heavy for long hair thick hair but not so much fine hair [SEP] these clips are large the are heavy and nice size but i have about waist length hair but it is very very finenot much thickness unless i am pulling my hair up to keep it completely off my shoulders back etcthe clips for example do not hold back the hair that i pull back from the forehead and hold it back well they will briefly the shear heft of the clip will begin sliding down my hair and be ineffectivethere is not a rubber gripe on any of the forks that stick in the hairnow if i make a pony pull all the hair up twist it and use these to clamp down my hair the clip will stay in place and hold but they definitely are not meant to hold small amount of hair back and provide a nice decorative lookas mentioned these are very very heavy clips the weight is nice but gets trying on the head after a while using them to hold up my hair