00:00Just make sure everything looks very even, so I always put some, what do you call this
00:13Grace?
00:14That's my powder.
00:15Hi Allure, I'm Tyler Peck, get ready with me for my performance as the Sugar Plum Fairy
00:21and the Nutcracker.
00:34This is my 20th year in the company, so I've pretty much done all of the roles.
00:38So the Sugar Plum Fairy is like the queen of the land of the sweets, which is basically
00:44what everybody comes to in Act 2.
00:47So for typical stage makeup, we need a lot of foundation, so we wear a grease.
00:52When we get like our makeup tutorial when we very first get into the company, they call
00:55it grease.
00:57So now this is the pancake portion.
01:00It's called Star Blend Cake Makeup, we call it pancake.
01:03It says it's pressed powder makeup.
01:10While the mascara is drying, I typically do my blush, and then I also put it up here on
01:16the hairline, just because with our stage lights, I want to make sure that there's a
01:24sort of definition before the hair and the crown and everything starts.
01:33Everything for this stage and the makeup that we do is just to sort of exaggerate and make
01:38our features as open as possible.
01:41The stage is, you know, very big, the audience is huge, and then we have those harsh like
01:46stage lights that we're constantly battling.
01:49From the audience, it really helps show our features.
02:00Hi Susie!
02:01I mean, yeah, I'll just do my ponytail and then I'll be up.
02:08So I just added like a little water, just so I can get the flyaways and everything really
02:14nice and neat.
02:16And now I'm just going to do my ponytail, and I always like to do it in a nice line
02:23of the profile.
02:24So we try to go for that.
02:34A little hairspray.
02:39And I like for it to be slick, but not so slick.
02:43So I always kind of leave just a little poof, I like to call it.
02:58Okay, so this is a little secret.
03:01So I'm just kind of pinning the hair up just to get it out of the way, but we call this
03:07like the zipper.
03:10And this is so that there's a really clean line in the back.
03:15So I take these small, almost like invisible hair pins, and I start at the bottom and I
03:22go from sort of the right side to the left.
03:26And I do that all the way up, and I always put my head up so that that gets like the
03:31most slack.
03:35Okay, now we go to Suzy.
03:48Hi, Grace!
03:49How are you?
03:50Good, how are you?
03:53The Sugar Plum Fairy, when she walks on stage, everybody goes, it's like magic.
03:59It's supposed to be like that.
04:02Suzy knows I like a little lift, so that's what she did.
04:16Some stuff that we have to keep in.
04:19Magical.
04:21So now it's time for the bun, and I'm pretty good at the French twist, but when it comes
04:26to buns, Suzy is the master.
04:30So I like to think of it as like a cinnamon swirl.
04:33You'll see, right?
04:34It kind of looks like that.
04:37The hair is not your basic ballerina bun.
04:41It has to be a little more elaborated.
04:44For Tyler, we keep it very classic.
04:46The Sugar Plum Fairy, I make it more fuller, so that it's more glamorous than the other
04:53regular bun.
04:55It's all because of the shape of the crown.
04:57The shape of the crown, yeah.
05:01Except like once we get all the pins sort of in, is to add a hairnet, and that's just
05:07for, you know, a little extra safety on stage.
05:21Okay, so now is the crown time.
05:23It's like so beautiful, these crowns.
05:26And I always kind of, we find the right placement.
05:29Is that good?
05:31And then I sort of hold it here just in the beginning while Suzy pins it, just to make
05:37sure it doesn't move on her.
05:39We use hair pins.
05:41I use like 20.
05:43These are Japanese special hair pins.
05:47They really secure everything.
05:50And what's nice about this crown is it has green and pink, and since I'm wearing both
05:54of those colors tonight, it matches both.
06:01I feel like it's always this moment when the crown goes on that you actually feel like,
06:05okay, I'm the Sugar Plum Fairy and it's going to happen tonight.
06:09Yeah, you know?
06:17Make sure everything looks very even, so I always put some, what do you call this, Grace?
06:23That's MAC powder.
06:25So Tyler usually does her own makeup, but what we do is we use MAC Studio Fix powder
06:31on her body to make everything look in sync in terms of like her skin tone.
06:35This is called Cream Blend Stick, and it's white, and I like to put just a little white
06:41in between the bottom of like the eyeline and before the eyeliner, and that just also
06:49helps sort of like open it up.
06:53And then sometimes I go back downstairs and I'll like retouch up the black part, but this
07:00is just so that the eye can be as open as possible.
07:10After I come downstairs, I always do one last check for eyeliner just because of the white
07:17I added, and that little zipper that I taught you upstairs, sometimes if you put your head
07:26back, you can get just a little bit of extra hair.
07:32Well, this role in particular was what made me want to be in the New York City Ballet.
07:37I was an 11-year-old in the audience, and I said, Daddy, I'm going to dance on that
07:42stage someday.
07:43So the fact that I get to play the Sugar Plum Fairy now is sort of still like a pinch me
07:48moment.
07:49Can't believe I get to play that role.
08:12This is actually the first time I'm wearing this costume.
08:24Yeah.
08:25It's brand new.
08:26Hot off the press.
08:27Hot off the press.
08:28This is Bettina, my dresser.
08:31The Sugar Plum Fairy is a difficult role and a high-pressure part for the artist doing
08:36it, and she does not appear on stage until Act II to get into the pink costume and then
08:41solo with the angels.
08:42As soon as that's over, she comes back here during the Spanish and changes into the Sugar
08:48Plum Green Tutu.
08:50Yeah, I think that feels good.
08:52Yeah.
08:53Let me just check the jewels.
08:54This is my first look.
08:55I do the solo variation, and then my second look is the Green Sugar Plum Tutu, and that's
09:01what I dance with my partner in.
09:03And I have to protect the Sugar Plum on stage left because there's the sleigh and there's
09:08set pieces, and she goes running in and out, so that's when we have to be like, ah!
09:12Yeah.
09:13I have a special way of doing it, which is kind of, I like to say, painting the rosin
09:30on.
09:31So I just take like a paper towel, and I put it on all the spots that I feel like could
09:37be slippery while performing.
09:38And then on the top, and then I always put a little rosin on the inside as well just
09:47because I feel like that helps the tights kind of grip.
09:54I guess ways of putting our shoes on.
09:57Some people use just paper towels.
10:01I don't like to feel my feet on the floor, so I use a lot of things.
10:04This is a really fun cast.
10:06Yeah.
10:07It's a cast of...
10:08It's a friend's cast tonight.
10:09Relax.
10:10Yeah.
10:11So see here how we just sort of sew the ribbons to themselves, like I'm not actually sewing
10:22it to my tights, but I'm just sewing them to one another so that they don't ever come
10:30out on stage.
10:33I just come over here, and I check my shoes in the mirror, make sure they look nice and
10:40neat.
10:41And this is the finished look.
10:44Thanks for joining Allure.
10:45See you on stage.
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