1/2/2024 0 Comments French twist![]() ![]() Greasy hair causes your hair to “cling” to the strands around it producing a smooth, flat, tight twist. As it gets dirty during the day, the hair flattens leaving your hair smaller and causing your initially tight twist to loosen. I know, it’s a little gross, but clean hair has “body”, which is essentially air around the hair strand. I discovered two very simple keys to getting and keeping a tight, smooth French twist. But I could never get my French twists to stay! They would always loosen after a few hours if I could even get it smooth enough in the first place.įast forward 10 years to when I was cast as one of the principal dancers in Who Cares? and I was ecstatic, of course, but I also knew I had to figure out that French twist! So, I started playing around with it and wearing a French twist every day for class and rehearsal. The costumes were cute and elegant, the choreography was impressive and a little flirty, and all the women wore their hair in French twists.įrench twists themselves are so beautiful-the sweep of the hair, the elegance, no visible means of holding the hair in place, mysterious. The Gershwin music was fantastic, of course. I saw it for the first time when I was in high school, and I loved it. Who Cares? by George Balanchine is one of my favorite ballets. Today, Melody offered a couple of tricks for putting your hair into a French twist. We asked her to share some pro tips that she learned during her extensive career. Hopefully, beautiful ones.ĭon’t miss my new tutorials every Friday and check out galleries of all my past projects here.Our current School of Ballet 5:8 Featured Guest, Melody Staples Hammell, is a former principal dancer with Charleston Ballet Theater. Not to bring back the fashion trends of the seventies but to return to the things that made me happy. The smell of ironing out crisp cotton seams and the idea of curating my own wardrobe (consisting mainly of jumpsuits and bolero vests, mind you) made me happy. I wonder what Tim Gunn would say about that? That was my father’s strategy… bribe me into making my own clothes. He bargained that every Friday, after my mother had her broken hair fixed, she would stop by the fabric store to purchase my next Project Runway undertaking, only if I had the garment from the week before completed. It was my grandmother’s foot pedal Singer machine on which I practiced my craft, my mother’s hands from which I learned it, but it was my father’s savvy that truly fueled my creative itch. And one day my designs would make their way to a Paris runway on a beautiful model donning what else… but a french twist. And because I was fixin’ to be a world famous fashion designer, it was necessary to hone my skills intensely and passionately. When I was nine, my mother taught me to sew. And when we aren’t fixing something, we are fixin’ TO DO something. You see, Friday was the day she “went into town” to “get her hair fixed.” In the south, we fix everything, including our coiffures, it seems. I was mesmerized by this new look and anxiously awaited her return from the beauty parlor every Friday. Married to a Frenchman, it’s true that I’m a Francophile, but my love for this classic hair style began when my mother finally relinquished her beehive teasing for a more sophisticated Brigitte Bardot french twist. I want to regain that happiness, that feeling of pride when my artwork is placed on the refrigerator, even if I have to place it there myself. Caught up in the chaos of life, we tend to forget those things that made us happy as children, or we dismiss them as frivolous past-times. I also believe that tapping into this potential makes us HAPPY. Because I believe everyone is born with an innate desire to create. ![]()
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