Chris Appleton'S Ponytail Masterclass: Ariana Grande, Kim Kardashian, And Jennifer Lopez | Glam

It'S this for a thing, or is it a joke? Oh okay, I'll do a cute of them. Okay, guys! This is Chris Appleton's ponytail to take one. This is Chris Appleton he's a celebrity hair. Stylist has worked with some people. You might have heard of he's. Gon na show us how to do three of his most iconic ponytail. This first look, I'm going to show you is Kim K inspired. I actually did this pony's out. It was a low ponytail which is pretty classic if Camarena. She always wears such an amazing, clean middle part, which i think is possibly the most important part of the ponytail. So what I like to do is just use a mist of water throughout the part that will help kind of manipulate the hair into shape something's going to wet that down there just a little mist. I always follow it from the nose in the middle of the eyes. I use a towel coat and I use the point just to drag that through the middle and get a super clean part, keep their towel part of the cove blacks at the head. What'S gon na make all the difference is laying the hair down to get it nice and sleek? That'S what's gon na make the ponytail look, polished and clean my favorite product to do this, the color well pull favorite. Hair spray has a great amount of hold, but it doesn't contain any alcohol, so it won't change the color of your hair and it's really gentle on the hair which I like. So if you think about it, almost as like an orange like orange segments, just use your finger and just take kind of half inch to an inch sections all the way down and just saturate the roots with spray. This is going to give you loads of control. As you brush the hair down into that sleek ponytail as I get to the front, I usually spray a little bit more of the hair going backwards. So basically the length of the hair from you know the top going into the ponytail. I try not to get the ends, keep the ends nice and fluffy, but I want the roots control because that's what's going to be sitting close to the head, so I like to use a Mason and Pearson brush the reason I like it is because it gets Through the hair, especially thick hair like Ayesha's, and lays it down super super flat, what you don't want to be doing is doing this and brushing it all the way back. This part should fall into a middle part and then slowly took behind the ears and be nice and low because, as you're gon na end up with a ponytail, that's not that low. It'S gon na go higher here and we actually want it right in the nape of the neck. What I like to do is well sometimes, if I'm holding this brush right here, just gon na spray, the hairspray sees a nice little tip. I just sometimes spray the hairspray onto the brush. The reason I do this is just because then I get control as I'm brushing over the top of the hair. If there's a few flyways or any areas, I've missed gives me a nice clean, controlled finish to tie the hair guys, I'm gon na use this bungee cord. Now you can use your regular elastic, but if you want to keep the hair as close to the head as possible and make your ponytail really tight, a hook is the best one to do now. If I tied her hair in a ponytail wire heads down, although it looks flat when she puts the neck up, what happens is this gets big? Can you see how that look at the back of a head? So you got all this bagging this here. So this now is all loose. If you put your head backwards, when you tie it and then, if you lift your head up, all that happens then is it actually gets tighter and flatter? So it's a really good technique not to go like this too much, because when you put your head back up, you just end up with loads of volume and puffiness so simple technique. But honestly, in my experience it makes all the difference. So the hook goes in at the bottom. We'Re gon na put the hook in on the underneath and then just keep it as low as possible sort of stretch it around the bottom. And you can see it's kind of like a mid-level ponytail. But it doesn't look as dramatic, so what I would like to do is add an extra happy, snitch where's, the pony girls. This is a hair extension ponytail, so relatively inexpensive. This one is from glam seamless. It'S really easy. There'S a hook that you're hooking to the base of your ponytail and then there's a wrap which I'll just take this now off, so you can see and the wrap runs around the base of it. So what I'm gon na do to make sure the ponytail doesn't go anywhere is add another elastic just below the base of the ponytail. The reason being is because, if you hook the ponytail in the base of what you've already done, it's gon na really hurt your scalp, because what we'll do then, is Cheeta and we actually put the hook into that elastic below. So it sits just right underneath and then use this piece of hair over the top, just to kind of basically hide the root of the ponytail effectively like this. So now, what we're gon na do guys to create that wavy effect is we're. Gon na take sections of hair use more of the cool favorite hair spray ever gon na use this wave in iron. When I'm putting in I like to kind of rotate it a little bit so I'll, just rock it up and down the hair, so you don't get too much of a line and then basically just clamp away, okay cool! So now you put the wave in there all we're gon na do is just brush through the wave how's it feel ha ha ha feels very weightless, okay guys. So this is the Kim K inspired ponytail. You can see from the back. She'S got this nice textured long pony it's nice and sleek, and then these little details at the front, but the key part, is that really nice middle part keep it nice and clean and sharp jano inspired. Ponytail is in a different position, so this one is bang in the middle of the head. The idea is with this is that you follow that eye line. So, basically from where the eye line is you go straight back and that's the position of the ponytail again we're gon na apply product, so I always like to use the cool favorite hairspray open up the hair, so you can get the product throughout the roots. So when you pull the hair back, you get that really laid flat. Look remember the important part to kind of assess when you're doing this is to keep your head back. So you get a really nice clean neckline, so I'm just gon na use my hands to let you push all the hair flat against the scalp to get a good grip, and then I use the bungee cord. The ho ng Lord goes on the underneath and then, when your time, the bungee cord, you just want to make sure you keep it as flat to the scalp as possible. Now, for me, especially if you've got fake hair, bungee cords are the best thing to hold the hair, so it's nice and close to the head. If you have fine hair, you might get away with just using a regular a stick, I'm kind of like all-or-nothing. So I go whole over home, so I usually use a couple I'll usually go over the top. This is a banks elastic, and this gives the hair a really good grip and just stops