Gucci Westman also showcased another pretty hair accessory on her Instagram recently: a crystal-encrusted bobby pin she wore while applying Nicole Kidman’s make-up for the Golden Globes.

Behold, the humble bobby pin. It's small. It's powerful. It's an essential building block of so many hairstyles, and yet, the hair accessory tends to get ignored in favor of flashier clips and pins.

There’s two kinds of bobby pins, though – the ones that aren’t meant to be seen, and these fab embellished bobby pins. We’re ...