I'm going to show you guys all the tricks that I use to make my ponytail look amazing in just

five minutes and you can use all of these tricks or just some of these

tricks depending on what you want to do. Without these tricks, my ponytail is kind

of limp, like the top is really heavy

the ponytail is limp and then it's saggy underneath the ponytail holder, none of

those things are good

I'm going to show you all the tricks that I use and I can do this in five minutes

every time and to prove it I'm actually gonna time myself through this whole

tutorial so let's get started

So the first thing I'm going to do is flip my hair in half from the ears up

and I'm going to clip the top half out of the way. That way we can deal with all

the hair at the bottom first

so after I have that top hair clipped up, I'm going to brush the bottom hair into

its own ponytail and you want that ponytail to rest right against the part from our section

Once you have that nice and tight, go ahead and secure it with an elastic

One of the big reasons that I like to do it this way is so that I don't have any

sagginess underneath my ponytail

if you keep that nice and tight, it makes the ponytail look more elevated

and actually a little bit more voluminous

so I like to pull that nice and tight so that there's absolutely nothing going on

there that I don't want. To finish out the bottom ponytail I'm taking a little

claw clip and splitting the pony tail in half. Then I'm going to take the top

half and hold it straight up and clip the little claw into it and that way it

actually helps to add volume and width to your ponytail, and it's going to be

hidden underneath all the rest of the hair so you don't have to worry about

this being really obvious

so here's the before and the after. You can see there is no saggy bottom on the

after and you kinda see a little bit of that lift starting in the ponytail as well

and now it's time to let the top down and what I'm going to do first is

actually tease the crown of my head just a little bit so I'm brushing the hair

straight back when you take that section of hair and I'm just using a hairbrush

to very lightly tease it. My hair likes to split in the back so I typically just

do a little bit of teasing just to make sure that everything stays together

This is one step that I don't do every time. I thought I would show you guys

today so you can see the full effect

but this is definitely something that you can skip especially if you're not a

fan of teasing

so I just did a bit of teasing and I'm smoothing it out now and then I'm going

to sweep it back and together with the first ponytail so basically we're going

to pull these two ponytails together into one and as I do that I'm also going to

look at how it looks from the front and make sure that I like the way that it's

arranged and this is one reason why I like doing a ponytail into halves

because all I have to do right now is deal with the top half and get it

perfectly the way that I want it. Then to secure it I'm actually going to use a

DIY hair bungee. You guys have seen me do this before where I take an elastic and

I put a bobby pin at either end and I use that to secure my ponytail but you

can use a normal elastic here and it would be totally fine. To use the DIY one

all you have to do is stick the bobby pin in one side, wrap the elastic around

and then pin in the other side. And this helps to kind of secure your hair

without messing up all the arranging we just did

but if that seems way too over achiever to you - just use a normal hair elastic and

it will work just as well. And you can look here and see that doing the

ponytail in two steps actually made the base of my ponytail a lot bigger and it

provided more lift for the top of my hair providing the illusion of having

more volume. To finish off adding even more volume I'm going to add one more

clip and by separating the top half of the ponytail in half and then I'm just

going to clip it in just like we did before

Again, this is adding volume to the base of your ponytail to make your hair look

a lot bigger than it actually is

you can see here the before versus the after, my after ponytail looks way more

volumized than the before. For the finishing touch

I'm taking a small piece of hair to wrap around the elastic and this time because

I find this the easiest

I'm just taking a very small piece and I'm wrapping this all the way around the

elastic until all the hair is used up, then I just pin the end

with one bobby pin and I'm done! But you can use more bobby pins if you feel you

really need that. Once you've got this hair wrapped around the elastic you are

completely done with this hairstyle and this one only took me four minutes and

15 seconds to go from this to this and that is my five-minute ponytail routine

Now sometimes I use all of these tricks and sometimes I only use a couple of

them and that's what I encourage you guys to do. Find the tricks that are

going to work for you and help your ponytail to look that much more awesome

and use them to your advantage

I hope you guys really enjoy this video and if you enjoyed it and if you try out

these hairstyles, send me pictures using the hashtag #KayleyMelissa and I'll see

you guys in my next video