Do you do pigtails on little girls?

[Anonymous]

Wow, unexpectedly learned something new here. I have never heard of pigtails to be defined as braided, just two ponytails (braided or not).

Anyway, i do unbraided pigtails on my 2.5 year old. She doesn't really have enough hair for braiding, she's behind in the hair department We use the little elastics to keep them in, plus barrettes to catch the rest.

I think it is very cute and have not noticed whether or not other girls wear similar styles...

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Anonymous wrote:Assuming pigtails are braids - since apparently they can mean different hairstyles in other parts of the country - my guess is a lot of 2 year olds don’t have enough hair or thick enough hair yet. I do them sometimes on my 4 year old but her hair is slippery and they don’t stay in unless I do them when her hair is wet. Mostly we do two ponytails or variations on two ponytails. She has shoulder length hair and like another pp I won’t let her grow it longer for now because it gets so tangled as is.

Two ponytails are pigtails.

No. Pigtails are braids and ponytails are unbraided bunches (the clue is that ponytails look like...ponytails).

No, braids are braids. Pigtails are unbraided. Two ponytails is...nothing.

How is an unbraided pigtail different than a ponytail?

There are two of them. A ponytail is a single, thicker fall of hair. Pigtails are two smaller ones.

It's not widely understood that way.The majority of people will understand pigtail to mean braided hair.

Not in any part of the country I've lived in and I've lived in the south, midwest and west coast.

Then this was one of those things you were wrong about and never picked up on, probably because it isn't a word you would have used around other adults.

Two braids are pigtails. You can have two ponytails or one, but two ponytails are unbraided bunches.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow, unexpectedly learned something new here. I have never heard of pigtails to be defined as braided, just two ponytails (braided or not).

Anyway, i do unbraided pigtails on my 2.5 year old. She doesn't really have enough hair for braiding, she's behind in the hair department We use the little elastics to keep them in, plus barrettes to catch the rest.

I think it is very cute and have not noticed whether or not other girls wear similar styles...

So, ponytails.

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Anonymous wrote:Assuming pigtails are braids - since apparently they can mean different hairstyles in other parts of the country - my guess is a lot of 2 year olds don’t have enough hair or thick enough hair yet. I do them sometimes on my 4 year old but her hair is slippery and they don’t stay in unless I do them when her hair is wet. Mostly we do two ponytails or variations on two ponytails. She has shoulder length hair and like another pp I won’t let her grow it longer for now because it gets so tangled as is.

Two ponytails are pigtails.

No. Pigtails are braids and ponytails are unbraided bunches (the clue is that ponytails look like...ponytails).

No, braids are braids. Pigtails are unbraided. Two ponytails is...nothing.

How is an unbraided pigtail different than a ponytail?

There are two of them. A ponytail is a single, thicker fall of hair. Pigtails are two smaller ones.

It's not widely understood that way.The majority of people will understand pigtail to mean braided hair.

Not in any part of the country I've lived in and I've lived in the south, midwest and west coast.

Then this was one of those things you were wrong about and never picked up on, probably because it isn't a word you would have used around other adults.

Two braids are pigtails. You can have two ponytails or one, but two ponytails are unbraided bunches.

Um, there are lots of us here who are telling you this simply isn’t true. And no one in the US uses the word “bunches” in regard to hair. Are you British?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, unexpectedly learned something new here. I have never heard of pigtails to be defined as braided, just two ponytails (braided or not).

Anyway, i do unbraided pigtails on my 2.5 year old. She doesn't really have enough hair for braiding, she's behind in the hair department We use the little elastics to keep them in, plus barrettes to catch the rest.

I think it is very cute and have not noticed whether or not other girls wear similar styles...

So, ponytails.

So, pigtails.

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Anonymous wrote:Assuming pigtails are braids - since apparently they can mean different hairstyles in other parts of the country - my guess is a lot of 2 year olds don’t have enough hair or thick enough hair yet. I do them sometimes on my 4 year old but her hair is slippery and they don’t stay in unless I do them when her hair is wet. Mostly we do two ponytails or variations on two ponytails. She has shoulder length hair and like another pp I won’t let her grow it longer for now because it gets so tangled as is.

Two ponytails are pigtails.

No. Pigtails are braids and ponytails are unbraided bunches (the clue is that ponytails look like...ponytails).

No, braids are braids. Pigtails are unbraided. Two ponytails is...nothing.

How is an unbraided pigtail different than a ponytail?

