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Congrats!!

Tfw you win the Open 19&O and you’re 28 👵🏼

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Haha true!

Honestly if ye want more girls ta do Irish dancing jus show them the dresses and patterns cause bitch they are stunning like the amount of time at goes into sizing them, sowing them, an then stoning them (a lot of time with Swarovski crystals or Waterford glass crystals which I’ve heard some people do) like actually fuckin cool princess dresses ta me like if I saw them at like 8 I’d be like ma sign me ta fuck up ni

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I can make you a dress if you sell your current one. I’ll PM you tomorrow @peacegracehero

I really want to get a new dress before I finish dance but I’m broke. Maybe if I save in little bits, I can order a new one at Worlds. 🤞🏽🤷🏽‍♀️

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Photos from the Helsinki Feis :) I wish I could’ve been more focused and danced cleaner rounds, but clearly having too few volunteers to start with, doing all sorts of odd arranging jobs at the feis all day behind the scenes (our school was arranging the whole shindig anyway), and competing did not aid my concentration. The only thing that went well (2nd place) was my demon doll treble reel. Oh well. At least I was 6th in the champ light round and even though my placement overall in the champ was not what I could’ve wished for,  it was one place better than last year at the same feis, so achievement :)

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honestly does irish dancing tumblr even exist anympre cause idrk but hey guys!!! got this thing called an irish dance practice pad and it’s actually SICK!!! i literally use it to practice in my room at college so like goodBYE this thing so versatile it hurts!!!🤪🧡🙌🏼

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Obsessed with this dress! Love the simplicity and sparkle of the bodice 😍

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I think I’m HAIR ENVIOUS lol. You look fab! 

I did a thing…

Sooooo. The hair saga continues. I saw y’alls comments and I was inspired by them so talked with my teacher who was like “definitely try it down again” and she didn’t think the volume was a problem SO I cumulated all that into this!

Loads of products were used to reign it in but the quantity of my hair proved to not be the problem. It’s how tamed it is in any given moment. This is heavily tamed. Or else it would go out and frizz.

^this is the line up of products I used. The first four are my usual go-tos for hair care when I want to care how my hair looks.

I have 3 cut donuts of various sizes to keep it from being super flat in the back. So far there’s only one major flaw.

I can’t really see my headband from head on and my poof is already about as small as I can reasonably get it so 🤷🏽‍♀️ I’ll ask my teacher and if she doesn’t care, I won’t care.

Having the donuts underneath is really handy because I can actually pin stuff into something other than my scalp and it pulls a lot of the length of my hair up so it’s not just dangling halfway down my back.

What do y’all think?

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Is there any way or product to make the curls tighter? It could take the length up and make it look good if you wear it down like a long wig. Lovely hair ;)

Hair Saga

My biggest problem with my hair is that it is really long rn. My last hair cut was in December 2016. I don’t want to cut it but like

^that was my last hair cut length

^a couple months later, like April 2017? Still pretty short compared to…

^July 2018, a little messy but the length is, well, longer. My hair now is a wee bit longer than that.

The problem is I have no where to put it but I don’t want to cut it just for the sake of the little competition I’m doing rn. It’s too much for a bun, but down is perhaps a little too much volume for me to be swinging around. Even the cute front style I tested was too far in my eyes so. Idk. Help. Pls.

And before anyone suggests thinning it… no.

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This past weekend I participated in the All Scotland Championships in Glasgow, my first solo major. I danced in the senior ladies prelim category. All in all I had a lovely time and the competition itself was a good experience. My dances are far from perfect but I feel that I now know what to work on for Helsinki Feis and the Mainland European Oireachtas. Also, considering the circumstances in which I dance (I started as an adult, my teacher lives in a different country and I see her at best 4 times/year, I practice alone because all the other dancers in our school live in different cities), having advanced into open over the past year and a half, and actually dancing at All Scots is such a big thing for me :)

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I feel like mental heath care in Irish dance is painfully lacking. Maybe it’s just my experiences, but it seems to be so structured for competition that the rest gets lost. I just feel like I can’t be the only one that has/had dance as a huge chunk of life, even the center of their life, and not had the emotional and mental support during it. I’ve had one teacher who very much did out of… 3 schools and idk how many teachers. I don’t blame them; it’s not something that’s an integral part of the ISD system it seems.

Idk. It’s just painful to feel myself losing my grip on dance because I lack the mental support I need.

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Open Wings - Caprice

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Hello! :)

Hello out there!

I’m not sure who’s here or who reads this anymore, but hello!

It’s been busy - Since my active time on Tumblr I’ve gone through the process of opening my school, building my business, workshopping, and other exciting things. 

I’ve been working on something AWESOME for all of you that are thinking of or hoping to start a school one day. If you’re out there - let me know with a reblog or send in a message! I’ll be posting again soon looking for some testers for this project I’ve been working on and you don’t want to miss it!

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Siopa Rince by John Carey

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I love wine red! I’m making a wine red dress at the moment. 

All For A Jig

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LOL

have you guys seen this yet?! someone posted it to the adult irish dancer group on fb. I haven’t got words for how much joy it brought me

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I’m in love with Evelinn’s hair in this photo. It looks like a fierce lion’s mane. 🙌

Featured: Evelinn, Tamora School of Irish Dance

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RIP Siopa Rince, long live John Carey designs...

I’ve always loved siopa rince :)

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