lynsey addario, photographer

India: Miss India Beauty Pageant 2001

A contestant for the Miss India Pageant perfects her makeup moments before a pre-judging session of the pageant in the backstage dressing room of the Hotel Regent in Bombay, India Saturday, January 27, 2001. All thirty contestants have spent the last two weeks confined to the Hotel Regent undergoing rigorous training sessions and preparations under the watchful eye of monitors and counselors to get ready for the final pageant Janury 27, 2001.
Bombay, India
A contestant for the Miss India Pageant perfects her makeup moments before a pre-judging session of the pageant in the backstage dressing room of the Hotel Regent in Bombay, India Saturday, January 27, 2001. All thirty contestants have spent the last two weeks confined to the Hotel Regent undergoing rigorous training sessions and preparations under the watchful eye of monitors and counselors to get ready for the final pageant Janury 27, 2001.