I also bonk how Miss Netherlands was literally a tulip .

The Miss Universe pageant was this weekend!

Congrats to Sheynnis Palacios from Nicaragua for winning the title!

But I’m here to talk about my favorite part of the pageant: the national costume competition. During this part of the pageant, contestants dress up in a costume that best represents their country, and it’s always super entertaining.

Here’s how everyone dressed this year…

1.Miss Switzerland

2.Miss Dominican Republic

3.Miss Slovakia

4.Miss Angola

5.Miss Bahamas

6.Miss Croatia

7.Miss Egypt

8.MissFrance

9.Miss Great Britain

10.Miss Denmark

11.Miss British Virgin Islands

12.Miss Kosovo

13.Miss Nicaragua

14.Miss Lebanon

15.Miss Thailand

16.Miss Portugal

17.Miss Albania

18.Miss Norway

19.Miss Canada

20.Miss Italy

21.Miss Malta

22.Miss Indonesia

23.Miss Germany

24.Miss Guyana

25.Miss Bahrain

26.Miss Poland

27.Miss Zimbabwe

28.Miss Myanmar

29.Miss Puerto Rico

30.Miss Panama

31.Miss Nepal

32.Miss Ukraine

33.Miss Laos

34.Miss Mexico

35.Miss Russia

36.Miss Japan

37.Miss Malaysia

38.Miss Trinidad and Tobago

39.Miss Spain

40.Miss Paraguay

41.Miss Chile

42.Miss Finland

43.Miss Greece

44.Miss Belgium

45.Miss Mongolia

46.Miss Latvia

47.Miss Namibia

48.Miss Nigeria

49.Miss Netherlands

50.Miss Ireland

51.Miss India

52.Miss Hungary

53.Miss Jamaica

54.Miss Honduras

55.Miss Guatemala

56.Miss Mauricio

57.Miss Kazakhstan

58.Miss Cambodia

59.Miss Bolivia

60.Miss Brazil

61.Miss El Salvador

62.Miss Singapore

63.Miss South Africa

64.Miss Pakistan

65.Miss Philippines

66.Miss Cameroon

67.Miss Colombia

68.Miss Bulgaria

69.Miss Cayman Islands

70.Miss Vietnam

71.Miss Australia

72.Miss Argentina

73.Miss Ecuador

74.Miss Costa Rica

75.Miss Curaçao

76.And lastly:Miss USA

Contestants onstage

Sheynnis waving and wearing the crown

She's wearing a very colorful bodysuit, ornate emblem that includes the Swiss flag behind her, and high boots

She's wearing a leaf-print flared gown and leafy train

She's wearing ornate headgear and a strapless dress

A flared, colorful long skirt and bodice top

Detail of Miss Angola's dress, showing the illustration of a person in a Native outfit

Wearing a flared, colorful, bejeweled dress and large hat with ribbon

Wearing a short, strapless fringed dress and high boots

A two-piece sleeveless short set with lots of armbands, tall headpiece, and a large train

Close-up of the outfit

She's wearing a spangly bathing suit and headpiece and floor-length stringy train

She's wearing a crown and flared gown with words hanging on it

The back of the gown shows a replica of the Oxford Dictionary of English

She's wearing a colorful, ornate, bejeweled outfit with peacock-like, feathery train and dragon headpiece

A sleeveless gown with flared bottom and the territory's "Vigilate" flag as a sash

She's wearing a long-sleeved, two-piece gown with brocade collar

She's wearing large headgear and a bejeweled winged outfit

A sleeveless gown with a sheer printed train

An ornate, bejeweled gown and headgear with long braid

A strapless, two-toned, bodice-top gown with cape

A bodysuit with large wings

A flared, strapless gown with fringes and accents of the tricolor Norwegian flag stripes

An ornate, bejeweled, maple leaf–winged gown with a flared bottom consisting of many flags

The back of the wings says "Inclusivity makes dreams come true"

A flared one-piece with gold front, lacy train, and webbed wings

A bodysuit and tights with multicolored butterfly wings

Ornate headgear with a large overhead piece

She's wearing a two-piece minidress with train and fringed wrap and holding up a "Grimms Märchen" book

She's holding the book open

She's wearing minidress and has a complex, multitiered train of flora and fauna behind her

Wearing a pantsuit, a sparkly headpiece, and train

A flared, strapless gown with opera gloves and puffy train

An ornate, beaded gown with train and spiked headgear

Wearing a print, gold-tone gown with a multitiered train with dangling currency

A "cobblestone" flared gown with a back showing houses and other landmarks

A short dress with flared sleeves and an ornate, colorful train with many strands

A gown with a thigh-high side slit and colorful headpiece that looks like an exploding bomb with missiles on top

