A Rockette's Entire Routine, from Waking Up to Showtime | Allure

I'm Mindi molar I'm a Radio City Rockette and this is how I work it. I'll guide you through 24 hours of my beauty and wellness

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. The Christmas Spectacular season lasts a total of three months. We learn the program. In three weeks, more than a million people come to see us perform. We will perform up to 200 shows in eight weeks. It's a lot, a lot, but it's fun. One of the most challenging aspects of the job is athletics. It's exhausting, but at the same time. time I spend every day with some of my best friends, we lift each other's energy and that's the best part.

Good morning, it's 9 a.m. m. and I'm ready to start the day. I'm in the evening cast, so I'm going to sleep. I soon have two cats, so they like to wake me up very early in the morning, which is a lot of fun. I love my cats, but not at 5:30 in the morning, yes, around 9:00 9:30. I usually wake up, make my coffee and have an almond milk latte, wash my face and that's a really important part of the day as well. My skincare that I will be using is the fresh soy facial cleanser which is really great, it's still nice and bright, then the facial spray.

I like the way it makes my skin feel. I used Fresh Youth Preserve Daily Moisturizer. Okay, I'm ready because we are burning up to 5000 calories a day. They're definitely on season eight now. Four solid meals a day. Lots of carbohydrates. a lot of protein i drank at least three liters of water a day and what i really like to use is intravenous fluid, this helps me get through multiple shows a day that are supposed to tickle your hydration. I usually sit on the floor in my living room and I'll do my stretches and roll out my shoulders, get my hamstrings, work out today.

The Rockettes have been around since 1925 and the Christmas Spectacular has been around since 1933. In fact, I auditioned three times at the first audition. They cut me off immediately. I re-auditioned a few times. Months later I went a little further and they still cut me off. I kept training and training and training again until the third audition and I got the call that I was a Radio City Rockette from New York City after the audition every year, no matter how many years who. I have been in the company. I am in my eighth Christmas season and it is a great honor to be part of the ladies in line.

That's my apartment. My belongings ready to face the day before arriving at the theater. I try to do some kind. of physical activity to really make sure my muscles and body are warm and have already been used. take a yoga class. I'll go to the training pool. I arrived at the beautiful Radio City Music Hall at the door of my humble stage. Let's do this. We have an athletic training department that was actually created by a former Rockette, Mr. Ice Bats. There is PT. We have a really wonderful team of athletic trainers that help us warm up, cool down, and deal with any injuries we are currently dealing with.

They are two women's companies there are a total of 80 Rockettes divided into 41 morning casts and one evening cast we do our own hair we do our own makeup half an hour before the show starts all the Rockettes must be registered and stationary in their dressing room, so It usually takes me about 20 minutes to go from looking like this to transforming into Rockettes because I have a really amazing foundation, I'm Ilya, it's a clean new makeup line, you guys shake it first, so I'll shake it first. Up to two or four shows a day we have to constantly reapply and I'm prone to breakouts and it's super light and doesn't feel like it's filling my pores after foundation and then I'll use my concealer, it's also an Ilya Product, concealer of true skin serum, up to five pumps a day, you know, you get nice little dark circles under your eyes, but they're all a lot of love, yeah, uh, take my nice, handy dandy sponge.

I put my hair up and it's getting into it. the way you're getting the path of magical creation is usually my top knot it's like my power source I like to say so I'm gonna go get some dust this is sticky those little trouble spots I have go down my neck quite a bit Also, we have quite a few interesting changes: we have a reindeer hat, we have a soldier, we have a rag doll wig, we have a Santa beard, so there's a lot of action happening down and around the neck, so it's also very important keep it nice, clean and hydrated each girl has a total of eight costume changes from head to toe it takes a small village to make the Christmas Spectacular happen our costume team is there are three Rockettes for every person in the costume I'm in the stage level We have a nice quick change booth, this is where most costume changes happen.

