The bouffants were big, the false eyelashes even bigger but it was the butts that needed most help in the enhancement department with some serious padding.
These are the pictures from the annual Miss Gay Nicaragua where 13 contestants battled it out to be crowned queen of queens at the weekend.
The internationally famous contest, which has been a highlight on the gay community's calendar since the early 1980s, sees drag queens parade in a series of outfits before showing off their dancing skills to a panel of judges.
The contest kicked off with all 13 wannabe queens parading in outlandish costumes and enormous feathered headdresses to rounds of applause from the audience in a packed Ruben Dario National Theatre in Managua.
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