Botox for Camels? At Saudi Arabia Beauty Pageant, That’s a Big No-No

Their necks were long, cheeks broad, humps shapely and lips droopy. Too droopy.

At least 12 contestants have been disqualified from Saudi Arabia’s annual camel beauty contest because the owners injected their lips with Botox.

The judges were set to hand out millions of dollars in cash prizes to the breeders of the most toothsome beasts.

But the contestants at the King Abdulaziz Camel Festival in Rumah had to adhere to one condition: All beauty must be “natural.”

And that’s where a problem arose.

“They use Botox for the lips, the nose, the upper lips, the lower lips and even the jaw,” Ali al-Mazrouei, the son of a leading Emirati camel breeder, said in an interview with the United Arab Emirates newspaper The National.

“It makes the head more inflated so when the camel comes, it’s like, ‘Oh, look at how big that head is,’ ” he said. “It has big lips, a big nose.”