I got my hair to stay in a high pony all day. Normally I have to put it back up several times or yank on it, you know. They never stay up there because the hair is too heavy. So...I put it in a 1/2 up and then pulled it loose just barely. Then I put all of it up and locked the second band over the 1/2 up band. It stayed up nice and perky all day. Yay!