquinez
15. Arabella Hanesh
16. Sabrinne Al-Tawil
17. Gerlie Lero
18. Teresa Pamela Ludovice
19. Wendy Lucas
20. Jenette Noguchi
21. Kenneth Dimaapi
22. Paula Camille Figueras
23. Luzelle Felipe
24. Martha Chloe McCulley
25. Isabella Manjon
26. Shamcey Supsup
27. Janine Tugonon
28. Ma. Paula Bianca Paz
29. Krsytle Ann Grant
30. Kathleen Subijano
31. Samantha Purvor
32. Jenn Roe Gubat
33. Dianne Necio
34. Mary Jean Lastimosa
35. Suzette Hernandez
36. Camille Alexis Baltazar
37. Sarah Nicole Clenci
38. Ladylyn Riva
39. Glennifer Perido
40. Monique Manuel
The Grand Coronation Night of the Bb. Pilipinas 2011 will be on April 10, 2011 at the Araneta Coliseum.
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@Ryan – I’m sure the contestants can think on their own (some I hope) and should not just be sucked into a culture of misconstrued values focusing on the superficial aspects of beauty. I’m criticizing the beauty pageant as a whole, not just the contestants or the organizers but the whole concept of parading women on stage as if they are objects being bargained and used for entertainment.
Women should not willingly subject themselves to such travesties unless it’s for a significant goal that might change something in the society (like help in nation building perhaps?). Women clamor for equality in gender and aspire for a world where they can no longer be regarded as second class citizens but beauty pageants are part of a past where women are treated as a commodity. In this day and age of progress and modernity, women can do anything and are free to choose whatever what they want to become.
I’m sure no woman would want to become treated as a sex object because that’s equal to being abused and maltreated. The only positive thing that’s coming out of these pageants are the opportunity for the populace to dictate acceptable notions of being beautiful which enforces that pressures on women to look like plastic dolls (as I’ve said earlier). As for me, I couldn’t careless if these pageants are banned because it sends the wrong message to young people. Young girls might subject themselves to extreme diets and spend their money on cosmetics just to look like an artificial beauty queen. We can’t stop children from following what they see on TV and what the media is feeding them. I can understand why most Filipino’s are becoming more and more materialistic and superficial due to the fact that beauty pageants are being fed to the masses and being used as propaganda. Everyone is guilty and we can attribute the slow deterioration of Filipino values to this phenomenon.
@Ryan – I’m sure the contestants can think on their own (some I hope) and should not just be sucked into a culture of misconstrued values focusing on the superficial aspects of beauty. I’m criticizing the beauty pageant as a whole, not just the contestants or the organizers but the whole concept of parading women on stage as if they are objects being bargained and used for entertainment.
Women should not willingly subject themselves to such travesties unless it’s for a significant goal that might change something in the society (like help in nation building perhaps?). Women clamor for equality in gender and aspire for a world where they can no longer be regarded as second class citizens but beauty pageants are part of a past where women are treated as a commodity. In this day and age of progress and modernity, women can do anything and are free to choose whatever what they want to become.
I’m sure no woman would want to become treated as a sex object because that’s equal to being abused and maltreated. The only positive thing that’s coming out of these pageants are the opportunity for the populace to dictate acceptable notions of being beautiful which enforces that pressures on women to look like plastic dolls (as I’ve said earlier). As for me, I couldn’t careless if these pageants are banned because it sends the wrong message to young people. Young girls might subject themselves to extreme diets and spend their money on cosmetics just to look like an artificial beauty queen. We can’t stop children from following what they see on TV and what the media is feeding them. I can understand why most Filipino’s are becoming more and more materialistic and superficial due to the fact that beauty pageants are being fed to the masses and being used as propaganda. Everyone is guilty and we can attribute the slow deterioration of Filipino values to this phenomenon.
@ryan amores. with regards to what you have said about my staff/teachers who should be given free range or freehand in organizing or preparing programs like those, may i remind you that they mave have BUT i have the right to stop or check if it is already in not consonanced to school policy especially if it involves the WELFARE of our students. we may be in a democratic country to do freely what we want BUT there is still that LIMIT or LIMITATION in it.
