hairgrip / hairpin / hair clip / hair claw / hair comb (2025)

Ciao!
C'è qualche differenza nell'uso di "hairgrip" e "hairpin"?
Entrambe le parole possono definire questa cosa qui: http://static-p4.fotolia.com/jpg/00/02/58/59/400_F_2585948_4AnO8SCwPeNUrkv18ouWz5grTiSPIg.jpg (quelle che si usano dal parrucchiere)?
Grazie!

reka39 said:

Grazie per le vostre indicazioni. Quindi posso chiamare indifferentemente "hair clip" e "hair claw" "hair clamp" tutte le mollette per capelli che hanno la molla in mezzo? Grazie.

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Ho trovato recentemente la parola "hair slide". Il dizionario me lo definisce come "a small decorative piece of metal or plastic used by women for holding their hair in place". Questo vuol dire che posso chiamare "hair tie", "hairgrip", "hairpin", "hair clip", "hair claw" e "hair clamp" anche "hair slide"?
Grazie!!

The following is my female point of view and not in any way a professional one, the difference as how I see it is how they hold your hair...
It's sounds scontato but a grip grips the hair, a pin pins it, a clamp clamps it (being claw-like)and a clip clips into place while a slide slides into place and a comb has teeth.


hairgrip

hairpin

hair claw/clamp

hair clip / slide

hair comb

I've tried to make it clearer in my head and I hope I made it clearer for you, but if there are any girly (or non) girls who disagree I would love some clarification ...

The only additional clarification I can offer is that the hair grip (also known as a kirby grip (UK) or bobby pin (US)) is not decorative, but simply serves to hold hair in place.
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The same applies to the hair pin (which is a "forcina" in Italian).

Hair slides, hair clips, hair claws and hair combs are more decorative, and refer to different types of article (the links given by byrne are spot on).

As a totally irrelevant aside: I have worked with hairdressers in the past, and they actually make quite careful distinctions between the various types of slide/grip/pin, so I would be very wary of just bunching them all together under one name! The fact that (some) hairdressers are also capable of fixing flowers in your hair with an ordinary office staple gun is totally beside the point!

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Grazie!

Hair clip è la molletta:

Hair claw/clamp: l'ho sempre chiamato pinza o mollettone I sei accessori femminili odiati dagli uomini | Letteradonna

IL MOLLETTONE
La pinza di plastica per legare i capelli

Hair pin è forcina, mentre hair grip è molletta Forcine e mollette per capelli - Minuterie da parrucchiere - Prodotti ed attrezzature per parrucchieri ed estetiste - Vendita on-line

Hair comb è il pettinino.

Paulfromitaly said:

Quindi tu chiami sia hair grip che hair clip "molletta"?

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Sì, le ho sempre chiamate così. Magari ho sempre sbagliato...

Hairgrip = forcina, per me.

Concordo con Byrne, post 9.

london calling said:

Hairgrip = forcina, per me.

Concordo con Byrne, post 9.

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E hairpin? La stessa cosa?

Tegs said:

I don't use the word hairgrip at all and wouldn't be sure what type of hair accessory it referred to

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Interesting! You don't use it because it's not a common word or because it's not used in BrE?

Well Jo seems to use it and she speaks BE. I mean, it doesn't sound odd to me, but I'd be more likely to think that it meant what in post 9 is called hair claw / hair clamp (neither of which I had ever heard before).

(I've never had to refer to a hair claw by name before so I've never used a particular term for this thing, I would just buy it in the shop without mentioning it by name.)

Wikipedia has an interesting article on the subject:

Barrette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A barrette (American English), also known as a hair clip, hair-slide or clasp (British English), is a clasp for holding hair in place. They are often made from metal and/or plastic and sometimes feature decorative fabric. In one type of barrette, a clasp is used to secure the barrette in place; the clasp opens when the two metal pieces at either side are pressed together.

You little ripper! said:

Wikipedia has an interesting article on the subject:

Barrette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A barrette (American English), also known as a hair clip, hair-slide or clasp (British English), is a clasp for holding hair in place. They are often made from metal and/or plastic and sometimes feature decorative fabric. In one type of barrette, a clasp is used to secure the barrette in place; the clasp opens when the two metal pieces at either side are pressed together.

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Now I really can't help asking you how you guys call them in OZ

Paulfromitaly said:

Now I really can't help asking you how you guys call them in OZ

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You clearly chose to ignore the next to the word 'interesting' in my last post, Paul, but I'll indulge you this one time. There are probably others, but the only ones I know are: hair clip, hair comb and hair claw. The very brief time I ever had long hair, I used this to keep it in place :

Just out of curiosity, what are the "becchi d'oca" called in English?

Well, I found "alligator hair clips" (?) http://www.craftsuppliesforless.com/images/114inhairclip.jpg

The instrument of torture that MaryB has posted is called 'hair clips' here:

Like Tegs, I think most of these hair accessories can be called hair clips if there is a fastening. So not the slides, the pins, the claws and the combs.

Something like this could also be called a hair clasp:

In my experience your hair doesn't budge.

Although, the packaging said 'Kirby grips' (bobby pin AE), at school we loosely referred to them as 'hairpins'.
In this Wiki link they say they are a type of hairpin:
Hairpin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Edit:
Just found this useful link:
CLOTHING &#38 ARTICLES :: PERSONAL ACCESSORIES :: HAIRDRESSING :: HAIR ROLLER image - Visual Dictionary Online

hair roller pin
Pin stuck through the roller to hold the lock of wrapped hair in place.
roller
Cylinder whose length depends on the length of the lock of rolled hair and whose diameter depends on the desired curl size.
wave clip
Plastic pin with interlocking teeth used to secure a lock of hair.
bobby pin
Bent filament with tightly closed arms; it is used to secure a section of hair by holding it firmly in place.
hair clip
Metal pin with elongated jaws that is used during styling to separate out sections of hair not being worked on.
barrette
Bobby pin with a clasp; it is used as adornment or to secure a lock of hair or the whole head of hair.
hairpin
Bent filament with spread arms that is used to loosely secure a section of hair such as a chignon.