Petalviolet

Lovely new profile pic swanprincess!

Amos your DD and her amazing buns!! You can really elevate it to an art form. If you can do these amazing plaits and twists and sculpt it then strut around.. "I am the Queen of all ballet sumptuousness! Behold and recognise."

How did she even come up with this technique??!! Did she just get cross with her bun one day? Very funny/inventive

How old were you or your DD before they were regularly doing their own bun.? My DD is eight and recently a teacher suggested she should be doing it herself but I LAUGH. I SCOFF at this suggestion. Not with all that thick soft heavy but also fly away hair. Not at six in the morning. Or when it counts. Or we're late. Or because I'm far too impatient for the endless twiddling, foofing faff justcomehereletmedoit. But... What if something happens to me.....? The IDEA of my other half attempting a bun? Shudder.

Hehehe only with the greatest respect you understand!

Collies make you think of ballet....

Have to say I don't think I could muster the courage to utter Toi Toi Toi to anyone but that's probably my lack of artistic pedigree and possibly the rather uptight conservative town from which I've been born and bred. I'd often like to use the phrase 'aide du memoir' which sometimes crops up on this forum too. You doing the sainsburys shopping list? No. This is my aide du memoir du Sainsburys. Item 1 Tissu du toilette...etc. I have also never tried a McDonald's Fillet O' Fish for this very same reason. My other half has no such qualms and often scatters his commentary on social media with the word 'chagrin' with such regularity I'm not entirely sure he knows what it means. I prefer to let sleeping dogs lie on this one..mainly because the conversation I'd have to have with him would inevitably end up with him using the word....chagrin.

I think it was just a head shot and took only a matter of minutes

You (as in..me) cultivate an expression of expertise when anyone starts chatting to you about ballet...you never divulge your source..you just look..owlish. Then you scuttle back on here very quickly to ask a billion questions to people who ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT and LAUGH AT YOU but enable you to maintain a tenous but mysteriously plausible air of balletic know-how you really cannot justify.

Thank you DrDance - so the purple bun head one would be a good start resistance wise. I shall order. I can't believe she would need anything stronger? She's a puny eight year old whose "maximum resistance" is reached by the often insurmountable task of spearing a drink carton with a straw.

And would a teacher want the class all using the same resistance so as to gauge level- progress? Seems like there were all sorts of colours in DD's class and she borrowed the teacher's.

Car-to-Barre™ Let's all take a moment to appreciate.. ...and then I'll let you all move on.

There is a mind boggling variety. :-( what seems like a simple request often spirals out of control for me as regards ballet. Like the phrase "oh just put a stitch in it" and "just make a small bow and attach.."

Thank you!

No move it have them! Ok ok bun heads = excercise bands..learning...

Everywhere! Grrrrr.

Out of stock JustBallet....tut.

There is something utterly creepy about finding discarded bun nets. Ugh...yuk yuk yuk. They look like spiders nests. Hope that isn't just me by the way.

hello everyone - hopefully a quick question? DD's associate teacher has asked her to get a Theraband and asked for "full strength" as some of the ones the other children were bringing weren't strong enough (according to my DD only who at best is incredibly unreliable). DD was talking about using them for arm and shoulder excercises with a partner primarily - does that make sense or sound familiar? Now this may just be the ramblings of an eight year old so can I ask.. What strength Theraband does or did your DC use when they first started (age 8) "full strength" seems a bit much? Is that maximum resistance?! Surely not. Does it have to be a "Theraband" is this a brand and are there cheaper alternatives? A pack of varying resistance is about £15 or more and I don't want to buy two or more bands she doesn't need if they aren't strong enough? The only help she could give me was that her teacher favoured "pinky ones" (sigh) I'm hoping that colour =resistance? Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks!

Thanks swanprincess I thought I'd seen them worn outside but just as you say - maximum radius of car park. DD is only eight so this may be something to invest in for the future - they'd be great if she was doing a day of rehearsals especially as those split sole canvas shoes seem to be dirt magnets, much worse than her leather ones and I bet they won't last as long.

Oh I think maybe my use of the term 'studio' was perhaps rather more specific than I intentioned!! I hoped to find a warm, no fuss, pull on boot that could be worn making the trip to class and then removed before she goes in? I know there are UGG type shoes or varieties of snow boots a plenty but had spotted bootees commonly worn and wondered if they would be suitable? I didn't realise they didn't have soles. I can see why they would be extremely practical if you spent hours indoors going from ballet class to ballet class, up and down staircases and whatnot but now I realise what they are specifically designed for I don't think my DD would spend more than 10 mins in between one of her classes and one she has to cross a street for so perhaps not necessary for her yet.

I haven't looked at these closely in the flesh so to speak, was hoping they came with an ordinary sole similar to a snow boot but Primaballerina1 they are sole less? So could only be worn in a studio and not even *"car to barre"? *I like what I did there.

This spray gel sounds like a good idea - hopefully it doesn't have an overpowering hairspray smell but don't have to use my hands? This would be ideal!

Slightly off topic - does anyone use hair gel rather than hairspray to get hair slicked back? If so any suggestions for something not too heavy but with a good hold for thick hair?

No the ways of the squirrel are wise and appropriate just asked DD did you do partner work? She said NO (sigh) so from exiting class to arriving home not quite sure how much has been retained. Glad your DD had a lovely time too! Xx