Hair Styles For Short Hair In Dance Class | Dear Katie | Dance Spirit

Hi Dan spirit readers, it's Katherine Morgan and welcome to this month's dear Katie video question. It comes from marina and she asks dear Katie. I just cut my hair short, and now I don't know what to do with it for class. I love your short haircut. How do you put it up while you're dancing? Thank You Reena? Yes, I love my short hair. It makes life so much easier, except when it comes to ballet hairstyles. So here are some quick and easy hairstyles. If you have short hair that can really help you that will stay and that will look chic in the process, so anybody with short hair as a dancer, whether you're working out or any doing anything active, I recommend getting cloth headbands. These are amazing, because they'll keep your hair held back and tight without pulling and without a lot of product, because those of us, with short hair, tend to have some short pieces that tend to get loose and are really annoying, and you feel, like you, just have To keep putting hairspray on them so get some of these. They can be your fashion statement, and this headband is gon na help us with a lot of these hairstyles today, just kind of keep the hair in place. So I'm going to put it on this is one I just got at Walgreens and the key to this is once you put your hair in the headband. You want to take a couple of pieces of hair out of it so that when we put it in a ponytail, the headband is held within the ponytail and not just sitting below, or on top of it. That'S how you're going to get it to stay still and not move around. So this first hairstyle very, very simple: we're just going to put the headband on put the ponytail in and call it a day. I'Ve worn this for countless classes and rehearsals and it's been just fine, it stayed - and this is great if you're, just working out or you're a professional, but I know a lot of you are students and you need to have your hair and a bun. So I'm going to show you how to take this a step further. Okay. So what we're gon na do is take the ponytail and tuck it into the headband, and it's gon na look like a pretty little bun, so we're gon na just fold the ponytail up and roll it roll it underneath and take this hair and roll it as Well, over that headband, and I'm just gon na start to pin it just over see that headband is going to help be our guide as to the tucking and the nice thing about this, is you can really get it tight and that you have that headband there? For the hair to roll against just kind of mess around with it till you feel it's secure and that's really it. It feels very secure and you look a little bit like an old fashioned. Audrey Hepburn old, you know, old ballerina look can be very elegant. Very beautiful, very soft, so I really like this one. You can pull these little hairs forward again, keeping these baby hairs soft, but I think it's just so pretty and just very feels very, very secure also. So this is probably my favorite one. So for the second one, I'm also gon na use the headband again to pin those hairs back and we're gon na do pigtails. So exactly the same thing get some of that hair out from underneath divide your hair into and put a ponytail err and really really simple. You can use a comb to maybe even out your part a little bit but other than that super easy. I don't even really need to show you. This is a favorite hairstyle of New York City, Ballet principal Megan Fairchild, who has probably even shorter hair than mine, Daria clementa fuh, a former principal with the English National Ballet, always wore this you've seen her in videos rehearsing like this. This is just a very popular one, just a different way of doing it. You can also, if your hair is long enough from here, stick some little buns in so just wrap it around itself and put some buns in my hair is not long enough to do that and so Noor thick enough. You could also wrap tuck these under too. This is a great way to do that tucking under one all, I'm doing is exactly the same thing as before, and just pinning it and wrapping around play around with one ponytail two ponytails. This is probably going to give you a better rap. If you are looking for a more elongated hairstyle, but it works exactly the same so this next one will help you if you have shorter layers and want to build up to the bottom. If you have like shorter up here and then longer so we're gon na start, this is a very similar style to Princess Jasmine. So we're gon na do half up half down. First. Do that and you can either stay here or put your headband on if you're, using a headband, you don't particularly need a headband with this one, but I just like to do it to secure so from here again from the bottom couple hair and then we're gon Na put the the ponytail in this is good. If you need to keep some of those shorter hairs on the top pullback, it's like they have their own bone ponytail and either same thing. You keep it here, you tuck it or you can even do a little bun. If you have enough hair as we can see, I don't Roza view. Probably don't if you have short hair, but this is just another great way to wear a ponytail with a headband, and yet it's a little bit tighter up here at the top. My last tip is for performance hair. If you have to have a big bun, you will probably need an extra hairpiece. I have several hair pieces that were given to me by New York City Ballet, but you can go to a beauty supply order them on Amazon. They don't have to be real hair. You'Re gon na bust them up anyway, so don't worry about getting the nicest hair you can find, but just a piece like this. Some have mesh backing, some have a little loop on them and it will just make a difference for your bun and I'm just gon na take the hair. Stick it back here: kind of conform it to the ponytail. This is not the best piece of hair, but I just pinned it in and now I can form any kind of bun I would do you'll have to kind of play with it figure it out, but this was my secret at New York. City Ballet is having fake hair and look, and now I have a full, a full bun, so Reena. I hope that helped you again short hair can be so nice, not in the studio who you get into and you get in the studio. It can be very tricky. I did for a very long time have to wear fake hair on stage just to make my buns look big because, obviously like this, you can't do a bun. But those are some quick and easy hairstyles for class and rehearsal, and I hope you enjoy them and I hope it helps you so great questions, as always guys keep them coming. Hope, you're doing well and I'll see you next time.