As you all remember, there was a Crest Smile competition going on two months ago whereas girls would submit their photos on Crest website and people would vote for them so that they get a chance to feature in Femme magazine. Back then we supported for fun a candidate trying to send out a message that Maya illustrated so well.
Rima Zeidan won the competition and apparently stopped smiling after she read my post that this competition looks fixed.
Quoting her:
“Yes it is surprising, and yeah maybe a coincidence.
But I just want you to take a good look at the picture and be the judge youself, use your objectivity.
Don’t blame everything on Wasta… you may not beleive it, coming from the winner herself, BUT if there is one person in Lebanon who is against wasta, then it is me. I can assure you that the competition was a very objective one and we had to go through several phases before the decision was made and the winner announced…
So…yeah…The winner may not be who you wanted it to be, but don’t just always hide behind wasta because the degree of professionalism if the CREST and FEMME team was exceptional! 🙂
KEEP SMILING”
My Dearest Mira,
1- Alf Mabrouk for you and you sure have great white teeth and deserve to win, but that’s not the point we were trying to send out. We were voting for a cartoon character with 3 teeth and the girl with the red hat that was not even smiling in case you did not notice.
2- Rules of the competition were based on voting yet as i said before, i never saw your picture among the 20 most popular images. Why are they deceiving people into voting if they count for nothing?
3- Unfortunately, you cannot assure me of any competition’s subjectivity, at least not in Lebanon. I do want to believe you but there is no way you are aware of everything that’s been going on behind the curtains.
4- I hope you will get a good job based on your diplomas (Major in Finance, Minor in Communication at AUB) and merit and not because you won the Crest Smile. That would be demeaning to you as a person.
Keep smiling and good luck and hope to see you around.
well najib im a loyal fan of this blog, and thats mainly because its honest and “mahdoum”…
but i think u have taken this post a little too far ,,,
i mean i dont know the girl & haven’t really heard of this competition but she looks ok… and come on.. give her some slack some competitions in lebanon are fair
Crest also said the voting would be part of the formula and not whoever won the voting would be on the cover. The voting basically made life easier for crest since people filtered the good ones out and brought the pretty smiles to the top of the list. If she was in the top 50 that would probably have been good enough for her to be noticed by crest.
i agree with samer, i think this is going just a bit too far haha
Samer,
I also think she looks ok and deserves to win and i’ve said that, but lets not fool each others here.
A fair competition in Lebanon?
Name me one.
Dear Najib,
First of all you apparently do not know the procces that crest and Femme went through to chose the winners.
It was based 40% on people’s votes and 60% on the jury. And the jury was composed of Crest team and Femme magasine team. So please Najib don’t attack anyone before having good knowledge about the subject.
Dear Farah,
I wrote what i wrote based on what the competition stated and it did have any links to rules of the competition. Next time you want to make a competition, make your rules clear to all.
And in case you missed it, i never said Rima did not deserve to win or anything, my simple statement is that she just came out of nowhere since i had followed the competition the first month.
Najib stop pissing people off
Her name is MIRA and don’t elaborate on subjects you barely know about !
Farah,
I will do whatever i want.
ba3den why are you that pissed? Remember what Mira told you to do, keep smiling 😉