Robert: I'm constantly getting requests for what I call a messy pony. So this tutorial is all about
creating that messy pony in a way that you can do it at home.
It's on all the red carpets. Pony tails are the hottest thing.
And for me the messier the better. A lot of celebrities are doing it.
For one thing, it's a great way to kind of like
have a juxtaposition on an evening gown. So they're even wearing it for evening.
I kind of like it 'cause it kind of looks like a
ballerina who's done her thing and her hair's a little messed up and it just has a lot of great texture.
The easiest way for you to do it at home by yourself is to divide the head
into two pieces and we're going to start with one pony and then work a second
pony over it because
what's so hard for many of you to do
is to keep the volume and the texture ndd the messiness while you're putting in
pony. So if I was to try to
tease this and mess it up and then I was to try to pull it in a pony tail, as I put that
rubber band on,
it's going to
mess up all this work I did. So I'm going to do it in two parts. So the first thing I'm going to do
is I'm going to part off
basically just
crown from ear to ear
leaving out the crown.
Now, I know you're supposed to eat with a chopstick but I use it for hair.
And actually a lot of
hair stylists do.
And so you're basically just parting off
from ear to ear
leaving the crown so we can keep volume there.
So that's basically what you have, is you have just
a horseshoe shaped,
this hair out,
this hair up here.
The reason I like a chopstick is I will literally just twist
and it's out of my way.
Okay so the first thing I'm going to do,
and the great thing about this is it doesn't have to be perfect. I do sometimes
like to brush rather than to just finger the underneath.
So I'm gonna pull it up to the height I want.
Now you can pull it as high or low as you want but with a messy pony it looks best if
it's
mid head,
lower.
You have what's called an occipital bone which is like an curvature of your head. If you put it right above
that, that's usually kind of like the best place for it.
I'm going to take my little teasing brush
and just kind of smooth the underneath.
And quite honestly this is the only one I'll probably use a brush on. The only
part of it because
I want it to be messy and that's the beauty of it. If it gets more messed up as the
day goes on the better you look.
Then I'm going to take a regular
pony.
Now I usually try to use the thinner ones for this part because I'm going to put another
rubber band over it. I'm going to use a bungee, hair bungee over it.
So
I prefer thinner if possible.
And then you're just going to take that and you're going to put it in a pony tail.
Pretty easy.
Well if you can't do this part then you're screwed.
Okay, getting it tight.
Taking a little spray.
Now, the lower the laquer
content in your hair spray the better for this look.
Because you want to be workable. You can always go back over it, oh
professional tip! Spray, smooth.
Using your can as your smoother.
We do it all the time at photoshoots.
Okay so, we've put this in a pony. Now the purpose of this is now
everything we do has a secure point. So we are secured and everything we are going to do
is in a great secured position.
So everything we do now, we'll work into that.
Okay so Sherry we're going to turn.
This is my model Sherry. Say hello Sherry. Sherry: Hi. Robert: Okay,
no you're supposed to say hello Sherry. Sherry: Hello Sherry! Robert: Okay, alright so
the trick to this is your teasing.
Now typically
this is how you want to tease, and I know this is how you want to tease.
You want to tease!
So 1982.
Okay, that's not how we're going to tease this.
Because we only want teasing,
and I'm talking to you Juliann,
we only want teasing
at the root.
Because what we're gonna do after after we tease is we're literally just going to work
with our fingers.
So we're gonna go through,
just to show you a section,
I'm going to grab a section
and I'm just going to pack the teasing in at the base.
Now it's easiest if you tease with something that you can tease tightly with.
We're gonna have these on our website so in case you need a great teasing brush,
you can just go to the website and get this exact brush. So you want to pack it in tight.
And then you just pick up the next one,
pack it in tight.
Because you don't want to be
going through and brushing it out, you're going to finger it out. Now if you feel better about
it,
as you do one you can just a little bit of spray.
That's why the low lacquer content really works well.
And you're just going to get all of your teasing in there.
Packing it in as tightly as possible
at the base.
And I like to do the
back area and then work forward so that the last thing I've teased is the front.
