Ziegler was only 9 years old when Dance Moms first aired, but she had been competing for years before that. That experience affected her current idea of beauty, but probably not how you think. "The standards of what's beautiful in the competition dance world is so wrong," said Zeigler. "I started wearing full red lips and lashes when I was six. When you're young you think, Oh, that's what I do to look beautiful."
It wasn't until she worked with Sia on the "Chandelier" music video that her perception changed. "I hardly wore any makeup in that," she said. "Then, when I started dancing and the choreographer Ryan Heffington was like, 'No, you don't have to point your feet. You can be weird, you can express the way you're feeling.' I feel like from that moment on, I really changed the way I looked at beauty and now, I think more than ever, I feel almost comfortable in my skin without makeup on."
