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11-13-2013, 11:03 AM | #1 |
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| Silly topknot question Maybe this is silly, maybe not. When I put Lexi's hair up in a doo each day, it always flips forward. I have tried top stuff, water, putting it in from the back, from the front. I have used scrunchies, barrettes, (which she hates) no-break rubber bands. What am I doing wrong? I keep thinking the more I put it up, the more trained it will become. But it's been two years! |
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11-13-2013, 11:42 AM | #2 |
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| Not a silly question @ all, but a great one! I have the same problem, as many others do too. Mimi has a lot of hair on her top knot & I need to use 2 bands. 1 will be towards the front & I'll anchor that to the 2nd band which will be behind the 1st section of hair. So she'll have 2 bands on her head, kinda like a french braid w/out the braid. I cut about 6" off Mimi's top knot...she has a fountain now lolll!DSCN1682.jpgDSCN1683.jpg Silly girl didn't want to look @ the flash on the cam. Please excuse her messy hair, spa day is tomorrow!
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11-13-2013, 12:28 PM | #3 |
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| Thanks for the good idea. I'll have to try that. She has quite a bit of hair in her topknot. I just cut quite a bit off hers too. Sometimes it looks like a fountain and sometimes it looks like a fan. Silly dogs! |
11-13-2013, 12:30 PM | #4 |
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| It might be the angle, sometimes Lola's topknot flops forward in a fake bang look if I don't angle it right. I have to kinda angle it so it's pulled more to the back than the front, I don't know how to explain. |
11-13-2013, 12:33 PM | #5 | |
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11-14-2013, 06:17 PM | #6 | |
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11-15-2013, 04:34 PM | #7 |
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| I've heard of using 2 rubber bands, but I never really understood why or how until this thread. Definitely not a silly question!! My topknots are horrible!! I can't get the bump in the front...the rubber band is never centered and hair is alway falling out...especially his bangs that are growing out. Hopefully, we will get better at this top knot thing. BTW~someone called Ricky a girl at Petsmart yesterday for the millionth time...they all think he's a girl....Despite the fact that he had a GREEN frog jumper on and a green hair clip in, not a bow....So I asked her what made her think that he was a girl and she stated it was the fact that he had his hair in a pony tail. My heart sunk...I thought it was the top knot!! I don't care though...he is still wearing his hair up!! Last edited by theporkieyorkie; 11-15-2013 at 04:38 PM. |
11-21-2013, 10:49 PM | #8 |
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| I have the same problem with Somi's top knot. Though she has very little hair, it is super fine and thin unfortunately. Occasionally I get an angle that won't go forward, but it usually ends up falling forward. The only times I get it not to is when I "fold" it over in a bun in the "official" top knot fashion. But then I still kind of tilts forward, it just isn't long enough to get in her face. And then sometimes I take the last round on the rubber band and have it higher in the front so it forces it forward. Does that make sense? Also, I have only had girls, but if I had a boy his hair would be up too. Look at show dogs, both girls and boys have their hair up, but some breeds I think it is only the girls. Just as long as you don't put girly bows in, then he is just being a yorkie!
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11-26-2013, 12:45 PM | #9 | |
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11-26-2013, 01:01 PM | #10 |
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| At our house it's called the "unicorn" look. |
11-26-2013, 01:06 PM | #11 |
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| Hahaha love it! Princess gets the angler fish look loll!
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11-26-2013, 05:14 PM | #12 |
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| Too funny, I think Bayleigh looks like a pheasant when hers does that! Mostly if I keep it a little shorter it works. I will have to try that 2 pony thing! |
11-27-2013, 09:16 PM | #13 |
Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Shenandoah Valley, VA., USA
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| Two knotted styles on top! Okay, promise not to laugh! Taffy would tolerate a bow in his head as long as he was busy with somthing else. As soon as he was no longer distracted....rip! He would get annoyed with the bow (No, it was not too tight.), and he pulled the bow off with the nails of his front paws...plus a few strands of hair, too! So, getting tired of his hair flopping over his eyes, I trimmed just the hair directly over his eyes in to a cute short fringe that came straight out a tiny bit a in the center--like my deceased Schnauzer's bangs...but it has a bit of a softer wedge toward the center, not the sharp pointed front of the Schnauzer's. Well, as soon as his eye bangs were clipped, he stopped fighting having a bow placed in his hair. Now, any new bows are on the back 2/3 of his head! It still looks cute when he's around the city. And, because of the easy-bangs-fringe, he can go without a bow at home and not run the risk of hair in his eyes! I think know what you are talking about when some of the Y.T. owners do a "double knot bow". One groomer made a small, firm base loop of hair and anchored it with a small rubber band, then she combed the rest of Taff's hair together in front of it in a smoooth strand as wide as the first and banded that 2nd 'ponytail' over the entire first one...rubber band #2 went over both of the topknots! They were very secure, with the 1st top knot serving as the stabilizing "base" for the second one! Made Taff's hair look nicer and even fuller, since his hair is very soft and silky and used to want to split apart in the top of the knot. |
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