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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.”

How to Store Lilla Rose Flexi Hair Clips, Jewelry Storage, LoveLeavingLegacy

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. 

Caring for Lilla Rose Flexi Hair Clips, Plated hair accessories, LoveLeavingLegacy

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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Update, Entrepreneurship, And A Visit From The Flexi Founder

In his wisdom. my son Andrew said “Mom. Thursday was hard. It was really hard seeing you so impaired. You were so swollen and swelling at we watched into the night on Thursday. Even I had to cry. But don’t delete these photos. On bad days you are going to need them. You will have come so far and you will need to know just how far that is.”
Even though we have one, Lydia is unable to view my “scar” photo. My right ear and neck are very swollen. Today I am very dizzy, having finished both OT and PT, and waiting a bed placement at Mary Free Bed in patient rehab for up to two weeks . This is what is next on my agenda. This is over 40 minutes from my family, and a big sacrifice for everyone. I need to get well. Staff here at Bronson is so good about anticipating my needs, and at home things are “reactive.” Just how much stress the family is all going to be under is significant to me! I need to go rest well where needs are less stressful to the prepared staff.

Yesterday an awesome surprise came in the form of our CEO and flexi founder, John Dorsey. I had had been up many hours in the night very sick, and I had literally been “allowed and encouraged” to sleep. No one at the hospital knew John was coming or the significance of the fact for my family. They would have managed differently if they’d known.

My kids got Entrepreneurship 101 from one of the best on Monday afternoon. They got to eat lunch with John Dorsey, founder of Lilla Rose, and talk the future of the company. That he invested in my family, in my children, in their crisis means so much to me!

Thank you, John! Seeing our situation as a “Unit” and not just me with a difficult thing to overcome means much.

Lydia, John Dorsey, and Andrew

Peter and John Dorsey

So today: A little more healing. Vulnerable, raw, tired, dizzy, loss of some modesty, loss of my “control freakishness”, memory loss. I will count all loss gain in a few weeks.
Preparation for more future. That describes my day.

12/04/2018, 9:30 AM, Post breakfast, post shower where they let me wear real clothes! And using a walker because I’m a Fall Risk…

I’m in a good place!

 

Blessings,

Deb

St. Patrick’s Day Green

I’m not Irish, and I am not Catholic. Over the years I’ve not quite understood St. Patrick’s Day, the green significance, clovers, luck, and leprechauns. Today, I did a quick little research.

  • St. Patrick was a missionary and patron saint of Ireland.

  • He used Irish symbols and rituals to teach Christianity to the Irish, especially Celtic symbols. He is said to have created the Celtic cross.

  • Today, in the United States, St. Patrick’s day celebrations have to do with Irish American strength and commitment to their heritage, especially as ancestors immigrated to the United States.

  • St. Patrick used the clover to teach the concept of the Trinity.

  • Rainbows, pots of gold, and leprechauns were part of Irish mythology fables and stories.

  • Green, the color on the Irish flag, has been the traditional color of Irish nationalism since the 17th century.

  • Emerald Isle is a name used when referring to Ireland because of its lush greenery and countryside.

  • Green is often the color that symbolizes new life, birth, money, wealth, and health.

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How are you going to coordinate your St. Patrick’s Day wardrobe and your hair accessories!?

Lilla Rose has quite a few Celtic styles in leather, braided leather, leather like Celtic knot or Celtic heart, Celtic knots in several metal finish choices and one with wood beads, a Celtic cross, and Trinitee. There are green options like Emerald Joy in a flexi clip, upins, bobby pins, hair sticks, and a hair band.

The new Flexi of the Month shown in the video, Cliono, will be released on March 1, 2018.

Come check out my website to see all the choices, as there are more from the sampling below, available beginning March 1, 2018, and some in Limited availability. Come join my Facebook page or customer group for more sneak peak previews, the latest on the customer specials, or upcoming sales!

Need some extra green? 

Come over to my Builders group to learn more about this two week opportunity special. It ends on March 14th. 

Later this week, after working with me at the Women’s Lifestyle Expo here in Kalamazoo, my two youngest daughters have the privilege of attending a Daddy-Daughter Dance with their Daddy.

The girls plan to wear the dresses they wore to their brother’s wedding last July with their silver sparkly shoes, and sparkly jewelry.

Today my oldest daughter, who is 16 years old and loves to experiment with hairstyles, tried a new one on her middle sister who has thick, waist length hair. We’re calling it a Dutch Braid Crown Bun. It is secured with Lilla Rose “naked” bobby pins (they are call Lux on the website.) On Saturday, the girls intend to use decorated bobby pins to decorate the bun, and show off the weave in the center of the bun where it is woven.

Lady L will actually be demonstrating how she did this at the Women’s Lifestyle Expo on Saturday around 3 pm. Depending on how busy we are, maybe we will make a video of her doing it.

Sssh. Don’t tell her. She hates being Live on video.

Which bobby pins on the Lilla Rose website do you think Missy E should place in her hair?

Have a great week!

Until then,

Blessings, 
Deb

This post has been cross posted with and can be found on Sassy Direct.