Miss America talks 'butt glue' and 'face baking' as she reveals her beauty secrets

Описание: (5 Oct 2015) MISS AMERICA BETTY CANTRELL TALKS BEAUTY SECRETS AND PAGEANT STEREOTYPES
When asked to share her beauty secrets, the newly crowned Miss America, Betty Cantrell, provided two very unusual sounding bits of advice - first up: butt glue.
"It's not actually called 'butt glue' but that's what we call it," reveals Cantrell.
"It's like the firm grip spray that football players use to grip the ball, like to catch a ball, but we use it to hold our swimsuit bottoms in place so that when we are walking we don't get a wedgy. So when we are walking in swimsuits we don't have to worry about pulling it out because it's like literally stuck to our butts, so butt glue. So that's a fun fact. People love to ask about butt glue so there you go."
And then there's "face baking."
"(It's) called baking your powder or baking your makeup where you set your powder on your face and you let it sit before you blend it in, because your face eats makeup," she explains.
"You let it bake and then you brush it away and you have nice highlights and it sets into your skin better, so baking, face baking. That's another one."
Cantrell was crowned the new Miss America in September.
Surprisingly, the 20 year-old didn't have a whole lot of experience prior to the competition. She didn't compete in pageants as a child and, at the suggestion of a family friend, entered her first in late 2013.
After competing in a few other small pageants, Cantrell won the Miss Georgia competition on June 20, 2015.
It was just three months later that she won Miss America.
With such little pageant experience, she worried about the personalities she might encounter among the other contestants.
"I was very skeptical about the girls, the type of people that were involved in the system because there is the stereotype about pageant girls being mean and airheads and just kind of shallow and fake," she explains.
"I believed that but then when I got involved with the system I'm like those stereotypes are completely false. These are some of the most intelligent women I've ever been around and I am honored to be associated with them and to be able to represent a state and now a country. I mean it's incredible to me and I love the girls that are involved in this system. They are the best sort and they are passionate about their platforms and they are the most driven young women that you will ever meet, so the stereotypes are not true and I am hopefully going to represent that through my title of Miss America."
Along with the title of Miss America, Cantrell also won a $50,000 scholarship and gets the chance to travel to new cities and meet new people. However, these experiences probably won't compare to what she has already experienced.
"I spent two weeks with 51 girls and I made some extremely close friendships and I know that they will stay with me for the rest of my life," says Cantrell.
"Some of those girls became my best friends in the two weeks and will be in my wedding and all that kind of stuff, so I'm really thankful for those relationships that I formed while I was there. If you are going to be around 51 girls for two weeks, if you don't win or place, what else do you get out of it besides the friendships? So I am so glad that all the girls took the time to form those bonds and I'll definitely take away some incredible friendships and I am really, really thankful for that. So that will probably be the most memorable thing for me from this year."

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