How To Use Bobby Pins

Hey everyone welcome to my video on how to use bobby pins. This question is used as asked all over my social media platforms. How do i pin? How do i pin i'm going to show you now? I can't wait for you to learn this pinning is so important. It'S one of the most important steps of an updo. If you don't pin properly, it's actually really hard to create an updo. So i'm going to take you through the steps we're going to just do a quick base, and i'm going to pin this in. This is very thick hair, as you can see, which is good to show it's harder to pin thick hair because it's more to hold so we're just going to take this base and we're quickly going to create a braid for you to see and get your bobby Pins ready, if you're practicing and watching this we're going to use my large 2 inch and 2 and 3 4 inch bobby pins. If you only have 2 inch bobby pins, which are the smaller ones - that's okay, you're just going to have to use double or triple the amount all right. So we have this braid we're just going to roll this up now, pull this apart. How do i pin we're going to take this hair? I like to cup it like that i cup it with my non-dominant hand, i take these large pins. You see these anchor bobby pins. If you don't have any. You can find these on my website, calgrace.com they're. Two and three fourth inch almost three inch bobby pins they're, a great strong metal made in the usa, strong glue tips; they don't bend and twist on themselves and the metal is not too heavy or too light. It'S a perfect blend. If you've never tried these. I suggest trying we sell them in huge pro packs and they're, basically by the pound they're, you get a lot of them, especially for salons. If you need them, we're going to take this bobby pin and i keep my bobby pin closed we're going to go straight in grip. It does not matter which side is up or down straight in, like a nail to a wall. Once you hit the head you're going to turn it and go towards that center, we're going to go straight in hit the head and go towards the center we're going to go straight in a little bit straight in and towards that center. What'S happening is all of these are going straight into the center and they're crossing like a star in the middle, and it takes about eight or ten pins, maybe a little more, maybe a little less if you've never pinned this way, it may take some time to Get used to you really want to grip that hair and turn it and then push that in. You don't want to hurt your client though, but it creates such a tight base. Now i'm going to give you a little education on why i pin that way. So the bobby pin when it was first invented about 100 or so years ago, in the early 1900s, that little opening you see that little opening was created to grip the amount of hair it's supposed to grip and then that tightness will keep it nice and tight. When we open our bobby pins and where we open them, we try to like grab that whole side, we're actually over. Compensating that bobby, pin there's too much hair and when there's too much hair in the bobby, pin it actually jets out and is looser than it should be. So let the bobby pin do what it was made to do that. Little opening is all the amount of hair the bobby pin should hold. So when you go straight into the hair, it's going to grip the hair at once and go straight towards the center, sometimes you're, going to notice that i do like a u-turn with the hair. So i kind of go in and then i go through it like a: u like that, sometimes that u-turn can create a little bit more hold and tension. So if you're just going straight in and then down, you may actually need to go ew it just like that, like a u-turn um, so that is the best way to pin. You should go straight through here, i'm just going to come up a little bit and grip some hair, and then i like to pull this apart. You see how nice and tight that is. This is not going anywhere we're going to just pull this apart, pull this apart then i like to take some pins as i go you're going to notice, i rarely rarely open my bobby pins a time when you can open your pins if you're thinking oh well, I like to open my pins: it's not absolutely wrong to open your bobby pin, but you really only want to open your bobby pin when you're detailing when you're base pinning keep your bobby pin closed detailing is when you have. Let'S take some of this hair out. Some of this hair out here, okay, so we're going to go into some detailing pinning take our bobby pins and i'm gon na take actually a regular size, bobby, pin two inch pin and i'm gon na open. My pin like this. That'S when you can open take a little piece of hair like this. It'S not that much hair off the head and we're then going to grip it like that and then turn it into the base. That'S called detailed pinning and you can create beautiful loops with that, but you want to really do that after the base is created so that right there is detailed, pinning we'll do another one. So you can see we're going to open our bobby pin slide it over. Like we're cutting the hair, but we're not cutting and we're just going to turn that into the base like that, and it creates a beautiful looped effect that right there is bait detailed, pinning but base pinning is very, very important once again. Just to recap: take your large bobby pins. You'Re going to go straight in, you can add, root boost powder dry, shampoo. That gives it more grip as well, and then you want to maybe create a u or straight in towards that center. Don'T worry so much about if which way the bobby pins should go up or down does not matter. I work quickly and i put them in, but you want to aim them towards the center. The more you practice this, the better and stronger your base will become and the faster you're going to get with bobby pinning. If you have never bobby use bobby pins like that, and it might be at first a little awkward, don't give up, keep trying and quickly. You'Re going to see you're going to save time, you're going to save bobby pins and it's going to be a lot more secure for the client. So this was how to properly use a bobby pin, i'm so excited for you guys to see this video, because i get questions all the time on how i pin so this was a kind of slow effect, instructional video on that hope you enjoyed and have fun Pinning