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fake ponytail wearers

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tunaday · 02/05/2012 19:59

Has anyone got one of these and if so which are good? I've just ordered a Ken Paves up-do from QVC (£30 eeek) and have no idea if it will do what I need/want. I have a short/medium bob which I can just about scrape into a teeny paintbrush of a ponytail which looks really daft so I've been wearing a ponytail on a scrunchie which I got in my local Lloyds Chemist. I stick it over my own ponytail and clip it with a heavy duty clawed hairgrip. It works well feels really secure,but because it was el-cheapo and not very good quality, the hair now looks like I cut it of a mangy dog and isn't going to last much longer.

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cybbo · 02/05/2012 20:02

At least with QVC if its shite you can send it back

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tunaday · 02/05/2012 20:11

That's true. I should have asked MN and then ordered not the other way round but I got carried away!LOL

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ObviouslyOblivious · 02/05/2012 20:13

Like Rodney Trotter?

stressheaderic · 02/05/2012 20:16

A friend of mine has a QVC one. It is a good colour match to her hair. That is about the best thing I can say about it. Sorry.

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tunaday · 02/05/2012 20:20

It would be great if it did the trick. I'm trying to grow my hair and have now gone 9 weeks without getting it cut. If I leave it down I look like Cousin It from The Addams Family and if I put it up with my current fake ponytail, I look like something that has just been handed in at the Dogs Trust. So I need something good asap.

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Fluffycloudland77 · 02/05/2012 21:44

The thing to do is to take it to your hairdresser and let them cut it into a realistic style. Mine did it for free many years ago.

SweetieDoesIt · 02/05/2012 22:28

tunaday I have 2 of the Ken Paves hair pieces from QVC, different colours for depending how bad my roots are . It is worth trying out a few different colours to get as good a match as possible. Send back those that are wrong.

Both of mine are scrunchies with extra hair, if you know what I mean. I have had them ages and they are brill. So easy, I do secure my own hair in a band first then wrap the hair piece around and secure with a few grips. Takes about 2 mins and look really good.

SuePurblybilt · 02/05/2012 22:33

ROAR at Rodney Trotter

winefairy · 03/05/2012 10:49

I think I have just ordered that exact fake hair scrunchie from QVC, Sweetie

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tunaday · 03/05/2012 15:06

I nearly got the scrunchie version but at the last moment plumped for the clip-in up-do. If the latter doesn't do the job I'll try the scrunchie one. By the time I've eventually got something ok, my hair will probably be long enough not to need it!LOL I think what I have now is a cheapo version of the scrunchies with hair attachment and in theory I'm v happy with it. It's just the quality of the 'hair' that's the problem. Thanks for all the help everyone.

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Fluffycloudland77 · 03/05/2012 16:45

When you brush it use a brush with the metal spines with plastic bobbles on the end. It always made mine tangle free.

winefairy · 03/05/2012 17:23

Okay, people. Fake hair scrunchie has arrived and I am genuinely pleasantly surprised at how realistic it is in. DD couldn't tell and she's quite a shrewd little creature.

I'd be hard pushed to guess it wasn't hair.

Perhaps I was fortunate in that the colour (medium brown) was a very good match and is realistic in itself. Followed the advice to go lighter than I thought as they do come up dark. Maybe some of the other colours may be a little .

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