hmmm

I... Kind of think it's neat

Well that makes it easier to wash her hair in the sink I guess.

But also, hear me out, what if instead of that plastic thing she had a quick release hook, so she could use the tail (and the hook) for self defence? Hell, make the tail of braided leather and you got a cool whip for impromptu BSDM session!

Shit if your gonna do all that, might as well just hang a glock from it
- True patriot 🇺🇸🇺🇸🦅🦅🔫🔫
- You're just winging it
  
  While I'm slinging it
Sounds like somebody needs to be punished 😏
What if instead of a quick release hook there was a rubber o-ring on her head hair and a buttplug-shaped object on the ponytail.
- From plug-and-play ponytail to plug-and-play pony tail in one step.
- i noticed that they do sell buttplug ponytails at renaissance fairs.
Who’s to say it’s not a quick release?
- The fact that there's no way to open those. The only way to remove them is to untie them from the hair on the head, and I doubt that a good yank it's a) enough (without ripping out hair!) and b) advisable

I don't know why it bothers me that it's "dead" hair, because effectively nothing has changed. It's like a pseudo wig that isn't trying to hide anything, which is super cool

The moment your hair cells leave the pores on the skin of your head, they die. Thud all hair is dead.
- The moment your hair cells leave the pores on the skin of your head
  
  Even before that. You pull a hair out, and if that specific hair follicle was still growing you should see a teeny-tiny bulb at the very end. That bulb can be up to a mm beneath the skin. The widest part of that bulb is where the hair cells begin dying and drying out. By the time it shrinks down to the width of the rest of the hair (and long before it emerges from the pore), all the cells in that section are dead. Only the base of the bulb has living, growing hair cells.
- Gross!!!
Hairs are never "alive" in the first place. The follicle is.
- That's why they used the quotes and said that nothing effectively changed.

Wireless hair

That's pretty neat

That's really cool

Bluetooth hair extensions.

I don’t know if it’s real or not but I love it

I think that’s Anya Taylor-Joy in a gala event.

Neat style, I also think its really neat how the shadow falls on her neck. The silhouette is just slightly not the same as the shape, and it looks pretty cool.

To be fair it kinda looks cool. Though it does reminds me of a door knocker.

When you decide to donate to locks-for-love but realize to late it was your lucky ponytail.

Now you can cut your hair and keep it too!

I wonder if you'd have to wash it? I guess it's no different than however people with wigs take care of them.
- It's got the benefits of having extensions, but without the benefit of an awkward surprise when somebody tries to run their hands through your hair when making out.

I'm pretty sure that's someone else's hair (the color and texture don't quite match) but I don't care. That's amazing and genius.

...

I'll allow it.

I'm going to tell myself it's something really cool like anodized titanium and not just plastic.

For when you want to have a ponytail that you can disconnect and hook your keys onto your head.

As long as that’s her own hair, I think that is hella nifty. It says she had the personal discipline to grow her hair out, but then also wanted the option for switching back and forth between long and short hair on her own schedule, and not tied to her follicular performance.

If it’s not, it’s just as superficial and fake as any other hair extension.

And I would say this about anyone, not just women. Hell, if I could do the same with my beard in a way that actually looked decent and would not be widely ridiculed, I would seriously consider it. Because just like long hair, while any mountain man can sport a scraggly mess, a good beard takes years of discipline to grow into a well-coiffed mane.

If it’s not, it’s just as superficial and fake as any other hair extension.

I don't really see how hair extensions are any more superficial and fake than lots of other fashion choices. I mean, I get it, I think a lot of fashion is superficial and fake, but I don't see why hair extensions have any particular stigma. Done well they look nice, done poorly they look like shit. None of my business. Some people have a hard time maintaining healthy hair if they grow it long, or maybe (like OP) they just don't want to commit to having to keep it long all the time.

Is that fake?

It really doesn’t look like there’s enough hair length on here head to hold that.

I.e. that’s not enough hair to hold it like that

I don't see anything that screams AI, and given how ~~hideous~~ unique that top is and the consistency of the weave edges I think this is just from a fashion show.
- Dior Spring 2015 Couture, if anyone is curious. I remember these ponytails vividly, my younger sister chopped her hair off trying to recreate them using her own hair and two curtain rings.
  
  We subsequently had all our magazine subscriptions cancelled.
- It's a Dior item, so I think you're right.
She probably has shoulder length hair left, enough to make a regular ponytail. Then you hold the ring from the bottom up against behind the hair tie, curl the ponytail down and through the ring and turn it up so that it rests against the scalp and use some of her cut hair to tie the whole thing together, hiding the ponytail beneath.

I don't understand and would avoid anyone with this.

Someone's judgemental
- I'm getting strong 'pointy knees' vibes coming off of their comment.
Another point for the hair style
Being able to switch between practical for sports or theater performances and back again for fashion.

lazy AI can't even bother to complete the shadow

Ai isn’t perfect but apparently good enough to fool some into discrediting verifiable real images.
- Most interpretations of the Turing Test ignore the fact that the judge could in fact, simply be an idiot. There are three parties in the Turing Test. The AI, The Real Person, and The Judge. For AI to be indistinguishable, the AI could get more complex, but the Real Person could get simpler(twitter comments). The third option is that The Judge gets less discerning.
- look at the engineering mess of a background, and the pixelation of the jersey white. but i didnt google image search dior ponytail and yes they do sell this wig ring bullshit for reals. so i'll take the L on this one. i still say the shadow of the rings should be complete circles.
Because it's a real image?
Pretty sure that's a stadium or something where you have several light sources from multiple directions, which do make weird overlapping shadows.
FWIW I thought it was fake too. I still don't know how they made that upper knot. Dior-tier hairstylists are amazing.
- Keep in mind they have a handy bundle of matching long hair strands. So they could use a clear elastic band to hold the short hair, then wrap it with matching long hair. Given that it's for a significant event, the model might even have had slightly longer hair, and after forming that tiny bun the stylist cut off any excess.
- So, they used one of those "bump" things underneath her hair on the top of her head, which is what gives that extra dome shape and a cavity for her bottom layer of hair to get tucked in to. Then they did a ponytail with the top half of her hair, folded around the chain link, and tucked the excess tail inside. Use some of the hair starting from the bottom most side of the ponytail and wrap it around. That wrap around the base of the tail does not need to be separate from her hair. Easy to make it look like it is with some careful positioning. Plastic bands, hairspray, and potentially woven thread to really keep it all stable. The bump is what makes it all possible.
  
  As for the cut off portion, I think it's fake/not hers. You can kind of tell by the coloring not 100% matching her hair, but it is pretty much spot on.