Review (4/5): Hmmmmm.
I think these take more patience to use than I have.
They're not HARD to use. I don't know why the other reviewers are having so much trouble figuring out how to use them! It's just hard to get them to look exactly right. But I'm nearly 50 with extremely long thick curly hair and I don't have a lot of time or patience for things like this. A teenager would probably put the time in to master this product just to get the cool look. And the look is really cool--I'm sure there are all kinds of interesting things a young person could figure out with these.
Here's how you use them: You use a rat-tailed comb (or something like it) to section off the front-most piece of hair and then clip it out of the way. Then you put this in your hair like a regular barrette. THEN you take the section of hair out of its clip and divide it into equal sections (the number of sections in the barrette) and place each one of them inside the clips on top of the barrette. It's actually remarkably simple.
I give this four stars because I was easily able to make it work and it seems to be fairly durable (I took off a star because it wasn't extremely robust). Any problems with figuring out how to use this product say more about the user than the product itself.
Recommended for patient and cool young people.