the manchester ballroom community welcomes you to our third annual ball. i hope you can join us🤍saturday 4th april, manchester, UK🇬🇧
location📍: fairfield social club
DOORS 5PM, LSS 6.30PM SHARP.
DONT GAG LIKE LAST TIME!
JUDGES
TBC
MC
TBC
DJ
TBC
BEST NAILS🏆
throw it back to the peak of tumblr aesthetics: animal prints, aztec patterns, and florals that covered every girl’s iphone case in 2011.
your nails should look like they were screenshotted from a reblog chain — loud, mismatched, maximalist.
bring nails that scream: “reblog if you remember this.”
EU RUNWAY🏆
soft grunge meets DIY rebellion.
bring it in distressed, ripped, shredded, destroyed clothing like you crawled out of a lookbook.nu photoshoot.
think: torn tights, layered plaids, ripped tanks, everything held together by angst and safety pins.
this is “my parents don’t get me” fashion — but make it runway.
AA RUNWAY🏆
A reference to the iconic paper bag face trend that flooded Tumblr inspo boards — anonymous, artsy, a little unhinged.
bring it in an all-americal apparel fantasy, clean lines, basics elevated — but with that paper bag headpiece giving you anonymity and trend.
you are the moment that deserved 10,000 reblogs.
HANDS PERFORMANCE VS ARMS CONTROL🏆
your hands/arms must tell a story through one cohesive word or sentence, written across your knuckles or arms — like school-desk scribbles, sharpie confessions, and tumblr text posts.
examples: S.W.A.G., YOLO, LOVE, SAD GIRL, FOLLOW ME, etc.
BODY (FF/MF)🏆🏆
female-figure body in a bikini and balaclava, referencing the neon-crime-fantasy aesthetic of spring breakers. you are a rebellious beach angel — dangerous, sun-kissed, and glowing like a screenshot from a 100-note photoset.
male figures, you’re the boy tagging along with the girls on their messy, chaotic spring break adventure.
bring a beach-inspired look: shorts, tanks, beads, towels, flip-flops — careless, sunburned energy.
you are the background character who suddenly becomes the star.
SEX SIREN (MF/FF)🏆
bring it like the vintage playboy bunny aesthetic that tumblr romanticized: soft-focus, pastel glamour, ears, cuffs, bow ties, and seductive simplicity.
COM VS COM🏆
the battle of the buzzwords that defined an entire chaotic decade.
for your 10s you must incorporate the iconic tumblr-era words:
SWAG. YOLO. HASHTAG.
this is the era when everyone was doing the absolute most — and you’re bringing it back.
FASHION KILLA🏆
channel the bling ring teens: effortlessly trendy, morally questionable, paparazzi-flashed, designer-obsessed.
your outfit should feel like it was stolen from a celebrity closet in 2011 — sunglasses at night, micro-minis, fur vests, uggs, and fake innocence.
serving “caught on security cam but still cute.”
OTA FACE (MF/FF/GNC)🏆🏆🏆
your face is the post everyone stops scrolling for. bring a REVEAL using the infamous chunky tumblr glasses collection — thick frames, clear frames, neon frames, nerd-core frames. you start with one identity… and reveal another.
serve: “tagged in #cute #hipster #goodvibesonly.”
FQ REALNESS & JNR FQ REALNESS🏆🏆
the tumblr girlies LOVED a union jack moment — shorts, tees, nails, everything. bring realness wrapped in mandatory union jack fashion, like you’re posing for a 2012 mirror selfie with flash.
MF & TRANSMAN REALNESS🏆🏆
soft rap tumblr had the boys in flannels, snapbacks, low-slung jeans, smoke edits, and moody lyrics on pictures. bring it in mandatory flannel attire, referencing the wiz khalifa aesthetic that every tumblr rapper boy imitated.
DRAGS REALNESS🏆
galaxy print took over tumblr like a virus — leggings, hoodies, backpacks, vans, you name it.
bring realness in one mandatory galaxy print piece, giving cosmic chaos but somehow still grounded.
BABY VOGUE🏆
the paul frank monkey was on EVERY binder, hoodie, lunchbox, and blog. for baby vogue, bring it in a paul frank–inspired look, bright, cartoonish, playful.
BQVF🏆
tumblrs alt boys LOVED ed hardy — dragons, tigers, rhinestones, tattoo graphics. bring it in an ed hardy–inspired look with mandatory fishnets to fuse the soft-grunge dash with early-2000s rockstar energy.
RWT🏆
the era of urban tumblr swag edits — bow wow pics filtered blue, captioned “real kings stay lowkey.”
bring a bow wow–inspired look with a mandatory snapback.
FQ PERFORMANCE🏆
bring it in a mandatory block-text t-shirt, the kind that said:
“COOL STORY BRO” • “YOLO” • “I <3 NERDS” • “CAN’T SLEEP CLOWNS WILL EAT ME.” • “DUMP HIM!”
DRAGS PERFORMANCE🏆
bring the chaos era: stripes, layers, raccoon hair energy, and mandatory knee-high socks. bring it in stripy, emo-scene kid core — the kind of look that was always captioned:
“rawr means I love you in dinosaur.”
WOMENS PERFORMANCE🏆
this is the Barbie GIF era — pink, shiny, over-edited glamour with lip gloss that looked wet even in photos. bring a tumblr bimbo Barbie look: hyper-feminine, sparkly, plastic-fantasy.
GNC PERFORMANCE🏆
neon was a full tumblr identity: green beanies, pink hoodies, yellow socks, highlighter everything. bring it in explosive neon colours — glowing like an edit done with too much saturation.
CLASSIC PERFORMANCE (VF/OLD WAY/NEW WAY)🏆
bring it like a 2012 “indie boy/girl/gay they” edit. think artic monkeys, flannel, beanies, polaroids, cigarette silhouettes, and the entire hipster anthem culture.
BEGINNERS RUNWAY🏆
you’ve just opened your first Tumblr blog. you’re experimenting.
bring at least 1 piece of customised clothing — DIY patches, handwritten lyrics, bleach dye, cropped something, ripped something.
your runway look should feel like that first original post that only got 2 notes, but you were proud anyway.
serve: “i made this… please reblog.”
OTA SHAKE THAT ASS TO JERSEY BEATS🏆
BALLROOM TERMS
BQ - BUTCH
FQ - FEM QUEEN
GNC - GENDER NON CONFORMING
CHOP - PLEASE COME OFF THE FLOOR AND COME BACK NEXT TIME🤍
this space does not tolerate any forms of transphobia, racism, xenophobia, islamaphobia, or any forms of segregation / bullying.
if you experience this on the night, please come to one of the hosts and we will deal with it immediately💙
#sEeYoUsOoN 😜
Event Venue
Fairfield Social Club, 6 Irk Street,Manchester, United Kingdom
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