You know you’re a Ballet Mom when… « The Casual Perfectionist

You see a group of other ballet moms and their ballerinas in the waiting room and say, “Nice buns!” and no one even laughs out loud.
You put your daughter’s lipstick on last, because it’s the carrot needed to get her to hold still for her eyeliner.
You know the trick to putting eyeliner on a 4-year old.
You say, “That’s great, but don’t rub your head on anything!” a couple hundred times before getting to the dance studio.
Your daughter has more product in her hair for one event than you’ve worn in the last three months combined.
You can do a ballet bun in your sleep.
What you lack in ballet bun making skills can be made up for in practice…and aquanet.
You know how to clean pink tights with a baby wipe.
…and you’ve done so more than once.
All the tights hanging in your shower belong to someone half your height and a third your weight.
You know that the place to buy the light colored hairnets is at the nearest King Soopers, a grocery store.
You can say, “If you pick your nose, please don’t smudge your lipstick” with a straight face.

Michelle Y.
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 9:01 am

The best thing for my parents from many (12) years of dance lessons was that I didn’t want to start wearing makeup at a ridiculously young age. I’d been forced to wear the heavy blue eyeshadow and bright red lipstick since age four, so I was so over it that it held no appeal to wear to school.
JoAnn
Tuesday, May 11, 2010 at 5:55 pm

Michelle, that’s an excellent point! Yay! An upside to wearing this makeup so early!

You know you’re a Ballet Mom when…