Create the Perfect Christmas Dance Recital Costume For Your Dance Group

Winter wonderland dance recital audiences love to see winter in all its glory portrayed by dance students. For dance recital planners, this can be managed in a variety of ways. Students may already have some of the accessories and trims needed. The favorite of the perfect Christmas dance recital costume for your should include snowy white leotards and filmy white romantic tutus. Add them to a red, green or white accessories and it is an instant start to a Christmas Dance recital costume.

For the ballet students, try going toward a traditional English Christmas color scheme with the use of dark forest greens and lavender pink leotards and tutus. With just a bit of trim or sequins in contrasting colors, this has all the earmarks of a traditional Christmas ballet in the Dickensian style.

Nothing makes a Christmas dance recital like bright costumes bought online. The basics of a truly stunning Christmas dance recital come alive with metallic leotards and catsuits. Go for the gold with a heavenly golden scene. Choose a metallic gold leotard, hot pants and tights or leggings in metallic gold for jazz dance routines. Spritz golden glitter on the face and hair and the costume is complete. Be sure to use contemporary Christmas music for added interest.

Audiences will be thrilled by a Christmas dance recital that uses great Christmas Night Sky accents in silver and deep sapphire blue costumes. This works well for tap, ballet, and jazz and even acrobatic dance routines. Focus on a good lighting schedule for the stage or performance area. It's only a matter of starting with a leotard or catsuit and adding color coordinated tutus or accessories. Choreograph the dance routines to suit the theme of the Christmas Night sky using music that is not predictable. For tap and jazz students this might be blues music and for ballet something from Berlioz or Shostakovich.

If the audience has a special desire for a complete Nutcracker Suite Christmas recital, vary the costumes so that each dance routine appears in a variety of colors in alternating dance sequences within the ballet. Much of Nutcracker Suite costuming is little more than a classic or romantic tutu, white or pink tights and a basic leotard. For the sequences like the Chinese Dance or the Czardas scene, Dance Clothes UK offers a complete line of accessories dance wands and tiara headbands to complete the dance costume.

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Create The Perfect Easter Recital Costumes For Your Kids

Creating a great recital costume for your kids is easy. When creating a dance costume for your kids it can be fun for both you and your child. Letting your children help in the process of making their dance recital costume teaches them a range of skills and allows them to express creativity and imagination.

One idea to start off when creating a dance recital costume is to choose a leotard as the basis. The leotard should be a plain solid color and for an Easter costume yellow, orange and white would be the obvious choice. You may have to use the color and style already decided on by the producer of the recital.

Then it is a matter of using your imagination to get creative with decorating the leotard. Get creative with what you add onto the leotard. A simple sparkling fringe can look great across the leotard. Adding rhinestones and even gluing lace to the sleeves of the leotard can make the leotard look extravagant.

A simple way to make an Easter tutu for your child is to measure their waist, cut a piece of elastic and then sew it together. Cut long strips of tulle making them twice as long as the length you want. Generally about 4 yards of tulle net will be enough but this can depend on how tall your child is and how full you want the tutu to be. You will then tie the strips to the elastic circle you have sewn using a regular knot. Use as many strips as you want to and make them vary in sizes to give a larger or smaller puff. Afterwards make sure the knots are aligned. Add ribbons, bows or glitter onto the tutu to give it more style. You can add things such as a feather boa sewn around the waist of the leotard to give it more of a fancy look. You can then consider accessories: things such as hats, gloves, tiaras, and sparkling tights. Give it much thought and let your child join in on the fun of choosing what she wants to add to the costume.

When you have finished, all that's left to do is try it on and take those memorable photos of your dance recital costume. When the time for the show comes around be proud of the hard work that you and your child put into making the costume and enjoy the show.

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How to Do Fabulous Dance Recital Makeup

This guide will help you create a successful dance recital makeup look. It can be simple and straightforward! Focus on the five areas listed below and a beautiful look can be achieved for all ages of dancers.

Skin: Your dance recital makeup should be applied to a fresh base. Begin with a clean, dry, moisturized face. Dual Mineral Powder Foundation is applied first with a sponge over your entire face blend it into your neck. Here is a tip, if you apply the foundation with a wet sponge you will get a more opaque look, dry and you will have a more sheer coverage.

Eyebrows: Prepare your eyebrows by using a brow brush to shape them. Then use a thin eyeliner brush and draw a line down the very center of your eyebrow. You can use your brow brush to even out and disperse the color to the through out of your brow.

If the dance recital makeup is for a younger dancer make these easy adjustments, an eye shadow slightly darker than the dancer's hair color will give a less severe look then if you use an eyebrow pencil. Young dancers should have a thicker eyebrow; a thinner severe line at the eyebrow creates an older more dramatic look.

Eyes: When applying dance recital makeup to your eyes it takes a couple steps to complete the look. First start with an eye shadow brush to highlight the brow bone and inner corner of your eye. Use a shimmery white shadow to create a this highlight. If you want to create a more dramatic highlight apply the shadow with a damp brush.

Next use a brown eyes shadow at your lash line, bring the color up to your highlighted brow. The color should be deepest at your lash line and fade as it travels toward your brow. Apply this same shadow under your lower lashes very lightly. To apply the shadow to your lower lash begin in the middle of the lash and pull the color out past the corner of your eye. Do NOT begin your make up line in the corner of your eye. For in between you upper and lower lash line use a white highlighter eye pencil. Finish your eye with black water-resistant mascara.

Always remember ADDING color is much easier than REMOVING color once you've already applied it to your eye. Begin with light eye color and add more if you need it.

Cheeks: A blush brush should be used to apply your cheek color. Draw the blush from the hairline toward the apples of your cheeks. A large powder brush is best to use to blend your cheek color. Do so by applying Dual Mineral Powder Foundation over your cheeks and face. DON'T create "clown circles" on your face and never let your blush dip below the lip line.

When applying makeup to a young dancer create a soft blended blush line. Creating a severe blush line will make ANY dancer's face appear older it is particularly on a younger dancer.

Lips: Use Warm Brandy Lip Liner to line and fill your lips. Then use a red lipstick to finish your dramatic look.

Lip color is often a matter of artistic preference for me bold reds aren't meant for younger dancers. Instead line lips and fill lips with a pink mauve lip liner and use a rose-colored lipstick to create a perfect look for a young dancer. The goal is to help highlight a young dancer's mouth so they can communicate emotion from the stage. A mauve color accomplishes this without adding age to the young dancer.

Complete your entire dance recital makeup look by following these steps. Look beautiful on stage with this look. To make this look fitting for young dancers remember make simple changes at the eyebrows, cheeks, and lips. These changes create a youthful soft look perfect for a recital.

Jessica Dupont is a former Professional NYC Dancer and Makeup Artist. She owns JAM cosmetics, which is a line of ULTIMATE makeup for dance and cheer. Find out 4 secrets the pro's use AND 3 things you NEED TO KNOW to look gorgeous and stand out from the crowd, by getting Jessica's free dance makeup e-Guide at http://www.jamcosmetics.net/.

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