Voxbox: Goody Spin Pin Review

So in my Influenster Voxbox, I received, among many wonderful things, a pair of Goody Spin Pins.

Prior to getting my Blogger Voxbox, I've never heard of Spin Pins (I've heard of Goody, who hasn't bought hair accessories from them since you were 5?)

The package claims that the Spin Pins will do the work of 20 bobby pins. Okay, I think that's a bold statement, Goody. So I attempted a hairstyle (I never style my hair) to see if they were up to the challenge.

 I first tried the pins in my pin-straight, wet spaghetti hair. It was a big fail. These do. not. work. for straight/fine hair. They'll just fall right out, as with any bobby pins. You need some sort of hair product to add texture so that the pins will stay in yr hair.

So, after that fail, I decided not to give up. I was watching Rihanna's music video We Found Love (isn't it funny how you just get lost on youtube, link after link after link and bam it's like 4am...), and I decided to curl my hair in those big barrel curls she has. I dampened my hair with a wet brush, added some hair gel, curled my entire head. And Then, finally, put in those Spin Pins. Well they worked! I was very surprised at how two pieces of coily nothingness held my hair all day, with numerous head-shakings and flailing-abouts just to test the strength of the pins.

By the way, this picture is less Rihanna... more... Chinese wedding photo....... fail (on my part, not the Pins fault).

Thank you, Influenster, for these lovely Goody Spin Pins. They are really cool and something I would have never bought/liked otherwise.