The Tumblr Kiki Ball

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🏆

LIPSYNC🏆

10s SONGS

Avril Lavigne - Sk8r Boi

Demi Lovato - La La Land

Rihanna - Only Girl In the World

BATTLES

Far East Movement - Like a G6

MIA - Bad Girls

Carly Rae Jepsen - Call Me Maybe

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💙

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