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For easy, elegant updos, this is why you should buy a French pin. Here's one editor's review of the $35 accessory from Atlanta-based brand Machete.

In her video, she uses a bobby pin to give her hair a bit of volume, completely concealing the usually hard-to-hide hair accessory. It seemed simple enough, so I decided to try it for myself.

“Pin curls have been a fantastic method to hide thinning hair since the beginning of the 20th century, and still works perfectly today,” explains CurlVitality founder Barbara DelleMonache.

This little pin is Hannah’s affordably elegant fix for low-maintenance hair. It doesn’t look like much: an oblong U of nylon-coated steel with a few ripples on the tines. But it means business.