Posing Suit and Costume Inspo!

Everyone knows the only reason to compete is so that you can choose the prettiest sparkliest posing suit and have bangin' hair and tonnes of makeup and everyone has to pay attention to you right?

My favourite thing to do is make little inspo boards to gather my thoughts and put together the look I'm trying to achieve on stage.

Obviously the left side is for my posing suit, and the right if for my performance costume. I am absolutely dead set on the beautiful deep burgandy red colour for my suit. I know its the right colour for me  because when I showed my coach, he replied "Thats is such a you colour!". I've also popped in there a couple of hair, makeup and shoe examples, as well as the exceptional Oksana Grishina, the current Ms Fitness Olympia. Because why not aim to emulate the best.

The sports bra pictures represent what I want the top of my performance costume to look like. They are both from Victoria's Secret. I think I will opt for a deep eggplant-y colour like the little swatch I have there in my picture and swap the straps out with a contrasting colour, maybe black or grey. The costume inset here is a beautiful example made by Flexiwear, who are based in Cambridge.

As a qualified makeup artist, I will be doing my own hair and makeup, but I've been watching tonnes of tutorials to make sure I know how all my favourite everyday products will react to the intense stage lights.

As this post goes to show, bodybuilding competitons are actually incredibly girly and feminine. I'm putting more effort into planning these looks than I did into planning the look for my 21st birthday. The only thing I have to do now is actually diet for 18  more weeks and get on stage!