The smiling face hairpin is an ornament handed down from ancient times in China, and it is still very popular today.

Why can hairpins be passed down to this day? What hairstyle do you need to wear a hairpin? Let's talk about it in detail today ~ The ancient hairpin is a symbol of a woman's adulthood and is called a gift.

It is also a symbol of men's love for women. When a man gives a woman a hairpin, he must love her very much. Sending a hairpin means he wants to tie a knot with her.

When you grow up, I will come with the car, you will give you a dowry and move to my house. In addition, in the ancient wedding ceremony, on the wedding night, two new people each cut off a lock of their own hair, and then twisted the two locks together as a token of their eternal knot, so it was called knot hair.

For example, Chen Menglei's poem "Green Grass" in the Qing Dynasty: "Knots and gentlemen know each other, and they must die." Sending hairpins also implies that men are faithful to love as long as women are determined to be original.

With the development of the times, hair clips have different uses.

The wonderful use of hairpins is that they are not only practical, but also can accommodate various forms of changes and meet the needs of many occasions.

1 becomes a hair distribution tool.

Generally used to fix curly hair, it is not only beautiful but also practical!

2. Turn into a fringed headdress. Fringed headdress hairpins are usually inserted in the bun at the back of the head, so that the tassels naturally droop and swing with the stride. There are also hairpins that turn jewelry tassels into elegant ribbons, which fly with the wind when it blows, setting off women's smiles with agility and cuteness.

3. Become a mini crown. Change the direction of some hairpins and fix them in front of the bun, which will become the ornament of the mini crown. The upturned crown ornaments not only decorate the forehead, but also make the face slender and more energetic.

4 become detachable jewelry. The jeweler separates the practical function from the decorative function of the hairpin, so that the hairpin is responsible for fixing the hair, and the accessories on the curved ridge side can be removed and replaced. Basically, everything you can think of can be solved with hairpins-first, the practicality and decoration of hairpins are so important.

Therefore, when the jewelry set (parure) became popular from the end of 18 to the beginning of 19, besides necklaces, earrings, bracelets, crowns and combs, hairpins were almost an indispensable role in every exquisite jewelry box, and even developed into a collection hobby.

The development peak of hairpins is probably from Victorian period to Edwardian period until the end of last century.

Jewelers with a long history, such as Tiffany & Co, Xiao Mei and Cartier, have all produced hair clips from the Edwardian era to the1920s.

Hairpins can be combed into low balls, low curls, half balls … and so on. If it is paired with Hanfu, the hairstyle can also change with the versatile posture.

With the matching of hair clips, we will all look gentle and intellectual ~ babies who like hair clips can try different hairstyles!