The Miss Ladner Quilt Walk and Car Show Pin Up Pageant

Ahh... summer... Nothing says summer quite like the rumble of a classic car starting up, or the growl of a motorcycle. Am I right? Or am I right? With classic cars comes car shows, and with car shows comes the pageant season. And this years pageant season started out with a bang! It was the first Miss Ladner Quilt Walk and Car Show Pin Up Pageant last month and it was a blast. (this entry is really late, I had an accident and couldn't get it out until now).

Photo Credit: Tyler Garnham Photography

Bobby Pinz Parlour, co-owned and operated by local hair stylist Lucy Lopez and her friend Adina Shore put together the first Miss Ladner Quilt Walk and Car Show Pin Up Pageant hosted by the beautiful Dixie Delight  of the Rock'n Dolls. I was invited this year to help the girls competing make sure their hair was on point, and then of course cheering everyone on and cover the festivities.

Photo Credit: Tyler Garnham Photography
All the beautiful pageant constants!

What set this pageant apart from the others was that there was absolutely no judging panel. Winners of the pageant was all left up to the voters choice. The girls were all given cards with their images on them and had to hand them out to the people walking around the car show, once given the card they had to make their way back to Billie's Barbershop and match the card of the girl they like best to the box with their image on it. The contestant with the most cards at the end won the title.

Logo for Bobby Pinz Parlour

There were places for First, Second, Third, as well as Best Hair and Best Over All Style. Best Hair went to Ladner local pinup girl Ms. Dany D'Lish who sang us a beautiful version of Que Sera Sera in her Q&A portion. Best Over All Style went to none other then the seamstress herself Ms. Cee Cee Devine. Cee Cee had the cutest outfit complete with a pineapple purse that she had made herself. It is only fitting that she won best style!

LEFT: Ms. Cee Cee Devine: Best Overall Style
RIGHT: Ms. Dany D'Lish; Best Hair

Now onto 2nd and 3rd place. While I truly believe, and this is going to sound totally cliché, every girl that took the stage that hot August day is a winner, there still has to be 1st, 2nd, and 3rd. 3rd place went to the ever so sweet mamma Ms. Blackberry Betty! (I also helped do her hair ;) 2nd Place went to the sultry Miss. Veronica Belle! Both these raven hair beauties rocked the stage with confidence and radiated perfection. I really look forward to watching them participate on the pageant circuit in the future.

Left: Lucy Lopez and 3rd Place Winner Black Berry Betty
Right: 2nd Place Winner Miss Veronica Bell

Finally the moment you have all been waiting for! The First Place Winner was the incredible Ms. Big Block Betty! Betty came with a huge fan base which was awesome to watch as this was her first pageant. She stole the show and did so with grace, poise, and pure personality. As someone who was just a speckator at this pageant it was really sweet to watch Ms. Big Block Betty hear that she won. It was so genuine and pure. You my dear are a star! A HUGE congratulations from us over here at Pin-up Perfection Photography. We cannot wait to get our hands on you and shoot!

Big Block Betty Winning the Title!

Photo: Pinupz&Burlesque

 If you weren't there you truly missed out, but hopefully this paints a pretty good picture of the day. Can't wait to see what the gals over at Bobby Pinz Parlour have up their sleeve for next year!

xo,

Helly Hepburn