What do you use for ponytails?

[roguedog]

Ok.. actually unsure if this goes up in bike section or not since i see so many women who ride w/ ponytails :rolleyes:

Have a friend who still uses the equivalent of rubber bands. I dunno.. they must come from the drugstore dollar aisle or something. She was complaining that they must keep breaking her hair.

Got me wondering.. what do you girls use out there to hold or create your ponytails? ( I have no idea since I've always had short hair).

[Zen]

http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=206734&catid=83751&brand=9578&trx=PLST-0-BRAND&trxp1=83751&trxp2=206734&trxp3=1&trxp4=0&btrx=BUY-PLST-0-BRAND&cmbProdBrandFilter=9578

[trista]

http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=206734&catid=83751&brand=9578&trx=PLST-0-BRAND&trxp1=83751&trxp2=206734&trxp3=1&trxp4=0&btrx=BUY-PLST-0-BRAND&cmbProdBrandFilter=9578

That's what I use too. They last till I lose them.... so i guess I don't know just how durable they are, LOL

[sjane]

I use Goody StayPut Elastics (http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=206745&catid=83751&brand=9578&trx=PLST-0-BRAND&trxp1=83751&trxp2=206745&trxp3=1&trxp4=0&btrx=BUY-PLST-0-BRAND&cmbProdBrandFilter=9578). My hair's fine and super straight, and these stay in really well.

[nscrbug]

Yup...I use Goody "ouchless" bands...the "medium" thickness ones. I usually don't have problems with them breaking...but they do stretch out after awhile, which renders them useless for me so I just toss 'em when they reach that point.

[oxysback]

We buy the ouch-less ones, too. Only the thick ones work for us, though!

[Dannielle]

The old Goody hair bands. Well, not the old ones. The old style had a piece of metal holding the two ends together. The new ones have a very weak joining, and break easily.

Guess they figured out a hairband that lasted forever was bad for business.

Got a new package of them yesterday. Teal. Yellow. Orange. Orange and white stripes, black, some other multicolors.

Fun fun:)


They got rid of the metal due to CPSIA regulations. I don't know if they contained lead or if it was just too big of a pain to do the required testing to prove they don't...but that's why they switched.

Or at least I'd bet money that that's why. The timing was too perfect for it to have not been CPSIA related.

I'm a scrunchie girl.

[badgercat]

I use Goody StayPut Elastics (http://www.drugstore.com/products/prod.asp?pid=206745&catid=83751&brand=9578&trx=PLST-0-BRAND&trxp1=83751&trxp2=206745&trxp3=1&trxp4=0&btrx=BUY-PLST-0-BRAND&cmbProdBrandFilter=9578). My hair's fine and super straight, and these stay in really well.

I second these. There was a 2-pack of them in the rider packets for the Arizona Bike MS a couple years ago. I loved them because my hair is very fine and slippery and would always end up a mess during exercise. Those things would just stay put without me having to keep cinching up my ponytail.

I don't use them anymore, only because I hacked off about 10 inches of my hair for donation this past spring and have been keeping it trimmed to above-chin-length since then. :p

[badger]

yeah, I've migrated to the Stay-Puts, too. I wore the ouchless for a number of years, but they do stretch out/break, and I have really thick, heavy hair so they just didn't stay in place for long. Stay-Puts will stretch out, too, but not as badly as the ouchless.

One thing I don't like about Stay-Puts is that they DO snag my hair. Other than that, 99.9% of the time I'm either wearing one on my head of around my wrist.

[Aggie_Ama]

I like the Ouchless by Goody, my hair is fine but I have a ton of it. The Stay Put ones end up getting uncomfortable for me. The Ouchless are not that durable but I find I lose most of them before breaking them.

When my hair was really long (was mid-back until last winter) I favored the neoprene Hair Glove (https://hairglove.com/catalog/8). I have a long one and it is simple, fuss free. I did not like the leather one my mother first gave me, the leather was too stiff.

[m.eliza]

I use the Scunci ones that I find at CVS. The fat ones since my hair is pretty thick. A problem I used to have on my bike was that I had to put my ponytail or bun below the base of the helmet, and it would always loosen while I rode and I'd have loose hairs going all over the place. Super annoying. I recently discovered I could pull the plastic inside thing of my helmet down (not sure what that's called) and readjust the straps to create a nice little hole above the plastic thing and below the acutal helmet that I can stick my ponytail through. It never falls out anymore!

[Zen]

I recently discovered I could pull the plastic inside thing of my helmet down (not sure what that's called) and readjust the straps to create a nice little hole above the plastic thing and below the acutal helmet that I can stick my ponytail through. It never falls out anymore!

we already knew thatbut welcome to the club;):D

[limewave]

You're serious?

I bought the new package yesterday and have so far thrown away 2 broken ones.

Happens every time.

Maybe I'm just rough:)

I can't use those either. Break all the time for me too. So annoying. I have to get heavyduty bands.

I have had success with these (http://www.goody.com/#/grid/stayput/products/secure_fit_ponytail_holders-colors).

[arielmoon]

I use a scrunchy. I found some made of antibacterial material at Ulta. They are also pretty small and tight for my fine hair. Most of the time my pony tail becomes a bun at the back of my neck and these go around the bun and keep it tight.

[Owlie]

I use the thick Scunci ones I find at Target. I haven't found one that I don't break or stretch beyond usefulness after a month or two. (I have lots of very thick hair.)

[Miranda]

I use the pony-tail holders mentioned already that are without metal.

But, to add one other tip on preventing damage that my hair stylists gave to me... try adding a braid also.

The hair stylists said that if the pony tail is lose that the wind blowing & hair thrashing might add to the damage.

So, I pony-tail at the base of the skull through the retention portion of the helmet... single long braid the hair out the back... and one more pony-tail holder at the end of the braid.

It also helps with wet sweaty hair not sticking to your back as well. It's just a bit heavy feeling tho is only draw back.

Good Luck.:)

[marni]

It also helps with wet sweaty hair not sticking to your back as well. It's just a bit heavy feeling tho is only draw back.

Good Luck.:)[/QUOTE]

how about taking the end of your braid and feeding it back up through the hole in your helmet and letting the end dangle. A friend of mine whose braid is hip length, does this with great success.

[Aggie_Ama]

When my hair was long I preferred to braid it in two braids. When I got done my hair was not a tangled mess and my hair did stay less damaged. Two braids were easier for me to do so that was my main reason for doing two but it is also was a lighter feeling than a ponytail held with the Hair Glove.

[channlluv]

I use scrunchies from CVS and Target, and the Goody's elastics, and I've never had either stretch out on me or break. I've got medium hair, I guess. It's pretty straight, unless it's humid out, and thick, but also fine.

I usually just pull my hair into a low pony tail for cycling with a scrunchie. I use the elastics for a ponytail to tuck up under my swim cap. They're actually my daughter's. I started using them when she and I started swimming together and wearing swim caps. Those thick scrunchies were hard to fit under the swimcap.

Roxy