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• The Saudis take their beauty contests seriously, it appears: Judges at a competition northeast of Riyadh are cracking down on artificially enhanced contestants.
The contest is part of the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival.
Yes, the contestants are camels, the Associated Press reported, and 43 of them have already been disqualified.
Camel breeders enter their most beautiful animals with the hope of winning $66 million in prize money, but Botox injections, face lifts and other cosmetic changes will not be tolerated this year.
How, you ask, are those procedures implemented?
Breeders might stretch the lips and noses of their camels, inject their heads or lips with Botox, inflate body parts with rubber bands and use fillers to relax their faces.
"The club is keen to halt all acts of tampering and deception in the beautification of camels," the Saudi Press Agency said. [Associated Press, 12/8/2021]