Misty Copeland Reveals Her 3-Step Beauty Routine — elle.com

When you meet American Ballet Theater soloist Misty Copeland in-person, we'll be honest—it's tough not to stare. As her jaw-dropping new commercial for the sportswear apparel company Under Armour clearly reveals, the girl's bod is bananas. Obviously, eight hours of dancing a day does a body good. But when we visited Copeland at her Upper West Side apartment a few months back to talk about her new memoir, and her path to becoming a star dancer in one of the world's most celebrated ballet companies, we also wanted to find out about how she keeps her skin and hair looking as gorgeous as the rest of her. ABT's two-month season takes a toll, Copeland says: "We're always wearing a bun or some crazy hairpiece or a wig in our performances, and heavy makeup, so by the time the season ends, our skin and our hair is just a mess. When we're done, I have a lot of hair breakage in the front. I do a deep conditioner, but it really doesn't do much; the hair just needs to grow back. In the offseason, I try to wear it down."

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