A Ballerina’s Entire Routine, From Waking Up to Showtime | Work It | Allure

I'm Scout Forsyth and this is how I

work

. I'll walk you through a typical day of my beauty and makeup

routine

. Our season at the Metropolitan Opera House is the most difficult we do and no other company in the world does what we do. That's eight weeks in a row of shows, eight shows a week, so 64 shows in a row. Good morning, 6:30 a.m. m. I'm going to brush my teeth and do yoga. I just need to plan some pants and yeah, but I'm out of here. The job is for my body to use it and perform it, so I've noticed that with yoga it sets up my day and also just moving my body and it mechanically resets everything, gets it back on line, man, I feel good, now that I have this active.

The foundation for me to go to my extremes, which dance requires next in the morning

routine

is a really Zen Dale coffee, usually just a latte with almond milk. It's nice if you look at a dancer with her arms up and see this black patch of armpit hair that's not part of the fluid dance line. I'm all for not shaving my armpits, but during performances, I have to shave every day, so I always put coconut oil on before shaving and then shave. I use witch hazel on top because that helps calm pores and prevent ingrown hairs.

I try to wash my hair only once a week, the greasy ring is a little gross or it's easier to cut it into a bun during the shower. I wash my face with PCA skin care. I don't use any body lotion because I'm sweating and cleaning my pores constantly, so I think I have enough natural oils and I always try to finish the shower with cold water for a couple of seconds and just nice. to build up energy for the rest of the day I shower, have some breakfast and head out the door, so I went into a BTM in the locker room upstairs, where the whole school is, but you see a little block right there. number 19 I'm going to get ready for class and do a little warm up and just get ready for the day.

I usually have at least half an hour to 15 minutes to stretch, warm up my body, and just exercise. The troubles of the night before and prepare you for a full day of dancing. This is a very typical day I have. I use an all-natural deodorant, it's called Primal Pit Pace. I just use it as if continuing towards my menstrual period. cycle because I've been very lucky that I don't smell, but when I start to smell I notice it immediately and put on my lavender scented bone paste, so I just want to show you what's inside my pointe shoes.

I put a little toe spacer in the middle just to help with the bunions and then I take the toe pad, I really do that, and then all of that goes right to the point that you like, so it's kind of a help. to protect your feet and also keep them in a healthy position for as long as possible to be able to endure a full eight-hour day of dancing. We have an hour and a half class in the morning from one of our ballet teachers or a guest teacher who comes. and that's where they start little by little, you keep building up and you don't organize the whole day of rehearsals, so we rehearse all day for next week's show and then we perform a different show that night.

I have noticed that my skin gets very oily and I am sweating so I have little pads that I use and they clean the dirt without having to go wash my face so I finished the test around 5:00 or 5:30 depending on the day and I go to lunch or dinner, the show starts around 7:30 and I try to get in there and have at least an hour to put on makeup and get ready for the show, make sure my pointe shoes are sewn, make sure my body is ready, warm and ready to go when it was. 14 is what I learned how to do makeup, it's so much fun, I never wear makeup in normal life and then you get me on stage and I'm like, just do it all, let's do a big fake eyelashes lipstick and then the hair, here's another one.

You have to learn how to style her hair and a bun, keep it in place and not move around. I had to learn how to do a French twist. I didn't know how to do that. What is the name of a romantic bun? Which is where it is down. ears and you hold it back a little bit so it's shaped like an S. I'm going to show you a basic

ballerina

beauty routine and we even have a call sheet for the presentation that says what kind of makeup we should do. and 85% of the time it says basic beauty makeup.

This is just an average stage makeup routine. I'm going to start with my base. I've noticed that it helps create a barrier and less makeup gets into my pores, so it also wrinkles less because we're constantly expressing any modifications, so we're constantly moving our face and all the wrinkles and stuff that you used, all that makeup starts to accumulate. I started using virtua, which is a sun protection line. I'm dripping sweat on stage and no. Take it out, it doesn't move, it's made to resist water and be like in the ocean after foundation, it's time to highlight and contour.

I always try to exaggerate features so the people in the nosebleed seats can see you and I definitely don't. a makeup artist, so don't laugh when your hair is up in a bun, it's always like you know the hair lines of your ears and yet, you just match it, you have a very strong lighting on you and that's why you're It will fade if not go dark and extreme with your contouring and highlighting. Wow, this is the contour palette I use. They usually go with a light brown color for the outline and then highlight. I go with Revlon Photoready and I even use the brush they give you, it's perfect for what you have to do.

The next step is powder on your face and we always go down to the neck because there is nothing worse than seeing a very pretty fiancee make a mistake with her face. of a different color than On her body her ears can also go up because when we dance we get hot, so I noticed a lot when you see a dancer and you see her with her face and then these little red ears, so I always go up with the powder to my ears so now we go to the eyebrows we always go above the eyebrow because we are always constantly trying to make our eyes look bigger than they really are, it also depends on what the dance is if I'm doing something I need a harder look, I turn them up more if we're doing something that's a little softer.

I make sure my brows are a little bit more delicate and I just color in what I already have so there's my brows another little tip and trick that we do if you want to go underneath with a little bit of light just to help accentuate the darkness that you put on your eyebrows. Now, my favorite part, which is the eyes, when I was younger. I feel very comfortable being on stage performing the more you do it, of course you get used to it and now I have been able to differentiate nerves from excitement. The emotion is good.

