I have a question that hopefully a few of you will be able to provide me with advice on:
I am returning to dancing in the near future after a 2 year break. I'm in the same shape I was when I quit, but I have two major concerns: one is that I have recently had braces fitted to my bottom teeth and the other is that I currently have short hair.
The hair is my biggest worry at the moment. The club I used to work at had a rule that short-haired dancers had to wear wigs. The club (supposedly a better one) I'm planning on working at have told me they have no such rule regarding short hair. Nonetheless I'm concerned that having short hair will affect my earnings potential. I have very thick, dark brown hair that was previously just a little past my shoulders, and customers used to compliment me on it all the time. Really it was never anything special, but I'm aware that long hair is often perceived as being more feminine- even I feel that way, so I can understand why customers would. Besides that, it was never my sparkling personality that got me dances (I'm shy, a poor conversationalist and I don't hussle), so I can't rely on getting by on that until my hair grows out a bit.
I know the clubs here are a lot less competetive than in the US where most of you are, but I'd love advice from anyone- doesn't matter if you've ever worn a wig- even if it's just your opinion on dancing with short hair I would welcome it.
I would be happy to wear a human-hair wig until my hair grows long enough -I've read the threads on wigs here and looked at a couple of sites linked from here and the wigs look just fine, I'm just worried because the state I live in allows touching of the dancers (within limits, obviously) and I don't want some disaster where a guy touches my hair and the wig comes off (I would be happy to tell customers I'm wearing a wig though)... or the classic one where a girl is on stage doing a pole trick and the wig comes flying off!! I'm sure that's not likely to happen, but the chances are probably higher of it happening with a wig novice like me! At the place I used to work there were only two girls who wore wigs: I had no idea that either had hair that wasn't real until I saw one in the dressing room taking hers off one night- she did all sorts of pole-work on stage, too; the other was a day shift dancer who I'd seen on stage so many times with hair half-way down her back, then one day she walked out of the dressing room after work with short hair (which also really suited her).
Also, given that there aren't exactly many wig places where I live I was wondering if people think it is a good or bad idea to order one online? If I do make the decision to get one I'd like to get it well before I start dancing again so I can get the hang of wearing it. I'm not interested at all in getting extensions- I want to keep the hair attached to my head natural.
Sorry for such a long post, but I really hope some of you are able to give me some opinions here![]()



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