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Recent Examples of ponytailsHigh ponytails can feel like a big commitment—that's where the easy-breezy low ponytail comes in.—
Emily Kelleher,
InStyle,
24 June 2026
For a decade, hundreds of Black women and girls have gathered in Kansas City wearing curls, coils, locs, braids and Afros for an annual photograph intended to challenge narrow ideas about what beautiful hair is supposed to look like.
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Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
2 Oct. 2026
Another perfectly matching ribbon is woven throughout one of the most fantastical braids in recent memory.
Her glossy hair, braided into two plaits, hung down over her shoulders in a style unusual for young girls these days.
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Cynthia Zarin,
Harpers Magazine,
4 Aug. 2026
Bobby’s is a flouncy skirt and a knotted shirt straight out of the early-aughts MTV Movie & TV Awards, and Elizabeth’s is a full-length dress made out of brown faux leather with a bunch of long plaits swinging off it.