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Enter the ESSENCE Dare to be You Beauty Contest

Submit your photo for a chance to appear in ESSENCE magazine!
Enter the ESSENCE Dare to be You Beauty Contest
Beauty Contest
By Essence · Updated October 28, 2020
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We are on the search for real women of all ages with standout features and inspirational stories to appear in an upcoming issue of ESSENCE magazine.

Put your lusciously full lips, spectacular freckles, glorious hair —whatever makes you uniquely you — on display. ESSENCE editors will choose six diverse women to appear in the magazine.

Enter here now. It’s your turn to shine!