When out of all possible ideas or I'm having an utterly terrible hair day, I usually go with the ponytail. For school I like to put half up with a barette or experiment with hairsticks. I do like looking for new ideas, casual and formal, so if anyone has any I'm sure we'd all like to hear them  especially since my 'dos usually fall out by the end of the day!

Ooh, I am loving this, I must try it.  Do you use just one hairstick?  I'll use two 'cause I like the look, but I find it interesting that one would hold that style.

Ooohooohoooh!  I just came up with an idea!  I wonder if I made another knot halfway down and stuck a fuzzy or pretty hairtie underneath if it would hold.  Too kewl!  Sort of the same effect as two scrunchies, but using my own hair!  This would also serve to shorten my hip-length hair a good bit more.  I gotta try this when I take my side braid out tonight.

I *love* the look of big hair knots, I just wish they would stay in when you tied them!  They fall immediately out of my smooth hair :/

I fixed it for you, thanks for posting!

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How exactly do you tie your hair in a knot?

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I still only see a red box.

I emailed you the file  - I'll let you decide if it is worth putting up.

Ooh that picture is great! I can't believe the knotted ponytail shortens your hair *so* much - it would be really helpful for school! I haven't tried this style yet, I'm waiting for my hair to get longer because I doubt it would work at the moment.

THANKS everyone! 

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.    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!   

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 :(

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).

If the temp is set on cool, it should not damage the hair.

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.

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  ).

I will grow my hair until I no longer enjoy its length.

Speaking of rain during the summer - this past week while on vacation, we were biking a wonderful trail in northern Wisconsin.  The temps were in the upper 80's and very humid.  When we were about 20 miles out, we looked back and saw black clouds, so we turned around to head back.  It started to to rain - a light shower at first, then a downpour.  It felt so wonderful (at first) as it cooled us down.  However, we were  on a crushed rock trail and I ended up with mud and grit in my braid - yeck.  We were camping and the "shower" at the campground would barely produce a mist, so a good rinsing was next to impossible.  I ended up leaving my hair in the wet braid and waiting until I could collect enough rain water in a bucket to rinse my hair the next day.

Ooh I've never tried rinsing my hair with rainwater! Though I don't think I'll try that here... the rainwater is probably as polluted as the country