How To Do A Prom Ponytail

Hi, I'm Tina Farey, editorial director for the Rush Education Group. What I'll be demonstrating for you today is some editorial hair ups. What I'll be demonstrating for you today is a prom ponytail.

So, a really great look, very simple to do at home, how we've started this is we worked a triangle section just on top of the head and sectioned that off. We've started by using a little bit of tong in just through the ends there. Again, we're going to work through our ponytail.

Again, working, really really brushing really really tight from underneath. Now, it's important our fingers hold out a 45-degree angle. This will allow for a lot of tension through underneath the ponytail.

Again, it helps if the head is slightly tilted back, so when the head comes back up, it will maintain that tightness through the underneath of the ponytail. So, I'm starting off again using a bristle brush here which will allow you to really kind of work quite firmly across the scalp and it's a little bit more comfortable than using a comb. Again, by using very soft small bristles, you're able to get a little bit more of a refined look with the ponytail.

So, we're working that through and again, you might have to do this quite a few times just to keep really kind of move any kind of lumps that you get whilst you are combing yourself. So then, what we're using is a piece of elasticate with two curvy grips on either side. And again, the curvy grips will go on top of the ponytail and again, I'm going to rotate the band around and over the top of the curvy grip, and again making sure that you really kind of pull that nice and firm.

What we want is that ponytail to last the whole evening. And then, insert in the top of the curvy grip again through another top of the scalp. What that should do is hold the ponytail really nice and securely.

What we're then going to do is gently start to backcomb the underneath of the top section. So I'm going to take a very small measure and work in the backcomb technique. This should maintain a little bit of height through that area.

Again, be quite light with the backcombing. What we don't want to do is backcomb too heavily and then it's impossible to comb the hair up afterwards. So, creating a nice piece of height through that top area, this kind of gives it a bit of a difference through the top.

So again, once you've got that little bit of height, we'll gently smooth that top section over, and again, a little bit of light spray. Once we started it, it just gives a little bit more quiet to the hair, just through the top so it doesn't get flat through that area there. Again with the curvy grips, we're going to kind of twist the hair there and again, we're going to secure that with one curvy grip.

So, that's our top completed. Again, we're going to keep that a little bit natural so again, not too structured there. What we're going to do with the ends of the hair now is we start to pick in and comb those.

So, taking small sections and again, using our tongs, using quite small tongs here and again, starting from the top ad rotating from the hair round and twisting that through. What this will do is it will give you a really nice almost like a cork screw type of curl. Again, holding that in place and then obviously releasing that through and that creates a really nice curl through the underneath.

Again, take small measures throughout, again starting at the top and again rotating around, and then again tucking those ends under. Again, you need to hold this on for a good ten seconds, and then obviously, release the hair, and then we've got that nice little curl running through underneath. So, once I have that all through my end, I'm going to be doing, again using the Mason Pearson brush, this will really kind of brush out the curls and create a little bit more fluffy, a bit more sort of a contemporary feel to the hair which I always think is quite nice to have that slightly more contempora