There are two of them. A ponytail is a single, thicker fall of hair. Pigtails are two smaller ones.

It's not widely understood that way.The majority of people will understand pigtail to mean braided hair.

Not in any part of the country I've lived in and I've lived in the south, midwest and west coast.

Then this was one of those things you were wrong about and never picked up on, probably because it isn't a word you would have used around other adults.

Two braids are pigtails. You can have two ponytails or one, but two ponytails are unbraided bunches.

Um, there are lots of us here who are telling you this simply isn’t true. And no one in the US uses the word “bunches” in regard to hair. Are you British?

I am both, actually. And I've lived in the US and UK. I would call pigtails and ponytails 'plaits' and 'bunches' to a UK crowd, but...'plaits' (pigtails) are braids and they are NOT the same thing as 'bunches' (ponytails).

[Anonymous]

No.lt anymore I did very occasionally for my first around 3 yrs old and they would face the back not sides. My kids have fair hair and fair skin and exposing the part makes it burn more. The 5 year old now gets a french braid when she does activities, anything else falls out.

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Anonymous wrote:Assuming pigtails are braids - since apparently they can mean different hairstyles in other parts of the country - my guess is a lot of 2 year olds don’t have enough hair or thick enough hair yet. I do them sometimes on my 4 year old but her hair is slippery and they don’t stay in unless I do them when her hair is wet. Mostly we do two ponytails or variations on two ponytails. She has shoulder length hair and like another pp I won’t let her grow it longer for now because it gets so tangled as is.

Two ponytails are pigtails.

No. Pigtails are braids and ponytails are unbraided bunches (the clue is that ponytails look like...ponytails).

No, braids are braids. Pigtails are unbraided. Two ponytails is...nothing.

How is an unbraided pigtail different than a ponytail?

There are two of them. A ponytail is a single, thicker fall of hair. Pigtails are two smaller ones.

It's not widely understood that way.The majority of people will understand pigtail to mean braided hair.

No. I do NOT understand that. It is widely understood that a pigtail is two "bunches" of hair either above or below the ears, side by side. Braids involve three sections.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, unexpectedly learned something new here. I have never heard of pigtails to be defined as braided, just two ponytails (braided or not).

Anyway, i do unbraided pigtails on my 2.5 year old. She doesn't really have enough hair for braiding, she's behind in the hair department We use the little elastics to keep them in, plus barrettes to catch the rest.

I think it is very cute and have not noticed whether or not other girls wear similar styles...

So, ponytails.

So, pigtails.

So then what is the difference between two braids and two secured loose bunches? You just call them both pigtails even though they are completely different?

Have you ever SEEN a pig's tail vs. a pony's tail? They resemble the hair type we are discussing.

Let's take a vote:

Copy/paste or bold the one that best describes your understanding of the term:

Two braids are pigtails; two secured loose bunches are ponytails.

Two braids are ponytails and two secured loose bunches are also ponytails.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Assuming pigtails are braids - since apparently they can mean different hairstyles in other parts of the country - my guess is a lot of 2 year olds don’t have enough hair or thick enough hair yet. I do them sometimes on my 4 year old but her hair is slippery and they don’t stay in unless I do them when her hair is wet. Mostly we do two ponytails or variations on two ponytails. She has shoulder length hair and like another pp I won’t let her grow it longer for now because it gets so tangled as is.

Two ponytails are pigtails.

No. Pigtails are braids and ponytails are unbraided bunches (the clue is that ponytails look like...ponytails).

No, braids are braids. Pigtails are unbraided. Two ponytails is...nothing.

How is an unbraided pigtail different than a ponytail?

There are two of them. A ponytail is a single, thicker fall of hair. Pigtails are two smaller ones.

It's not widely understood that way.The majority of people will understand pigtail to mean braided hair.

No. I do NOT understand that. It is widely understood that a pigtail is two "bunches" of hair either above or below the ears, side by side. Braids involve three sections.

I think there is only one person on this thread who believes two unbraided bunches of hair are 'pigtails' and not 'ponytails.' Most of us consider two braids to be pigtails and two unbraided bunches to be ponytails.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wow, unexpectedly learned something new here. I have never heard of pigtails to be defined as braided, just two ponytails (braided or not).

Anyway, i do unbraided pigtails on my 2.5 year old. She doesn't really have enough hair for braiding, she's behind in the hair department We use the little elastics to keep them in, plus barrettes to catch the rest.

I think it is very cute and have not noticed whether or not other girls wear similar styles...