@ryan amores. with regards to what you have said about my staff/teachers who should be given free range or freehand in organizing or preparing programs like those, may i remind you that they mave have BUT i have the right to stop or check if it is already in not consonanced to school policy especially if it involves the WELFARE of our students. we may be in a democratic country to do freely what we want BUT there is still that LIMIT or LIMITATION in it.
it is really a fact that the main attraction for this pageants are to show the sexy bodies of the contestants. I remember years back when my girlfriend (now my wife) tried to qualify for the binibining pilinas pageant. She told me that some of them judges even made advances and try to make deals with the applicants in exchange for sex. I told her not to go back there again. This culture of beauty pageants and hosieries are despicable. You can show a womans beauty even without those skimpy outfits.
it is really a fact that the main attraction for this pageants are to show the sexy bodies of the contestants. I remember years back when my girlfriend (now my wife) tried to qualify for the binibining pilinas pageant. She told me that some of them judges even made advances and try to make deals with the applicants in exchange for sex. I told her not to go back there again. This culture of beauty pageants and hosieries are despicable. You can show a womans beauty even without those skimpy outfits.
@Johnny – I totally agree with you, women are treated as objects during these pageants..”objects of desire” to be exact…sometimes it doesn’t matter if you got nothing up there in your head, as long as you are stereotypically desirable probably with a figure considered as desirable by most people.
Beauty and grace should not just be evaluated based on one thing, besides society nowadays is so materialistic, focused only on the outside beauty. What about attitude or personality? Women should earn respect by virtue and hard work not just because they look like plastic dolls. I mean look at the media especially in the Philippines, marketing strategies are focused on doing commercials and advertisement to promote products that enhance the so-called common notion of being beautiful in the Philippines, meaning, having fair skin, pointed nose and big breasts. Pinay’s are mostly morena, mostly with medium size noses and not so endowed with big breasts. The only ones benefiting from these are the big cosmetic companies and plastic surgeons. I just hope that Pinay’s would realize one day that there are more things more important than looking good according to the social standards which we all know are influenced by the media and those bastards who want to propagate such false ideals to sell their products and manipulate consumers. I admire women who can look good in the morning without any effort and who can carry a conversation and not those superficial types who smile when they are in front of you then stabs you in the back once you turn your back to them.
To all the women out there, please don’t be fools and use your brains. Not that I hate beauty pageants, I just find it insulting to women in general.
@Johnny – I totally agree with you, women are treated as objects during these pageants..”objects of desire” to be exact…sometimes it doesn’t matter if you got nothing up there in your head, as long as you are stereotypically desirable probably with a figure considered as desirable by most people.
Beauty and grace should not just be evaluated based on one thing, besides society nowadays is so materialistic, focused only on the outside beauty. What about attitude or personality? Women should earn respect by virtue and hard work not just because they look like plastic dolls. I mean look at the media especially in the Philippines, marketing strategies are focused on doing commercials and advertisement to promote products that enhance the so-called common notion of being beautiful in the Philippines, meaning, having fair skin, pointed nose and big breasts. Pinay’s are mostly morena, mostly with medium size noses and not so endowed with big breasts. The only ones benefiting from these are the big cosmetic companies and plastic surgeons. I just hope that Pinay’s would realize one day that there are more things more important than looking good according to the social standards which we all know are influenced by the media and those bastards who want to propagate such false ideals to sell their products and manipulate consumers. I admire women who can look good in the morning without any effort and who can carry a conversation and not those superficial types who smile when they are in front of you then stabs you in the back once you turn your back to them.
To all the women out there, please don’t be fools and use your brains. Not that I hate beauty pageants, I just find it insulting to women in general.
@Johnny – I totally agree with you, women are treated as objects during these pageants..”objects of desire” to be exact…sometimes it doesn’t matter if you got nothing up there in your head, as long as you are stereotypically desirable probably with a figure considered as desirable by most people.
