Invisible Hair Tie

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Hello everyone! I've had this post sitting in my drafts for the longest time. I recently saw a post featuring a similar looking item so I might as well put my one up. I have lots of long hair and I have trouble finding hair elastics that would hold my hair up and not break. I also get headaches when I have a high pony tail. Most of the time I twirl my hair into a loose bun and secure it with a giant claw clip. The Invisibobble came up on my FB feed from my local hairdresser aggggeeeeesssss ago and it really intrigued me due its look, I've never seen anything like this before.

Excuse the Zeus in the background

The Invisibobble is a plastic cord-like hair tie. Unlike an elastic hair tie which can snap off, loose elasticity, and dent your hair, the Invisibobble is meant to be durable and kind to the hair. From their website, they claim the advantages of the Invisibobble are:

• Bring traceless
• Doesn't cause headaches
• Caring to the hair
• Wearable with all hair types
• Can be worn as a bracelet

I've been wearing these for a couple of weeks and I feel that I've experienced enough to give my reviews. I had high hopes for these to live up to their claims but I am left disappointed. Only after a day my first Invisibobble broke when putting my hair up in a high ponytail. I thought I was being too rough so I tried to be gentler for the remainder of the trail. I'll give my two cents on each of their claims below.

Being traceless - I believe this is true. After wearing this each day, I didn't notice any kinks or bends in my hair even when it was still damp. That's good!

Doesn't cause headaches - I did get headaches sometimes when using these. I am pretty sure it is due to the heaviness of my hair and not that the Invisibobble couldn't even out the pressure around the tie. When it's in a high pony, my head doesn't like it.

Caring to the hair - My hair didn't break when using this and since there was no metal joining bits, no hair was caught in the joint.

Wearable on all hair types - Not on my hair apparently. I don't know if it is too thick, heavy, slippery.. etc but the Invisibobble wasn't able to hold my hair up in a high pony tail. After an hour or so of working (I do a lot of walking around) I find that it would fall down a little and making the pony tail come loose. With a regular elastic tie, if that happens I would pull my hair so that the elastic gets closer to the scalp. However, when I try to do the same with the Invisibobbl, my hair gets caught in the spirals and I have to redo the pony tail. This may work better with people with shoulder length hair or thinner hair?

Wearing it as a bracelet - Not something I would consider.

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Since writing this post way back last year, I haven't worn the Invisibobble after that. I wasn't a fan of this. The first one I tried snapped during my third or so go at using it, trying to do an extra loop because it got too loose. I felt that it didn't grip my hair strong enough to keep the ponytail in place and it got in the way when I wore it on my wrists. This didn't work for me.

The Invisibobble comes in eight colour selections with 3 bands in each package for about $10.95 (from here).

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Have you tried these before? I also want to try those ribbon hair ties too.

xxx Kat

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