Male Ponytails?

[freaper]

I think ponytails are fine with a form of facial hair, only reason I think that way is my dad has a ponytail/long hair and I think it looked better when he had a goatee (he shaved it off recently).

Also, facial hair w/ ponytail means situations where people think your're female are made less awkward as the facial hair add manliness.

Otherwise I think ponytails are pretty much accepted where I live (suburbs of London), I noticed that long hair became more popular as I went through secondary school/sixth form.

This. Don't go for full beards or thick 'staches, it looks silly, especially if you're skinny.

I'm 21 and have a tail which I keep bent under my band, so no tail wagging. Haven't gotten more/less funny looks since and as long as you keep it clean and tidy you shouldn't have a problem.

 

[Kaymish]

ponytails on men are so not sexy but each to their own i suppose if you want to be one of those long hair dole bludgeing types who eat strange foreign often vegetarian foods stick it to all those people who frown on it

 

[Twilight_guy]

The only dudes with ponytails I've ever seen have either been hipsters, retired hippies, old guys (like my dad) and... well, egon

I think its a haircut for an older person or a person with a very particular personality (like artists and such), but its your hair.

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

Hells yeah, represent.

Really though, no-one cares (Sydney, Australia). Some people probably think it's girly, but no-one says anything. There was one Lebanese lowlife who decided to pick a fight and briefly mentioned it, but idiots don't count. It's really just a convenient way to keep my hair out of eyes and out of whatever I try to eat.

 

[JeffBergGold]

You will get a similar reception to this guy

 

[MrBenSampson]

I had a pony tail for most of highschool. My hair was almost half-way down my back, and I would have been wearing metal band t-shirts if it wasn't for my school having a uniform. I wasn't treated differently from anyone else, aside from the occasional 12 year old gangsta calling me a hippy.

Now I'm losing my hair, so I've been shaving my head for over a year. What sucks is that I'm only 21. I guess that's the price for getting a beard at 16. At least this look suits me.

 

[spartan231490]

Rural New York. You'd certainly get some odd looks, and you wouldn't exactly earn respect from your appearance, but it's not like we'd stone you.

 

[Bat Vader]

I am a male with long hair and I wear my hair in either a braid or a ponytail. No one in my hometown has said anything bad about me having a ponytail/braid.

 

[Marik2]

I used to have long hair and wore a ponytail. People said I looked like a girl and would mistake me for one if they only saw my back.

I cut it because it was too much of a hassle to maintain

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

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Nice avatar.

OT: No idea, though I figure most people won't really give a shit, especially in the city. I'm in the process of growing it out, though it's not currently long enough for one that'll keep my fringe out of my face, so I guess I'll find out for myself in a few months how people will react. Not that I'll be liable to give a shit.

 

[TheCaptain]

Germany here, it isn't a problem at all. Some rather conservative types may give you looks, and for some jobs it might be expected for you to cut it off (to say nothing about the military, where you actually have to trim your hair to a certain length), but I work at a court and nobody has given me any real trouble so far.

 

[MajorTomServo]

I think (here in the US at least) it only looks good on Native Americans or old biker dudes.

It just looks gross and lazy to me... Especially because 90% of the time it's accompanied by a neckbeard, black jeans, and wire frame glasses.

 

[Xaio30]

Thanks for the advice, people!
I'll stick with the ponytail, then.

 

[BathorysGraveland]

I myself only wear pony tails in public if it's a really windy day or something. But that is for the convenience of not having to constantly swipe it aside out of my face, than anything else. As for how it would be received in my area? Well I live in a tiny town of about 300 people. Most are elderly or middle-aged. So it wouldn't be too much of a problem, I don't think. The youth however really fucking sucks when it comes to things that are different to them, so I don't know.

 

[TehCookie]

If you're wearing it as a style and have clean hair and brush it, a ponytail looks fine. If you're too lazy to get a haircut and take care of your hair it looks disgusting.