styling to be "shorter" Updated: solution & pics
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Topic: styling to be "shorter" Updated: solution & pics
Posted By: letmecount123
Subject: styling to be "shorter" Updated: solution & pics
Date Posted: October 24 2006 at 8:12pm
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Okay long haired fellows... I need some styling suggestions.
My girlfriends and I from school are going to be catholic school girls for Halloween this weekend. I want to put my hair up in pigtails, but it's way too long to just leave down (especially for at the bar). I'm trying to come up with a way to have the ends fall to my shoulders but no longer. I've attempted to wrap it around the ponytail, but it's really hard to get a "ponytail" look that way... it doesn't fall over the bun very well. My only other idea is possibly having to use claw clips. I just assumed someone here would have solved this dilemma at some point already... although I could be wrong. Might take a lot of experimenting on Thursday to get it right for Friday. Thanks! Edit: Here is the finished product. The "before" picture, making insignias for our "school" 
And a few after pictures 
I like how my friend did it...but I can't for the life of me replicate it myself! Tied in a knot and let the ends hang out, secure with bobby pins...oh well! |
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Posted By: PurpleBubba
Date Posted: October 24 2006 at 8:45pm
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Over at LHC there's a thread for making your hair look like a Bob or shoulder length. Here's the link http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=41837 - http://forums.longhaircommunity.com/showthread.php?t=41837 ------------- 
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Posted By: letmecount123
Date Posted: October 24 2006 at 8:52pm
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I've done the bob thing. Doesn't work in my hair.
I specifically need shorter ponytails... they look way cuter shorter and long hair gets caught on EVERYTHING when you're dancing at the bar. ------------- |
Posted By: SpecialKitty
Date Posted: October 24 2006 at 9:22pm
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Hi Holly - you've probably already though of this, but can you fold each tail over itself once (like a big loop) and put the ponytail holder at the top (where the ends meet the beginning so to speak). It would be more of loop than a tail, but would look really cute I think. ------------- 
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Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: October 25 2006 at 8:13am
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Yeah, or you could braid each tail and fold it up the way SpecialKitty
said (its more a traditional german style than catholic, but it would
look cute). The way I wear my hair sometimes is where I twist it downward, then back up, putting the "back up" roll under the fold of the twisted down part, which leaves ends sticking out the top of the fold which hang over the folded part, and the ends hide the whole thing even if you use a good sized claw clip on the fold to hold it. If you do the pigtails more toward the back of your head (behind your ears), it may work for two. You can adjust the amount of hair you fold under making the ends that stick out longer or shorter. Do I make sense? Let me know, if not I can try to put up some photos explaining. ------------- Making metal barettes/concord clips hair safe, long hair style how to: http://alonghair.wordpress.com |
Posted By: Hellfrozeover
Date Posted: October 25 2006 at 12:47pm
| You could put braided pigtails in and tie a knot at the base of each. |
Posted By: letmecount123
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 12:54am
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A friend of mine came up with a good idea when we were experimenting. Ponytails, and then tie each one in a knot with the ends sticking out the middle. I still get the shoulder length cascade look, except there's a big ring around each tail. Looks pretty neat...I bought us all matching ponytails with ribbons on them in different colours. I'm excited. :D ------------- |
Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 7:02am
Good idea! 
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Posted By: Sunsailing
Date Posted: October 26 2006 at 4:52pm
I went through 12 years of Catholic schooling, but I don't remember one girl wearing pigtails. I do remember the plaid skirts 
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Posted By: cmesweet
Date Posted: October 30 2006 at 1:46am
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Same here...don't recall pigtails.
I hated the plaid skirts..I'm sure the guys liked them that's why we had to wear shorts under neath. ------------- Natural BC May 9, 2004 |
Posted By: Susan W
Date Posted: October 30 2006 at 6:53am
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I wore pigtails until I was 9 in catholic school, after 9 it was
considered too nerdy! Then I wore them again in college when
going out sometimes (but down low, not up high like a kid). ------------- Making metal barettes/concord clips hair safe, long hair style how to: http://alonghair.wordpress.com |
Posted By: tdouty
Date Posted: November 03 2006 at 2:26pm
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Awesome job! It actually looks short!
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