Makes it a little easier.
Now you've noticed
I've only teased about here down.
I haven't teased in this area because
I want this to be
kind of a little smoother.
The only place I'm going to tease down this far is in the front for messiness.
I don't want volume here
'cause I want that to be tight. So you don't really have to tease this
section right above the ear.
Now I'm going to go through and start to tease the front.
Do most of you're teasing from behind when you're working towards the front so that when you
brush it back,
you're working with the teasing being underneath and you're only working with the hair
that's less teased.
And I know I make funny faces when I tease. I'll try not to.
Now, we are going to tease
this part right around the face.
Tease from behind.
And ya'll this is the trick to it all is taking you're time on you're teasing.
Okay, now everything else
for the most part will be done with our fingers now.
Alright so, I guess we should turn you this way Sherry.
Good thing you're makeup look so pretty today!
Alright, so first thing I'm, what I'm going to do now is I'm going to use this pony as kind of like
like
my brace.
And so I'm just going to stick my hand right there because everything I'm about to do
is gathered into this hand and it gives me something to grab onto.
And I'm going to start working it with my fingers.
Okay turn back, there we go.
And so now you're just going to start raking through it
with your fingers slowly working
it down to where you want it.
And I'm kind of like
fingering out some of that teasing.
And just taking and working it
out.
Sherry's got great hair so this is easy to do with her.
Unlike other people.
That always make me do theirs.
And she's got five strands.
Sherry: We won't mention any names. Robert: No we won't mention any names.
Kind of look at what's going on.
Once again just fingering it through.
And there is no
wrong to this
in the sense of it can be as messy as you want,
which is the beauty of it.
I kind of actually think that the messier the better.
Now, this is one of the things that I get the most questions on. What I'm doing is I'm going through,
putting my fingers in
and I'm actually rubbing them back and forth
to kind of like separate it.
So we're kind of like separating it at the base.
Just so you know the action of what my fingers are doing.
Okay so I've got a basic shape that I'm good with.
The right amount of volume.
Which is why you do it in two separate pieces. Then I'm going to take a hair bungee
which we have them on our website if you need them. Easier to find, they're the exact ones that I use.
So you can get them from there.
So now I'm going to take a hair bungee.
And with a hair bungee,
you take the hook, you hook it in the hair.
I'm grabbing hair.
You go around,
I'm holding it down with my hand.
Go around again, hold it down with your hand.
And then you hook that hook
in the other
end of the other hook of the bungee.
It just hooks right in.
And that way, because you did it that way, you didn't pull hair through, we didn't mess up,
turn back around for me, we didn't mess up the volume we created. Now, here's where we start working
with it.
Now a couple of the trick
moves is once again using a low lacquer hair spray.
You kind of spray it,
and you just work with it.
Once again I'm using that same like motion to separate it.
But yet keep it clumpy.
And the great thing is because we've got the two different rubber bands,
we've used the second one.
I can literally
pull
on the hair to get more volume in a place if I want. I'll just grab the, turn for me,
I'll just like grab the top layer and pull it up
because this is just hooked in there.
We have that base pony tail first,
and I can literally change the volume get more volume in some places than in
others.
And sometimes I like to just kind of like ruffle back
or I'll just take my fingers and come back towards the front and get all those
little pieces. These are the pieces that would fly out of a ballerina.
After she's
you know
had a big workout.
Just using my fingers.
And you know, the more practice the better.
Once again, I'm just ruffling it back forward.
And you can make it as messy or not as messy as you want.
And there you have the perfect messy pony.
As I think, the messier the better. It kind of has that just
danced look.
And it can be dressy, it can be casual.
Everybody, whenever I do this on
my friends,
everybody stops and comments on how much they love it. Here's the back just so you can
see.
Just a simple pony in the back.
And I don't think you need to cover the band. You could wrap and cover the
band if you want
if you were going out for the evening so that it's smooth.
But I think because this is messy I like to see the rubber band.
Just make sure you use one right for your hair color.
Turn back around. There you have it.
Do you have any questions?
