Sorting Out Tail Colors?

[Lon-san]

Found a Starglow at a thrift store. She's nice and clean now, just needs a bit of defrizzing and styling. I'm picking away at her tail, trying to get the pink and yellow reasonably seperate so I thought I'd ask:

Any tips for tricks for doing it? I've done it before but it's such a pain.
Or keeping them seperate afterwards, when I reinstall the tail? I don't want them to get shoved back together.

[hathorcat]

Honestly the only way to separate out is the hard way and doing it hair by hair. As for keeping them separate unless you decide to style the hair in twirls, pleat or perhaps elastic band the base of each colour [with clear styling bands] I can not think of any other way you would be assured of keeping them separated.

[SourdoughStomper]

I've done that a few times in the past. Kills a lot of time!

[Lon-san]

Bleh. So, no secrets, just hard work.
I'm going to curl the colors seperately afterwards to keep them seperated but didn't want them to mix while pulling it through the tail hole. I'm wondering if defrizzing each color, then pulling all of one color through the curler again would help keep the hair together through the pull.

[Sunshine]

Once you split the colors can you just ziptie the segments at the ends so when you pull it through it'll be easy to re-separate and you can just slip them off the ends?

[spookysage]

Once you split the colors can you just ziptie the segments at the ends so when you pull it through it'll be easy to re-separate and you can just slip them off the ends?

There may not be enough room, but what if you ziptied each color separately inside the pony? It might make it harder to style though - for me factory tails often end up splitting into two sections because of the fold alone...

[Lon-san]

Once you split the colors can you just ziptie the segments at the ends so when you pull it through it'll be easy to re-separate and you can just slip them off the ends?

Once you split the colors can you just ziptie the segments at the ends so when you pull it through it'll be easy to re-separate and you can just slip them off the ends?

There may not be enough room, but what if you ziptied each color separately inside the pony? It might make it harder to style though - for me factory tails often end up splitting into two sections because of the fold alone...

I don't have any zip ties, so I did something similar with a needle and thread. I kept the colors split and sewed around the bases of the pink hair portions down by the metal piece. I put the washer back on, installed the tail and it kept them divided long enough to part them again.