Try Out This Awesome Ponytail Hack for Voluminous Hair

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by Laineymariebeauty
2 Materials
$5
10 Minutes
Easy

In today’s tutorial, I want to show you how this awesome ponytail hack.


I love this ponytail trick to get a nice, full, and big ponytail. This is going to work best if your hair is medium-length or longer.

Tools and materials:

  • Hair ties
  • Texture spray
Basic ponytail

Here’s what my hair would look like just in a regular ponytail. It’s not bad, just a basic ponytail.


We’re going to use a ponytail volume hack to make our ponytail look a lot fuller, a lot more voluminous, and a lot more scrumptious.

Clipping top section of hair

1. Clip away the top section

Start by putting your hair into three sections. I’m going to start my first section right above my ear and section it front to back.


You don’t want this to be a huge section. Clip it out of the way for now.

Creating two ponytails

2. Create two ponytails with the rest of the hair

Divide the rest of the hair into two sections and create two ponytails right on top of the other.


You want to try to make them the same thickness. 

Creating small hole

3. Create a small hole in the top ponytail

Create a small opening in the top ponytail just above the elastic that you can fit your fingers through. 

Pulling hair through hole

4. Pull the bottom ponytail through the top and tighten

Reach down and grab that second ponytail, and pull it through the first ponytail.

Tightening ponytails

Tighten both ponytails.

Progress shot

It should look something like this.

Adding texture spray

5. Spray your hair with texture spray 

Take some texture spray, which is amazing, and spray it all through your hair.


This includes the top section you clipped away and your ponytail.

6. Tease the top section

Take small sections from the top section and tease it a little.


When you tease, do it gently right at the root. I don’t like to do it too hard or too extreme, because I don’t want to damage my hair.

Combining hair

7. Combine all of your hair together

Flip your hair back over and combine the top section with all of your ponytails with a hair tie.

Pulling hair

8. Pinch and pull 

Tighten everything and then pinch and pull the front of your hair. 

Progress shot

Now you can see just how full it looks without any teasing on the ponytail.

Teasing the ponytail

9. Tease the ponytail

We are going to tease the ponytail just a little bit. Take it in sections and tease the ponytail.

Pulling out face-framing pieces

10. Pull out face-framing pieces

Pull out some baby hairs to frame the face a little.

Completed ponytail hack: Big ponytail look

Ponytail hack

Here’s the finished ponytail look! You can pull out more hair in the front to make it messier, but I just kept it simple.


That’s it for this ponytail hack! The key to a fuller ponytail isn’t gathering your hair all into one section and tying it off, but instead doing multiple sections and adding them together. This is what creates the appearance of a fuller ponytail.


Let me know what you think about this ponytail volume hack in the comments below.


For more hair content, check out my post on 4 Cute and Easy 60-second Hairstyles.

Suggested materials:
  • Hair ties
  • Texture spray

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