Miss Universe Early Favorites : Top 10 and Top 20 Predictions

Miss Universe 2014 gets Underway: Predictions for top 20

Beauty has a universal appeal and when it comes to beauty nothing beats Miss Universe. With a worldwide audience of approximately 1 billion viewers, it is interesting to know who can be the Next Miss Universe. Miss Universe 2014/2015 will be held in city of Doral on January 26, 2015. It will be the 63rd Miss Universe pageant, Gabriela Isler of Venezuela will crown her successor at end of the event. Here is the list of 20 contestants who will predict to turn the heads.

Miss  Universe 2014 is a year of very strong candidates . In my list there are many non-powerhouse countries like GUYANA , MALAYSIA, INDONESIA, who i feature in the next post.

Bubbling up : NETHERLANDS, GREECE, TURKEY, CURACAO, GABON ,LEBANON, SINGAPORE

TOP 20 : 

Spain      India      USA        Philippines         Venezuela        Colombia       Costa Rica       France 

Indonesia      Malaysia      Thailand      Ethiopia       Ukraine     Dominican Republic   Australia 

Brazil      Russia      Jamaica        Guyana     South Africa


In no particular order, that is why you see number 1 before each contestant.

This is first post covering 10 contestants ,to check the complete lis please visit

Bitvie Miss Universe Early Favorites

POSSIBLE TOP 10 

1.      Miss Spain:  Desiree Cordero Ferrer : She is a Spanish stunner again . Spain has been performing in recent years. She has a very captivating beauty which is difficult to ignore. She is spell bounding. We see her going very far. Spain offers a very different kind of European beauty, A perfect mix of exotic North Africa and Greece and sophistication of Western European beauties.

1.      Serbia: Andjelka Tomasevic, She has what you call angelic looks. Her stares can make forget the world. Not sure how trained she is is but very refreshing to see Serbia, a non-powerhouse country performing so well.

1.      Costa Rica:  Karina Ramos. She is my favorite Latina along with Colombia and Venezuela and she will certainly go far. She is experienced ( Represented her country at Supranational Last year). Her catwalk is one one the best and has a great body to complement.

1.      India :  Noyonita Lodh . Well, India is a power house that had gone to into a slumber now waking up . India had a placement streak of 10 years at MU from 1993-2002 , winning two crowns and 3 runners up. With Noyonita's beauty it  will be difficult to ignore her. She has an amazing confidence , knows how to work the stage. Though she stands at about 5 feet 7 but works the stage well. In recent years India has suffered because of bad styling. Hope this year is different. 

1.      Ukraine: Diana Harkusha. Another angel from strife torn country. She is bound to make waves at MU 2014. Her icy blue eyes are enough to take you into a different world.

1.      Philippines: Mary Jean Lastimosa Philippines was the country of the year last year. This year they haven't performed as expected of them. But Mary Jean is a veteran in beauty pageants and can go all the way to win.

1.      Russia:  Julia Alipova Well, she is a beauty with brains. A Physics and Mathematics cum laude graduate and a sound engineer. She is a certified Russian-English translator. With these credential and her face , it will be difficult to ignore her.

 1.      Venezuela: Migbelis Castellanos ,Venezuela never gets it wrong. Use all the beauty adjectives for her.she is Miss Venezuela, Biggest Brand in Beauty Pageants

1.      Columbia : Paulina Vega. She is one of the most popular delegates this year. The Colombia Vs Venezuela debate will be a hot topic this year. Difficult to choose. She can win it all. A very strong contender. Great walk, Great Body, Commanding presence.

1.      Brazil Melissa Gurgel: Brazil has been placing in the final since 2011. This can be their year. She is less taller than a usual Miss Brazil. But she exudes charm. She has a great smile.
That is one thing that sets her apart.

It's raining Beauty for India : Wins 4 beauty pageants this month

Indian beauty on a roll

India is considered a super power in beauty pageants with 5 Miss World and 2 Miss Universe crowns. India is one of the most successful countries in the beauty pageants. India holds a unique record of winning the two most coveted crowns Miss Universe and Miss World in the same year twice, in 1994 and 2000. In fact in 2000 India held 4 major crowns in the world of pageants. This year has been somewhat a repeat of the year 2000 with Indian girls winning four beauty crowns. Though Koyal Rana was not able to make the final cut at Miss World, she made India proud by emerging the topper of the leader board before the final round. She made it to top 10 as the highest scorer. She also won Beauty with a Purpose title and was adjudged the best in designer gown. She was also in top 5 of beach beauty and Multimedia.  After the semi-final the scores were set to zero again and no rounds happened to shortlist the candidates for final. Transparency was missing from Miss World this year as we do not know how the top 5 were chosen. Nevertheless it was a good performance from Koyal Rana. 

Asha Bhatt, 22 year old engineering student from Karnataka won Miss Supranational 2014 on December 6, 2014 beating 70 other contestants. Miss.Miss Supranational is considered 3^rd most coveted title after Miss Universe and Miss World. It is better than Miss Earth and Miss International in terms of production quality and Brazilian Beauty portal Globalbeauties lists it as a Grand slam pageant. Miss Earth 2014 was won by host country girl Jamie Herrell. It was second time in 14 years that Philippines won the title of Miss Earth. There has been a lot of criticism surrounding this pageant as the host country makes the semifinal cut almost every year.

Miss Supranational 2014 was held in Warsaw, Poland. She also won the Miss talent round at the contest. Thailand took second place and Gabon emerged third. USA and host country Poland were 4th and 5th respectively

In the same month of December India won three other beauty pageants.

Ruhi Singh, won Miss Universal Peace and humanity in Beirut Lebanon. This is the very First year for this pageant and it hopes to bring peace in the most unsettled part of the world, Middle East..

Swetha Raj, won the coveted Miss Asia Pacific World 2014. This was third year in a row that India won this title. Swetha raj was Miss India Australia as well. The 2014 Miss Asia Pacific World, May Myat Noe from Burma, was crowned on 31 May 2014 but was dethroned after three months.

India’s fourth crown for the month and year is Miss Tourism Queen International 2014 (China Version). India’s Parul Bindal won the crown in Shenzen China on December 12. Here is video link for her crowning moment.

Parul Bindal Miss Tourism Queen International

Asha Bhatt, Miss Supranational 2014