"I cover a lot of events for Vogue.com and I think the ponytail is the modern undo. I would definitely go back for a black-tie event." -Chloe Malle, Social... more
"I cover a lot of events for Vogue.com and I think the ponytail is the modern undo. I would definitely go back for a black-tie event." -Chloe Malle, Social Editor
Chloe Malle-who is always looking for easy black-tie beauty tricks-interpreted her ponytail as a top knot. "Since I have the shortest hair in the group, it makes sense to mask it in a bun," she said. "Less ballet, more sexy," Barrett encouraged her stylist, positioning it lower at the crown.
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"It'll be a pony party," said Vogue's Beauty Director Sarah Brown when she called to ask me to assemble a gang of editors to preview the new Barrett's Ponytail Bar at the John Barrett Salon, which opens today in New York City.
"A good ponytail is like a good heel-it gives you a little lift," explained Barrett, who dreamt up the Ponytail Bar as a natural progression from the wildly successful Barrett's Braid Bar he debuted last summer. With a menu of six options, there was a pony for every personality, every hair type, and every occasion: the high pony (from tight and sleek to playful with a few loose curls); the mid-crown pony (think Duchess of Cambridge classicism); the sculpted pony (Olivia Wilde with a Mount Olympus-style Grecian twist); the braided pony (Blake Lively's red-carpet go-to); the low pony (ranging from casually messy à la Dries Van Noten's fall 2012 runway to sophisticated and tucked under, as seen at Carolina Herrera's spring 2012), and the top knot (a professionally polished version of what so many of us do ourselves on a hot summer day).
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