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Hair Tutorial: How To Do An Easy Wrapped Pony Tail

One of my six children is getting married at the end of March. When I saw a post in a group I’m in for ladies “going gray naturally” with a photo of a lady with long silver strands in a wrapped high pony tail, I got excited! I knew I’d have an easy hair style idea to present my hair stylist for my hair for the wedding! I recently got face framing layers with a side part on the affected side of my face, and pony tails are easy! My shortest layer tucks behind my ears. My hairstylist will be able to easily braid or French braid a section of my hair, wrap it around the base of my pony tail, and secure it with my favorite comfortable Lilla Rose bobby pins or a flexi clip. I’ll ask him to curl the pony tail tresses and some of the face framing sections left out of the pony tail, and then spray it with hair spray to prevent any flyaways or shorter hair from slipping out of the pony tail. I’m imagining this being a middle-high pony tail, not a low one.

Hair tutorial: Easy Wrapped Pony Tail

Hair Tutorial: An Easy Wrapped Pony Tail

Below are two tutorial videos. One is a video A-Grape and I did a few years ago which describes how to do wrapped pony tails with bobby pins. The other is a low braided wrapped pony tail with a flexi hair clip. We could also use U-pins or hair sticks!

FLEXI: Braided Ponytail from Lilla Rose Inc. on Vimeo.

We’re in the midst of finding shoes to match our dresses. I no longer fit in the Dress Shoes With Heels Club, because hello imbalance disorder and fall risk. Finding comfortable and nice dress shoes with a stable low heel is proving to be quite a challenge. My dress skirt is also a high low hem, as I am afraid of tripping if the skirt wrapped around my ankles.

I need to find jewelry, beyond matching the dress and the wedding theme and colors, that isn’t too heavy on my numb ear, neck and shoulders, and won’t poke or prod those areas or make my head tilt to the right to increase the chances of imbalance and dizziness.

Finally, I have met with a make up artist to learn some techniques for creating the appearance of facial symmetry around my “not great at blinking” right dry eye while using make up that won’t cause itching or other problems around my eye, plus decrease the eye opening of my unaffected facial issues, while “opening” the right side affected by facial nerve weakness and the need for ongoing neuromuscular brain retraining. I have to do different techniques around my mouth in order to appear like I’m smiling from both sides of my mouth equally, which means using bronzer to create the appearance on one size of my face, and highlighter on the other side to decrease natural lines on the unaffected side. Make up is a challenge for a 50+ year old mom’s skin and then to “create” something on my face because muscles aren’t freely moving increases the make up challenges for a non make up, natural appearance person! The learning curve has been steep!

These are not your average wedding stressors! Thanks a lot, acoustic neuroma! I see my make up artist and my hair stylist in the early morning of the wedding, though, so I’ll have some help.

What would you do for your child’s wedding: a traditional Mother of the Bride (or groom) updo? Or would you try a fancy braided pony tail? Do you have an expert do your hair and make up?

Give me some feedback! Maybe I’ll change my mind!

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How To Care For And Clean Your Lilla Rose Plated Hair Accessories

Now that you’ve purchased a Lilla Rose Flexi hair clip or ten, what is the best way to store and care for them?

The best place to store your clip when it is not in your hair, of course, is in a fabric bag, jewelry box, or compartment sorting tray in a bathroom drawer. Compartments are great for easy viewing if you like to sort by clip size or color.

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I like to keep my hair sticks in a small vase on my bathroom counter, and hang my hairbands on necklace hooks in my “Lilla Rose Jewelry Box.”

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This is an old photo. I need a new jewelry box! I’ve outgrown this one, and so my current one is overflowing. I’ve also added a pretty jar for hair sticks.


It is more important to discuss how to care for your new hair accessories, though. The pin on clips are nickel, gold, brass, copper, or rose gold plated. Being plated, they will tarnish from humidity and frequent use. The pin lends itself to an “antiquing” look and is not damaged by this “tarnish.” The same is true for metal sticks and U-pins also.

It has been recommended by other Lilla Rose Stylists, too, to be mindful of environments with high humidity, as this does seem to increase the tendency of natural antiquing or tarnishing on some shiny metal clips or the rose gold ones. Other hair products, lotions, anti dandruff shampoos, and food oil transfer from hands can contribute to the tarnishing and color changes of plated metals on the flexi clip as well. 

