By Katie Harrington

The drama, the tears…the synthetic hair. When you’re a stylist at one of the largest beauty pageants in the world, things can get a little crazy backstage. Your 17-hour workday begins with a 7 a.m. call time and doesn’t end until the last piece of confetti hits the stadium floor. The day of the show, contestants fly in and out of your 2x2 station (you style about eight different girls three times throughout the day), and sometimes, you’ll have just three minutes to change long, flowing curls into an intricate, evening upstyle. But if you’ve…