Danbooru

Looking for a tag for this hairstyle.

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Rampardos

No. Both of those tags just bring up characters with hakurei_reimu or hastune_miku style hair. By which I mean scrunchies for pony/twintails and hair_tubes for payot accessories. Just using the accessory and length won't help. Besides, it doesn't even have to be either of those accessories. I've seen some that use beads.

This tag would have to be specifically for having the end of the bulk of your hair binded together. I have no idea what it'd be called, but it probably has a name.

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NWF Renim

It is a rather common enough hairstyle, though most of the characters/depictions I recall with it tended to wear traditional Japanese style clothing (though that simply might be selective memory on my part). I think I've just assumed it was a derivative of the low ponytail some miko are depicted with, with the tie gradually moved further down the hair length (post #37640 -> post #585504 -> post #189132)

Some more characters with this hairstyle (found under the Japanese_clothes tag):

There are also characters like Ayase Yue (post #736845) from Mahou Sensei Negima! who has two of these.

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Benit149

I've tried looking around for the name of this ponytail style, but the best I could find was called the queue (here and here) although that's more for 18th century men's hairstyle, Native Americans and the Manchu of China. Close, but no cigar.

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Serlo

Arrei said:
Feels like very_low_ponytail might be the most accurate and intuitive name, to me. Since as far as I know just low_ponytail already describes a hairstyle.

"low" = "it droops down low", "low tie" = "it's tied low down, towards the end", +1 to low tie ponytail

Complication: What about Yakumo Yukari's "multiple low tie ponytails"?
post #1127312 post #1125926 post #1113945 post #1094671 post #1163905
I've found better examples before where they're more obviously separate ponytails tied only at the tips, but these will do.

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Benit149

Low tie ponytail for the singular Tifa Lockhart style, and multiple low tie ponytails for the Yakumo Yukari style? The multiple can go from a minimum of two low ties like Ayase Yue does to however many a character can fit in their hair like Yukari does.

Would this count if the hair is thickly braided like Lenneth Valkyrie does as well (post #307458), or is this just for when the hair is straight and tied at the end?

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NWF Renim

I'd rather not try and include Yakumo Yukari's variable hairstyle into this, as the locks lack the mass of the single or double examples and because in many depictions her style lacks ribbons binding most of her rear hair (while ponytails and the hairstyle in question in this thread tend to bind all or almost all the rear hair)

For something like Yakumo_Yukari I think another tag would be more fitting, perhaps even two new tags. One would be multiple_hair_ribbons, as there are a lot of depictions of hair ribbons where there is only one ribbon present. The other tag would be tress_ribbon (could use an alternative name, but tress = a long lock of a woman’s hair, thought lock_ribbon might sound odd and less descriptive) which would be used to refer to the ribbons that are placed on the hanging locks of hair, such as those worn by Yakumo Yukari or Fujiwara no Mokou.

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NWF Renim

Alignn said:
low_tie_ponytail sounds great.
For YY and her multiple ones, why not just a separate tag multiple_ponytails? They lack mass, but many twintails do as well.

I'd be opposed to that, as they're not really close and only vaguely similar to a ponytail or other form of hair tails. Once the hair is parted after so many times, they're really just regular locks of hair. Going with your approach of calling them "multiple_ponytails" means you're acknowledging every tied lock as an individual ponytail, which would bring up then depictions where a character might have only one or just a few of those in her hair (post #1147515) and question why those aren't labelled as tails as well, since if several of them together constitutes "multiple_ponytails," why then doesn't one individual one qualify as a ponytail or qualify for this proposed "low tie ponytail" tag.

I think I'm going to have to -1 "low tie ponytail," for two reasons. One, I'm not too keen at actually calling them a ponytail (despite myself being the first to associate them) and two, I don't like the descriptor "low tie." I think emphasis should be more like "end-tied" or similar. If you're labeling something like post #1138172 as a "low ponytail" and you're labeling something like post #1145049 as a "low_tie_ponytail," where will that leave something like post #585504 where the tie is in the middle?

I'm not sure if I like having every hairstyle that is tied back in any setup being labelled a ponytail, since you can have hair tied back and not actually be a ponytail.

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