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Not to age myself but I mis the days of half up half down curls with a high bow. It works for anyone from people with braids or a sew in to short bobs to long hair and everything in between.

On a related note, I’m glad that in the past 5 years I’ve seen more POC competing with their natural hair texture. I used to feel like they were pressured to change their hair for cheer and I’m glad that’s stopped in recent seasons.
 
Not to age myself but I mis the days of half up half down curls with a high bow. It works for anyone from people with braids or a sew in to short bobs to long hair and everything in between.
From a parent’s POV anything that requires curls especially when they are younger is a PIA. Half up half down with curls looks pretty in pictures before they compete but is usually a mess during the routine; too much hair flying all over the place.
 
From a parent’s POV anything that requires curls especially when they are younger is a PIA. Half up half down with curls looks pretty in pictures before they compete but is usually a mess during the routine; too much hair flying all over the place.

or for those of us who have pin straight hair. I legit had to sleep in curlers, and recurl my hair before going to warm ups, going through almost a bottle of hairspray at each comp, and it still barely looked curled by the time we finished walking to warm ups let alone taking the floor... i HATED curls.
 
Or those with a CP that has so much hair it took 2 hours to curl all her hair with a wand. And curlformers did not work. I'm grateful for the fact we wear hair pieces now.
Or trying to curl curly hair was a nightmare. Bought one of those things that suck the hair in to curl and it caught her hair and we had to cut it out. I hope to never have to do curls again.
 
I really like the look of a curled pony but CP's hair is not curl friendly. Curl formers would sometimes work, sometimes not. This year I got 3/4 inch curling iron and would mousse it and spray each piece after I curled it then spray again when I was done everything. Depending upon how small a strand of hair I used it would either stay curled the whole time or be a wilted mess when she got off the mat. By the end of the season I wasn't in the mood to spend an hour curling it and more often than not it was wilted:oops:
 
I’m hoping for a straight pony again this year. CP has stick straight, fine hair that does not hold a curl to save it’s life. I do appreciate that cheer only has one hairstyle. We had one year in dance where CP needed half up/half down with curls, curled pigtails,and a bun at different times. Plus different makeup for each dance/costume. It was a pain and a mess.
 
From a parent’s POV anything that requires curls especially when they are younger is a PIA. Half up half down with curls looks pretty in pictures before they compete but is usually a mess during the routine; too much hair flying all over the place.

I get that. My HS competes with a high pony or half up half down and we tell them the hair just needs to be neat and styled. I let them do straight, curly, wavy, etc as long as it all looks polished that way they can work with their texture.
 
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