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  • -Hey, everyone.

  • I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.

  • And today, I'm going to show you how to do the ponytail bow.

  • So we've been seeing this picture getting

  • sent to us from a lot of our fans.

  • And we've already shown you on other videos

  • how to do the Lady Gaga bow and also bowtails.

  • But this is just a slightly different variation

  • that's really fun, and I think it's

  • going to be really popular.

  • So what we have done, we have just

  • started by pulling her hair into a really loose, soft side

  • ponytail.

  • Now, when you get it into the side ponytail the way

  • you want it, I'm just going to pick up a piece of hair

  • off the top, maybe, like a 1-inch section.

  • So the large majority of her hair is still going to be down.

  • Now, I'm going to add some fiber gum.

  • Or you can use some pomade, whatever you want.

  • Just a little bit.

  • I'm just going to run it on the top

  • just to try to help control some of the flyaways

  • while we're making the bow part of her hair.

  • So you get that kind of worked through.

  • OK now I'm going to take another small elastic--

  • and just note that this one is also

  • a very small elastic that matches her here.

  • We want it to blend in.

  • And I'm going to take another one.

  • And I'm going to put it over her hair like so,

  • and wrap it around and form the bow part of her hair

  • right there.

  • Now using the same elastic-- you can see I still have it

  • on my fingers, I'm going to go over here and grab

  • the other end of her hair that's still loose,

  • and do kind of the same thing.

  • I'm going to wrap it around her hair

  • and begin to form another little loop to the bow.

  • Now, the ends might get a little crazy.

  • That's OK.

  • You can work those out.

  • And you can see that we've kind of formed our bow.

  • I'm going to just make that loop a little looser.

  • OK.

  • So we've got the basic structure for our bow

  • in place at this point.

  • You can see it.

  • So if you think your loops are a little too small

  • or anything like that, this is the time

  • you kind of want to mess around with your loops

  • and just perfect them.

  • OK.

  • So when you've got the basic bow in place,

  • then what you are going to do now is hide those elastics.

  • So there's a couple ways to do this.

  • I'm going to reach-- you can see these

  • are the ends that we had used before.

  • I'm going to grab under here and grab

  • another small little section like so.

  • Now, you can do a couple things.

  • And I'll show you all of them, and then you

  • can decide which works for you.

  • You can take this and simply take it up and over like so

  • and then bobby pin it down under here

  • so that it would stay in place like that.

  • Or, this is option number two.

  • You can split this in half, take them both up over the middle

  • like so, over each side of the loop.

  • And then take another small rubber band

  • and put it right there on her hair.

  • And then that would hold it like this.

  • But the downside to that one is you

  • may see the little rubber band.

  • So just be aware of that.

  • My personal favorite option-- but you

  • do you need this tool-- is my fantabulous Topsy Tail.

  • We've talked about these before in other hairdos.

  • The Topsy Tail allows you to just kind of stick this

  • in right behind the bow itself like so.

  • And then I'm going to take the hair,

  • put it through the Topsy Tail, give the Topsy

  • Tail a little tug through like so,

  • and it wraps the hair around there.

  • Then what I'm going to do is just take a bobby pin.

  • OK, I'm going to try to show-- lean forward just a little bit

  • so they can see it really clearly.

  • Take the bobby pin.

  • Do you see where the hair goes into the ponytail part?

  • I'm just going to take the bobby pin,

  • stick it basically right on top of that same hair,

  • and take it down.

  • And that's just going to secure that hair in place.

  • So then-- OK.

  • You can put your head back up now.

  • I'm just going to go back and tweak our bow so

  • that I love the way it looks.

  • Fluff it.

  • You can take a little hairspray and kind

  • of comb those loops if you want so they look soft and pretty.

  • And comb that down.

  • And then-- OK.

  • So here's another trick.

  • This is another trick by me.

  • Lean forward.

  • Can you see this first elastic that we did?

  • The original elastic for the ponytail.

  • So I like that to be hidden.

  • I can just barely see it poking out right there.

  • So what I'm going to do is take the hair,

  • just give it a nice, gentle tug.

  • This is just going to help loosen up your ponytail.

  • and it's also going to pull that elastic

  • down even closer to that hair so you can see it even less.

  • So there you go.

  • OK.

  • Put your head up.

  • The fun, fun ponytail bow.

  • I'm sure that this is going to be a popular one.

  • And I hope that you try it.

  • Send me pictures of how it turns out.

  • You can Facebook them to me.

  • I'll turn you so you can see a great little shot of her bow.

  • Have fun, and we'll see you guys later.

-Hey, everyone.

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