Review (5/5): Also great for dry, brittle, baby-fine, slippery hair!!!
While most of the reviews for these clips are to promote them for thicker hair, I am here to tell all of you who have hair like mine - dry, brittle, slightly kinky, fly-away, baby-fine, slippery - that these work great for our hair, too.
You know what kind of problems we have with clips and bands and what-not either falling out of our hair while trying to use them, or worse, pulling our hair out when we remove them. I think this happens for two reasons:
One, our hairs are so fine that they actually get caught in the small tiny working parts of these kinds of clips - cracks that a thicker hair shaft is simply too large to get caught in. My sister's hair is the opposite of mine - dense, poker straight, and an extremely thick shaft - and she was surprised when I told her about this happening to me. It's hard to believe, but it happens to us all the time!! In fact, I have to wind electrical tape onto new brushes where the handle meets the head because individual hairs get caught in the crack there all the time if I don't seal it up. Let me tell you, OUCH. It took me years to figure that one out.
The other problem is that once treated with product and dried, and especially flat-ironed, baby-fine hair feels wonderful to the touch but it is very *slippery*. If you use a roller or a clip that does not hold well or is too heavy, it simply falls out. Useless!
So... these are stronger & lighter, and the moving parts are better made, than any other ones I have tried of their kind. And they work really well for my fickle, difficult hair.
I am not saying that these won't ever pull your hair out if you are careless and move too fast. I am also not saying that they won't fall out if you don't secure them properly. They will. But if you have baby-fine hair then you have already learned to slow down and concentrate to avoid those problems anyway. :)