If that’s not tall enough, just add “tall” between ’a’ and ‘ponytail’, it should work. If this isn’t what you’re looking for then I am sorry.

Front view of Woman with her hair slicked back. You see a ponytail raised up from behind her head.

Thank you for trying to help! I should have specified within the "Professional Photo" style, I need to retain a stylistic consistency across various images. When I do that with your prompt, none of them result in a tight style. Of 16, 6 of the images were from the back. Two more were from the front, but with the ponytail hanging in front of the face. All but one had quite loose hair and a fuck ton of flyaways Several had hair buns instead of ponytails, all also loose. Also, I need the woman to be looking into the camera, not downward, which most of the "Casual Photo" attempts yielded. I do appreciate your input though!

Also, this will be incorporated as a detail in a larger description... adding basically any detail to this is likely to wipe it out (color, length, facial features and expressions.) What I am looking for is specific word choices/descriptors that will consistently generate this style. I have used "slicked back" on its own (and repetitively within the prompt) over and over again to no avail.

I am not one to use a very short prompt and accept what is given... that is letting the AI imagine a thing. I want to imagine a thing myself, and have the AI depict it as close to I describe as possible. My prompts tend to be much longer, so complex specificity must be combined with brevity.

Thank you again though!

I have never ever shared these with anyone. But since you do need help with getting the prompt to give you what you actually want, I'm willing to share it with you but not in public. I refuse to share it in public because god who knows what would if I released it released...But, anyways, my method doesn't work 100% of the time but for the most part, it gives me what I want.

I generated these with my prompt. I think this is what you were going for. Some of them were "cherry picked" as my way of prompting doesn't always work, but these were absolutely generated with my prompt, many of them actually (when I increased the numbers of images). I used some of the AI image model's (a random generator from Perchance) settings like guidance and art style (didn't really help much until I put real human being/photograph in the prompt...bruh moment). No flyaways, no buns :3

I can share a erm vanilla version of the prompt, should get the about the same result:

woman with long and tall ponytail that sits up high on top of head, the ponytail is pulled-back-tightly/slicked back with gel and stretches the forehead. The woman is a real human being. She is in a professional photograph. Avoid styles, increase guidance (try 12-15), and increase number of images (10 is okay, 20 is good, 30 is great, 40-60 is amazing!)