The hair should be brushed to remove knots and tangles. Thus, all the hair above your crown must be collected and separated into three equal sections. Some hair below the ears should be left free to move around your neck. Each ponytail, and then smoothed into separate mini-ponytails and secured with a rubber band or hair band or hair elastic. Once the basis of several ponies look is achieved, you can use braided or knotted styles. You can create multiple ponytails where no hair is left to flow down their backs. Another choice is to have all different ponytails coiled and attached to the top of the crown for a lovely place-do of braids. You can also merge the center of the ponytail and let the next multi ponytails unbraided. So could pin jewelry pins on top of each ponytail, or experiment with different color scrunches to cover the rubber band.
The fluctuations of long hair are endless. They are limited to the sum of the place trying different hair styles - and the imagination.
