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How To Do A 'Coontail

Fri 14 September 2007

Several people have asked me how I did my coontail, so here it is!

What you'll need:
-Clear tape or Masking tape (I use Masking tape as it is easier to work with.)
-Bleach and/or Hair dye depending on what color you want it to be.

First you’ll need to section off the hair you want to put the coontail in. Make sure you secure the rest of your hair so it doesn’t come in contact with the bleach or dye that you are putting on the coontail.

Now you’ll need your tape. Starting at the top, wrap strips of tape around your hair. Make sure they are spaced equally apart. Keep doing that until you reach the end of your hair.

I was working with hair that was dyed with permanent black dye, so I needed bleach.

Make sure all the rest of hair is out of the way!

Now you need to apply the bleach or hair dye. To do this get the bleach or dye between your thumb and index finger (wearing gloves of course!). Now rub the bleach or dye onto the untapped hair. You may want to hold the taped part just to make sure the bleach or dye doesn’t seep into it. Make sure you coat all of the hair on the untapped parts. If you don’t you may end up with a patchy coontail.

Apply tape to the hair that will remain dark

Let the bleach or dye process for as long as it should. Now rinse off the bleach or dye. The tape will slide off when it gets wet. And voilá! You have a coontail!

The finished coontail. Bleached and unbleached hair form stripes.

Comments

	Jude says: "Nice article. The outcome was very impressive." Sep 14, 200712:08 p.m.
	pillarboxxx says: "i've also found that it helps to go back a second time [or even third] without tape and touch up some parts with a small tint brush to make the lines more defined and evened out." Sep 23, 200712:07 a.m.
	Amber_G_ says: "Wow, This is great! I will do this because i realy need a coon tail [or a few] lol. Thanks! I will deffinatley use you as my example!" Sep 29, 20074:34 p.m.
	krazypixie777 says: "THIS IS FABULOUS! I LOVE IT! i THINK I'LL TRY THIS! :D" Oct 21, 20079:54 p.m.
	hakusa says: "Really cool :D I'm looking for an excuse to do this now." Nov 25, 200710:24 a.m.
	Godiva says: "<3 hahaa what hakusa said XD" Nov 26, 20073:48 a.m.
	DAWLFACE says: "Awesome, I'll definitely look into doing that; i've never seen anyone show it like that =)" Dec 5, 20075:33 a.m.
	TyDye says: "I've never done a full coontail, but I did one in my bangs without using any tape. It came out fine. I didn't want lines so much, I had cute little spots." Jan 17, 20081:05 a.m.
	ashleyPOETIC says: "Thats awesome. I've alway wondered how to do that, Thanks!" Apr 19, 20089:40 p.m.
	missDVINEwondah says: "niiice..i totally want to do this!!" Jul 30, 20087:07 a.m.
	twahboxx says: "hmm.. I tried this. my hair is highlighted roasted almond brown... I used brown masking tape, and black hair dye. i kinda did some stuff unevenly [the taping part] but i'm hoping it came out anyways. took me longer than an hour to do something that simple. hah. didn't come out too well. only two spots. <.< but it was barely visible. i think my problem was that i didn't space it enough; and maybe the tape too. it kinda soaked through." Oct 3, 20087:26 a.m.
	twahboxx says: "Alright. -so at first it didn't come out. but after a while, the colors turned up more. i'll post pictures in a bit; it's pretty cool (: good job." Oct 3, 20088:38 a.m.
	manathemute says: "It didn't workt he first time. So far, putting small rubber bands on the area that you want to leave untreated THEN the tape works, and the tape is hard to get out.." Oct 28, 20082:28 a.m.
	ashleytnt says: "i used that and its the best way to do it i think" Nov 2, 20089:14 p.m.

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