20 alternative uses for hairpins

In addition to the classic chignon, there are numerous alternative uses for hairpins, which could help you when ironing, for laundry or knitting.

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Each girl always carries one or more with her hairpins, keeping some in your handbag for emergencies. Usually then, at home, if they have many available, especially if in a provident manner, since the hairpins are very easy to lose, it has been decided to buy a spare pack.





In addition to classic chignon, there are numerous alternative uses for hairpins, which may help you when ironing, laundry or knitting.

Index

Paperweights

Hairpins are useful as emergency paperweight when you do not have the paper clips or a stapler. Depending on the size, they may be able to hold several sheets together. They are especially valuable at home, while studying or when tidying up the desk, in the absence of anything else.

Bookmarks

You forgot yours at home bookmark and you don't want to fold the page of the book you are reading? Here is that hairpin that you keep in your purse just in case it can help you. It could also be useful when you are in the kitchen, struggling with a recipes book you need not to lose sight of one of the pages.

Hold the edges

Hairpins become useful in case there is a need to keep the hems of the pants off the ground as much as possible or rolling up your sleeves, while traveling, crossing muddy paths, or while carrying out tasks where you want to avoid the risk of soiling your clothes. Also useful in the case of rips in clothes, to try to stop the flaps or in the event that a button is lost. They'll come in handy even if you're struggling with a hem to do, but you're out of pins!

Zippers

Hairpins are useful in case the backpack zipper breaks, in any case to try to keep a pocket closed, or in the case the zip loses any lace that allows you to pull it, thus becoming unwieldy. It could be replaced by a hairpin to insert into the zip hole.



Open a padlock

It is perhaps the most widespread alternative use in the collective imagination. With a hairpin, how many heroes, spies and thieves have ventured into the movies to open locks? Maybe not at these levels, but using a hairpin can help youopening a simple padlock in case you have lost the classic small opening key. We are referring in particular to the miniature padlocks usually used by children to close secret chests or diaries.

New hairstyles

Hairpins are used to create hairstyles whose complexity can go far beyond that of a simple bun. The possibilities of collecting hair with bobby pins are truly endless and can allow you to accomplish collected in braid or twist (rolling two locks) of unexpected beauty. Here is a simple example video, from which you can get inspiration for your hairstyles:

Like pins

If you are traveling and, despite having brought a needle and thread with you, you have forgotten to insert some pins for the fabric in your emergency kit, try to keep the edges to be sewn together with the help of hairpins, in order to facilitate mending operations.

Gift Tags

When wrapping gift packages or wrapping flower pots to donate with transparent paper, you may find it useful to use hairpins as clips for greeting cards or for the wrapping paper itself, in the absence of a stapler. Also useful for closing paper gift bags, which in this way will not be damaged by tape or staples.

Screwdriver

A hairpin that has one of the two ends of a flattened shape can be used as an emergency screwdriver, especially in the presence of rather small screws, such as those of glasses.



In waiver

How to close the bags of pasta, biscuits or sugar once opened, without using and wasting scotch tape and in the absence of alternatives? Here, too, in this case the hairpins can help you.

Reset

It is not always easy to reach the tiny "reset" buttons of some electronic devices, to reset their operation. Here is that the tip of a hairpin could be the ideal solution to press even the smallest and most hidden button.

Christmas decorations

If at Christmas you find that you do not have some hooks to hang the decorations on your fir, remember that you can replace them using hairpins, possibly shaped in order to obtain the desired effect.

Sealed packs

A hairpin could be really useful if you happen to have to open a sealed package with a layer of plastic that seems impossible to lift and therefore needs to be pierced. It may happen that you are on board a plane and have to struggle with the package of lunch that you will have served to be able to open it. A hairpin could be for you!

For the laundry

In the absence of the classic clothes pegs, the hairpins, especially the spring ones, can be useful for hanging smaller and lighter items, such as socks and tights, handkerchiefs, scarves and bandanas. A useful solution especially when you are traveling.

For the curtains

Whether you need to keep the curtains open or you need to lock them in a certain position, hairpins could certainly help you. Think in particular of hotel and bad & breakfast tents when you are traveling, or the curtains that cover the windows of some trains or buses that you may want to keep apart.

To iron

20 alternative uses for hairpins

Applying a few bobby pins to flatten the folds of a flounced skirt will definitely help make ironing easier. Just remember to remove them when with the iron you go to the edges where you have placed them.

Fermacravatte

If you don't have a tie clip available, borrow a hairpin from your wife or girlfriend so that you can keep your tie in the correct position under your jacket or vest.

Scarf

If you need to cover your head due to the strong sun, for example if you are on the beach or if you are taking a walk in the mountains, try to use your sarong or your scarf to make a turban, to be stopped with the help of a pair of bobby pins.

A flower in your hair

Whether it's a freshly picked corolla or a flower made by hand with tulle, the easiest way to place it in your hair, making your hairstyle special, is to apply it to the hair with a hairpin.

Knitting

Instead of buying special tools, use hairpins to hold the parts of your knitting in the correct position, in order to facilitate the work or, in the case of crochet, to stop the work left in abeyance without stitches. come loose.

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