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

I'm Scout Forsyth and this is how I work it I'm gonna take you through a typical day of my beauty and makeup routine our Metropolitan Opera House season is the hardest one we do and no other company in the world does what we do it's eight weeks straight of performances eight performances a week so 64 shows straight good morning 6:30 a.m. I'm gonna go brush my teeth and head out to yoga I just need to plan some pants and yeah but I'm out of here my job is my body to use and to perform and so I've noticed with yoga it sets up my day and also just moving my body and mechanically kind of resets everything makes it back in the line man I feel like okay now I had this asset foundation to be able to do my extremes on it which dancing requires next on the morning routine is a really Zen Dale coffee usually just an almond milk latte good if you're looking at a dancer and her arms up and you see this black patch of armpit hair that doesn't make the line of dancing fluid I'm all for like not shaving your armpits but during performances and I have to shave every single day and so I always put on coconut oil before I shave shave it off and then I use witch hazel on top because that helps to kind of calm down the pores and prevent ingrown hairs I try to only wash my hair about once a week the greasy ring kind of icky or it is it's easier to cut up in a bun during my shower I wash my face with PCA skincare I don't use any body lotion because I'm constantly sweating and cleansing my pores so I think I have enough natural oils and I always try to end the shower with cold for a couple seconds and just kind of boost the energy for the rest of the day I get on the shower I eat some breakfast and head out the door so I just got into a BTM in the upstairs locker room where all the school is but that you see a little block right there number 19 I'm gonna get ready for class and do a little warm-up and just kind of get ready for the day I usually have at least a half hour to 15 minutes of just stretching warming up my body and just kind of working out the kinks from the night before and getting it ready for a full day of dancing this is a very typical day out I've got I use an all-natural deodorant it's called primal pit pace I only use it kind of went on towards my menstrual cycle because I've I've been very fortunate I don't smell but when I do start to smell I notice it immediately and I put on my lavender scented pit paste so I just want to show you what goes into my pointe shoes I stick a little toe spacer in between just to kind of help with the bunions and then I take my toe pad I really do and then all of that just goes right into the point you just like that so it's kind of help to protect the feet and also just keep them like in a healthy position for as long as possible so I can sustain a full eight-hour day of dancing we have an hour and a half class in the morning from one of our ballet masters or a guest teacher that comes in and that's where they start off small you keep building up and not sets up your whole day of rehearsals so we're rehearse all day for the next week's show and then perform a different show that night I've noticed my skin gets really oily and sweaty so I have little pads that I use and it wipes the dirt off without having to go wash your face so I finished rehearsal around 5:00 or 5:30 depending on the day and I go and get lunch / dinner the show starts around 7:30 and I try to get in there and have at least an hour to do all my hair makeup and get ready for the show make sure my pointe shoes are sewn make sure my body is ready and warm and ready to go when I was 14 is what I learned how to do makeup it's so funny I never wear makeup in normal life and then you get me on stage and I'm like just do it all like let's make it some a big fake eyelashes lipstick and then hair here's another thing you have to learn how to do her hair and a bun keep it in its spot and it's not moving I had to learn how to do French twist didn't know how to do that what's it called romantic bun which is where it's down over the ears and you pin it back a little bit so it has this S shape to it I'm gonna show you guys a basic ballerina beauty routine and we even have a call sheet for the performance that says what kind of makeup we need to do and 85% of time it says basic beauty makeup this is just an average stage makeup routine I'm gonna start with my primer I've noticed it helps create a barrier and less makeup gets into my pores so also it less creasing too because we're constantly expressing any moding so we're constantly moving our face and so all the creases and stuff you used all that makeup starts to build up I started using virtua which is a sunscreen line I'm dripping sweat onstage and it doesn't come off it doesn't move it's made to withstand water and be like in the ocean after foundation it's highlighter and contouring time I always try to exaggerate the features so people that are up in the nosebleed seats can see you and I'm definitely not a makeup artist so like don't laugh when your hair is back up in a bun there's always like you know your ear hair lines and even so just kind of even it out you've got really harsh lighting on you and so you're gonna get washed out if you don't go dark and extreme with your contouring and highlight of whoa this is the contour palette I use they usually go with kind of a lightish brown color for the contouring and then highlight I go with the Revlon Photoready and I even use the brush that they give you it's perfect for what you need to do next step is powder in the face and we always go down on the neck because there's nothing worse than seeing a really pretty fianc err with her face a different color than her body you can go up on the ears too cuz when we're dancing we get hot and so I noticed too a lot when you see a dancer and you'll see her at like her face and then these little red ears so I always go up with the powder onto my ears so now we go into the eyebrows always go above the eyebrow because we're always constantly trying to make our eyes appear bigger than they actually are it's also depending on what the dance is if I'm doing something that I need a harsher look I bring them up higher if we're doing something that's a little softer I make sure my eyebrows are just a little bit more dainty and I just kind of color in what I've already got so there's my eyebrows another little tip and trick we do if you want to go underneath with a little bit of light just to kind of help accentuate the dark you put on your eyebrows now on to my favorite part which is the eyes when I was younger I wasn't really comfortable being on stage performing the more and more you do it of course you get used to it and now I've been able to differentiate nerves against excitement excitement is good nerves are just a waste of energy I go into this it's Pacifica stone-cold Fox and I love Pacifica because it's a cruelty-free vegan brand kind of looks a little funky and that's the best thing - I love that stage makeup is that the line don't have to be perfect because you're so far away from the audience they can't really see it anyways and this is I think it's a L'Oreal line you're intense and it's a liquid eyeliner I try not to go all the way into the corner of my eye because that just shortens it so we usually stop about like right where the lashes stop right before the inside corner of my eye no it's time for the wings I like to listen to like a lot of spiritual podcast I listen to guru Singh I am Who I am exactly who I am I don't believe in quinces I think everything happens for a reason and you're exactly where you need to be in every moment I like to add a little bit of color when I do my eye shadow this was like the color I kind of use and for fake lashes I just go with the average stuff you find that the like Duane Reade or something I was onstage once and someone's costume brushed up against my face and I turned to a friend and I kind of had the smile on my face and I go all right lashes falling off and they had to go yes they are but it's okay you'll be fine I was almost crying onstage it was a disaster and I always make sure to triple check my glue now after that always add more.this is when i have like drake playing or something i always go with like a dark brown for underneath it gives it more of the appearance just naturally looking big there we go that's like your average eye right there I learned this trick when I was 14 I'm learning how to do stage makeup I heard when Hollywood is filming their movies and they're doing a really far away shot they put little red dots in the corner of the person's eye because the in parts of your eyes are red and so it appears to make your eyes look bigger I don't know how true that is but it's something that's stuck with me and I like doing it and it's my thing and I just do a little red dash on the outsides of my eyes I always have and I probably always will so now on to the blush just kind of do like a really light blush because when we're dancing on stage we get so hot and sweaty that I get like a natural flush that's kind of it for blush so lipsticks we never ever ever wear red lipstick onstage red lipstick either has a blue or orange undertone and with the harsh and brightness of the lights you see that instead of the red so I always go for more of a natural lip color so I use this Revlon Rose velvet and I like to blend to like I like to get multiple colors here we go and my makeup is done so now after the makeups done I go to hair hair if I'm just doing an average show is usually a middle part low bun brush it back find that middle part which is sometimes really hard to do I don't know why I have short hair and so what my bud would be about this big right now and so we use hair nets that makes the bun look a little bit bigger and more average-sized because we're all trying to look very similar I'll do it low like very classical but and so right now I notice like my hair is super soft because of washing it it's gonna be slippery and sliding I take my texture tonic from the Veda and it's like a cease it's basically a sea salt spray and it gives it kind of that greasy hold that's really what we have girls that have pixie haircuts and girls that have hair that is down to their butt as long as you maintain how you look on stage like you can do whatever take it and then making it as round and kind of flat as possible you don't want like a big doorknob bun which is what we call them when they're late big and chunky and you kind of wanted it to appear as smooth as possible so it's not distracting it just has a really sleek beautiful look on stage very ballerina II so once I've got it all pinned down kind of flat like this take the hairnet go around the hair and it always just helps smooth out any of the flyaways that you get from dancing and moving around and I usually only use about like four or five pins in my hair so there you go you just like sewing it to your hair with like but 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 go and get a pedicure I don't let them take off the calluses calluses are our band-aids to help protect when we're in the shoes I've got this tool it's a gua sha and it's a little piece of jade and it's just scrape the fashio so I'd go like right in the meat of my foot Oh hurts it's a little crunchy too and it just helps awaken it and get the motion back into my ankle and I sometimes will go all the way up up into the calves up on the shins especially I don't want to get shin splints so now it's like 7 o'clock we've got about a half hour before this the curtain goes up and so this is when I'd start warming up put on my pointe shoes you get into costume our average show is about three acts and we've got 15 minutes in between when the curtain stops on the first act of when the curtain goes up on the first or the second act at this point you're usually sweaty if you have this big smile the current goes down you go okay let's go and you run backstage ripping off your costume and taking out your hair throwing on another costume and I take the powder go over my face where it's all where I'm all kind of sweaty and just like the shiny areas I usually have to reapply lipstick but I always take a second to go back and make sure that my makeup is up to the standard that it was when I first started the show [Music] the end of the show is like we I can get in and out of there within like seven minutes probably I usually strip down and change and I take the glossier milk jelly I put on my skin dry and just rub it looks like raccoon like girl crying makeup all down our face kind of thing it's pretty funny rinsed off with water and I come out of there and probably 95 percent of minute cup is gone it's insane like this stuff is the best thing that I've found there's always eyelash glue no matter what you do so I usually get home and I just have something small bite to eat I brush my teeth first wash my face again with my Clarisonic just to get all of the extra stuff out and go to bed wake up at 6:30 and start the day over again I'm Scout Forsyth and this was 24 hours of basic ballerina beauty [Music]

