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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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On Sizing Matters: How To Determine Your Lilla Rose Flexi Hair Clip Size

When it comes to the Lilla Rose Flexi Hair Clip, sizing does matter. Any Flexi clip too large for a hair style slips out, and anything too small doesn’t hold enough hair. In either situation, frustration with “nothing stays in my hair” will continue to ensue, and a clip will stay in its drawer instead of in one’s hair. A hair clip sitting in a drawer does no one any good, and neither do the Claw or a hair ties that bites a person’s scalp or breaks their hair.

What do you do when you can’t visit your local Lilla Rose Stylist for a Free Flexi Sizing or if you want to make a purchase as a gift for someone?

See this LoveLeavingLegacy video for some advice on how to Size Your Flexi Hair Clip, and for four quick tutorials on how to use a flexi clip for a pony tail, a Tails Up, a French Twist, and a quick bun.

 


Check out how many styles you can do with ONE base pony tail flexi clip! Really, the possibilities are endless, but here are twenty eight styles one can do with one clip to start! 

These help make it clear that there is beauty, comfort, durability, and flexibility with one small clip! Not many can say the same about their other hair accessories.  In fact, customers often complain about the hair and tension headaches they get using other products, or the cost of continually replacing them after they lose them or they break.

Now that you know how to determine your Flexi clip size share below :

  • What do you think (or know if you own one) your pony tail clip size is?
  • What is your favorite way to wear your hair?
  • What hair item that you currently use would you most like to ditch?

Come on over to the HairRaising Lounge for the inside scoop on all things Lila Rose, sneak peeks at new products, VIP customer care, where hair styling questions can be discussed, and more! I’d also love for you to follow my LoveLeavingLegacy with Lilla Rose page.

Blessings,

Deb Wielhouwer
Lilla Rose Independent Stylist