Hair Tutorial: How To Do An Easy Wrapped Pony Tail
One of my six children is getting married at the end of March. When I saw a post in a group I’m in for ladies “going gray naturally” with a photo of a lady with long silver strands in a wrapped high pony tail, I got excited! I knew I’d have an easy hair style idea to present my hair stylist for my hair for the wedding! I recently got face framing layers with a side part on the affected side of my face, and pony tails are easy! My shortest layer tucks behind my ears. My hairstylist will be able to easily braid or French braid a section of my hair, wrap it around the base of my pony tail, and secure it with my favorite comfortable Lilla Rose bobby pins or a flexi clip. I’ll ask him to curl the pony tail tresses and some of the face framing sections left out of the pony tail, and then spray it with hair spray to prevent any flyaways or shorter hair from slipping out of the pony tail. I’m imagining this being a middle-high pony tail, not a low one.
Hair Tutorial: An Easy Wrapped Pony Tail
Below are two tutorial videos. One is a video A-Grape and I did a few years ago which describes how to do wrapped pony tails with bobby pins. The other is a low braided wrapped pony tail with a flexi hair clip. We could also use U-pins or hair sticks!
FLEXI: Braided Ponytail from Lilla Rose Inc. on Vimeo.
We’re in the midst of finding shoes to match our dresses. I no longer fit in the Dress Shoes With Heels Club, because hello imbalance disorder and fall risk. Finding comfortable and nice dress shoes with a stable low heel is proving to be quite a challenge. My dress skirt is also a high low hem, as I am afraid of tripping if the skirt wrapped around my ankles.
I need to find jewelry, beyond matching the dress and the wedding theme and colors, that isn’t too heavy on my numb ear, neck and shoulders, and won’t poke or prod those areas or make my head tilt to the right to increase the chances of imbalance and dizziness.
Finally, I have met with a make up artist to learn some techniques for creating the appearance of facial symmetry around my “not great at blinking” right dry eye while using make up that won’t cause itching or other problems around my eye, plus decrease the eye opening of my unaffected facial issues, while “opening” the right side affected by facial nerve weakness and the need for ongoing neuromuscular brain retraining. I have to do different techniques around my mouth in order to appear like I’m smiling from both sides of my mouth equally, which means using bronzer to create the appearance on one size of my face, and highlighter on the other side to decrease natural lines on the unaffected side. Make up is a challenge for a 50+ year old mom’s skin and then to “create” something on my face because muscles aren’t freely moving increases the make up challenges for a non make up, natural appearance person! The learning curve has been steep!
These are not your average wedding stressors! Thanks a lot, acoustic neuroma! I see my make up artist and my hair stylist in the early morning of the wedding, though, so I’ll have some help.
What would you do for your child’s wedding: a traditional Mother of the Bride (or groom) updo? Or would you try a fancy braided pony tail? Do you have an expert do your hair and make up?
Give me some feedback! Maybe I’ll change my mind!
