Bobby PINS NEW FASHION HAIR ACCESSORIES QTY. 12 BOX/INNER

A bobby pin (US English, known as a kirby grip or hair grip in the United Kingdom) is a type of hairpin, usually of metal or plastic, used in coiffure to hold hair in place. It is a small double-pronged hair pin or clip that slides into hair with the prongs open and then the flexible prongs close over the hair to hold it in place. They are typically plain and unobtrusively colored, but some are elaborately decorated or jeweled. Bobby pins became popular in the 1920s to hold the new bobbed hairstyles.

Bobby pin

A plain bobby pin

Other names

bob pin, kirby grip, hair grip

Classification

fastener

Used with

hair

Uses

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The main use of a bobby pin is to hold hair in place. In addition to bobbed hair, bobby pins are often used in up-dos, buns, and other hair styles where a sleek look is desired. To use a bobby pin in hair, hold the hair in the desired position and push the bobby pin (straight side up) into place.[1]

Bobby pins can also be used to hold head coverings such as headbands, bandannas, and yarmulkes in place.

They can be used as decorative elements in hair.[2]

Attributes, such as the clipping action or having a readily available thin, flat piece of metal, mean the bobby pin can be used in other ways as well:

As makeshift lockpicks by straightening out two bobby pins to pick the lock.[3]

They can be used in place of a clothespin (US English, clothes peg in UK) for drying lightweight articles.[3]

They can be used as clips to hold multi-portion packages closed between uses.[3]

They can be slipped over book pages as a bookmark.[3]

Bobby pins are sometimes employed to protect the fingers from burns while smoking the final portion of a marijuana cigarette.[4] In such use, the bobby pin is known colloquially as a “roach clip.”[4]

Bobby pins may be used to thread laces through pre-cut holes in leather and other heavy materials.[5]