Sleek Long Ponytail How To | 30 Inch Hair Ponytail With 18" Bundles | Protective Style

Hello welcome back to my youtube channel, so if you're new here, my name is shayda and if you're not new. Thank you for tuning in so today, i'm gon na show you how to achieve this fabulous long, curly, ponytail, but the best part about it. Is that all my hair is in here and it's protective style so um? I know that in the winter months so like fall winter um, it's a better idea to keep your hair as protected as you can, so that you can keep kind of the moisture of your hair and that hydration inside at least that's what i like to do And i feel like my hair grows pretty long pretty fast, so um yeah, so i'm going to show you how i was able to fit all my curly hair. So, as you can see in some other video, my hair is really long, thick and curly. So it was a task to put it in here, but nevertheless i can rock this style for two three days as long as i kind of keep this smoothed out and worst case scenario, i can always redo it. So anyhow, i use two bundles of hair. For this and keep watching, if you want to see how i did it - okay, so i'm starting off with wet hair uh and my hair is just washed, so i'm kind of spritzing some water in it to make sure that it's um wet thoroughly. And now i'm just applying some conditioner to it, just so that when i put it up, it's nice and moisturized. So now i'm going in with my brush and just making sure that it's all detangled everywhere so that it's easier to braid it up later. On and i'll link all these products down below in the description, so the brush, what i used to condition my hair so that you have everything you need so now, i'm going to go in with my handy dandy, echo gel and i'm gon na use this to Spread it kind of like across the front of the hair, just the area where i'm gon na be slicking back my hair um and i usually like to put it kind of you know under my ponytail as well just so that i can get some hold back There and i don't want to need to lose kind of little hairs, going away from the ponytail so going in with my heart, bristle brush and just smoothing everything out making sure it's nice and sleek, and this echo gel actually doesn't really crunch up so um. It has some argan oil in it, so i kind of apply it a little bit liberally just so that my ponytail has a nice hold. So now, i'm going in with just a regular um scrunchie and i'm gon na be putting my hair up now mind you. I usually use silk scrunchies for my hair, but for this style you want your scrunchie to be as minimal as possible so that later on, when we pin the hair to it, you won't see any bulkiness. So i'm using a little bit of echo gel around my edges and now i'm going in with my edge brush and kind of slicking them down just until you achieve the look that you want. So i personally don't like like edges that are super crazy. So i just want a little bit so that it looks nice and neat and sometimes, if i'm feeling a little bit fancy i like to do, you know just a little bit in the front. So now i'm going in with my scarf and i use this to set the style. So when i don't use this, my edges kind of tend to go everywhere, but after using the echo gel and kind of placing them where i want. I use this scarf to kind of, as i'm styling my ponytail. I won't mess anything else up and it'll set everything in place, so this is my second scrunchie just for a little bit of added security, since my hair is pretty thick like the scrunchie sometimes tends to slide off. So i'm i used to for this video and now i'm just parting, my hair into threes, so that i can start braiding it and the braid doesn't have to be perfect um. It'S just a matter of getting all your hair in there and getting nice and tidied up because later on, you won't even be seeing the braid at all. So i'm going in with some some of those little like rubber bands and tying them at the end, which you can use a regular scrunchie. That'S totally fine and now is when we're gon na start using the hair. So these are my two bundles and i'm gon na be bobby pinning it. So you probably need a pack of bobby pins. So this is what it looks like once the bundle is unraveled, so it's kind of like a curly texture, and i like that texture, because when i slick back my hair, i still have waves. So it wouldn't look right if my my hair is wavy at the top and then it's straight at the bottom, so we're going to grab the end of the track and pin it on top of where we put the end rubber band. So i pinned it at the end right above the rubber band and now i'm going through and wrapping it. I usually wrap it three times before i pin it down, but that's a matter of personal preference and i tend to try to wrap it a little bit tight so that, because i know later on, it's going to loosen up a little bit and the hardest part Of this process, for me is kind of keeping the track straight uh because it tends to like tangle on the other end, you can see i'm like unraveling, the other part of it, so just kind of keep working your way up, um wrapping it around your braid And then pinning it what you need and just a little test like if you feel like you, haven't, pinned um your bundle properly just kind of give it like a tiny, tiny tug and if it pops off, then you know that you didn't really pin it. In correctly so try to re-pin it again and make sure that when you're pinning you're grabbing some of the hair, that's in the braid and you're grabbing the track itself, so she's working my way up. So this is the end of the track. So i make sure that i pin this pretty nicely, so i might put one or two bobby pins in here and, as you can see like it's already that's kind of like the length that you're gon na get so i'm going in with the second bundle and Pinning it on top of where the other bundle, the last bundle that i just finished finished off, so that they're both kind of clipped together and i'm doing the same thing so just kind of continue wrapping it around. So i go three times around until i pin it, and usually i think two bundles is more than enough for me personally, the first bundle i try to reach half of my braid in the second bundle. I try to reach the other half of my braid and if you want to achieve a fuller look, you can also kind of the last half of your braid. You can wrap it up a little bit faster so that you, when you get to the base of kind of where you put, that first rubber band to hold your hair when you get to that base of your ponytail like you, can see what i'm doing. You'Re wrapping it a few times around that base, so that way it gives the ponytail a fuller look at the top. So now i'm just pinning in that last little bit and making sure that's really secure. So now i'm going to grab from that last little bit of track, i'm grabbing the last little piece of hair and wrapping it around the base of my ponytail. So this is what's gon na disguise the track from being seen. So it's what's gon na give you that natural ponytail look so that no one can see if it's your real hair or if it's a bundle and then make sure you pin that really really well. So here we go, i'm taking my little scarf off and just kind of slicking back anything that's kind of loose and also, if your ponytail like, if the curl has messed up or whatever it is, you can spritz it with a little bit of water. Like i'm doing here, just to give it a little bit of, i guess moisture, so this is the end result. Thank you so much for watching. 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