Ballerina Goes Viral For Video Of Brown Ballet Shoes

Kira Robinson, 18, is a freshman ballet major at the University of Oklahoma who went viral for posting a video of her ballet shoes on TikTok.

In the video, she opens her new Suffolk pointe shoes, saying she “finally” got brown ones. Beaming, she holds them up to her skin, saying, “look at this, look at this…it’s brown.” Robinson says how it is “revolutionary” that she won’t have to “pancake them” to make the shoes match her skin tone. Pancaking is “a term used for blending makeup foundation to match a specific skin tone.”