surprisingly fragile [SEP] very disappointed i thought i had found a great clip for my thinning white coarse long curly hair however out of clips arrived broken yeah broken in the bag in the box ok i will try the other three the springs are very strong maybe too strong the plastic looks strong but obviously it is very brittle today watching a movie on tv i grabbed one of the clips to get the hair off my neck one of the arms broke just slowly releasing the spring for it to grab my hair what the heck so within a couple of weeks of purchase of the are broken back to my smaller but more reliable revlon clips that are only sold in black brown