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A young girl with her hair in ponytail bunches.

Bunches, also called angel wings and pigtails, are a hairstyle in which the hair is parted down the middle and gathered into two symmetrical bundles, like ponytails, secured near the scalp. In some English-speaking regions, this hairstyle is referred to as "pigtails," but in others, the term "pigtails" applies only if the hair is braided.^[1]

The style is often given to toddlers and young girls, and is sometimes also worn by teenagers and young women to emulate an innocent or rustic appearance.^{[dubious – discuss]}

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• In Japan, hair bunches are called twin tail (ツインテール, tsuin teeru^?). A popular variation is the odango hairstyle, in which each ponytail is partially coiled around its base to form a small bun from which the remaining length hangs free.
• Tamil schoolgirls in India customarily wear their hair in a pair of long braids, with the end of each braid looped up and fastened to its base with red ribbon.

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