There's a choreographed chaos backstage where you say, "Okay, first you're going to put on your shoes, then I'm going to put on my dress, and then I'm going to put on my gloves, my earrings, and a hat. Our quickest costume change is a 72-hour costume change." seconds, so we finish our iconic soldier's fall and then, the second the music starts for our next number, New York at Christmas, we ferociously run to the sides of the stage so that we are all fully dressed and ready to go back to the stage. scenario like it's no big deal, being a precision company, we all have to look alike, so our hair and our makeup have to be pretty identical, they want us to do it.

Be super fresh, not too much makeup, not like shade of. dark eyes. I'll make a nice face on the lid and then even go up just below my brow line. As good as it will be, then I'll take a little bit darker, probably blend these two together and then just to create a nice little shadow. Less is more, I'll just highlight what I already have after eight seasons. There are definitely a couple of shows that I get. I have these nerves and it's, but it's not fear, it's just like I'm excited, if I'm nervous, I just care about the first show where you have a live audience of six thousand people and you feel that beautiful contour curtain go up, you get this wave of emotion and I remember being dressed in brown. velvet leotard and my cute opening reindeer pose, I feel like these tears are welling up in my eyes because it's such a magical moment and it's so surreal to think that I've worked my whole life to get to such a coveted dance company, so yes, nerves.

They never go away, no matter how many times you've done this job, they're always there. I like to use a liquid eyeliner. This is the Sephora brand and I try to keep more brown in neutral tones. I have a little smaller. eyes, so I just do eyeliner on the top. I'm trying to keep the bottom of my eyes as open as possible shortly, the pressure builds and then I put on the eyelashes. I usually use the same tab for a couple of shows. I'm sure you're right, Rockette wears eyelashes. Radio City Music Hall seats six thousand people in one of the largest indoor theaters in the world, so we need to project and make our faces visible to the people sitting in the third dining room. putting on lashes isn't my best skill, so don't judge while I let it set.

I'm going to go ahead and apply some blush. This is Charlotte Tilbury. You go around the circle and then just a little book in the middle. You just have a nice highlight. not too much color. I'm a big Anastasia fan. It's like a triangle tip where you can color more. You remember in the early 2000s, the cool phases just to have super thin eyebrows, so it took me a good 10 years to grow them out. these back I know that the navigator is as important as Rockette because it helps you express each number has its own personality you know when we are wooden soldiers we have very stern faces when we are reindeer we have this cute personality inside our main number the 12 days of Christmas Every Christmas Day has its own personality Eyebrows help us really emanate our facial expressions A little more finishing touch of mascara A little highlight on the lower lashes It is very important to make sure that when changing from one costume to another, that my lipstick does not smear or smudge on your face.

Sephora lip stain. I'm a big fan of color number one. Is it really the color? Yes, so we are iconic for a touch of red, this is also another product from Aliyah in the setting powder that will help through the sweat and magic of Christmas to keep my face like a work of art. I know my makeup is officially done, so it's inevitable that a girl will get sick or hurt, so a swing. is who will intervene at any moment. I'm under the stage at Radio City Music Hall, where all the swingers make their quick changes.

A nice final ragdoll costume, two different coats, but in case you need to continue with whatever girl. new to this after experiencing this during my first year it requires a calm approach Here I am in the big rehearsal room at Radio City Music Hall this is where we prepare for our tracks every time we are thrown on stage every swing learn 9 tracks I'm learning 5 girls on stage right and 4 girls on stage left, so here we have the mock stage, we have our solid and dotted colored lines for our nice formations and we have my nice swing book that tells me all the wonderful secrets. what i need to know I'm five six and a half in the audition once you pass the first one, you will be measured to make sure you meet the height requirements between five six and five ten and a half on the first day of rehearsal.

We'll take off our shoes and we'll be put into a preliminary lineup that will be according to the height of your shoulders or the length of your neck and that will essentially be your home for the

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season. The French twist is our iconic Christmas hairstyle. The cap is responsible for creating its own touch. This is our nice hair prep station, so we have a variety of wig caps with hairspray on them with pins, in case there's a lot of sweating on the show, so I definitely at least try to rinse that out, but In terms of shampoo and conditioner, I try not to do it too much because the dirtier it is, the easier it can be to lift the hair and I will use any cut dry shampoo, it will add a little more texture to it and it will hold hold a little longer.

