But you will be sixteen when you compete; and it's not supposed to be a competition that has children in it, which means that, even at sixteen, you're supposed to have at least something of the young adult about you!
Emphasis more on "adult" than "young", until the youth has fled, at which point a great many more stylists than just little 'ol me get hired to make a fully-mature woman pretend to the blush of youth.