Sherry: So you put the anchor pony tail in first? Robert: Put the anchor pony tail in first.
And you want to make sure when you're parting off that you part down,
you part down far enough that you leave crown area to tease and get
volume. Sherry: Get the volume. Robert: So it's about right
it's about right, to show the people, it's about right there
around in a U shape behind the ears.
Sherry: And when you tease, you tease... Robert: Well tease always from behind because we want the front to be smooth so
that you don't have to take a brush and smooth it out, you can just use your fingers to ruffle it.
So tease from behind and just think straight out.
'Cause you're trying to get volume so just think behind straight out, behind straight out, behind
straight out.
So don't really do so much,
you can do it from underneath if you want but the more you do it from behind the less like
fixing you have to do, the less making
it not see the teasing. 'Cause that's the point that you don't really want to see the teasing.
You want to see that it looks messy and piecy. Sherry: And tell me again how you get the volume up front.
Robert: Tease behind.
Once again
kind of forward behind
and even at right after I tease before I even start the pony tail I will start to
smooth and even maybe use a brush just on that one piece across the face
because
as long as I've got the volume behind that's going to lay fuller on top.
And then too just remember that when you're
trying to mess it up
get is messy and full as you can when you put it in the pony. But because you've go the two
separate ponies, that top layer which is what we're working with
is pull able. You can pull out for more volume and mess up.
And just use your fingers kind of like in a
kind of like if you were
you know shaking out, and yeah just kind of like ruffling through so that you're separating it as
you go back and then of course still
I always use my fingers and rub them back and forth in a way to like separate them into
pieces.
And then you can go backwards with your fingers just lightly on the top layer
and everybody has little flyaway hairs that will come out.
But because you've got all that volume they don't look like they're mistakes. They look like they're part
of that messiness.
Sherry: Okay so how do you avoid getting that bump?
When you put it in the bungee so that you don't have that big bump. Robert: Oh okay so turn for me. What's probably happening is
your'e teasing too low. We're left this hair out for
work ability but you don't tease past there.
Can you feel where I am? Sherry: Mhm.
Robert: Like the
exactly, like chin, if you went chin at an angle up,
like followed your cheekbone jaw line in between there
kind of cross your ear.
That's where the bulk of your teasing should stop.
You just want that hair underneath it to work into it.
Because if I tease down here that's what makes the bubble so stop teasing there
and that way it all works into it. Sherry: Okay, great.
Sherry: And would you want your hair completely dry
when you start this so
that it will tease better?
Robert: Yes, you want you're hair completely dry but I will say if you're in a hurry and you want to do this, as
long as
the hair that's
in the second pony tail is totally dry,
you can make it work.
If the hair in the anchor pony tail is a little damp, no one will ever know
because that we're not teasing, we're not doing anything to we're just putting it into a pony. Sherry: It's smooth.
Robert: Yeah and it's smooth. So if it's just a little damp it's fine. I wouldn't do it wet because then the dry hair you lay on
top of wet hair becomes wet.
If you lay dry hair on top of wet.
But if that's a little damp, that's fine. So if you're in a hurry, just make sure all the hair that you're
working with for the
messiness is completely dry.
Sherry: Okay. Does your hair need to be clean or is it better a little bit dirty? Robert: Either way. I think what's
great about this look is you can especially like you've got great hair
but you highlight it.
Well you've got great hair.
But you highlight it and you do chemicals to it and so there's times where you don't want to wash it.
Or maybe there's a third day that you're just running around and you don't
have to look your most fabulous in a sense of
put together but you want to look cute. You can do it on second or third day hair. And actually
sometimes it's a little easier for finer hair. Yours is going to do it either way, clean or
dirty.
But for finer women's hair, it will even do it a little bit better if it has a couple day
dirt.
And, you don't have to wash it as much.
But now if there's
if there's grease, wash your hair.
And then you know one thing that I always get asked too is upkeep.
Okay say it gets messed up during the day and some pieces fall out. Sherry: Touching up. Robert: Yeah.
Just take your fingers and
rough rake it back and then separate it out and just spray them back into place.