The Perfect Pony

Why oh why cant people learn to do a decent pony tail?! This question plagues me at so many cheer competitions. I have to fight the urge to go to parents/coaches and say please can I redo that quiff, why is her bow on backwards, or its upside down! For the love of glitter please clip it!!!!

Ok, I understand that there will be a limited amount of people who are as obsessed with cheerleading hairstyles as I am, and that perfect cheer bow placement is not always top of the list for busy coaches or parents who are at their first cheerleading competition (because lets face it were too busy trying not to have heart failure at the size of the stage our little baby is about to be thrown onto, and wondering if its actually legal to play music this loud in a space filled with so many glittered up faces that were sure 5 different fire regulations must have been breached).

I am a cheer mum of a daughter who is on a team with very high standards, and I decided very early on that I didn’t want to rely on someone else to bun or quiff her hair and was determined to learn myself. I hate feeling helpless or unprepared, and needed to be able to prepare my little princess (demon on comp days before she performs) for her time in the spotlight.

My advice to anyone who is unsure, doesn’t know how, or needs some help with hairstyles is just ask! In my experience if you say can I watch, or will you show me how any cheer mum worth her salt will be more than happy to help (because lets face it, it means one less person in her queue at the next competition!) Practice at home, stick them in front of the tv/ipad for half an hour and figure it out!

I promise you the feeling that when you arrive at competition you wont have to worry about getting someone else to do their hair, not needing to shout at them because you're so worried that their quiff just looks like a bees nest and they just wont damn well stay still, or if their bow is going to fall out on stage (then they stand on it, fall over and break various parts of their anatomy) its totally worth it.