Reacting to POINTE SHOE SURGERY

Ballet Dancer Breaking In A New Car: - Rips out the seats. - Jumps up and down on the hood. - Drives the car down some steps. - Drives it for 1 day. - Buy a new car...

Aside from being able to feel the floor better, removing the outsole also helps a lot on the visual aesthetic (assuming it is not dirty af) because it will enhance the ethereal appearance and will actually make you look more "on pointe". It makes it really slippery, however.

Please keep these pointe shoe hacks coming. I'm not a dancer, but I wanted to be back before I became disabled. Watching these videos feeds a part of my soul.

I don't know why but from the title I thought people were getting feet surgery to fit better in their pointe shoes!

Okay Josephine - as both an RN and a dancer I can answer the "WHAT is that toe pad" on that quick clip in this video :) It's not a toe pad at all, but Medipore tape that is commonly used in medicine that she has formed around her toes in lieu of a pad. it's not proving any padding at all, but would prevent any rubbing. The way she's done it makes it almost like toe socks, she's given herself webbed toes. Not a bad idea, actually. IMPO way better than individually wrapping toes as it would prevent a lot of extra bulk. Think, wrapping all five toes in two pieces of the Medipore (the widest it comes in is 2") and then pressing it together slightly between them.

As a beader, the STRONGEST thread, hands down, is Fireline. It can handle being rubbed against glass beads, and it’s WAY stronger and thinner than dental floss. Something to try…

Please don’t stop doing these pointe shoe hack videos, they’re my favorite. They fill the hole in my heart left by the old irl pointe shoe hack videos featuring all the different ballerinas

I am impressed with how well you can differentiate between the various brands just by sight. :) I look at them and the only thing I see is "its pink." :)

i love that it's a weird party trick almost that josephine can name all the shoes make/model and she's disappointed when she cant 😂

Pretty sure that white toe pad at 0:27 you were referring to is called Mefix. It's a medical grade adhesive fabric that doesn't annihilate the skin so much when you're constantly removing and reapplying. I had to use it last year when I had an infection and was constantly changing my bandage. It was life saver!

I'm a ballerina from LatinAmerica and here most of the floors are wooden like the one on the video so rosin and suede tips are IN otherwise its just too slippery. Few studios have marley floors and usually make pointe shoes wear out SO quickly I prefer rosin

The hole in the top of the foot looks exactly like the wounds my husband had after coming out of an external fixator frame when he shattered his ankle last year. Makes me think the person had to have their foot and ankle immobilized in a certain way for a while.

I spend a lot of my days sewing, and have no experience dancing. I can only suggest better tools to use to make these modifications. Don't use dental floss for stitching anything as it's too slippery and the stitches won't grip. They'll just come undone, really quickly. Use button thread instead, or linen bookbinder's thread, which are both really sturdy and strong. For added strength run it over a block of beeswax a few times before using, and it will last a lot longer AND grip better. And for undoing the stitches on the outer sole thingy, get a seam ripper. They're really good at undoing stitches. It's what they're for. Far easier to use and far more efficient than the tools used in the video, which look like toenail clippers to me!

Honestly it's quite saddening seeing so many people talk about ballet and how it destroys your feet, causes extreme injuries, and breaks all your toes (which are all very preventable) but they always show the same people wearing their pointe shoes completely wrong!! It truly is misinformation and it spreads super negative stereotypes about pointe!

The irony, something so pretty has to go through such a “traumatizing” process to be useful and perfect for creating beauty! Uhg always hated breaking in my pointe shoessss

Hi Josephineeee, so, regarding your confusion towards the gruesome hole in that dancers foot xoxo, a similar thing happened to me after a bad fall X ballet. Basically, i tripped on the foot of one of my dogs and the tops of my feet scraped along concrete, it was very painful but only a minor round peel. My first day back to ballet after the fall went smoothly, until i had to take my shoe of, SOMEHOW my TINY scrape, had OPENED UP while i was dancing, leaving the sensitive skin to LITERALLY FUSE WITH THE CLOTH henceforth ripping out a few layers of the scab and healing part, i was stupid enough to do nothing about the situation until overtime my friend pointed out the small hole in my foot. I’m ok now it wasn’t a big deal, just a funny story lol. (Im only this comfortable about these kinds of things with you btw)

Pointe shoe hacks are great, please keep them coming! The hole on the foot? I'd guess a slide on a bad floor dancing or practicing contemporary.

I saw one ballet dancer on tiktok that sews herself into her pointe shoes when she's on stage, and then has to hurry to get out of them them off before her feet swell. Just literally sews the ribbons together.

Most Brits, at least my age, grew up dancing on slippery wooden church hall floors and, later, wood dance studio floors. I hate marley with a passion, to the point I've deliberately chosen to dance somewhere else that doesn't have it rather than dance on that sticky monstrosity and constantly feel like my knees are twisting because my feet are stuck! My dance studio before my professional training allowed rosin, but then I had three years dancing full time on basically an ice rink. I saw three broken ankles in one semester! But I'd still rather that than marley and if I show up somewhere and find it has marley, I will make my bad mood everyone's problem 🤣

The way I literally cried when I saw that rosin 😭(Former Violin, European Ballet, and Classical Chinese Dance student) I don't remember using rosin to avoid slipping on the dance floor because I only went on-pointe for a month before COVID hit, but I do remember breaking my violin rosin and literally internally crying when that happened 💀