Hair clips are the staple items of hair styling and chances are you probably have a couple lying around the bathroom or on your dressing table. Here are some tips on how to make the most of them.
- Use them with the wavy side against your head for a better grip.
- Hair clips strewn all over the house? Store them in an empty Tic Tac container.
- Give a ponytail more volume by teasing and pinning your hair up at the crown before you pull it into a ponytail.
- Want a higher ponytail but your hair simply won’t cooperate? Prop your ponytail up by inserting hair clips vertically into your hair elastic underneath the ponytail.
- Don’t limit hair clips to your hair! You can easily use the thin tips to apply a bit of glue to false lashes, or to create a lovely polka-dot pattern for DIY nail art.
- Ensure that hair clips still have their plastic coatings at the end (those little ‘balls’) attached before you use them. The sharp metal ends underneath can pull, snag or break your hair. Stock up on new ones if the ends have snapped off.
- Pick the correct shade for your hair colour to conceal your hair clips better.
- Don’t insert hair clips into wet hair. Not only is your hair more prone to breaking when it’s wet, but the hair clips will also cause indents in your wet hair and it will dry that way.
- DO NOT stick them in your ear or use the bent side to squeeze out blackheads! Sorry if we grossed you out, but many people tend to think that hair clips are useful for removing earwax, or even popping a pimple or removing a blackhead. Leave blackhead extractions to a trained facialist, and do not stick ANY sharp object in your ear.