it from slipping the most important part about my ponytails, and I think why they look different is because they're close to the scalp they're really fitted and laid, and then you Have the hair that kind of looks more dramatic, okay, so guys now what we're gon na do is just add a little bit more volume and a bit more bounce. To the end, I like to use the color well extra shine spray, so I'll spray it on the hair first, this is gon na give it some love and some shine and make it look a little bit more luxurious and then just using a large curling iron. Just wrap it around, so you get a nice bounce in the hair. You don't need to use anything too tight, but the idea is that you give the hair a bit of love, so the ends just kind of have a bounce, and it really doesn't matter if you guys longer or shorter and the JLo picture. It was a little longer than this, but honestly it works on all limbs. It'S good! It'S about getting that nice sort of pull on the face from the front okay. So now we've called the ends of the ponytail, I'm gon na spray, some more shine spray to my brush, because I really want this ponytail to look glossy and polished and now we're gon na brush it out, but we're gon na brush it out in one go And we're just gon na get the ends a little bit of love and push them together, so it has a nice kind of bounce to it. So that way, then you get that nice kind of squishy. If you just move your head from side to side. Oh sure, you can see the hairs got like a nice bounce and a nice swish. It doesn't have to be super curly. It'S not really about being curly, it's more just about having a bounce. So when you kind of move your hair, if you just flick it from side to side it kind of swishes and has some volume to it now, we're gon na show you the ariana grande inspired ponytail. So this is high. It'S full up! So what we're gon na do is just use some hairspray throughout the roots, just breaking up the hair a little bit. So you get a nice clean finish. I tend to like to open up the hair and put my products in there just so you can really kind of get those roots going in the right direction. So now we're going to dress the hair up into a high ponytail. The idea is that you get the hair as high as possible. Now honestly for you guys at home when you're doing this, I would just put you head upside down. It'S much easier. So if you to get your head upside down, be lean over for me, putting the head upside down instantly makes everything a lot easier. If you're trying to do it with your arms up in the air, you're kind of gon na give yourself I'll make and quite honestly, you're, probably not gon na get the ponytail as high as you want it. Now. We'Re gon na use the bungee cord again at the root, so we're gon na hook about underneath. What I would do at this point is. It looks pretty sad when it's flat like this, so why one ormally do is take a second elastic and at first of all I'll put it around the base, especially just cuz. Oh she's got really really thick hair you're. Definitely gon na have more of a chance to be slipping out, so just locking this and over the top will make a big difference. Then we're going to use the second elastic about half an inch above what we just did now, if you don't want to use a hair extension, this is a great way to give yourself more volume. You can see instantly it gives you that kind of bouncier. Fuller. Look okay guys, so we're gon na now beat a little bit I like to use this toothbrush. This is kind of like a detailing brush, add a little bit hairspray and just go up and make sure you follow this eye liner. This is what's really gon na make the hair kind of clean and what we call snaps. I think my idea about snatch ponytail is when the hair is really laid. It looks really polished and it's kind of nice and tight okay. So we have a nice ponytail. Just move your head around good move it around yeah swish it like flip it over yeah. It'S not gon na go anywhere. Now. What I'm gon na do is, if you want to kind of add a ponytail. I'M gon na use this second elastic that we used as volume touch of the hooker ponytail piece in. So you get a more dramatic finish at this point. I just want to talk to you a little bit actually don't before. We add any hair about how important that eyeline is so we've done. Three things: we've followed the part down. We'Ve followed the eye line back, but now we're actually following the cheekbone up. So when you follow the cheekbone right up, that's where your ponytail should sit when it sits. There is when it really pulls on the face and gives you that snatch kind of resolve so guys we're now at this ponytail piece now. Remember, I'm gon na use that elastic that we tied over the top. I would never put this ponytail around the base of the head without kind of doing so so this is just gon na velcro in now, and you can see you get that much more dramatic ponytail. Are you sure how does it actually feel on your hair? Does it feel heavy or does it feel good feels good, very late? Oh good, so was gon na rub that around? Actually I like wrapping it around as well, because I feel like it gives it a little more of security and almost a bit like scaffolding. So a bit more hairspray just to lock it in place, and then we use the hairdryer guys just to really lock it. In now we have the long sleek ponytail. So at this point I like to add a bit more shine. I'M going to use the color! Well, extra shine spray put it on its hang-gliding brush. I like to use the detangle aizen brush at this point, just because I find it gives me a little bit more control, so you can see from the back. You get that super chic kind of shiny glossy glass-like hair, which i think looks amazing and in that really nice limp as well. It looks great now, if you look at the profile. You'Ve got that really nice snatched look here. So it's really nice and clean. Remember before we said we're following the cheekbone which gives you that really snatched look it's complimentary on the face, I'm really kind of dish. I don't know it's girly, but at the same time I think it looks pretty fierce, I think, out of the three ponytails. This is probably the fiercest most confident just because it's pulled high. It'S tie and you've got that real, dramatic glam. You look amazing. Thank you. I feel great. That'S been my 3 ponytails we've gone from low medium to high. If I had to pick a favorite, I would probably say a high ponytail never goes out of fashion, because it's probably one of the most confident dramatic looks. But it's also technically possibly one of the more difficult ones to do, because when you dress in the hair up that high you going against gravity and you've really got to make sure everything stays in the right place. I expect to see you rocking this. Maybe you should keep his pants up. No, I think I should. I think you should. I feel bad. I mean you've. You'Ve been a trooper you've gone through the free, the three different ponytails. Thank you for being my model. You