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The bobby pin is such a masterful yet underestimated tool. Although small in size the hair pin has been known to save many a style and create a few great ones too. Whether you’re looking to create a style with the bobby pins as your star accessory or you need to bobby pins as means to an end of a great style, bobby pins are your best bet!

Now lets get back to the basics. Hair pins and bobby pins they come in different sizes and colors dependent on their use one can be better than another for a particular look. The ridges on the bobby pin create a snug gripping effect to help in holding hair in place in a more flat position to the scalp. The hair pin can hold hair in place in generally any direction because of its prong like structure. Here is the general breakdown.

There are so many trendy options for using your hair pins to achieve hairstyle wonderment! You can create shapes and cool patterns and of course tame your mane to absolute perfection with your bobby pins. Not to mention, bobby pins come in so many different colors, some solid and some with patterns. You can even color them yourself to create the look you want with your favorite nail polish color.

The Hair

Where to begin… the options are endless! You can create shapes and design or purposefully hold your hair in place with your bobby pins. As you can see Whitney (aka @Naptural85) give some variety as to utilizing the bobby pin as an accessory or  fashionable accent to your hair.  Whether your hair is short or long a hair pin can absolutely take you places!  

Pin Curls 

Here we have locked pin curls, which are a lovely and classy statement style. Although pin curls where used as a means of preserving curls after removing rollers or curling with an iron, Pin curls have become a great natural hair style that allows for a faux short look while also being a neat and easy way to pull your hair up and out of the way in a chic manner.

One of my personal favorites is the pin curled twist look worn here by @msdanti.  I personally used this as a way to get 4 hair styles out of one. I think I got about 2.5 weeks of wear out of this and this can be extended if you wash the twist and dry them properly. Time saving styles are the best!

Style #1 A great fresh twist out that you can wear.

Style #2 Up and out of the way into this lovely pin curled up-do. Gives you the look of short hair without the commitment!

Style #3 Take down the pin curls and wear as curly twists

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Style #4 Untwist and you have amazingly defined curly wavy style

Faux Hawk/Faux undercut

The faux hawk is a sexy edgy look that comes in different variations and can compliment a day look just as well as an evening look. Here are a few of the more popular variations. This look is a great go too when your curls needs a little dimension. Pulling the hair up on one side and using the bobby pins to pin it back, creates the sleek look that mimics that famous undercut. No buzz-cut necessary! No matter what the option this look is a definite winner!

Faux bangs/Faux bob

Continuing with the faux styling options we come to the faux bang and bob! Now those of you naturals with lengthy curls may want to mix it up a bit and create shapes that will mimic all the style and fun or you having taken some of the length off! Or maybe you just want to try it out and see if the more long term option is for you, here are some ways of achieving this!

This lovely and full head of curls goes from lengthy bangs to a face framing bangs in minutes using a few bobby pins to hold back some of the length of the front of the head. Once the pins are in the hair in the front will appear shorter giving you the look you want!

The faux bob on the other hand takes a little more doing but is worth the work! You can go from full length to bob or in this case inverted bob with a few bobby pins. Whitney’s (@naptural85) long to short photos below are a great example! Check out the video tutorial the her creative technique used to achieve this look here!

There are a few other different ways to tuck away the hair at the back of your head. In order to tuck away the length you can braid the hair at the back of your head and then roll and tuck your hair by pinning it securely onto the braid.

Vlogger Ambrosia Malbrough shows her technique on stretched shoulder length hair here where just tucks and bobby pins the hair at the nape to create the faux bob.

Happy Pinning!