The Hair Edit Gold Hoop & Pin Barrette

Most Helpful Positive Review

Cute in concept but leaves some things to be desired

I am a mom of 4 girls and our mornings are a whirlwind of clothing changes and hair requests. Just looking at the hoop and pin in it's packaging I thought that there would be more instruction on different style suggestions or how to make it work best, but I didn't find those so I just played with it... for a bit. The package does say, "works best for thick hair" but I wanted to see how 'thick' it needed to be. I have 2 girls with finer hair and I tried it on both of their hairs and it slid right out. I then tried it on my middle daughter's hair. She has very thick long hair and I was able to do a half up half down look with it. It looked very pretty and gave a more elegant look to her hair compared to a normal barrette or hair tie. I sent her to school and while I was volunteering at lunch duty, I ran into my daughter and she had her hair in a messy bun. She came over to me and told me that it had fallen out just before she started walking to the lunch room. So, it held in her very thick hair from 8:30AM-1:45 PM, just over 5 hours. I am sure we could increase the time it stayed in by adding a small hairtie or bobby pins, but that seems like it would defeat the purpose of the simple clean look of it. I would recommend getting this if you have extremely thick hair but if it is fine or thin at all, look for another way to put your hair up.