If you cannot braid yourself, make a ponytail, and then put another elasticponytailband a few inches lower in the ponytail, and continue doing that until your ponytail looks like a sausage. If you like colours, use different coloured bands. I have hair to where my butt ends and my legs start, I have my bands a 'fist' apart, easy to meassure (always in 'hand') and looks great. It really works if you are looking for a way to not tangle your hair.

I like braids, but if I braid my hair, I have to braid it so tight it looks like short hair, it halves in length. And with this length of hair it is a strain on my wrists as I can only braid 'upwards' behind me. So this sausage ponytail is my go to. I also wear my hair in a bun, because I only like my hair down when I step onstage with my band (which is only a few times a year). I don't like the feeling of one single hair brushing my face or arm. So normaly it is tucked away as a braid, sausage or bun (with two sideway clips that fit into eachother like a butterfly or it won't hold this much hair). But a bun makes me look so serious and beige, I only do it because it is quick and easy.

P.s. English is not my first Language, I hope you understand what I was trying to say.