MILEY CYRUS: Fans prep for ultimate concert experience

Glittery pink or purple nails?
It's not a complicated question. But a girl primping for the Miley Cyrus concert Tuesday night knows that color is everything.
Tweens and teens had waited months for concert day. Many of them planned their outfits days — scratch that — weeks ago to replicate their favorite Disney star.
So when it came time for Delaney Snyder, 7, to choose her nail polish, she froze. A stylist at the Sweet & Sassy salon in Papillion's Shadow Lake Towne Center suggested princess pink. So Delaney went with it.
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More young girls are booking salon appointments — for hair up-dos, manicures and pedicures — before music shows to make the night more memorable. Parents say they don't mind dishing out for the extra curls because it's a part of the concert experience.
That experience can include a ride to the concert in a pink limo. If you book a service through the salon — and you do it before everyone else — you can engage the limo for the cost of mileage. One family booked a pedicure just to travel in the Pepto-colored car.
Mom took photos as Delaney held her hands out for the paint job.
“She's having so much fun,” said Jeni Snyder, who was enjoying the mother-daughter bonding. They drove two hours from Columbus, Neb., to make their hair and nail appointment before the concert. Three of Delaney's friends had appointments, too.
“A lot of girls do this,” said Marie Yakes, the owner of the spa-salon party store. “We had a ton of them who set up appointments before the Jonas Brothers and Demi Lovato concerts.”
Nearly 50 pre-concert makeover appointments were marked on Sweet & Sassy's schedule book. The salon was booked solid from 2:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. A grandma, mom and her twin girls came from Gothenburg, Neb., for their Miley makeovers.
During the makeovers, Delaney and her friends wore fuzzy boas and pink robes with leopard-print trim. They snacked on candy and posed for pictures on a mini-platform stage. They also sang Miley Cyrus songs on the salon's karaoke machine. They practiced “G-N-O (Girls Night Out)” and “Party in the U.S.A.” Some watched Miley movies on flat-screen TVs.
The girls gossiped about their hair and how cool it was not to be in school. When asked what their teachers thought of them ditching, Delaney laughed.
“It's OK,” she said. “They knew. They wished they could have gone.”
She kept flipping her fingers through her curls until the stylist pinned her hair up into a tight bun.
“If I had the chance to meet Miley, I'd probably fall forward,” Delaney said.
“And I'd fall backwards,” said her school friend sitting next to her.
Delaney tried to copy a Miley outfit from a poster she has hanging in her bedroom. She did a pretty good job. The wide-eyed brunette wore shiny black stretch pants, a British flag-printed T-shirt and yellow ballerina flats.
“I would have never put yellow shoes with an outfit like that,” Mom said. “But I guess if Miley can pull it off, Delaney will.”
Just a few feet away sat Reese Janssen, another buddy from Columbus. She was the only girl who had Dad there, too —by accident. He was in Omaha getting a cast put on a broken ankle.
“She won't miss a (Miley) TV show,” Jeremy Janssen chimed in. He knew the concert was a big deal for 6-year-old Reese, so he made time to stop by the salon.
Just how big a deal was it?
“She's been listening to Miley music every night before she goes to bed,” said mom Jill Janssen.



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