How to make an oriental-style tail with your own hands (with photo, video)
If you think that loose curls are banal and ordinary, and intricate weaving is too pretentious and complicated, try making a high ponytail in an oriental style.
This styling is suitable for owners of hair of any length – if you have very short curls, you can use overhead strands. A fluffy ponytail looks elegant even without additional accessories, and if you add decorations, you can get the most spectacular holiday hairstyle.
Creating an oriental tail takes a lot of time, but the result is simply amazing – even for a wedding, many girls choose such styling, it can be supplemented with a veil or flowers on hairpins.
What you need for the east tail
To make a big oriental tail with your own hands, you will need a lot of tools, styling products and enough free time:
Of course, styling will be much neater and faster if another person does it for you – you can make a high tail for yourself, but it will not be very convenient, so it will take quite a long time.
What do you need from styling products?
- Light mousse.
- Strong hold varnish.
- Powder for hair.
Gels and waxes are categorically not suitable – these products make the hair heavier, and the main task when creating a lush oriental tail is to give maximum volume.
At the same time, the hair should be airy, and the hairstyle should not seem massive.
To make a beautiful oriental ponytail for medium hair or long curls, you will need the following accessories:
- Foam "donut" for hair color
- clamps
- Invisibles
- Tight gum
All these accessories will be present in the final version of the hairstyle, and during its creation you will need a few more clips or elastic bands to fix the strands that you are not currently working with.
What tools will you need?
- Curling iron.
- Iron-rectifier.
- Corrugated iron.
- Thin comb.
- Massage brush.
Armed with this arsenal of tools, you can style like a pro – even an oriental ponytail wedding hairstyle with bangs can be created at home with the help of a mom or a friend:
Step-by-step description of creating a hairstyle
But the text description of the oriental tail hairstyle step by step can become a convenient instruction with which you will be able to exactly repeat the work of hairdressing art.
- Start by washing your hair and be sure to use a conditioner – this product will help make your hair obedient, curls will be easy to comb. Apply conditioner only to the length of the hair, without touching the scalp, so that the hair does not appear greasy.
- It is best to dry your hair naturally, shaking the strands with your fingers. If you have limited time, use a hair dryer, but do not set the maximum heat setting, otherwise the hair will lose its shine. Before using a hair dryer, apply a thermal protection spray to your hair.
- Treat the entire hair with an iron with a corrugation nozzle. If you have several corrugated nozzles, use the smallest one. Divide the hair with a comb into thin strands – up to 0.5 cm thick and iron strand by strand.
- Separate the parietal part of the hair and secure with an elastic band or clip from the side of the face. To do this, make two parallel partings, drawing a comb at the level of the outer corners of the eyes in the direction of the crown, and throw the hair forward.
- Separate the side areas of the hair, grabbing the temporal strands and strands above the ears. Comb them forward and secure with clips so as not to interfere.
- Brush the remaining mass of hair with a brush to give maximum volume, and gather it into a ponytail with an elastic band, raising it to the crown as much as possible.
- Pass the tail through the foam "donut", attach the "donut" to the head with clips on both sides.
- Separate the thin strands of the tail one by one, starting from the bottom. Comb each strand to about the middle of the length, leaving the ends uncombed. Make sure that the strands become airy, not tangled. If your hair is tangled, gently brush it over the top with a brush.
- In parallel with combing, curl the ends of the strands with a curling iron. Lay the strands so that they create volume at the top, and lay down with beautiful curls at the bottom.
- Release the parietal area from the clip or elastic band and begin to separate small strands one by one from the crown to the forehead. Straighten each strand slightly with an iron from the roots so that the corrugation effect is not very visible, but the volume of the hair still remains.
- Leave a small strand near the face, throw the rest over the “donut" and secure with invisibility at the base of the “donut” so that the strands do not scatter around. Straighten the strands so that they completely cover the foam rubber. The top strands should be combed at the roots.
- Release the right side of the hair. Separate a thin strand from the face and take it forward, fixing it with a clip. Comb the rest of the hair at the roots, take it back and throw it over your finger so that the top of the strand is directed to the top of the head, and the rest of the length falls down. In this position, secure the strand with an invisibility.
- Do the same with the left side of the hair. Curl the ends with a curling iron and mix with the back strands of the tail so that the composition looks unified.
- Cover the remaining hair above the forehead with hair powder and straighten at the roots with an iron. Then toss your hair back and comb at the roots, brushing the topmost strand with a brush.
- Secure this part of the hair with invisibility on the crown, forming a high volume.
- Now you need to cover the invisibility, for this, use the remaining side strands. Dust them with powder to add lightness and volume, tease and gently comb them back, then lift them up and lay the strands on top of the invisibility in a criss-cross pattern.
- Curl the ends and mix with the bulk of the hair. Cover hair liberally with hairspray or fixative spray.
A photo of an oriental ponytail will help you figure out how the final result should look like:
Now you can decorate the styling at your discretion with a comb, automatic hairpin, or use decorative invisibility – in this case, you do not need to cover them, and the algorithm for creating a tail can be slightly changed.
If you do not know how to make a fashionable oriental ponytail, the video will help you understand all the intricacies of creating this stylish styling:
Oriental ponytail hairstyle options
A fluffy ponytail is suitable for any celebration, but many girls prefer to move away from the classic ponytail and make styling more interesting.
The first thing you can change is to curl not only the ends, but the entire length of the hair. Choose a curling iron with a thick heating element or wind the strands on a narrow iron.
If your hair holds styling well and is naturally thick, you can even not pre-treat the curls with an ironing corrugation, but simply curl it, dividing it into small strands, and comb it at the roots.
Another version of the eastern tail is the malvina.
You need to separate the side parts of the hair, as for the tail, and divide the remaining hair not into two parts, but into three.
First, curl curls from the hair of the lowest part, then make a tail in the crown area and put on a “donut”, and comb the parietal and lay it on top of the “donut”.
This styling can be recommended to owners of not very long hair – you will be able to visually increase the length:
You can beat the bangs or strands of the face in different ways.
For example, you can leave the temporal strands free by twisting them with a curling iron. You can separate a wide strand with your forehead, divide it with a side parting and lay it in a wave behind your ears, imitating a bang-curtain.
You can initially make a side parting on the crown of the head and style the hair combed at the roots in different directions, not forgetting to cover the “donut”.
An oriental tail is the styling that will help you feel like a real queen, because no man will pass by such a spectacular girl!
