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I've let me hair grow out for a while. I've gotten generally good comments. It's at the stage where I can do a ponytail, but I haven't done that in public yet, but I want to. Any encouragement or advice on showing off the new ponytail?
There is an infinite variety of barettes, clips, scrunchies, tubes, etc. to hold a ponytail in place. Why not go shopping, find one you really, really like (damn the price -- splurge a little) and wear that on your inaugural ponytail day?
J.J.
Just go for it Jay. Like other things in life, it may take a little courage the first couple of times, but the sooner you start, the sooner you'll begin feeling comfortable about it. Pony tails look better on some guys than on others, but they do help us all to keep hair out of our soup and other places we don't want it.
I know how you feel. When I decided that I wanted to grow my collar-length hair longer, I waited quite awhile before I put it into a ponytail. I expecially wanted to avoid that California coffeehouse pigtail look.
The first day that I put it into a ponytail was a big surprise for me. I go country dancing a couple times a week. The first day that I wore the ponytail dancing, one of my regular partners kept playing with the ponytail so much that I kept having to refix the ponytail.
Now I keep my hair in a ponytail almost all the time. It is now down to the bottom of my sholder blades. If I don't keep it in the ponytail, it just gets way too tangles.
Because I keep it short on the top and sides, I still have to go to the hairdressers about every month and a half. The last two times, I have had them braid it, as well. It was funny -- the first time, it had been so long since the hairdresser had done a braid, that it took her twice before she got it right. She did a great looking french braid that I wish that I had taken a picture of. I got a lot of attention when I went dancing. Unfortunately, the braid didn't survive the night.
The second braid was just a simple one, starting from the neck. I went out drinking. I had my back to the bar when I felt something pulling on my braid. it was the female bartender playing with my braid.
I wish that I could do the braids myself.
My suggestion is:
Practise, practise, practise
Eventually, it will be easy.