thick and itchy [SEP] i bought quite a few packages of these i got brown blonde and platinum and tealcons first off i did not use the platinum because of how synthetic and plastic looking they looked to me so i stuck to the other three colors my hair was shoulder length at this time was after having these in my hair one day and working all day to get them ini was woken in the middle of night by so much itching that clearly i was allergic or something to them i had to remove them all in the middle of night and doing so broke all the hair off on my bottom layer because of the rubber bands ripping my hair i now have a short hairstyle also i tried all the heating tricks to get them to soften and it works for like a few hours and then once dried it goes back to being oddly stiff and weird looking to were styling and sleeping with them in was near impossiblepros they looked cool and everyone in my family thought they were pretty cool looking just wish they were not so stiff and synthetic looking