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The Best Liquid Lip Sticks & Stains for Dancers

Are you after a long-lasting lipstick that doesn’t smudge to get your dancer through a long day of performances? Or perhaps you have a young dancer and want a super-easy way to get their lipstick on smoothly and easily? Well then you should be considering a lip stain or liquid lipstick rather than a traditional stick of lipstick

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Pack – The Fourth Step to Surviving your kid’s Dance or Ballet recital

Packing after a dance recital will look different for every parent. It will depend on how many items your dancer was in, whether you are taking costumes home or whether they are staying with the studio, how tired your dancer is after the recital, and how late the recital finished for example.

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Perform – The Third Step to Successfully Navigate Your Child’s Ballet or Dance Recital

On the day of a dance recital as a parent you will be performing various roles and duties from chauffeur to clothes dresser, hair and make-up artist, counselor, snack supplier, medic and more before the day is out.

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Prepare – The Second Step in getting ready for your kid’s Dance or Ballet recital

ot more to being recital ready than just packing all the correct stuff. There are also plenty of dance recital checklists out there to help you cross off everything you might need to bring on the day (we have one of those for you too!) So we have gone beyond checklists in this article giving you helpful information on how to prepare for your dancers recital day!

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Practice – The first Step in Preparing for your Child’s Dance or Ballet recital

When you first think about getting prepared and ready for a dance recital you might start thinking about organizing costumes, buying tickets for your family to attend, or about how you are going to get your dancer’s hair to stay in place on the day.

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The Best Life-Saving Stain Removers for your Dance Costume Disasters

It is the day before your child’s dance recital or competition and you do one last check of their costume only to realize they have gotten red lipstick in a noticeable area during rehearsals. Or perhaps when they were sipping their water it accidentally dripped onto an applique and you put the costume away not realizing it was wet only to get it out and see the color from the embellishment transferred to the lycra!

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How to Lay Out & Cut a Sewing Pattern for a Dance or Ballet Costume

When my mom taught me how to sew, I was terrified of cutting the pattern out wrong and wasting a bunch of fabric, but I soon learned that laying out and cutting out a pattern is really not that hard, and it’s a great way to help out at your child’s dance studio, even if you don’t sew.   So grab your fabric and scissors and you’ll be an expert in no time!

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How to Tie Stretch Elastic Ribbons on Ballet Pointe Shoes

It’s so exciting when your daughter gets her first pair of pointe shoes, but it can also be stressful.  She’s gotten the ribbons and elastics sewn on, but what are they actually for?  How should she tie them so they do what they’re supposed to do?  We will describe the two most common ways to tie pointe shoe ribbons. She should choose the method that’s best for her.

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