Hair discrimination shows up in more spaces than we may think. This includes everything from Venus Williams’s beads deemed a “disturbance” in 1999, to swim caps for Black hair banned by the ...

Don't forget the hair spray and bobby pins for uncooperative hair strands. It's called the bun, a must for ballerinas and dancers alike. Some dub the dancers who wear their hair in a bun "bunheads ...

Some of my most vivid childhood memories are of my mom tugging, twisting, and smoothing my hair back into an ultratight bun for dance recitals. I can still feel the scalp discomfort, but I also ...

The 22 year old revealed that years of tying her hair up ... to leave dance at the age of 18. Diva admitted that she would always have her hair tightly pinned back into a bun during her dancing ...

Ballet dancers are meant to evoke beauty through movement. But that doesn’t mean they ditch hair and makeup rituals ... Then we’ll do a sleek ballerina bun. I have a foam roller from Therabody ...

For safety reasons, it has always been the rule that dancers must secure their hair in a bun. Skinner said her daughters were told no braids, even if it’s tied up in a bun this year.

“I wore braids a lot and in ballet class it was a little bit more difficult for me to do my bun,” she says, which is a strict beauty standard in the dance form. “I never really got my hair ...