Wear Your Hair For Ballet

Wear your hair up tightly for ballet dancing.

When you dance ballet, you need to pull long hair back tightly into a bun. If you leave long hair loose and flowing, it will distract you and get in your way as you dance. Even dancers with short hair should pull their hair back as tightly as possible to keep hair contained while dancing. With your hair neatly secured, you can then concentrate on dancing without your hair bothering you.

Instructions

Long Hair

1. Spray your hair generously to make it damp. It will be easier to pull your hair back smoothly if it is damp.

2. Add a small amount of mousse to your hair and work it evenly from the roots to the tips. Mousse will help control flyaways.

3. Brush your hair to remove all tangles.

4. Pull your hair back into a ponytail at the back of your head. The height of the ponytail is up to you--place it high at the crown for a high bun, at the midpoint of the back of your head for a medium-height bun or at the nape of your neck for a low bun. If your hair is around shoulder length, use a low ponytail to get all of your hair contained in the ponytail.

5. Twist your ponytail around repeatedly to form the bun. Keep twisting until your hair coils around in a bun shape around the elastic hair band.

6. Place a hair net over your bun, twisting it two or three times over the bun to make it tight. The elastic around the edge of the hairnet will hold it around the bun.

7. Insert bobby pins around the bun, sticking them in every inch or two around the entire outside edge of the bun.

8. Spray your hair evenly with hairspray to hold the style tightly.

Short Hair

9. Spray your hair with the spray bottle to make it slightly damp.

10. Add a little mousse to your hair, working it through evenly. The mousse will help you pull your hair back sleekly, especially if you have short layers.

11. Brush your hair back as smoothly as you can. Depending on the length of your hair, you may not be able to secure it with an elastic hair band. If you can secure it with an elastic hair band, try making a ponytail at the top of your head with as much hair as possible (leaving the bottom half down), or make a ponytail at the nape of your neck. If your hair is quite short, make a ponytail only and not a bun.

12. Place a headband around your hair to keep it off your face. This is useful if you have shorter layers around your face.

13. Use bobby pins to pin any stray wisps of hair back smoothly.

14. Apply hair spray to hold your hair securely and to smooth down any flyaways.

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