Perfect ballroom hair is almost as important as perfect posture! Getting that sleek, lacquered ‘do secured as tight as a racing helmet and polished to a diamond shine takes PRACTICE, just like dancing. And you’ve got to have the right tools for the job.
Patricia Schneider of The Winning Look, shares her top 3 pro tools (which are surprisingly simple!) for dancers just learning to tame their tresses.
Quick Tip Tuesday
The 3 Must-Haves for Ballroom Hair DIY
1. Hair Gel
Get wispies and fly-aways under control. Slick hair back with gel.
2. Hair Spray
Mold your hair into submission with hair spray. Don’t hold back! Prepping your ballroom ‘do is not the time to be conservative with the spray. (Think you’re overdoing it? Channel Def Leppard and Motely Crue.)
3. Heat
Make it ballroom-proof and seal the deal with a blow dryer. The heat will meld your hair masterpiece into a shiny impenetrable sculpture, immune to snappy head turns, high-speed spins and the wayward elbow-to-the-head. (Also, tough enough to sleep in for those multiple dance days!)
Bonus Tip!
Hair shine serums and sprays can dissolve hair spray! Take care when using. Plenty of hair spray and heat will do the job for a lustrous lacquer. There you go! Your first steps to brilliant ballroom hair.
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With her husband Erik, they are the founders of DanceSport Place and have a passion to help dancesport competitors reach their dancing goals.
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It cold be a great idea to do a video doing all those steps to have an awesome ballroom hair style showing all the hair products that needs to be used!
Hello C.H. Thank you for the suggestion. We don’t have a hair styling video like that, but there are some very good ones on YouTube that show which products to use and how to create amazing dancesport hair styles.