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  • [MUSIC CHARITY VANCE, "Icing."]

  • -Hey, everyone.

  • I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles,

  • and today I'm here with Bailey.

  • -Hi.

  • -We are going to show you today how to do the perfect ponytail.

  • Now, lots of you guys ask us how to get the most amazing

  • ponytail, and if there's any tricks.

  • And today we're going to show you what those are.

  • Now the first thing I like to do create the perfect ponytail

  • is make sure that you get some volume up in the top,

  • because you don't just a slicked back, flat, boring ponytail.

  • So I'm going to go ahead, and just using a comb,

  • I'm going to tease her hair just a little bit right here

  • in front.

  • And you can even use bobby pins to create, like a pompadour

  • look, if you don't want to just only tease,

  • and that's fine, too.

  • As long as you get a little bit of volume in your hair,

  • you're going to be a lot happier with the way

  • your ponytail looks.

  • So we're just going to do one more little section here.

  • OK.

  • And then I'm going to flip it back over,

  • and I'm going to take my smoothing brush,

  • and just smooth the top of it.

  • And now we're ready to pull our hair back into a ponytail.

  • Now here's trick number one.

  • If you go back here behind her ears,

  • and go up on either side of her ear, about halfway up her head,

  • and then come together, your fingers in the middle,

  • you'll kind of have this like upside down U shape.

  • That sort of what we want.

  • We don't want it to come up too far onto her ears,

  • or you're going to be able to see our part lines.

  • So try to stick right behind the ears.

  • I'm going to get this out of the way for a minute.

  • Now I'm going to gather up this back section

  • like you would just for a regular ponytail.

  • And I'm going to take a really tiny hair elastic,

  • and secure it in there.

  • Now this is going to give the optical illusion

  • that your ponytail is longer than your hair really

  • is, because this is going to hang down

  • lower than the rest of your hair.

  • You'll see in just a minute.

  • So now I'm going to go back up here and create our real-- so

  • to speak-- ponytail on top of that second one.

  • And you will see-- brush.

  • Gather up those sides.

  • Smooth it in a little.

  • Now I'm going to use some of my Hairplay texturizer

  • to just make sure I get some of those wispies under control

  • a little bit-- give it a little bit better, smoother look.

  • And when you get that where you want it,

  • go ahead and secure it.

  • Now some of you may be thinking oh, you're

  • going to see both of those elastics, which you can.

  • That can happen, but not if you do it right.

  • So I'm going to go back up here and loosen up

  • the front fist, so I make sure I get the volume I want,

  • and the nice puff.

  • And when I have that secure, than what you do

  • is you simply go back in, and tease the hair a little bit

  • on the sides right here, so that it

  • falls over the edges of that bottom ponytail,

  • and you can't see the elastic anymore-- that second one.

  • But look at how much length we got.

  • If this was the original ponytail,

  • we probably got an extra five to six inches just by doing that,

  • and it looks like her hair's way longer and softer

  • than it looked before.

  • Now, I'm going to go in-- I'm going

  • to find a little piece of hair, and I'm

  • going to just hair wrap the top ponytail so it's prettier.

  • Oops.

  • Sorry, babe.

  • So I'm going to just wrap this around.

  • This is what I always do on my ponies,

  • so they're really pretty.

  • You don't have to see those ugly last elastics.

  • Take a bobby pin, secure it.

  • Now here is my second trick, and you

  • are going to die over this one.

  • So we're going to take this little brown butterfly

  • clip that matches her hair.

  • So if you're blond, to find out lighter ones.

  • And we're just going to pick up a little bit of hair

  • on the top of the ponytail, and we're going to take the clip,

  • and we're going to stick it right in to that crease.

  • And then we're going to let their hair fall back down.

  • And what this does is it just adds a little bit more volume

  • and uplift on the back of the ponytail,

  • and just gives it a little bit more shape.

  • And I love the way that looks.

  • It makes all the difference, I swear.

  • OK, here's the final spin.

  • Do-do-do-da-do-do.

  • Look at the length we got on that.

  • So pretty.

  • Do-do-do.

  • And we're finished.

  • I love it.

  • Yes.

  • It looks so great.

  • Hope you guys enjoy experimenting

  • with the perfect ponytail.

  • I know Bailey's loving it.

  • -Oh, yes.

  • -Now for those of you watching my Mom's View episodes,

  • I have a new one up.

  • You can find it here.

  • It's on siblings sharing bedrooms.

  • -I share a bedroom.

  • -Yeah.

  • So make sure and check that out, and be

  • sure to comment, like, and favorite this video.

  • And we'll see you guys later.

  • -Bye.

  • -Part of having a big family means that some of the kids

  • have to share bedrooms.

  • In our home, the twins have always shared a bedroom,

  • but with the move to the new house,

  • we had to double up another set of girls,

  • and that was definitely an adjustment.

  • [MUSIC CHARITY VANCE, "Icing."]

  • -Who's the bravest?

  • -Come on, buddy.

  • All right.

  • You ready?

  • -Yes.

  • -OK, I've got to make sure I grab you right.

  • -What did you think?

  • -That was fun.

  • -All right, Mom.

  • -Do you want to do it again?

  • -Mom's turn.

  • -Yes.

[MUSIC CHARITY VANCE, "Icing."]

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