Beauty and grace should not just be evaluated based on one thing, besides society nowadays is so materialistic, focused only on the outside beauty. What about attitude or personality? Women should earn respect by virtue and hard work not just because they look like plastic dolls. I mean look at the media especially in the Philippines, marketing strategies are focused on doing commercials and advertisement to promote products that enhance the so-called common notion of being beautiful in the Philippines, meaning, having fair skin, pointed nose and big breasts. Pinay’s are mostly morena, mostly with medium size noses and not so endowed with big breasts. The only ones benefiting from these are the big cosmetic companies and plastic surgeons. I just hope that Pinay’s would realize one day that there are more things more important than looking good according to the social standards which we all know are influenced by the media and those bastards who want to propagate such false ideals to sell their products and manipulate consumers. I admire women who can look good in the morning without any effort and who can carry a conversation and not those superficial types who smile when they are in front of you then stabs you in the back once you turn your back to them.
To all the women out there, please don’t be fools and use your brains. Not that I hate beauty pageants, I just find it insulting to women in general.
the truth of the matter what these organizers of beauty pageants are saying that such pageant is a way of developing the personality of a woman or acts as ambassador of goodwill to the place where she comes from or her stepping stone towards movie stardom at kung ano ano pa na sinasabi are actually their FRONT in their ulterior motive. as i have said it may have a good intention but it is not actually as that so important because it has been already made that the wearing of the swimsuit by the contestants has become the “climax” of the program. the talent and others are just secondary.
Don’t you know that here in North America beauty pageants are not that so popular. They would rather wat h sports than watching that stinking miss universe.
@ryan amores. when i was a principal in one of the high schools there in the philippines we held a beauty pageant. it was a search for MISS for our high school. it was then our foundation day. i told my teachers who organized the activity that not even letting our contestants wear shorts would be allowed. i don’t want them while marching on the stage they are being yelled by the audience especially the boys. at first they did not like it but i insisted otherwise i will cancel the activity i said. i was prevailed and the program was very successful.
@ryan amores. when i was a principal in one of the high schools there in the philippines we held a beauty pageant. it was a search for MISS for our high school. it was then our foundation day. i told my teachers who organized the activity that not even letting our contestants wear shorts would be allowed. i don’t want them while marching on the stage they are being yelled by the audience especially the boys. at first they did not like it but i insisted otherwise i will cancel the activity i said. i was prevailed and the program was very successful.
@ryan amores. not that i don’t like. my only point is that can we not have beauty pageant like that without including the wearing of swimsuit? by not letting the contestants wearing swimsuit that does not mean to say that there is no more beauty in them. the problem with some or many people now a days especially the men don’t consider activities like search for a certain beauty contest without including the wearing of swimsuit. that is why there are a lot of people especially men who have become “sex pervert” because of that kind of activity.
@ryan amores. not that i don’t like. my only point is that can we not have beauty pageant like that without including the wearing of swimsuit? by not letting the contestants wearing swimsuit that does not mean to say that there is no more beauty in them. the problem with some or many people now a days especially the men don’t consider activities like search for a certain beauty contest without including the wearing of swimsuit. that is why there are a lot of people especially men who have become “sex pervert” because of that kind of activity.
Very well said to both of u above and i agree 101%
It’s part of propaganda really, it also fosters a very wrong part of society that puts pressure on women to look like barbie dolls, have those curves and perfect skin tones. That’s why a lot of Filipina’s are more than willing to go under the knife to get their nose done, have a liposuction, take in glutathione pills etc., Natural should be the standard of beauty, after all beauty is only skin deep.
I know Pinoys love beauty pageants but there are more things in society that we should focus on especially nowadays when life is just so damn difficult for most of us Filipinos!
Beauty contests or pageants may contrubute something ggod for the country and the candidates themselves BUT i still consider it more an EXPLOTATION to women. i would be more inclined to like it if they are not allowed to wear swimsuits because this is already tantamount of making the contestants sex objects. imagine they are shown publicly and seen worldwide wearing that part of the pageant?
wil dis b televised?
Yes it will be televised on ABS CBN this April 10, 2011. Not quite sure what time though
but I’m sure they’ll be announcing it on ABS CBN as coronation night approaches!