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Pageant headshots built for confidence, polish, and presence — imagery prepared for the individual, not a generic template.
Pageant headshots have to do more than look attractive. They need to communicate confidence, polish, personality, and presence — the kind of intentional image that holds up in a crowded field.
MGP pageant sessions are highly guided and collaborative. Clients often arrive with competition goals, wardrobe ideas, visual inspiration, pageant-specific usage needs, Pinterest boards, social profiles, previous headshots, and a point of view about how they want to present themselves.
That information shapes the session. The work is built for the individual contestant — across age groups and divisions — not a one-look pageant formula.
The experience
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Planning starts by learning the pageant, division, competition goals, desired image style, and where the photographs will be used.
Pinterest boards, social profiles, wardrobe ideas, and prior headshots — when you have them — help define the impression you want to make before anyone steps in front of the camera.
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Preparation is part of the result. Wardrobe, hair, makeup, expression, and visual direction are planned so the session feels intentional rather than improvised.
Professional hair and makeup is included with both current pageant packages. An HMU look is a distinct professional hair and makeup styling. An outfit change is a wardrobe change — it does not include a new HMU look.
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Sessions generally last two to three hours, depending on whether the client has one HMU look or two.
Photography is guided throughout — posing, expression, movement, composition, and polish — with variety across wardrobe and HMU looks. You are not expected to know what to do in front of the camera.
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Galleries are delivered digitally, with high-resolution digital images included in each package.
Additional edited images can be added after the session.
Sessions
One HMU look
Approximately 2 hours, depending on pacing and looks.
Includes
An outfit change is a wardrobe change. It does not include a new HMU look.
Two HMU looks
Approximately 3 hours, depending on pacing and looks.
Includes
Two distinct HMU looks are prepared for the session. The four outfit changes are wardrobe changes and do not each receive a separate HMU look.
Package details and pricing are shared when you inquire. Start an inquiry
Pageant sessions can be customized around your competition, wardrobe, and image needs. Additions are discussed during inquiry — not as a complicated à-la-carte sheet.
The result
Meagan is amazing with kids. She kept my daughter engaged and laughing throughout the shoot. I was impressed before we even left the studio — and blown away when the photographs arrived. The service and the finished work were both outstanding.
I've worked with Meagan twice as a Mrs. contestant. She is one of the best photographers I have worked with. The images she creates are beautiful, and she makes me look and feel absolutely stunning.
Meagan has done every one of my headshots. Those images have been associated with Pageant Planet's #1 Headshot recognition in the Miss division in 2021, and with a NYFW billboard in Times Square.
Tell us about the competition ahead and the presence you want these images to carry.
Tell me what you're stepping into.
A guided intake to shape the session, or a direct note when you already know what you'd like to share.