Let'S Talk Ponytails!! How To Pull A Wig Into A Ponytail.

Hey everyone, it's rachel with rachel's wig reform. Today i want to talk about ponytails again, and i know i have touched on this topic before, and i've done some videos before. However, it's it's been a while, since i've done those videos - and i'm currently seeing these questions pop up a lot in wig groups like how do you pull your hair or your wig into a ponytail um? What do i do when i'm exercising? How can i wear my wig, what you know all these different little scenarios of? What can you do for your wig if you're going to the beach or, if you're hanging out at a pool all day, so i'm going to touch base on a few of these things in the video and give you some demonstrations on how to do it? I'M going to use my rachel wig. This is an old jon renau, rachel wig in the color palm springs blonde. Now, when you get an older wig that you've worn for a while these are the wigs i suggest using for putting your hair into a ponytail working out using it to go to the beach whatever it might be. Um her her fibers are starting to get a little. You know worn out, but so wearing her down is not an option for me, however, pulling her into a ponytail and doing some different things with her is very, very easy to do, and there's still a lot of use left in this wig, even though i'm not Going to wear her down and and by the way just to confirm, i cannot wear a long synthetic wig on my neck anymore either since i started wearing human hair wigs i like i said i have officially become that snob and i own it now what i Like to do with my longer wigs is i like to hold it upside down and brush it out that way. It'S getting all you know everything taken care of from underneath. I also like to take the envy, renew and repair, and i will hold my wig out and i will lightly spray the hole underneath here a lot of times. It'S our underneath in the nape area that doesn't get these products properly on them. And so when you hold it upside down it, it's getting that that nape area in the underneath now here's the thing this little bathroom that i that i'm in has hardwood floors. If i take this envy spray - and i do it here - and it gets on my floor - like the mist it's an ice skating rink like i literally almost killed myself one day - so do not spray this over your carpets over your flooring, whatever it is, because the Mist of it gets in there and it is kind of uh like a greasier, i guess for lack of better terms um product, so i don't even think you would want it on your on your carpets. What i do is we have this little tiny stand-up shower right here: um, nobody really uses that i hold it up in there and spray um, don't use it. Don'T do that in a shower that you're going to use because the person that gets into it is going to bust their ass okay, for, like a better words, all right, so i i've already sprayed her prior to this video. I brushed her through. So now i'm gon na go ahead. Oh i'm gon na show you one other thing. Actually, i'm gon na put my hat back on because i'm a little chilly um, one of the things that you can do with your wigs before you, when you put them into a ponytail, is a lot of times. It'S that nape area that we struggle with. So you can use double-sided tape. I usually don't because i will put a hat on with this wig and the band of the hat keeps the nape secure. I buy pieces of double-sided tape like this. They come in strips. I got these on amazon and i will put the link to them in the description box, so everything that i kind of talk about here today always expand the description box and you can find that i don't want an entire piece. So i cut a piece in half and when you get these you'll see that there is there's kind of a a line already there. I that's where i cut so. I like to put this on prior to putting the wig on and what i'm going to do is i'm just going to take off the one side and i'm going to stick that piece of tape right there, but i'm not going to take the blue side off. However, i am going to go in there and get a corner of that blue side lifted, because that can be tricky so see right now, prior to me, putting it on see how that's already kind of lifting that will um get slightly pushed back down. When i put this on, but at least i can reach up there and i can grab that little piece - that's already been started and then pull it, pull it off. Okay! Now let me go ahead and put this on. This is a good look all right. So the main thing too is: is you want to make sure you have your wig brushed out really well, because the more tangles you have in it the worse, it's going to be to pull it back all right, hello! Oh sorry, i thought i was gon na. Have another disaster right before i started this video. My smoke alarm went off in my kitchen, um, yes, i know i should not be baking, i mean legit. I do i'm not a baker, not a cooker. Nothing! Okay! My husband works. Second shift he's not here. I'M normally gone in the evenings. I i don't cook um. I have a kitchen because it came with the house. Okay and my fire alarm went off because of some stuff. I had in the oven - and i was thinking oh my gosh - is that going to happen again. I think i didn't start videotaping um. So what i'm doing now is i'm just starting to take these fibers and i'm pulling them back just like you would with a ponytail and i'm just going to keep combing out those little pieces that are not quite yet pulled up. Now i'm going to go in and i'm just going to take my hands and i'm going to start to bring that up into the back. I don't know if you can hear my dog he's on the porch and what you're going to find is you're going to get it's going to get snarly when you pull those fibers up, just gently keep brushing through it. So i'm just continuing to brush my hair brush my wig into a ponytail just like i would with any other, or i shouldn't say with any other wig just like you would. If you had hair now, i'm going to secure it with a band and then i'm going to show you what happens, i'm going to turn around so you can see. Sometimes it does pull back a little bit, so i have to just give it a little bring the bangs down. Okay. So, looking at this just right here, this would look like a normal ponytail. This is what happens with wigs. You get that that nape area rises up. Obviously, that's not a natural look, so this is what you do. What you want to do - and i hope you can get a good view of this - is first of all hold on to the ponytail, then go into your nape right right here and just start to gently gently pull it