 Valley Cooks and Real Southern Woman. A lot of y'all have been wanting me to show you how I do my hair up on my head and I actually cut it about once every couple of weeks because it does grow about at least a half inch I guess or so or at least three weeks. So what I do is I wash it and I condition it okay and then I take a brush so simple and I brush it up on my head. Now the key to it is that in order for it to look like a ball right on top of your head you have to put your ponytail on top of your head not in the back like a regular ponytail. So when you brush it, brush it with a brush or comb and comb it and brush it up to the top of your head. Now you're going to take a rubber band, a hair band, that one's got hair in it already and you are going to put it around the hair and I typically when I'm cutting it you could just put it in there. I have a lot of hair for one. A lot of people don't have as much hair as I do so I'm going to show you up close how big my ponytail is. It's pretty big. So what I do is I put it right on top of my head like this. I pull it up straight. Here let me move this view a little bit. I pull it up straight like that and you can tell that it's gotten a little bit kind of crazy on the top and then I trim it every few weeks. Now it needs to be right about about three inches tall to do what you want it to do. So these are my favorite cutting scissors. I'll give you a link to them because they're amazing. They have been they have just beat out every pair of hair scissors I have ever had by far. They work so well even if you're like going at an angle like this and doing a clip. I clip it just like that. That's all I do and you can brush it again once it's in the ponytail if you want to. You know with a comb or a brush however you want to do it and get it all up in there straight and just do a trim again in case you missed a piece or two. Now I actually take a shaver and I shave my sideburns because they're so gray. I do. I shave them on both sides and then I have Chris shave the back of my neck. They're called the wall and it's called a peanut. Okay so we're gonna plug this in and give me a trim right quick. If you don't do this then your ponytail and everything just looks crazy. Once the gray starts coming out right here on me it just gets so wily. I have a girlfriend a friend that can come over or something if you're not if you're not if you're too nervous about doing this yourself but I just take I can feel the hair that's up in there. You can put your finger over the top of it so you don't get that hair and then just use your bullet or peanut. It doesn't matter to me if it's not absolutely perfect because if somebody's expecting me that close I don't even care what they think. You know what I mean? That's all there is to it. That's all there is to cut my hairstyle. I'm gonna put this in the bottom. Now if you've got hair that's not wiry and it's gray then sure I mean there's no need to cut this right here necessarily but I like to do it okay because mine is so crazy. Now I'm gonna show you how much hair is in the sink and some of it went down my back and into the floor but I'll show you that real quick. But what happens if it gets too long is it lays flat like this when it's dry instead of wanting to be pretty and look like a circle and what I do at this point is I let it dry by itself okay. Alright if you got to be somewhere and you want to style it quick you can always blow dry it but leave it up because this part looks pretty slick anyway when you got your hair up like this and just ride this part. Now let's style it. You're gonna take your hair spray and this is what styles it so you don't have to curl it or nothing. So now it is on top of my head. It's been blow dried. You can see that the shape that it makes on the on the top of the head. This right here is a little bit long for me really but once I fluff it it'll be alright I think. Make sure you got it pulled tight in your bun. Matter of fact I am going to do one more turn on this for mine so that I don't have to worry about it you know coming and done. If you don't want it to be real tight on your head to give you a headache or whatever this amount of hair does not give me a headache and I have migraines all the time so but if you want to do that then what you can do is pull it really tight to begin with and then once you start once you get it kind of like you want it then just take the base of it and pull up on it just a little bit you know to release that pressure on your head and now we're going to style it and I may actually trim, no I guess I won't, it's all the right length. So I'm going to just spray it with my hairspray and then I'm going to fluff it and this hairspray is a professional raid. You can get it at the grocery store at Walmart wherever it's L'Oreal, you know I love L'Oreal. I use L'Oreal lightest Auburn hair color so I just take my fingers after I spray it and I just kind of separate the little pieces like that and I don't tease it with a comb I just kind of pull it apart with my fingers okay because you don't want it like crazy sticking up just sticking up enough that it's pretty and then spray your sides so they don't want to fall down and the good thing about putting it up when it's wet is all this hair right here will smell really good when you take it down. When I take down my hair the way that it's up in this when I take it down it just flows and it actually makes it have a wave in it that's really pretty and you don't get that when you're putting a regular ponytail in you get a little wave in the middle of your hair that don't look very pretty but when you do your hair like this and you take it down it looks really pretty you don't even have to roll it and it looks like it's been hot rolled with big rolls okay now I'm gonna go ahead and stick my makeup on I'll show you what I've been doing lately I hope you've enjoyed watching Real Southern Woman. If you fix your hair this way you'll never want to go back the other way I'll turn all the way around so you can see it. Get it up off your neck it's cooler the minute I take my hair down I get hot I take it down at night for Chris it's really the only reason I have long hairs for him thanks for watching Real Southern Woman and we will see you next time bye y'all love ya