Like so many celebrities — Ariana Grande and Jennifer Lopez come to thoughts — Gabrielle Union loves a excessive, straight, modern ponytail. Bear in mind her unimaginable search for the Versace present throughout Milan Trend Week final September? Actually the quintessential elevated pony — what you’d see within the dictionary subsequent to “excessive ponytail” if “excessive ponytail” was within the dictionary. However Union simply proved {that a} excessive ponytail does not must be modern and straight to be good.

Union posted a carousel of movies and images to Instagram on Wednesday, January 17, displaying that she was having fun with herself in Miami, the place her birthday-celebrating husband, Dwyane Wade, was not too long ago shocked with the announcement that he’ll be getting a statue commemorating his iconic profession with the Warmth. Nevertheless it was Union who was trying statuesque in a wispy, fire-engine-red halter gown that matches proper in with the Miami vibes.

Additionally true to Miami: Union’s curls. And by that, I imply that when hairstylist Wankaya Hinkson embraced the town’s notorious humidity as an alternative of combating it. The ponytail, which was flawlessly easy on the base, explodes into fluffy, fabulous curls that each the wind and Union herself beloved to play with — in practically half of the images she posted to her grid and Tales, she’s understandably touching the mushy type.