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New Stix Nouveau Hair Jewelry Designs Posted at LongLocks!

LongLocks Stix Nouveau Hair Accessories

Four new LongLocks Stix Nouveau designs have been posted, the Special Edition Designs page has been updated, and two “Last Chance” special order designs have been posted in Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

Today’s Tip: Alternating the brands of your shampoos… Continue reading

Hermes Scarves and Shawls

By BarbaraAnne:

Wrapped in color
We thrust our hair to catch the wind.
What is wind for anyway?
Nothing can conquer a woman, radiant in silk.

Wrapped in warmth, we sit by the fire
with a cat
with a book… Continue reading

New LongLocks PearliStix Designs Posted in the LongLocks Hair Jewelry Catalog!

LongLocks PearliStix Hair JewelryCrème de la crème warning! Four new LongLocks PearliStix designs have been posted and the Special Edition Designs page has been updated! And this is an extraordinarily good batch too, if I do say so myself. And I do! Yes!… Continue reading

Photographing Susan Maxwell Schmidt

By BarbaraAnne:

I am learning and practicing object photography with lights, flash,lenses, oy givalt kill me now… ;-P So here are two photographs I did of the great modern hair jewelry of artist Susan Maxwell Schmidt. Comments welcome.

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Kate Middleton: Royal Wedding Dress

By BarbaraAnne:

Fainting with exhaustion from not caring about the Arab uprisings, American floods, African chaos, and Afghan war, journalists obsessively speculated on who would design Kate Middleton’s wedding dress. The day finally came. If it didn’t, everyone would have… Continue reading



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