Catrice

Catrice The Great Christmas Advent Calendar Hair Clip Review

By Maychiri's Thoughts - January 08, 2025

Huh... yeah, this is by far the most useless product of all in the calendar. It’s not that I don’t like to decorate my hair or make it look pretty with accessories, it’s the fact that my hair is notoriously difficult to style. Individual hairs are quite thin, but there’s so many of them, which results in very heavy hair. Especially with the length I have now! It’s apparent how heavy it is by how low-volume my roots are – they are barely able to hold it all, how is a measly hair clip going to be able to hold anything is anybody’s guess. That’s why i don’t use hair clips, because they always just slide down within 20 minutes. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves, maybe this hair clip will be different (I sincerely doubt that)! So let’s see...
 
 
 
 
 
Okay, one thing that bothers me is that this hair clip did not come with any sort of protective packaging. It was just placed there inside the calendar, without any protection. This is just unnecessary breakage risk. The only thing the clip had was a small paper tag that showed which country it was made in. Not good.
 
 
 
 
The hair clip itself is actually pretty darn elegant! It’s a golden hair clip with decorative pearls on top, to make it classier. Of course, not real gold! So be careful where you leave it, it might start to rust/oxidise if it gets wet. The clip is super lightweight, which may not actually be such a good thing after all. Because clips that have some weight to them often hold up hair better. This one definitely seems too lightweight for my heavy head of hair. 
 
 
The most striking detail is the pearls! There’s large and small pearls, and, I only noticed this recently: they are arranged into small florets! So they aren’t randomly scattered like I thought. The pearls don’t look too cheap or plasticy; I think they nailed that sort of muted reflections that real pearls have. Also, the white/gold contrast is quite something! The white pearls will absolutely stand out on my darker hair!
 
 
 
Quality-wise, it seems to be good. Although, I am just noticing that the smaller pearls aren’t actually glued, so they move a little as you are trying to stick the hair clip into your hair. I have a feeling that this might lead to them falling off, but maybe I am mistaken. I didn’t have anything fall off just yet, so... fingers crossed?
 
 
 
 
Oh no, I just noticed that this hair clip doesn’t have ‘teeth’. This will be slidy... yup, it’s 100% going to slide all over my silky, unruly hair. That aside, this hair clip has nothing to help you pry it open, and since it is pretty long, this can be very tricky to do. I almost always end up hurting my fingers and cuticles because it’s so damn tricky to keep it open. And you want it to be open, because it pulls so much hair if you try to stick it in closed. So, unnecessarily complicated to use. At least it doesn’t pull hair when I want to remove it. I was afraid that it would break so many hair strands, but it actually is easy to remove... probably precisely because it is completely smooth on the inside. It has no grip. 
 
 
 
 
Let me be honest, I have no idea where exactly I should place this hair clip. The only ideas that I can come up with are to, either, pull back a quarter of my hair from each front side and then join the pieces together and place the clip on top, to conceal the hairband, or to just stick it over one of my ears. But both are problematic, for different reasons. If I try the former hairstyle, no way that the clip will he able to hold all that hair, and if I try the latter, it just looks like I am balding. Because, again, I have very fine hair, it’s just that there’s plenty of it. So when I pull it taut, it looks quite bald. Well, check the pictures and see if I did anything right. I am not a hair girlie, so I have no clue how to make this damn clip work with my hair.
 
 
 
Okay, yeah, this is useless for my heavy, dense hair. Maybe, if my hair were shorter, it would be easier for the clip to hold onto stands, but as it is, it’s pretty much unusable for any longer periods of time. It clasps tightly enough to take a few pictures, but it starts to slide down within 5-10 minutes, so any hairstyle that I try to make with it falls apart within the hour. Even just sliding it above my ear, it feels slippy and like it doesn’t actually clasp my hair. Even when I try to shove it right down to the roots, it still doesn’t hold my hair. Well, it holds it for maybe 5 minutes longer, but it still becomes loose way too fast. Just like I thought, my hair is too unruly to actually use this clip. Ah well, I saw this coming from a mile away...
 
 
 
So... I don’t know what to say about this. Like, I am sure it would work better on hair that is denser and/or shorter. My hair is simply too heavy and there is much too many hair strands for the hair clip to properly clasp them. Just like most hair clips on my hair, it begins to slide down after a short while, because my hair is unusually silky and ‘alive’, like, it is actually silly how it bends every which way while I am trying to braid it! So the hair clip had no chance of actually holding my hair, but I am not disappointed, as I expected this. I also have no idea how to wear it properly without looking like an idiot. But I do like its design; it is very classy with the large pearls that are stacked to look almost like florets. Shame that my hair is the wrong type for it... 
 
 
Addendum: now that I tied to use it some more, I believe I have figured out a way for it to stay put on my hair without sliding down. It isn’t too comfortable, but at least it holds somewhat throughout a day. Although, even the lightest touch will mess it up, so it obviously isn’t clipped strongly. But I like it a bit more now, so I will raise its rating up a bit. It’s actually relatively decent now. And I do actually like how it looks on my hair.
 
 
 
Rating: idk, 5/10 ? 



 
 

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