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Hair Care Articles & LongLocks Hair Jewelry Information Resources

The LongLocks HairSticks Boutique has a fabulous wealth of resources that share in-depth information regarding all sorts of hair care, including a gallery and instructions for hairstyles created using hair sticks, recipes for making your own hair care products at home, hair braiding basics, and our award winning "Ultimate Guide to Growing Long Hair."

You will find all of our articles listed alphabetically below, along with a link to and a summary of each one. We have also included links and summaries with regard to the useful hair jewelry resources that also reside on the LongLocks HairSticks Boutique. Enjoy!

Hair Care Articles & Jewelry Resources

** denotes our most popular articles
Beads & Findings Glossary Information regarding all the beads, gemstones and precious metals used in LongLocks HairSticks hair jewelry designs.
Birthstones, Zodiac & Anniversary Gemstones** A complete chart of traditional and contemporary birthstones, Zodiac birthstones and anniversary gemstones, and the lore associated with each gem.
Braiding Basics** Clear step-by-step instructions for creating standard English, French, Dutch and fishtail braids.
Choosing Hair Stick Length Learn which length of LongLocks HairSticks are perfect for your hair length and texture.
Creating Special Effects With Hair Color Learn to express your dramatic self using special effect hair color using both very temporary and longer-lasting methods. Page two
Feed Your Soul to Feed Your Hair Learn how taking care of you is an essential step to preserving your beauty, including healthy hair!
Free Fine Art eCards Send gorgeous works of art in the form of free e-cards featuring long-haired beauties as depicted throughout history by the world's greatest artists!
Windswept by Waterhouse
Hair Care Recipes Cookbook** Use our recipes to make several different hair products at home, using your own natural and organic ingredients! Page two
Hair Jewelry Color Chart Learn which colors of hair jewelry will work best in your hair based on your hair color.
Hair Schtick A small collection of really bad hair jokes to help on those days when your hair wakes up on the wrong side of the bed.
HairStyles & Instructions** A collection of hairstyles and detailed instructions of how to create them yourself using LongLocks HairSticks.
Kudos & Design Gallery Read what several of our customers have to say and check out many of the designs in the LongLocks archive.
LongLocks Collectors Gallery Take a gander at some of the larger collections a few members of the LongLocks HairSticks Collectors Club chose to share with the world.
LongLocks Customer Gallery Check out how LongLocks HairSticks customers style their hair using our hair jewelry... both women and men!
LongLocks FAQ** Learn just about everything there is to know about LongLocks from its history to how we obtain our animal-friendly bone.
LongLocks HairSticks Collectors Club** Learn all about our extremely popular and entirely free LongLocks HairSticks Collectors Club, and all the great benefits you'll gain by joining. Did I mention it's entirely free?
LongLocks Lexicon Our daily paper bringing you the best of all hair care and styling resources shared on Twitter!
LongLocks Philosophy** Read the humorous account of how Susan Maxwell Schmidt's angst-ridden childhood of forced pixie cuts influenced the creation of LongLocks.
LongLocks Salon** Though it's no longer open to new posts, the archived LongLocks Salon forum has thousands of tremendously helpful posts that share a wealth of information with regard to hair care.
The LongLocks Studio Though the photos actually depict "two studios ago" (and I promise to update them someday when my current studio is neat and tidy, which means never), you'll still learn a lot about the LongLocks studio and very impressive bead collection.
LongLocksNews Newsletter** Subscribe to our free newsletter and be among the first to learn when new first edition LongLocks hair jewelry designs are added to the boutique and be invited to participate in subscriber-only sales!
A Mermaid by Waterhouse
Prom Hair Tips The perfect guide to get you, and your hair, ready for one of your first adult formal occasions.
Style & Angst** The LongLocks blog that shares all kinds of information regarding hair, designer style, shopping and what's happening at LongLocks.
Top 10 Tips for Healthy Hair** A quick guide to keep hair of any length in tip-top shape.
The Ultimate Guide to Growing Long Hair** Our award-winning article will teach you what to do, and what not to do, to achieve even extemely long, beautiful, healthy hair. Page two
The Ultimate Guide to Safely Curling Hair To keep your hair in beautiful condition at very long lengths, it's essential that you avoid doing damage. This guide will teach you several methods of curling your hair without risking extreme wear and tear on your tresses.
The Ultimate Guide to Safely Removing Knots** Knots are one of the most hair damaging pitfalls we all have to face. This guide will teach you how to remove everything from a big head of knots to those tiny tangles that make us all nuts.
The Ultimate Guide to Using Hair Sticks** Hair sticks allow you to create dramatic, elegant hairstyles very easily. This guide, though written for the hair stick novice, will even teach the experts something new!
The Ultimate Guide to Winter Hair Care Winter can be very hard on your locks, this guide will keep your hair looking beautiful all through the winter months.
Wedding Hair Tips Lots of common sense tips to make sure your hair is perfect on your big day, and a few surprises too!
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