Miss Universe New Zealand voting progress

There’s a part of me that has become quite objective about looks through involvement in the fashion industry, and whether a girl will photograph well. Sometimes they have a great personality and the pic looks horrid—which is my case for retouching (to bring the image to a standard where others can feel the model’s goodness). I am afraid the winner needs it all, and Miss Lowe’s photograph doesn’t quite measure up, but I am not going to go in to judging with that preconceived idea. I’ll have to judge on their merits and if she’s a confident person and that beams out to where the judges are sitting, then I will put points in her favour—just as the international judges in Mexico will do in May.
The danger is that the points’ system usually produces an aggregate winner, who may not shine in any one thing.
So the key (in my opinion) is to find someone to represent this nation brilliantly, express our values (which are very appealing globally, especially to Americans, since we remind them of what they used to be), but also be ultra-confident. I’ll be warning my fellow judges about the “aggregate” winner. I’m judging so we can send someone who will win and this will be good for our nation.
After all that, what I am getting at is that personality, for me, will come hugely into it.

I’m a judge and a magazine I own is a sponsor.