I love these hat bands! This was the first one I purchased and I found it good quality and easy to use. Learning how to get the hooks set properly took a minute, maybe a minute and a half because my house has bad lighting, but when you've done it once, you could repeat it in your sleep. End result is that I want one in every colour. The only thing worth noting with this particular band is that while 'gold' is certainly not an inaccurate description, it is not the bright, yellow gold I had anticipated, but rather a browner, almost bronze gold. Having worked with colour a lot, this should not have been surprising (mix yellow and black and you tend to get some dreadful greens -and I love green! - so the browner tones are safer), but it did rather kill the idea of using it for my dress Hufflepuff outfit. Instead it will be relegated to Christmas, my million variations on steampunk attire, and if I ever make one (which I probably will because I'm a dork like that), a Ravenclaw dress outfit. In short, it's lovely, very versatile, and I do not regret the purchase, it just didn't serve the immediate purpose.