If you have thin hair, this is absolutely great!Normal hair scrunchies and rubber bands always tug at my hair and hurt my scalp, but this doesn't do any of that! I wear it througout the whole day and I'm never in pain at all, whereas wearing a rubber band always makes me want to pull it off my hair in a couple hours because of the pain.Also, rubber bands and hair scrunchies, whether they're made of cloth or PU leather or whatever else, always pull some of my hair out when i take them off. This has never yanked out any of my hair so i never lose hair pulling this off.Plus, if you're someone who loves wearing a high ponytail like I do, this makes that so, so easy to do! And without any pain at all!It's very small in the package but it does stretch out quite a bit. Once you've used it for a few hours, it stretches out and becomes larger than it was, never goes back to being as small as it was fresh out of the package. But that doesnt affect its hold on the hair or its efficiency in any way so I'm not very bothered by that.I ordered the brown one, but i was sent the black one instead, which is annoying, but it's not the end of the world.The pack isnt sealed but it came to me untampered and the outer shipping package was sealed and untampered too.