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Id: B6_H0rk_ZZQ

Length: 13min 10sec (790 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 31 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/anhuys]

She was a great pick for a vid like this, this is really nice content. As someone who is all up in the world of cosmetics I love how she only uses a bunch of affordable holy grail products religiously

[u/Miss_Anthropie]

It's interesting to see the variation in how performers do their makeup. When I was in a student company, I was told to wear bright red lipstick and strong blush. I wouldn't wash my hair, though. Cool to see someone else's routine!

[u/melloddy]

I’ve been following Scout’s career before she was an Apprentice with ABT. So happy she’s starting to get featured more. She’s one of my favorite up and coming dancers!

[u/83firefly]

This was so fun! I've only seen her in photos before, so it was cool to see her personality shine through.

And yeah, when I was dancing, they always told us to do deeper-colored, more reddish lips as well so they didn't fade under the lights. My eyeliner wings were also a bit more heavy-handed, lol. Her makeup looks so lovely, though.

[u/4everal0ne]

She's really cute and charming but holy hell I balked at her washing hair once a week. How. Why. Who. At the rate I sweat just in class if I don't clean the shit out of it regularly I get breakouts and itchy head.

[u/iwannabeaunicorn]

I wish we'd gotten a more thorough description of her bun! I always feel like I have a doorknob bun.

[u/eightstone]

This was fascinating! Thanks for posting.