How to Keep Your High Ponytail from Dropping or Sagging
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How many times have you left the house with a super high, snatched pony only to find an hour later it’s completely dropped?
Super annoying – especially if you’ve spent ages getting it right. But you may be making some key mistakes. It’s all about getting it completely secure to begin with, using the right tools to hold your hair in place all day and understanding what’s actually causing your ponytail to sag. In this guide, we’ll look at the four main reasons your ponytail keeps dropping, and how to fix them...
Use A Bungee
This may sound obvious, but it’ll make a huge difference in helping to hold your pony in place.
Regular elastic bands can slip down as you pull your hair through them. And they’re much harder to get really tight. If you switch to a bungee elastic, you’ll be able to hold your pony in place as you’re tying it – and you can pull the bungee tight, so your pony doesn’t sag. Just make sure you hook the clip on the end of the bungee securely into your hair before you start, to get the right tension.
Prop It Up
A tip for those with fine hair, to give you that voluminous style pony Kim Kardashian herself loves wearing.
All you need to do is push two bobby pins into the back of your ponytail, through the elastic. This will push the hair upwards for a fuller effect. It’s a simple trick and you can use as many bobby pins as you like to create as much lift as your hair needs to stop your ponytail dropping or sagging.
Make An Anchor Pony
This hack will totally change your ponytail game – holding your hair in place forever.
An anchor pony is basically a smaller pony that you make first, before gathering the rest of your hair around it. It literally anchors your hair in place to stop it from dropping.
All you need to do is take a small section of hair in a circle around the point you want your ponytail to sit and secure it with an elastic. Once this is done, you can then take the rest of your hair and tie it in a ponytail over the top to hold everything in place.
Add Texture
Just as thick hair can be a struggle to hold in a high pony, the same goes for fine hair – as it’s often really soft and smooth.
To stop fine hair ponytails from sagging, we’d recommend applying texturising spray through the lengths of your hair before you start creating your pony. This gives the elastic more to hold onto and it’ll be less likely to slip out of place.
If you’re not sure what to use, we’d recommend the OUAI Texturising Hairspray, which really helps to build volume and texture while giving your hair some extra staying power.
Milk & Blush Clip-in Ponytail Extensions fit securely using a wrap-around ponytail fastening that leaves you with a voluminous mane that won’t drop or sag.
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