Hair clips and headbands for dd that stay on!

[accessorizequeen]

Dd is 5 next week, longish bob, growing out her fringe. Her hair is not long enough to put in pigtails or plaits easily. She has fine slippery hair, all the clips I had have gone missing at school because they won't stay on. She has several of those thin stiff headbands and they're useless too. The thicker ones just fall off. I'm reduced to French plaiting the top half of her hair which I'm rubbish at and they take far too long, and once she starts wearing a winter hat they're done for.
Any ideas?

The only clips that stay in my DDs hair (also fine slippery hair but lots of it and now long) are those ones you bend in the middle and click. Think they are called something like 'click-clacs'. You can get them in Tesco/Asda/everywhere pretty much.

But I have to be careful as a) the small ones don't hold enough hair so they are useless, b) sometimes the moulded metal on some versions at the end snags fine hair and gets pulled out when you take the clip out and c) they still migrate round the head to where the bobble is! Best for us seem to be the very plain ones in single colours (no glitter, no frilly flower attached to snag fine hair etc).

And yes we lose lots of them...

I used to find putting the tiniest amount of hair wax would help hold the clip in at the front!

I've also bought some clips with like a rubber inside that claim to stay in. (Ssinsburys in the grown up hair accessories bit) They were okay!

I agree re: the clips that bend in the middle. There's a make called Scunci (you can get them on prettypieces.co.uk and elsewhere on the web) which work in my LO's very fine hair. They cost about £3 for 8.

Thank you all, I feel like there may be hope! Pretty pieces had some non-slip headbands too, if I don't find anything in the shops. Thanks again. Will try wax in the meantime!