Beauty Pageant

In Paraguay, as many as one in two people are considered obese. But beauty has many forms, and in Asuncion, there’s a unique pageant catering to a particular kind of beauty.

Steve Ludwin travels to Sweetwater, Texas to see 16 all-American girls climb into a pit of poisonous snakes, decapitate and skin them in a bid to become Miss Snake Charmer at the world’s largest "Rattlesnake Roundup."

VICE meets members of the region's thriving indigenous trans community and follows along as they work through family struggles, hormone treatments, and organize a public beauty pageant.

Brazil is home to some of the biggest pageants in the world like Miss World and Miss Universe. Lesser known, however, is Miss Max—a beauty competition at a prison.

We're back in Thailand to hang out with one of the Ms. Tiffany Beauty Pageant contestants.

We also meet Colombia's guerrilla fighters, go courtside at the Davis Cup, and catch up with party monster Michael Alig.

Within the outsider community of ICP fans, female Juggalos are even more marginalized. But now the Faygo-loving women are reclaiming the Miss Juggalette Beauty Pageant.

t’s prom time in Long Island, and everyone wants to look their best. But what does their best even look like?