Black Hair Ponytails - The Safe Way

black-hair-ponytails Black hair ponytails are excellent styling choice when wanting to keep your hair low-key and easy. You won’t have to worry about your hair being all over the place and you’ll likely limit tangles depending on the length of your ponytail.

Still, you need to be very careful when choosing to make ponytails a regular styling choice. To avoid issues that can lead to temporary or permanent damage, here are few things to keep in mind.

Looser the Better

Try not to make your ponytails too tight. You should not feel any pulling or uncomfortableness while wearing your ponytail. It should be comfortable and there should be some slack. If you reach up and touch your ponytail, you should not feel any pain or pulling. Although it is nice to have a nice smooth ponytail, you can achieve this look by using the right products to smooth your hair versus pulling and stretching it to its limit.

Making your ponytails too tight can lead to hair loss around the nape as well as the temple areas. You are essentially slowly pulling your hair out at its root. When hair is pulled out at the root, it takes a longer time to grow back and sometimes doesn’t grow back at all.

This is typically called traction alopecia. A lot of black women experience this due to continuous braid wearing. But it can also come from tight hair styles including black hair ponytails. If you’re already suffering from this, then you need to choose another hair style and avoid the ponytail for a while.

Hair-Friendly Accessories

You’ll also want to pay attention to the type of accessories you are using to secure your ponytail. You’re best off using a satin or silk type scrunchy or a covered band. Avoid rubber bands at all costs because they will simply tear your hair either on the way on or on the way off!

You can find scrunchies and covered bands pretty much anywhere from your neighborhood drug store to the grocery store. Keep a bunch of them on hand so that you never have to resort to some old rubber band!

Also pay attention to any metal catching. If you like using pretty barrettes, I would suggest that you limit the usage of these to maybe once a week or less.

Though pretty, the metal on these barrettes will pull your hair out – though it may not happen all at once, you’ll notice that every time you remove these that you remove a little bit of hair along with them. The metal is sharp and tears that hair so easily. So, you’ll want to avoid these where you can and focus on other pretty accessories that do not contain metal.

You’ll also want to avoid covered bands that have metal in the middle. It should be pretty easy to find the kind without the metal band.

You should not sleep in most hair accessories especially metal barrettes but you can sleep in the covered band or scrunchies. Just make sure that you keep your hair loose.

Black hair ponytails worn at night are a great way to keep a hairstyle looking good for the next day whether you are wearing your hair curly or straight.