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How To Clean Your Plated Hair Accessory Jewelry

In order to properly care for these items and “parts” of the clips, note the care instructions on your “Style Sheet” given to you at the time of your purchase. There is a section of the sheet called “Cleaning and Finish.” Lilla Rose, Inc recommends “wiping your Flexi with a cotton ball dabbed in acetone or non-acetone fingernail polish remover. Do not wipe colored beads with acetone as their coloring may be sensitive to the cleaner and cause discoloration.”

Other cleaning recommendations from non Lilla Rose sites for plated jewelry recommend using lint free jewelry cloths to polish items. If oils build up on those items, it’s recommended to soak the items in warm soapy water with dish soap before polishing.  A soft brush can be used on metal plating after soaking for any additional build up, but follow with the jewelry cloth to shine a flexi hair clip back up.

Avoid antibacterial hand soaps. Do not use polishing cloths. It is never recommended to use abrasive cleaners on any plated jewelry, as this could completely remove the finish. This site, Miansai, also recommends not storing rose gold/gold and silver plating items together, as this may increase tarnishing. 

If a Flexi clip has wooden beads, it is not recommended that the items be soaked, so be mindful of that.

Otherwise, flexi clips are as easy to care for and store as they are to use! Enjoy their beauty, durability, exquisite designs, and comfort!

If you find you need to do a sizing exchange, Lilla Rose pays the exchange shipping within 90 days of the purchase date. If a customer wants to return items, they must do so within 30 days, unused in original packaging. Customers may also exchanged defective items within 90 days for free exchange shipping. After that, the exchange is at the customer’s cost. Be sure to keep your original receipt for the exchanges!

I’d love for you to have a free download of my flyer, How to Care for your Lilla Rose Flexi Hair Clips (and other plated hair and jewelry accessories). Click on the image to access it, and to be added to my monthly email newsletter.

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7 Hair Care Essentials for Good Self Care in 2020

Most of us desire strong, healthy looking hair. It seems like trends and fads, though, keep us chasing after the newest shiniest objects promising us health or the kind of hair we wish we had, rather than what is always best for us. Healthy hair, though, goes beyond the latest shampoo or conditioner brand promise, beyond the latest “natural healing compound”, and beyond even regular trims at the hair dresser. Healthy hair starts and grows at the root, and gaining health after a set back starts at the roots too.

What can you do besides using caution in having very tight hair styles, regular trims, conditioning, gentle brushing before washing, reduce heat tool use, and be sure you are checking ingredients of conditioners and shampoos and using the same brands of those? 

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The following seven blog posts help guide us back to those roots, and interestingly, most also guide us back to general health. There are just no short cuts to gaining or retaining good health or healthy hair, I’ve learned this past year. 

1. Water
As discussed in Six Ways Drinking Water Benefits Hair and Scalp there are lots of great reasons for health to generally be drinking more water. Our bodies are 2/3 water. Drinking water is superior to any other fluid intake, like soda, coffee, or other beverages.

What are the many benefits of drinking water for hair and the scalp?

First, one of the major benefits to drinking more water is a hydrated scalp, which reduces flaking, itching, and dandruff. A good shampoo helps, but hydration is important.

Second, for adequate hydration prevents hair loss and promotes hair growth. Water repairs hair and adds needed nutrients. It even makes hair shinier.

Third, increasing water intake prevents hair breakage and frizz. Especially if there is frequent chemical processing, which dries out hair, being hydrated strengthens cuticles and hair follicles. 

Next, drinking more water balances hair pH, as well as filters excess toxins and minerals found in blood that affect hair health.

In addition, “Water activates all these nerve endings and other sensors in our skin and scalp that enhances the natural vitality of hair roots.”

Finally, hair hygiene also matters. Rinsing hair in cool water, rather than hot water promotes shine and gloss. Softer water makes hair more manageable, and prevents color fade.

2. Promoting Healthy Hair and Scalp in Hygiene: Infection Prevention
In Promoting Healthy Hair and Scalp in Hygiene, I discuss the dangers of going to sleep with wet hair. Going to bed with wet hair sets up conditions for a warm, moist environment for a fungal infection, especially since it takes so long for hair to dry. Scrunchie or fabric hair ties harbor fungal infection, and allows the infection to spread if it’s not washed in a hot wash/dry every few days. It also holds in the dampness and prevents air flow to the scalp. Cotton pillowcases cause drying hair to stay on a damp warm surface, thereby promoting more fungus growth.

