Ponytails?

I am currently considering growing out my hair to ponytail length.

Currently I'm at the point where my hair is always messy and unkempt looking. :-( I either cut it now or wait the ride for the time I can finally get it at proper length.

Are there any web resources showing pictures of guys in ponytails and ponytail variations?

Thx!

don't do it.

Short in front, long in back. Probably short sides as well. I may as well be short sided...

Though with my hair receeding, I could look like #2 in ~5 years... but I'd be wearing a HAT all day anyway. :D

As for #3, not thanks... and no comment. :evilgrin:

the reason to NOT grow it out...

I suggest you ride it out…

I love having a pony tail.

about such a website, but I wore a ponytail for years. Just cut my hair a couple months ago. During that transition between short and long you're hair's pretty much gonna be unruly the whole time. Get used to it for several months. ;)

Some men look really hot with lon hair and you'll never know if you're one of them until you try.

I've asked a couple people in person, and both think I have 'the face' for it... so I shall ride it out. :-)

I love it.

But a nice long mane on some men is very elegant looking, IMO.

I'm not aware of any websites but there is nothing to making a ponytail. Don't use just any ole rubber band and never use an "office supply" rubber band. Get rubber bands meant to be used on hair with the proper coating so they don't tear your hair. Variations are for girls; a guy's ponytail is just a matter of wrapping the rubber band about it and going about your business. But, I'll be honest with you, it is a VERY dated look. Unless you are older and can justify wearing a style that harkens back to your youth, it probably won't work for you. Even then, it might be better to update your look with something more fashionable. I think long flowing hair looks best on very young, very beautiful men, and while I have no doubt that you fall in this category, in case one day you don't, you may want to consider talking to a stylist about a cut that works with your own unique facial features.

Yeah, like I do all that... I am guilty of both wearing ponytails and cutting my own hair and I am a woman which makes it an even worse sin I suppose!

without variations such as this:



(my 9 yr.old son asked me if this is Ahnold!)

If you do, get one of those Celtic-looking silver pins to hold it back. That's bound to be cool.

Did anyone see The Master and the Commander yet?
Russell Crowe's hair looked very cool - pony'd or just straight. I hope it brings back long hair for guys again - its very sexy!
Those highlights must have cost plenty!!

take it out , I love the wild bushie look that I had when I was 16.

Now I look more like Swami Satchidananda. But I love that.

I really debated long and hard but I ALWAYs regretted cutting it.

For me it is a dated look --- but when I look right at the judges it is kind of hidden behind me and I forget about it.

When I have my long beautiful god-given hair out and realize that this is man in his natural state -- I feel blessed.

Conformity is one thing that is KILLING America. Looking like all the other conservatives is really not an option right now and my blonde hair blue-eyed wife went to dreadlocks in protest when the war began .

She looks hotter than ever and younger (we both do, I think) and we are two happy folks and we look it: All natural.

Go for it.

(and I'm personally not a fan of ponytails on guys, but what the hey) get it professionally trimmed and maintained all along the way. There's no need to be ragged and ugly just because you're growing it long. Trust me on this. It took me until I was past 40 to learn this, but I finally discovered that regular trims actually make the growing out process much better and the hair can look good the entire time.

I'd told the stylist that I wanted to grow a ponytail.

They all made arbitary decisions without consulting me. While the end result looked rather good, they could have at least given me their options and opinions.

And I'm running out of LOCAL hair style/salon shops to boycott... :D

that's why I started cutting my own hair.

for long healthy hair .

i always thought alot of protein did it... after all thats all hair is. protein with a color coating.

or at least i think thats what it is... i cant remember, i looked it up once

-LK

ive been growin it out since late march or so, had it cut really short, look like i had just been through a army recruiter office, i was so pissed off... its the same stylist ive been goin to for about 10 years, and i told her to do it so i cant blame her. little did i know i would look so bad.

i actuially had people asking me if i had recently enlisted (the iraq thing had just begun a week or 2 before) and it pissed me off, thats what pushed me over the edge to grow it out, and yea im all shaggy and stuff, its probably time for another trim here soon. one upside is all the girls seem to like it... they all come up and mess with it, throw it over my face and stuff. that and no one ask me if i just joined the army. i dont see a downside... i like my messy/shaggy look.

-LK

to locks of love http://www.locksoflove.org

That way ou have a reason for growing it out, and if you don't like it, a child going through chemotherapy can have a wig.

I always wanted a ponytail, and I'd had short ones, but I wanted to know what it was like to have a seriously long one, so I grew mine out over the last couple years to see how I liked it. Turns out I really hated it - hair everywhere, pain in the ass to wash and dry, looked terrible. So when it was long enough, I donated it, and I don't think I'll ever grow another one. I had thought at one point that maybe I'd grow it out continuously, and every 1.5 years or so, make a donation (about the length of time it took for my hair to grow long enough). But to get hair long enough to donate - I won't do that again, so I doubt I will ever donate to locks of love again.

But I am fully supportive of locks of love, and suggest it to everyone. Friend of mine, a woman with truly long beautiful hair, donates every year.