How to Do a Low Ponytail: Long Hairstyles

Series Summary

Why do we grow out our hair? Well, some of us may be a little too busy for trips to the hair salon. Others, may like the attention that long hair admirers dote. The most entertaining and significant reason why we choose to grow our long, glowing, flowing hair is the styles that we can create. Much to the envy of those with short hair, there are infinite ways that we can transform our image. There are buns, ponytails, braids, and pigtails, and even within these hairstyles, there are endless variations and combinations. Everything from the beehive to the classic french twist, lovers of long hair can finally unite in their exploration of long hairstyles.

In this free video series, learn how to do a variety of long, updo hairstyles. Our expert, Teri Lynne, shows you everything you need to know to make these create hairstyles. Learn how to do ponytails and pigtails. Teri also shows you how to do the classic bun and the french twist. So, if you are looking for a new-do for your long hair, take some time and watch this free video series today!

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name is Teri Lynne and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village and in this segment I'm gonna show you how to do a nice low ponytail with a hair wrap. You want to start off with nice clean hair. She has nice thick hair if you have a little bit of thinner hair. When you're putting your hair up it sometimes works better if it is unwashed actually a day. It's kind of up to how your hair works. I'm just using, this is just water in a spray bottle. Just keeps the hair all together. Just gonna give it a little spritz and of course you want to make sure that it's well brushed though that there's no tangles or knots. You want to use an elastic that doesn't have any, it doesn't have any edges to it it's just completed round nothing to catch on. Never want to use a rubber band to put your up in, never. So we're just gonna grab the hair, lightly from underneath and with a little ponytail, depending on how many short pieces you have, you could decide how low you want to go. Some people like to start really low and wrap it down here. I like to go just from the nape of the neck just another inch. So, we're just gonna pull the hair together. Wrap it around usually twice or three times depending on how big your ponytail is. And then what you want to do for the wrap part is you take a piece of the hair usually from underneath and you just actually wrap it around where the ponytail holder is so that you can't see it. You wrap it as many times as you need to. You usually just take a bobby pin to secure it underneath. I'm gonna take two bobby pins actually and you really want to tuck the bobby pin right into the ponytail so that you can't see at all. And if you want you can let the pieces hang like this or you can take a nice barrette or something. Pin the sides up if you want it look that. It's totally up to you it's just a really nice relax casual ponytail, but a little bit more elegant because it's lower down. You want to just slide to the front Lauren, take a look from the front. You know when it's nice and low like that and if you have long hair you could always just drape over like that as well. "