Once a fungal infection (dermatophytes) sets up on the scalp, often called ringworm (tinea capitis), there is a red scaly rash with irregular borders on the scalp. “The fungi attack the outer layer of skin on the scalp and the hair shaft.” The infection literally cuts the hair at the follicle shaft, so hair loss is occurring. There may be itching and burning. There are photos and more information of what the condition looks like at the Mayo Clinic website.

It is contagious in that the fungus is on anything the scalp touches. This includes hair styling tools (comb/brush), elastics and barrettes and scrunchies. It includes pillow cases, coat hoods, and hats. A child who shares any of those items can also spread the infection to another child, or even to a beloved pet, as carriers of the infection. A family might also find that the infection carrier is actually that pet who could be asymptomatic!

Read more about the fungal treatments, how to handle, and prevention tips in Promoting Healthy Hair & Scalp: Ringworm Prevention Tips.

3. 23 Tips for a Healthy Scalp & Hair
In 23 Tips for a Healthy Scalp & Hair, I discuss how there are a lot of opinions about how to have a healthy hair and scalp. Not all of the advice given is based on science or research.Testing for cosmetics and hair products is done by manufacturers selling the product. The FDA gets involved only when there is a problem with a product.

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23 Tips For A Healthy Scalp & Hair

In my free downloadable e-book, I list twenty-three tips for seeking a healthier scalp and hair. The tips involve use of hair tools, how to keep the tools, towels, and pillowcases clean, best hair care practices, hair hygiene, and best health care practices in diet. You can see the full post here. 

4. 9 Nutrients for Growing Healthy Hair
While I was recovering from surgery, and after my fabulous not so fashionable neuro-surgical hair cut, I needed to know what I needed to eat and be nutritionally sound to heal well, and to grow my hair back as quickly as I could. I sell hair clips as my business, after all, and hair is needed for demonstrating that.

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9 Nutrients For Growing Healthy Hair

In the course of that nutrition research, I wrote an e-book to share, 9 Nutrients for Growing Healthy Hair.  It is has literally been how I eat, and continue to do so. Honestly, it was how I’ve wanted to eat, like a craving for good health. As it turns out what is good for hair is also good for healing. Read the full post here. This is exactly what my body also needed for gaining my physical strength and incisional healing too. This is a no fad plan.

5. Three Tools We Use For Stronger Healthier Hair
I’ve alluded before, especially in my Lilla Rose video, that our family has had various not so pretty hair issues in the past. A few years ago, we found three tools for our arsenal of better hair care leading to better hair health and two of those were recommended to us by our hair stylist. In Three Tools We Use for Stronger Healthier Hair I share those tools that benefited us.

 

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We had to gently twist A-Grape’s hair back in July/August of 2013 in order to hide a bald spot and she only had enough hair to gather into a mini Lilla Rose flexi clip.

6. Reverse Hair Washing
In early 2017, I switched to using Art Naturals Organic Moroccan Argan Oil Shampoo and Conditioner in my reverse hair washing method. I’ve faithfully conditioned, leaving the conditioner on for 3-5 minutes in the shower, and then washed. Sometimes I would condition after washing too. I stopped doing coconut oil “deep condition” treatments. I enjoy fewer fly aways, shiny, soft hair. My grays are softer and sparkle.  I’ve noted, too, that while my hair is air drying, it is actually drying faster. I now use a Lilla Rose bamboo hair towel and rosewater too. Needless to say, I encourage readers to try the Reverse Wash method of hair care if you are struggling like I was with dry and breaking hair. Read more about Reverse Hair Washing here. 

7. Rosewater
One of the parts of my hair care routine is to wrap my hair in a Lilla Rose bamboo cotton hair towel. Much of my hair drying now is from the hair towel, then mostly air drying during the day, and styling with Lilla Rose hair clips, hairbands or bobby pins given my long bobbed hair cut. Even if I choose to blow dry, these other two items, the bamboo hair towel, and rosewater have been serving to protect my hair from excessive heat from the blow dryer. Rosewater spray is a natural heat protectant, made only from Bulgarian organic rose petals and collected through water hydrosol. The fragrance is light and like that of a rose still on the plant, for those of us who have scent aversions, and it quickly dissipates. There is nothing overpowering.

See all The Benefits of Rosewater On Hair And Skin. 

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Rosewater: heat protectant and detangler


Here is to strong, healthy looking hair that grows strong at the root, just like self care in 2020.

Blessings, 

Deb

Blessed is the one who is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither-whatever they do prospers. Psalm 1:1a & 3