Review & Photos: I&K Clip In Fringe/Bangs in Darkest Brown

 I&K Clip In Fringe/Bangs in Darkest Brown* (£25.99, link)

Humans are funny creatures in that they always want what they don't naturally have.  Hair is a classic example of this - how many times have you heard women who have naturally straight hair say that they want beachy waves or flowing curls?  Or the ones who have naturally curly hair, say that they want poker straight locks?  

Me, I've always had major fringe (or 'bangs') envy.  But only recently, and probably due to the current trend of fringes looking cool on everyone, especially people like Taylor Swift, Carly Rae Jepson, Daisy Lowe and Alexa Chung.  Whilst I admire other people's fringes, I know the pain of growing one out from my childhood years, which is why I may never brave the hairdressers' and ask for one to be cut in. 

But that doesn't mean I can't cheat with a faux one!  Step in I&K Clip In Fringe/Bangs, your easy, stress-free antidote to all of your fringe cravings.  This fringe piece is made from silky soft 100% human hair and has a clever triangle back shape with three clips for a natural looking finish.  The clips fit in very securely and feel comfortable on, which is obviously what you want when you're putting in any kind of hair extensions.  Want to see what it looks like on?  

First attempt at fitting it went pretty well.  The clips are SO easy to put in, and this is coming from someone who has minimal experience with hair extensions.  The fringe looks kinda realistic, but there's so much hair with it, that it just looks a little too poofy at the sides.  So...

...now that's more like it!  After some smoothing and rearranging, I managed to get it looking a lot more realistic.  The longer length bangs at the sides frame the face well, but there's an obvious problem that you can see here.  I picked out the fringe in the Darkest Brown shade, which on screen, looked identical to my current, natural hair colour.  However, as you can see, the fringe is actually a little lighter so do bear this in mind when it comes to ordering.

Despite the colour match being not right for me, I thought the quality of the fringe was excellent and the clips were remarkably easy to fit and felt very secure.  Plus, I can always try to dye it to match my hair colour properly at some point if I fancied wearing it out.

Available from Hairtrade. 

What do you think?  

Have you ever experimented with clip-in fringe/bangs?

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