So, ponytails.

So, pigtails.

So then what is the difference between two braids and two secured loose bunches? You just call them both pigtails even though they are completely different?

Have you ever SEEN a pig's tail vs. a pony's tail? They resemble the hair type we are discussing.

Let's take a vote:

Copy/paste or bold the one that best describes your understanding of the term:

Two braids are pigtails; two secured loose bunches are ponytails.

Two braids are ponytails and two secured loose bunches are also ponytails.

Or: Two braids are pigtails and two secured loose bunches are also pigtails.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Assuming pigtails are braids - since apparently they can mean different hairstyles in other parts of the country - my guess is a lot of 2 year olds don’t have enough hair or thick enough hair yet. I do them sometimes on my 4 year old but her hair is slippery and they don’t stay in unless I do them when her hair is wet. Mostly we do two ponytails or variations on two ponytails. She has shoulder length hair and like another pp I won’t let her grow it longer for now because it gets so tangled as is.

Two ponytails are pigtails.

No. Pigtails are braids and ponytails are unbraided bunches (the clue is that ponytails look like...ponytails).

No, braids are braids. Pigtails are unbraided. Two ponytails is...nothing.

How is an unbraided pigtail different than a ponytail?

There are two of them. A ponytail is a single, thicker fall of hair. Pigtails are two smaller ones.

It's not widely understood that way.The majority of people will understand pigtail to mean braided hair.

Not in any part of the country I've lived in and I've lived in the south, midwest and west coast.

Then this was one of those things you were wrong about and never picked up on, probably because it isn't a word you would have used around other adults.

Two braids are pigtails. You can have two ponytails or one, but two ponytails are unbraided bunches.

Um, there are lots of us here who are telling you this simply isn’t true. And no one in the US uses the word “bunches” in regard to hair. Are you British?

I am both, actually. And I've lived in the US and UK. I would call pigtails and ponytails 'plaits' and 'bunches' to a UK crowd, but...'plaits' (pigtails) are braids and they are NOT the same thing as 'bunches' (ponytails).

So, you are operating under British rules. In the US, braids, singular or plural, are braids. If all the hair is secured in one elastic, it is a ponytail. If it is divided in two, they are pigtails.

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Anonymous wrote:Assuming pigtails are braids - since apparently they can mean different hairstyles in other parts of the country - my guess is a lot of 2 year olds don’t have enough hair or thick enough hair yet. I do them sometimes on my 4 year old but her hair is slippery and they don’t stay in unless I do them when her hair is wet. Mostly we do two ponytails or variations on two ponytails. She has shoulder length hair and like another pp I won’t let her grow it longer for now because it gets so tangled as is.

Two ponytails are pigtails.

No. Pigtails are braids and ponytails are unbraided bunches (the clue is that ponytails look like...ponytails).

No, braids are braids. Pigtails are unbraided. Two ponytails is...nothing.

How is an unbraided pigtail different than a ponytail?

There are two of them. A ponytail is a single, thicker fall of hair. Pigtails are two smaller ones.

It's not widely understood that way.The majority of people will understand pigtail to mean braided hair.

No. I do NOT understand that. It is widely understood that a pigtail is two "bunches" of hair either above or below the ears, side by side. Braids involve three sections.

I think there is only one person on this thread who believes two unbraided bunches of hair are 'pigtails' and not 'ponytails.' Most of us consider two braids to be pigtails and two unbraided bunches to be ponytails.

Prove it. Find a definition that says your way is the only way. There are multiple people here who understand what pigtails can be braided or unbraided. I think there is only one person insisting they are only ever braids. If you think that, what part of the country are you from?

[Anonymous]

Stop arguing and accept that pigtails mean unbraided or braided to different people.

This is well-documented. If pressed, I'd say the original term meant BRAIDED, because it's the same as British plaits, which are braided.

Usually:
Bunches = a pair of ponytails.
One bunch = one ponytail.
Pigtails = plaits = two braids framing the face.

[Anonymous]

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Stop arguing and accept that pigtails mean unbraided or braided to different people.

This is well-documented. If pressed, I'd say the original term meant BRAIDED, because it's the same as British plaits, which are braided.

Usually:
Bunches = a pair of ponytails.
One bunch = one ponytail.
Pigtails = plaits = two braids framing the face.

Wrong.
Pigtail:
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pigtail

Definition of pigtail
1 : tobacco in small twisted strands or rolls
2 : a lock of hair that has been gathered and banded or braided together at the back or side of the head