How Tight Should I Wear my Ponytail Once Receiving Botox in the Forehead? I Wear a Ponytail Daily.

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I wear my hair pulled back and in a ponytail daily. I am interested in getting Botox in my forehead. My question is.. By pulling my hair back would the muscles in my forehead (freeze) or be paralyzed in place according to the tension or the tightness my ponytail style... or would it paralyzed the muscles in their natural place. How tight should I wear my ponytail once receiving the Botox? What happens to the muscles with a tight ponytail?? I hope I have asked the question clearly and correctly.

Sanusi Umar, MD · Answer

Botox should not affect how you wear your pony tail. It might give you more confidence to wear a pony tail to show off your smooth forehead. Beware however, that persistent wearing of tight pony tails could in the long run cause loss of hair in the frontal and side fringes. A condition called traction alopecia. This would have no connection to your use of botox.

Ron Shelton, MD · Answer

You needn't be concerned about the tightness of the forehead from wearing a pony tail or the direction of the pulling after Botox treatment in the forehead. The doctor will inject the botox to the correct muscle areas and the botox will bind to the correct sites no matter how you wear your hairstyle.

Kenneth D. Steinsapir, MD · Answer

Marietta

	It is interesting that I have a 24 year old patient who has been daily wearing a pony tail since she was a child.  The interesting thing is that when she does not wear the ponytail she looks very different than when she does wear it.  It appears that over time she has stretched the soft tissues of the upper face and the ponytail essentially pulls these tissues back like some kind of forehead lift.

David Shafer, MD, FACS · Answer

How you wear your hair after Botox will make no difference in your results.

	 

	Good Luck.

Kenneth Dembny, II, MD · Answer

How you choose to wear your hair has no effect on the (frontalis) muscles in your forehead. Nor does it have any effect on the results of a botulinum toxin treatment. The amount of relaxation you experience following treatment with a botulinum toxin is directly related to the number of units you receive and where those units are placed across the forehead. So go ahead and wear your hair however you would like.
	Best wishes, Ken Dembny

Martie Gidon, MD, FRCPC, FAAD · Answer

Wearing your hair in a ponytail will have no effect on your Botox treatment.

	As an aside, repeatedly wearing tight ponytails can damage your hair at the front of your hairline.  You should loosen up your ponytail to prevent permanent hair loss.

Mennen T. Gallas, MD · Answer

Your ponytail, no matter how tight it's worn, should have no effect on your Botox results.

Monica Halem, MD · Answer

It should not matter how you wear your hair after having a botox treatment. Absolutely nothing happens with the forehead muscles while wearing a ponytail. In fact, now that you have had Botox and your forehead lines have disappeared, wear your hair back in a ponytail to show off your new wrinkle free skin!

Barry Resnik, MD · Answer

Wearing your hair in a pony-tail may make you more beautiful. It will, thankfully, have no effect on your BOTOX treatments. Keep on BOTOXing!

Grant Stevens, MD · Answer

Greetings~

	Fortunately or unfortunately, Botox doesn't freeze or paralyze muscles in place, so your hair style, attempting to make certain faces or not make them, or treatments that may make the skin more taught, will have no effect on its results.  Botox simply relaxes the muscles, or groups of muscles, that are injected.  So if it's your forehead that you are interested in smoothing, you will notice the muscles relax and have less movement within a few days to a week after injection.  A ponytail, whether tight or loose, low or high, will not effect the end results.

	Good luck~

	Dr. Grant Stevens

How Tight Should I Wear my Ponytail Once Receiving Botox in the Forehead? I Wear a Ponytail Daily.

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