The beauty competition subgenre features TV series with contestants participating in various challenges and competitions related to beauty, talent, and sometimes intelligence or personality.

UK version of RuPaul's hit reality competition show where RuPaul searches for the country's next drag superstar.

RuPaul searches for America's next drag superstar.

Shawn Morales in RuPaul's Drag Race (2009)

12 drag queens compete to become Canada's Next Drag Superstar through challenges demonstrating their charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent.

A cyclical competition in which women from all over the U.S. compete for the honor of being America's next "it girl" in the modeling world.

Tyra Banks in America's Next Top Model (2003)

Make-up artists compete in professional and creative challenges to win a contract working with some of the top MUAs in the world, jumpstarting their careers.

Dominic C. Skinner, Val Garland, and Maya Jama in Glow Up: Britain's Next Make-Up Star (2019)

A controversial dating series in which people see potential love interests whose naked bodies are gradually revealed to them. Then they must get naked themselves and choose.

New show will serve up a new twist on the mega-hit RuPaul's Drag Race as it pits queens from previous seasons in a wig-to-wig drag battle royale.

Special effects make up artists compete in challenges.

Extreme drag artists from around the world compete in challenges including costume design and creation, makeup and special effects, live performance, and craftsmanship.

Swanthula Boulet and Dracmorda Boulet in The Boulet Brothers' Dragula (2016)

Makeup artists compete to prove their expertise through creative challenges and stunning transformations, battling for the top spot as they showcase innovative techniques and designs.

The Chin-chin Girls are the protagonists of the program, along with two contestants, a man and a woman, who want to travel around Europe virtually meeting women.

Fashion competition series hosted by Heidi Klum & Tim Gunn featuring 10 talented entrepreneurs and designers from around the world, who are ready to take their emerging brands to the next level and become the newest global phenomenon.

Heidi Klum and Tim Gunn in Making the Cut (2020)

Renowned queens from different Drag Race franchises compete in an international arena showcasing their country's finest drag in their bid to become the ultimate Drag Race Superstar.

RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs the World (2022)

Features drag queen contestants from 10 different countries, singing for the crown.

Vanessa Williams, Graham Norton, Michelle Visage, Pierre Alexandre, Jazell Barbie Royale, Alan Geraci, Militia Scunt, Chloe V, Viola, Miss Sistrata, Taiga Brava, Trevor Ashley, Trixie Mattel, and Maxie Andreison in Queen of the Universe (2021)

Brazil enters the most glamorous drag competition in the world. The queens need to show a lot of charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent to remain in the competition and snatch the crown as the next Brazilian Drag Superstar.

Four women, each with a sob story, vie to become "Queen for a Day."

Set in the colliding worlds of streetwear, business and culture where fashion visionaries must elevate their designs and entrepreneurial sense to avoid elimination while remaining authentic to their style.

Canadian models compete to become world-class supermodels.

Eight Nerds meet eight Beauties: Who will fully immerse themselves in each other's world? Only those who demonstrate true team spirit have a chance of winning the prize money of 50,000 euros.

Illya Kucherenko in Gegensätze ziehen sich an (2020)

12 beauty industry professionals compete in intense challenges, ranging from editorial looks to red carpet styles, vying to become the next American Beauty Star.

Blush: The Search for America's Greatest Makeup Artist

Vanessa Marcil in Blush: The Search for America's Greatest Makeup Artist (2008)

This Pan-Asian series gives young Asian women with modelling aspirations an opportunity to prove that they can make it in the high-stress, high-stakes world of international modelling. Coming from various backgrounds across Asia, the series follows the top model hopefuls as they live and compete against each other for the coveted prizes. Hosted by Nadya Hutagalung, the show charts the transformation of aspiring models into successful top models. With fashion director Daniel Boey, fashion photographer Todd Anthony Tyler and model mentor Joey Mead King guiding and mentoring the top model hopefuls, these young women will see themselves competing in a highly-accelerated modelling boot camp to top model fame. It is the original modelling competition that will see one girl's dream come true.

Cindy Sirinya Bishop in Asia's Next Top Model (2012)

Dog groomers compete by giving canines of all types of breeds creative makeovers.

Italy searches for the Next Drag Superstar as 8 drag queens compete in challenges demonstrating their charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent.

In this reality competition series from Brazil, twenty show-stopping queens battle it out for a spot in the country's newest pop drag trio.

Pabllo Vittar and Luísa Sonza in Queen Stars (2022)

Competition series where make-up artists go head-to-head to prove they have what it takes to be the next big name in the beauty world.

A parody of traditional beauty contests hosted by oddball comedian Rip Taylor. Mock pageant contestants would be put through a series of bizarre and embarrassing routines until one emerged as the winner. After a brief fanfare the winner was presented with her prize, worth $1.98.

In 1967, ambitious ladies enter a grueling beauty contest. They flaunt their style and charm daily, hoping to impress judges and win weekly honors. The ultimate goal: a hefty cash prize and the prestigious "Dream Girl" title.

YouTube star and beauty influencer James Charles will join forces with others in the industry to judge six contestants in the race to be the next - James Charles. The four-part series will see Charles pick one up-and-coming makeup artist as the winner of a $50,000 cash prize.

Instant Influencer with James Charles (2020)

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