down. Let me see if i can get this out of the up out of the way, so i'm just going to kind of gently start to bring that nape area back down and then right here on the side, also, okay, so now that is back. Let me take a look here all right, so now that's in a much better, better location, it's not way up high. Now what i'm going to do is i'm going to flip that up a little bit go to the corner. If i can remember what corner this is the hard part with this? Oh, i thought i had it. I don't oh, almost almost holy hell and that blue tape is kind of like it kind of has a slippery here. We go. Okay, blue tape is off so now i'm going to flip that nape back down and i'm going to take it and i'm going to push it in and secure it down all right. So now, when you do still look, you can see. There'S you know it's kind of noticeable. All you need to do is really start to go in there and just start pulling on the fibers a little bit and bringing them down. So can you see the difference on just that little bit of pulling the the tension or the tightness of the fibers down? It starts to look a little better than this side. So this side i brought down, but i didn't pull down on the fibers this side. I did, and you can continue just to loosen those up as much as you as much as you would like to um. So now that nape area, we don't have to feel insecure that it's going to be lifting, because what happens if, throughout the day as you like kind of pull your rubber band a little tighter, it will pull that nape area sort of back up again um and When you have the the tape there, it helps secure that um nape area there, so you don't feel as like insecure about it. Okay, so here is just a basic ponytail out the door super easy. I do put hats on with this. That'S normally how i do wear it now. Let'S talk about ponytail, wigs um, wigs that are made just to wear in a ponytail or or down, but they have the headband. Here is what i here's. What i do. I take this exact same wig and when i go to crossfit, i put a headband around it because i don't. I don't want this stuff in my in my face, and i also don't even like it. If i go out in the wind and this stuff's falling in my face, i'm just i'm just not that person. Now you can take one of your older wigs, just like a rachel whatever and make it into a ponytail wig. Now i have ordered one from um kirsten kj invoked medical, wigs and beyond. I'M super excited to get it um and i will be doing a review on it, but until i get that here is an option or here is something you could do if you wanted, like a ponytail style wig for exercising yard work, whatever it might be. Okay, i have these headbands. I purchased these two at walmart. I really like these. They have a lot of nice stretch to them and it feels secure without like super tight on my head um, i have a black one and a white one, and then you can also purchase these. They look like gators almost and i think they advertise as gators they're they're kind of displayed like this hanging in in walmart. This is just a bigger version and you can make it scrunchy and you can do some different things with that. I personally like this one and i'm going to make sure that the seam is so what i'm gon na do is just get this down and around and also when i do it this way. I don't put the tape on the back of my nape, because this headband, once i pull it down, will help keep it, keep it there. So then i take my bangs and i'm just going to kind of comb them back all right and then i'm going to take my headband just kind of bring it up and up and around now one of the things that i realized when i was first trying To do this is that you almost do have to have it over over your ears. When i was doing this it it was getting funky, um and then plus my ears were sticking out like crazy, so it was kind of a different feeling for me, but i'm really getting used to it. And then you can see right. There is kind of the hairline and you just bring that pony that bandana or the head wrap. Let me double check the back here, make sure okay, so now here is another thing: when you put the headband on what it tends to do is push the hair up. If that makes sense - and i'm sure you can kind of see that so what i do then is with the headband still on i'm going to take my ponytail back out and i'm just going to really gently kind of re-put it in and smooth that back out. Again, that happens sometimes it's just the way that the headband pushes on the fibers. So once i get that all taken care of i'm going to put my pony my rubber band back in - and i like my ponytails to be big, then you can just kind of go in and give little tugs on on it. If you wanted to bring like a little lift up in there, because this is an older wig - and this is basically how i'm doing it, i will take a kind of a rat tail comb and go in right here at the top and just kind of give It some extra little little lift it okay, so you can do this for a simple ponytail that you want to wear out and about using the double-sided tape. You could do this and put a hat on with it or you could take one of your older, wigs and turn it into a version of a ponytail wig without actually purchasing a ponytail wig. Now this is rachel, so she is a hand-tied cap. However, i can do the same thing with heidi, which is rachel's cysterwig, but um not hand tied. It'S no different, like zero difference. I also had ryder by amore and she is a wefted cap and i pulled her up into a ponytail and wore her. That way. For a till, i literally wore her out um, it wasn't even able to be donated. I literally just put her upstairs in case somebody might want her for halloween or something you know. Who knows so, there's a lot of quick little things that you can do with your wigs that i think we're afraid to do or were unsure the little tricks on how to make it work. You know, don't don't make wigs such a challenge. Okay, don't be afraid to style them, don't be afraid to do things with them. A synthetic wig is only going to last so long, no matter what i had my share of wears from rachel down and now i'm going to probably wear her longer in this type of um style than i would if she was being worn down the entire time. Recycle those wigs find ways to continue to use them, use those wigs for your workouts, for your your ponytails to wear with hats, make them into a headband wig whatever it is, but don't be afraid to style and do things with with with your wigs. Okay, all right, so i hope that helps and if you haven't subscribed to my channel yet please do so and we'll talk with you soon.