We have freedom of movement in terms of the direction we twist our hair. I'm a lot to wrap up with, the main unifying detail is that there's simply nowhere where we have to have it completely in your day. twist and see how this one goes so I usually start by putting my hair up in a nice low ponytail and then I keep twisting it and as I twist it harder I slowly lift it up. This is the trick I will do. These two fingers are going to pinch the twisted part and then I'm going to twist it here and then I'm going to tuck the rest of my hair under the twists that I just made, so I grab a bunch of hair with a pin, I pull it out and then I'll like to seal it back in my head, it's like this kind of wrap around motion, but in terms of hair color, you can change it if you want as long as it's a natural color, but it should just stay consistent when you put it on the hot setting.

With many of our half pony hair hat pieces so we can attach it and it should match the hair color you choose, it is very important to maintain some consistency with the size of your twist to make sure your hats don't squeeze your brains out because that definitely happens, sometimes we love to host the Christmas Spectacular on Christmas Day. It was what makes so much sense: being part of each family's tradition. My parents live in Kansas City and my sister lives in Texas. They come and spend the full five days of Christmas week with me and that's very special.

I never feel like I'm missing something. People don't realize that we actually work a lot in the off-season. We do a lot of community outreach. We are partners with Garden of Dreams, which is a wonderful non-profit organization that helps children. We have the Rockettes summer intensive program. We teach the young girls who want to be the Rockettes the choreography of the actual show. In reality, it is a year-round job. They make the final spray. oh no, I have my tail, I have to tuck my tail. I always have this cute little pony left over, so this is the last piece to put away Mindy Moeller's hair show 5 6 7 8 Christmas can start now, now I'm ready, ok. so I'm in my reindeer costume, I'm doing some finishing touches, I have my weight limit in touch now I'm ready to celebrate Christmas for 6,000 dancing people, let's go to each show, our dance captain is giving us show notes before that he doesn't do it.

It doesn't matter if it's the second week of shows or the last show, we constantly receive notes to make sure the quality of the show is maintained throughout our 200 shows. Some women have tattoos. I have one that is here, so I need to apply it. thatwith makeup and cover it up we wear a lot of tan tights we wear a couple of shows, a little trick I do is cut five holes so my toes stick out. I like to hold the shoe with my real hand. toes so I don't feel like I'm slipping definitely scares a lot of girls I work with because you look down and see ten toes sticking out of a pair of socks, but it's my thing, I love it. it helps me get through a show the show lasts 90 minutes with no intermission and then we have a full 90 minutes from when the curtain goes down to when it goes up again ok, i just finished the first show of the day we are definitely going to take a nap we have air mattress in storage in our dressing room very, very important for athletic training make sure my body feels pretty good get a good rest before the next show definitely have a snack definitely eat like it's another meal have a snack turn up my cereal and pray and there's definitely a cookie selection of jars, I'll take one of this and then half an hour in we start touching up our makeup or touching up our French touch and then we put on our deer jumpsuit and do it all over again, which I usually like to do, especially if It's for On the day of the show I'll wash my face completely and sometimes I'll start over, especially when you're sweating a lot and you feel like you taste dirty and it makes me feel like it's a new day We do up to 300 kicks at each show That's a lot of kicks There's a Full stretching regimen before and after the show to make sure I'm back to a nice home base after the show ends.

I usually try to remove all my makeup at work. I'm going to put on white lady makeup just to cleanse myself for the day and I'll do it with the dirt and sweat and then I'll take a shower at work so when I get home I'll be nice and clean. I'd rather have it all done in the theater and then it's kind of a nice close to the day and saying thank you very much. since I am good and clean now I like Allah shampoo and conditioner when I wash my hair I also use a hair milk that really moisturizes my hair and I will wash my face with a cool soy cleanser and the cool night mask I will definitely do unfold this is not the last thing I will put on very comfortable sweatpants I am a big winter coat and then I will take the train home Oh, finally home, the last thing I do I go to bed and I lie down and I think I said to myself: "You did a good job today, it was good, it was a great day." I did it from 9:00 a.m. m. to 11:00 p.m. m. now it's time to go to sleep good night cute