Nerves are just a waste of energy. I come into this, it's Pacifica Stone. - Cold Fox and I love Pacifica because it's a cruelty-free vegan brand that looks a little funky and that's the best. I love that stage makeup because the line doesn't have to be perfect because you're so far away. Anyway, the public can't see it and this I think is a L'Oreal line, you're intense and it's a liquid eyeliner. I try not to reach the corner of my eye because that only shortens it. so we usually stop right where the eyelashes end just before the inner corner of my eye no, it's time for the wings.

I like to listen to a lot of spiritual podcasts. I listen to Guru Singh. I am who I am exactly who I am. I don't believe in fifteen. I believe that everything happens for a reason and you are exactly where you need to be at all times. I like to add a little color when I do my eyeshadow. This was the color I preferred. use and for false lashes I just use the average stuff, like Duane Reade or something like that. I was on stage one time and someone's costume brushed my face and I turned to a friend and I had a smile on my face and I'm fine, the eyelashes fall off and they had to go, yes they are, but it's okay, you'll be good.

I was almost crying on stage, it was a disaster and I always make sure to triple check my glue now, after that I always add more. it's when I like to play with Drake or something that I always wear, like a dark brown, because underneath it gives it more of an appearance, it just looks big naturally, there we go, it's like the average eye. I learned this trick when I was 14 years old. I'm learning how to do makeup on stage. I heard that when Hollywood is filming their movies and they are doing a very far shot, they put little red dots in the corner of the person's eye because some parts of your eyes are red and that's how it looks. to make your eyes look bigger, I don't know how true that is, but it's something that's engrained in me and I like to do it and it's my thing and I just make a little red stripe on the outside of my eyes, I always do it.

I've done it and I probably always will so now with the blush it's like a very light blush because when we dance on stage we get so hot and sweaty I have a natural blush that's for blush so we never use pencils lipstick. I once wore red lipstick on stage. Red lipstick has a blue or orange undertone and with the hardness and brightness of the lights you see that instead of the red so I always go for a more natural lip color so I use this Revlon Rose velvet and I like it mix I like to have multiple colors here we go and my makeup is ready so now after doing the makeup I'm going to style the hair, if I'm just doing an average show it's usually a low bun in the middle part brush it towards back, finding that middle part that is sometimes very difficult to do.

I don't know why I have short hair and what my big bun would be right now, so we use hairnets that make the bun look a little bigger and more normal. -size because we are all trying to look very similar I will do it low as very classic but and so right now I notice that my hair is super soft because if I wash it it will be slippery and slippery I take my texture toner from Veda and it is like a stop, it's basically a sea salt spray and it gives it that kind of greasy hold, that's really what we have girls who have pixie haircuts and girls who have hair down to their butt, as long as you keep the shape. look on stage like you could do anything, take it and then make it as round and flat as possible that you don't want, like a big bun with a door handle, which is what we call them when they're late, big and thick, and you like I wanted it to look as soft as possible so it's not distracting, it just looks really beautiful and elegant on stage, very

ballerina

II, so once I've got it all pinned, something flat like this, take the snood, go around hair and it always just helps smooth out the flyaways that you get from dancing and moving and I usually only use four or five bobby pins in my hair so there you have it you like to sew it into your hair with bobby pins it's pretty fun. and this is like my basic ballerina beauty hair and makeup as a dancer, my foot care routine is very specific, honestly the less I do probably the better if I'm going to get a pedicure.

I don't let them remove my calluses. Calluses are our gang. -Aids to help protect when we are in shoes. I have this tool that's a gua sha and it's a little piece of jade and it just scrapes the fashion, so it would go right into the flesh of my foot. Oh, it hurts. it's also a little crunchy and it just helps wake it up and get the movement back in my ankle and sometimes I go up to my calves, into my shins, I especially don't want to get shin splints so now it's like 7 o'clock we have about half an hour before the curtain goes up and that's when I start warming up, I put on my pointe shoes, you put on the costume, our average show is about three acts and we have 15 minutes between when the curtain stops on the first act or when the curtain goes up on the first or second act at this point you're usually sweating if you have this big smile the current goes down, go, okay, let's go and you.

I run backstage ripping off your costume and taking out your hair putting on another costume and I grab the powder I wipe it on my face where it's all there I'm a little sweaty and like the shiny areas I usually have to reapply lipstick but Always take a second to go back and make sure my makeup is at the level it was when I started the program. The end of the show is like I could be in and out of there in about seven minutes. I probably normally get naked. I get down and change and take the brightest milk jelly and put it on my dry skin and just rub it in.

It looks like a raccoon like a girl crying. Makeup all over our face, something like that, it's pretty fun, I rinse it off with water and I get out of there and probably 95. One minute cup percentage is gone. It's crazy. This thing is the best I've found. There is always eyelash glue no matter what you make, so I usually come home and just eat something small. I brush my teeth first. face my Clarisonic again just to take out all the extra stuff and go tobed, wake up at 6:30 and start the day again. I'm Scout Forsyth and this was 24 hours of basic ballerina beauty.