Sometimes, your choreographer or whoever is in charge of choosing your costumes will want you to either wear skin color tights or have bare legs for a performance. While this works great for jazz dances because many dancers have tan jazz shoes anyways, what if this is for ballet performance? It’s a lot harder to find tan ballet shoes, especially if the dance is on pointe!
Use bronzer. Take a makeup applicator, swipe it liberally in some powder bronzer, and apply to your shoes. Make sure your shoe is covered evenly, and don’t forget to do the bottom of the shoe, the tip of the pointe, the elastics and the ribbons. Then, if your skin is lighter than the color your shoe now is, cover the shoe with pink colored powder. There you have it - a skin colored shoe!
Won’t the bronzer come off unevenly during the performance, leaving the shoe weird and blotchy looking, with bronzer smears all over the stage?
Nope - since pointe shoes are covered in a type of cloth rather than leather, the bronzer adheres pretty evenly to the shoes. Plus, the addition of face powder on top of the bronzer kind of seals it in so it won’t smear off. I have done this for several different dances, and never had a problem.
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I was wondering if you knew how to color your pointe shoes black….. it is required for our performance, and I don’t know which parts to color and which parts to leave pink.