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Anne-Marie Emerald Offline Posts: 368 Germany Gender:	Re: Casual Styles Reply #15 - Jun 1^st, 2003 at 12:35pm That looks wonderful-what a terrific picture!!!
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bikerbraid Shooting Star Offline Life is short, Break the rules Posts: 6569 Bike Paths of the Midwest Gender:	Re: Casual Styles Reply #16 - Jun 2^nd, 2003 at 1:46am THANKS everyone!
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Reply #17 - Jun 3^rd, 2003 at 5:17am

Great pix bikerbraid. I would love to try that in my hair. How long does
it have to be. I have had so much fun and success with the rag curls (shocker, even my anti-long hair mom likes it !)that I am anxious to keep trying more, more, more. My hair is about waist length. Do you use a soft elastic to make the pony tail first? Thanks, Jenna

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Reply #18 - Jun 3^rd, 2003 at 10:47am

Your waist length hair should be a good length for the knotted ponytail. I don't use anything to hold the initial ponytail, but if you were going to be active or wanted it to hold all day, using a hair friendly elastic would help hold the style. My hair is very slippery and fine, so it does tend to fall out of this style if I don't get the bun anchored well. Angry

Using 2 hairsticks helps alot. I also use a spiral screw hairstick to hold the bun, which does a pretty good job. Give this a try and let us know how it works for you.

Glad to hear the rag curls were a hit! Cheesy

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leia Diamond Offline Posts: 745 Dhaka, Bangladesh Gender:	Re: Casual Styles Reply #19 - Jun 3^rd, 2003 at 2:02pm Am I the only one whose hair hates rag curls? My hair ends up in a knotted mess, which is needless to say NOT CURLY! Lol! Very annoying
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Reply #20 - Jun 3^rd, 2003 at 3:02pm

It sounds to me like you are wrapping the cloth around the hair and not the hair around the cloth, Leia. I don't think it would be possible to make rag curls right and not have curls. I have the most anti-curl hair in the world and even I get curls with rag curls.

I tried the sock curls last weekend... Friday night I washed my hair and curled it in two sock curls. SUNDAY evening I took them down. They were still wet :(

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Reply #21 - Jun 3^rd, 2003 at 11:37pm

This must be because I tried sock curls rather than rag curls. My hair was also not quite dry enough when I took them down. I guess you have to put them in when your hair is almost almost dried.

I'll have to try real rag curls... my mother did it on me when I was young and had wonderful results. I'll have to get her to help me with the parts I can't quite reach in the back! Cheesy

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bikerbraid Shooting Star Offline Life is short, Break the rules Posts: 6569 Bike Paths of the Midwest Gender:	Re: Casual Styles Reply #22 - Jun 4^th, 2003 at 11:06am When I do my sock curls, my hair is just damp, not wet. The longer your hair is, the more bulk there is and the longer it would take to dry. I think if you tried to roll wet hair on the socks you would need a hair dryer to get the hair to dry in a more reasonable time. (Bonnet style dryer would work well).
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leia Diamond Offline Posts: 745 Dhaka, Bangladesh Gender:	Re: Casual Styles Reply #23 - Jun 4^th, 2003 at 12:31pm But aren't blow driers and heated appliances bad for the hair?
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bikerbraid Shooting Star Offline Life is short, Break the rules Posts: 6569 Bike Paths of the Midwest Gender:	Re: Casual Styles Reply #24 - Jun 4^th, 2003 at 5:18pm If the temp is set on cool, it should not damage the hair.
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Reply #25 - Jun 26^th, 2003 at 5:37am

Back to the knotted ponytail...

I *love* this style! Like I mention in one of my earlier posts, I was waiting for my hair to grow longer before I tried this style. I tried it today and it's great! It shortens my ponytail SO much, although it's not *quite* as long as the pic bikerbraid posted!

Also, bikerbraid mentioned that she makes one round and then pulls the remaining hair through, but I find that it only works if I make two rounds, and this shortens my ponytail a lot more. I can also hold this style with one stick.

Has anyone tried/had success with the braided knotted ponytail?

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bikerbraid Shooting Star Offline Life is short, Break the rules Posts: 6569 Bike Paths of the Midwest Gender:	Re: Casual Styles Reply #26 - Jun 26^th, 2003 at 10:34am I have braided my hair, then knotted it, but I have found that I have to put a hair tie at the end of the braid or it will unbraid itself ( the ponytail is not braided). If I braid the whole length then knot, it seems very heavy to me.
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leia Diamond Offline Posts: 745 Dhaka, Bangladesh Gender:	Re: Casual Styles Reply #27 - Jun 26^th, 2003 at 2:24pm Is your hair still waist length bikerbraid?
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bikerbraid Shooting Star Offline Life is short, Break the rules Posts: 6569 Bike Paths of the Midwest Gender:	Re: Casual Styles Reply #28 - Jun 26^th, 2003 at 8:17pm Yes, it is slowly growing past waist length. I have not had a significant trim in over a year. I had a micro trim in April that took off less than 1/2". I'm hoping that once summer temps rise a bit here, that my hair will start growing a bit faster (hope, hope ).
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leia Diamond Offline Posts: 745 Dhaka, Bangladesh Gender:	Re: Casual Styles Reply #29 - Jun 27^th, 2003 at 3:14am I hope so too! The heat wave has already hit us over here, though it's monsoon season as well... so it's a nice mix (standing outside grumbling about the heat and a nice cool shower of rain falls on your head ). I wonder how come hair grows faster in the summer. How long are you planning to grow your hair, bikerbraid?
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