Dao Thi Ha practices wearing high heels for the Miss contest

Thuy Dung - Miss Foreign Trade - only brought three dresses to the contest, while Dao Thi Ha had to spend time practicing walking in high heels.

The final night of Miss Vietnam will take place on the evening of August 28 in Ho Chi Minh City. Huynh Thi Thuy Dung is one of five candidates from the host city of Ho Chi Minh City. After becoming Miss Charming Foreign Trade University of Ho Chi Minh City 2016, she was encouraged to participate in the national beauty contest. Thuy Dung has been considering this for quite a while because she considers herself to be the introverted type, not used to noise, not to mention her parents strongly objected.

The Miss Vietnam pageant was much bigger than the new Miss Foreign Trade had imagined. In the first week of the final round, she only brought three dresses and washed them herself every night to wear again. "I never bought many nice dresses before, I always wore jeans to school," she shared. After that, she and the other contestants were helped by the organizers, borrowing designer clothes to dress up.

Huynh Thi Thuy Dung.

Runner-up of Miss Foreign Trade Ho Chi Minh City 2016 - Luc Thi Thu Thao - also had a very modest number of outfits compared to many other competitors. The girl born in 1997 was jokingly called Miss Tam by the contestants because she only had one pair of shoes during the Southern final round. She was lost in the "forest" of contestants wearing fancy dresses. Wearing a white shirt, jeans and a small figure, Thu Thao looked more like a student than a beauty pageant contestant.

Luc Thi Thu Thao (third from left) dressed simply when going to the North to attend the Miss Vietnam final round.

The bright candidate of Miss Vietnam - Bui Nu Kieu Vy - was not supported by her family at first. "My parents said that the family was not well-off, and that going to Saigon to compete in a beauty pageant would be very expensive. The family was also worried that their daughter would not travel far, and they were afraid that the contest would involve harsh competition. But I don't know why, at that time, I was very determined and begged my parents to let me go, and even asked my relatives to help me," she said.

Many contestants were initially not "keen" on the contest but later on they became more and more brilliant. Dao Thi Ha, a girl with a smile similar to Tang Thanh Ha, is an example. Joining the Miss Cua Lo Beach 2016 contest to please her sister, she did not expect to win. Afterwards, the Nghe An Provincial Youth Union and her family continued to encourage and persuade her to compete in Miss Vietnam. Dao Thi Ha had to spend some time practicing to be able to confidently walk in high heels.

Contestant Dao Thi Ha from Nghe An had to take some time to get used to the catwalk in high heels.

Like Dao Thi Ha, participating in Miss Vietnam 2016 was not in Huynh Thuy Vi's original plan. However, when recommended by the Can Tho City Youth Union and supported by her colleagues in the company, the bank employee decided to try. However, due to lack of documents, she was not allowed to compete in the Southern region preliminary round and had to go to Hanoi to compete. Entering the final round, despite having a height of only 1.65 m (the shortest in the contest), Thuy Vi still attracted attention with her smooth white skin and the gentle beauty of a girl from the West.

According to VNE