I purchased this same pkg.and they are the worst clips," effortless" NOT it takes a lot of worked to pull,yank,cut whatever it takes to get your hair out of the clips. At first I thought maybe that one was chipped that's why my hair got stuck in the clip,so I tryed another and another until my head was so sore from all the pulling and yanking trying to remove it from my hair! I hope other ones are better.Hilerie Lanning