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The Neopian Times Week 10 > Articles > Beauty or What?

Beauty or What?

by ah_et

Everyone loves having trophies for either themselves, or their pets. The Beauty Contest is a good and fun way to get a unique trophy for your pet. If you haven't heard of this contest before, please visit the Beauty Contest main page for more info. What we have to do in this particular contest, is to dress up our pets in a unique style, and enter the picture into the contest.

One might think, "oh that's easy! I'm such a good artist, everyone will vote for my great drawing of my pet!" Well, yes, artwork does give you an advantage, but let me assure, there is more to it.

If you've been checking up on the beauty contest on a regular basis, you may realise that the pets' voting range may vary from 800+ to even maybe just 1 vote. Why is there such a large difference? In usual cases, if you only look at the art work, players ages 16+ might get more votes because their art is better than ones drawn by 7 year olds. That is obvious. However, what REALLY happens in the REAL world might be just the opposite of that. (i.e. art by 7 year olds get more votes than ones drawn by 16+)

But why is this so you may ask?

This is what took these pets to be up the top... SUPPORT!!! Yes, support, from people. This also makes the competition fairer to NeoPets players at all ages. In voting competitions, only being good at what you produce is not enough, you will need people's support so that you will get the many votes you've longed for, and reach the top!

Beauty is not everything!

Now let me list some places/methods where you can get votes from:

THE GUILD YOU BELONG TO
Yes, YOUR guild. As sunshinemonkey83 mentioned in his article in week 8, don't be a guild hopper. Don't go jumping around guilds telling them to vote, because you most probably wouldn't get any votes that way! Be nice and become known in your guild, this way you'll get to know many friends, and when you're in doubt, they're most probably to help you out. Remember, Friendship is precious and priceless!

CHAT BOARD
There's a "Beauty Contest" section in the chat boards, post your advertisement there, and see if anyone will vote for you. Remember, don't say "if you vote for me I'll give you 1000 NP" because that will be cheating! However, it's legal to exchange votes between voters. Again, that's how people gain votes, and pull each other to the higher ranks of the contest. And during the process, so you might start to make some new friends too :) you might start chatting about art... or recent life... and get to know each other from this lovable experience (of getting votes).

YOUR NEOFRIENDS
How can I stress this more? Friendship is the most important thing at all times. I'll repeat once more just for the sake of emphasizing: When you're in doubt, your friends are the ones who would most probably help you out! When you ask for votes, kindly ask them and don't give them a feeling of being forced. You might even try to ask them to tell their friends about it ;) Advantage here: get to know your friends even more!

SHOP HISTORY
If people have been shopping at your shop and bought items over 300 NP, their names will be logged in your shop history. How will they help you with your voting? Once again, ask kindly and don't force them. Forcing gives an uncomfortable feeling. For example, in your Neomail, thank them for buying Grundo Stix from your shop, and ask would they like to help you out by casting a vote for your pet. Once again, watch your language and be nice!

Above are some of the many ways where you can gain votes from. Hope this article helped many of you out there who were having trouble with the beauty contest. However, above are just my personal opinions, and I don't intend to make anyone unhappy ;) Again, hope you enjoyed this article!

Remember, Beauty is not everything!!

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