6/15/2023 0 Comments French twistThey’re crazy! After washing and drying my hair it’s always so slippery and clean. As hard as I try to keep my hair dry when swimming with the kids it never works. I was forced into washing my hair only two days in because we ended up at the pool this afternoon. This is honestly the easiest tutorial you’ll find and I hope you guys love it as much as I do! Well, holy crap! Everyone always makes them so much harder and more complicated than they need to be. Before filming my own tutorial I watched a bunch of videos to see how others were styling their french twists. I’ve been doing my french twists like this since high school and the technique I use is so simple. I had finally figured it out: a super tight French twist! I got so good at them that I ended up doing other dancers’ hair as well as mine for Who Cares?.Eeek! I’m so excited to finally be sharing my french twist tutorial with you guys. Then, make sure the first few bobby pins help tighten the twist- take a bobby pin, grab a little hair on the edge of the twist, and then pull a tiny bit turning the pin so it is pointing slightly up and crossing the twist. I figured out that if I started a loose hold at the bottom and then twist loosely to the top, I could tighten the whole twist at the same time. I used to start with a tight twist at the bottom and then, yuck, I’d have a loose, bulgy “twist” at the top. The best product that I have found for grease is Groom and Clean because it is very smooth-it doesn’t stiffen the hair.Ģ) Use a loose twist to start the French twist. Hair spray and styling gel are not great for this because they make the hair stiff which resists the twist. ![]() You can achieve greasy hair by not washing your hair for a couple days and/or by applying a product. 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. Our current School of Ballet 5:8 Featured Guest, Melody Staples Hammell, is a former principal dancer with Charleston Ballet Theater.
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