She's wearing a swirling, sheer outfit and holding a gold-tone baby

She's wearing a colorful, short-sleeved gown and ornate train that includes the red and blue of the flag

A colorful, bejeweled, flared gown and headpiece

A long-sleeved, lacy, flared gown and ornate headpiece

A long, fringed red gown with white accents and paper-bamboo parasol

A bejeweled headpiece and yellow brocade dress suit

An ornate red, feathery outfit with attached bird-head accent

A straight, deep-back yellow flamenco gown with flared bottom and flared sleeves

She's wearing an ornate headpiece with colorful sleeveless bodysuit, tricolor-flag wings, and a sign saying "Por amor al arte"

A straight gown with winged sleeves and headpiece

A short, long-sleeved, flared dress with petticoat and front bow and high boots

A gown with an ornate front, and she's carrying a "Take our history back" scroll and a wand

She's wearing a short, sleeveless, uneven-hem dress

A long, bejeweled gown with long robe and headpiece

A tasseled short, sleeveless bodysuit with tiered, pastel train and wings and thigh-high boots

She's wearing a beaded headpiece and a two-piece short outfit with an animal head with long antlers covering the pelvic region and a lace-and-fur train behind

A colorful outfit with tasseled arm- and legwear and ornate blade train and headpiece

She's wearing shiny pants and a large tulip on top

The tulip petals opens to reveal a rainbow pattern

An ornate gown with train and headpiece, embodying a Celtic sea goddess

Close-up of the bejeweled headpiece

She's wearing a thick necklace, ornate spiral headpiece, colorful bandeau top, and colorful, bejeweled print long skirt with train

She's wearing a short flared dress with print top layer, puffy sleeves, and long train, with the green, red, and white of the flag

She's wearing a colorful, ornate headpiece and matching long-sleeved bodysuit outfit with flared jacket that has an ocean theme

She's wearing an ornate two-piece outfit and ornate headdress with a train that has illustrations of Native scenes

She's wearing a bodysuit with circular, sheer train

She's wearing a bodice top and long flared, print skirt

Wearing a warrior headpiece and flared, multi-tiered gown with long, sheer cape

She's wearing a headpiece, tube top, ornate necklace, and shiny mid-calf skirt with bejeweled belt with tassel

She's wearing a large feathered, beaded headdress, Native-themed colorful, two-piece outfit, and large, colorful train

She's wearing a beaded headpiece and train with large parrot heads, long-sleeved bodoysuit, and tasseled boots

Side view of the bird-themed outfit

She's wearing a sleeveless gown and headpiece with a volcanic lava theme

Close-up of the bejeweled, "glowing" headpiece

She's wearing a bodysuit with a shiny print jacket with long, flared sleeves, and a train

Close-up of her face jewelry, including a large hoop nose earring

She's wearing a two-piece gown with train, sash, and matching necklace and headgear

She's wearing a colorful bejeweled, tiered gown with flared sleeves and ornate matching fan

She's wearing a fringed aviation-themed bodysuit with large wings and in the colors of the flag: red, white, blue, and yellow

She's wearing a short, ornate outfit with armored neckpiece, train, and large headdress in the colors of the flag — red, gold, and green — and photos of prominent Cameroonian women

She's carrying the colors of the flag — blue, red, and gold — and wearing an ornate, long-sleeved tasseled, bejeweled bodysuit with ornate headdress

She's showing a flag cloth that also has the silhouette of a tree and people on horses with a bright sun backdrop

She's wearing a short, sleeveless, golden outfit with large wings and a circular headpiece

An ornate bodysuit with long sleeves that have spherical, sea-themed and butterfly attachments, along with high, sparkly boots and a small, shiny train

A long, traditional, ornate, long-sleeved tiered gown and robe with bejeweled headpiece

Close-up of the colorful print hand fan and bejeweled headpiece

She's waring a strapless, multicolored pastel gown with jeweled and tasseled accents

She's wearing a bejeweled bodysuit and headpiece with the country's Sun of May theme

She's wearing a sparkly long-sleeved bodysuit, shiny thigh-high boots, and an attached train showing a light-up hat, train car, and railway tracks, as well as an emblem for Eloy Alfaro Delgado, former president of Ecuador

She's giving a thumbs-up

She's wearing a bejeweled headpiece, bodysuit and long train, with a marine/beach theme, and carrying a large staff with flora and fauna

She's carrying a torch and wearing a gold-tone bodysuit with wings to represent the three rings of the Olympics

She's wearing a bejeweled Statue of Liberty headpiece, a bejeweled bodysuit with a US flag train showing different flags and a Route 66 sign jutting out of it, and flag-themed, thigh-high bejeweled boots

Close-up of the outfit

The back view of Miss USA on the runway