Best Drugstore Snap Clip Brands: Goody vs Scunci vs Kitsch

The best snap hair clips at the drugstore are Goody's 12-count metal contour packs, for arithmetic rather than taste: about 38 cents a clip as of November 2026, roughly a third of Scunci's per-clip price and a thirteenth of the Kitsch set's price per snap clip.

Four brands, four jobs. Goody wins on price and shelf presence. Revlon wins on mechanism. Scunci sells the longest clip. Kitsch sells an accent piece. We earn a commission from Amazon links on this page, at no cost to you.

Brand shopping goes wrong in this aisle because the packaging advertises a piece count on the front and never a price per clip, and the two numbers move independently. A 6-count pack at 4.49 dollars looks cheaper than a 12-count pack at 4.58 dollars, as of November 2026, and costs nearly twice as much per clip. If you want the hardware picture first - spring geometry, coatings, sizes - start with what to look for in a snap clip. This article is the brand layer on top of it.

Best Snap Hair Clips by Price Per Clip

The short version. Goody wins on value and availability at 38 cents a clip. Revlon wins on grip mechanism, at 75 cents a clip for six. Scunci wins on section size, at 8 cm and 1.11 dollars a clip. Kitsch is an accent piece rather than a value buy, at about 5.00 dollars per snap clip once you count what is actually in the box.

Two things fall out of that table.

Pack count explains more of the price than brand does. Both 12-count packs land under 55 cents a clip; every pack of nine or fewer lands at 75 cents or above, Goody's own 6-count included. Goody is not cheap because it is Goody, but because it is the brand putting twelve clips in a box at this price.

The Kitsch line is not comparing like with like. That is the one place in this aisle where the piece count on the front of the pack costs you real money, and it gets its own section below.

Per-clip pricing matters more for snap clips than for claw clips, because snap clips are a consumable. You use them in pairs and fours, they migrate into coat pockets, and a style that needs three is unworkable if you own three. Buying one carefully chosen clip is a claw-clip strategy. Here, buying enough of them is the strategy.

Goody Snap Hair Clips: The Contour Shape, and 38 Cents a Clip

Goody has the longest run in this category of any brand here. According to Retail Brew, the company was "Founded in 1907 as H. Goodman & Son, an ornamental comb business", and the same piece describes Goody today as "the country's No. 2 hair accessories brand". Its dominance was once far greater: according to a Goody Products company history published by Reference for Business, "By the start of 1982, Goody products held 60 percent of the market for hair accessories."

The Goody Snap & Go Metal Contour Clips, 12 Count, Dark Neutral are twelve medium metal contour clips painted black, red, purple and blue, about 4.58 dollars as of November 2026. Goody markets them for pulling back hair and states they suit all hair types. Note what is missing from that description: a length. Goody calls the size medium and leaves it there.

The brand's distinguishing feature is the contour shape, which it pairs with the phrase comfort contour hold in its Classics line copy. Our reading is that a clip curved along its length sits closer to the skull than a dead-flat strip does, an advantage on the sides and back of the head. Treat that as reasoning, not a specification: Goody publishes neither a length nor a curvature for these clips.

The 12-count assorted pack, at about 6.45 dollars as of November 2026, is the same contour clip in assorted sizes and colors from the Goody Classics line, which Goody itself calls a good value in its multipack copy. At 54 cents a clip you pay 41 percent more than the dark neutral pack for the privilege of not choosing the sizes. That is the right trade if you do not yet know which rung of the ladder you need, and the wrong one if you do - our snap clip size ladder is cheaper to read than an assortment is to buy.

The 6-count brunette pack, about 5.23 dollars as of November 2026 against a 5.69 dollar list price, exists for one reason: Goody says the finish was developed to match all shades of brunette, with a metallic surface the brand says picks up light and blends with the hair's natural highlights. At 87 cents a clip you pay 49 cents a clip over the dark neutral pack purely for the color match. Worth it if the clip's job is to disappear, pointless if it is going under a section you are about to cover.

Revlon Double Grip: The Only Different Mechanism Here

A standard snap clip holds by pressing a sprung metal strip flat against a base plate. The hair in between is gripped by friction alone, which is why slippery, freshly washed or very fine hair can walk out of a cheap clip within an hour. Finish is the usual variable there, and we go through it in metal versus plastic snap clips.

Revlon is the only brand in this comparison that changes the mechanism rather than the coating. The Revlon Double Grip Hair Clips, 6 Count are marketed as patented double grip clips with no-slip grip dots plus comb teeth, about 4.49 dollars as of November 2026. Revlon claims all-day hold and says they suit thin or thick hair.

The idea is sound in principle. Grip dots raise friction at specific contact points rather than relying on a uniformly smooth plate, and comb teeth add a mechanical interlock, so hair has to lift over the teeth instead of sliding out along a flat surface. Those are Revlon's claims plus our reading of why they would help: we hold no measured hold figures for any clip here, and nobody in this category publishes spring force.

One caution on the word patented: we searched and found no patent number published in Revlon's retail listings, so treat it as packaging copy rather than something you can look up.

The real cost of the mechanism is clip count: Revlon's 6-count pack costs nine cents less than Goody's 12-count and gives you half as many clips. A reasonable trade if clips keep sliding out of your hair, a poor one if they do not. Fine hair with a fringe is where it earns its keep, and also the hardest case in the category - see snap clips for bangs and fringe for the sizing side of it.

Scunci Snap Clips: Longest Clip, Priciest Per Clip

Scunci is not an independent brand. Its own about page carries a "scünci by Conair" logo and routes its legal pages to Conair's legal site, and the page bills itself as "The website with the # 1 hair accessories".

The Scunci No-Slip Grip Oval Snap Clips, 9 Count are 8 cm long, about 3.15 inches, sold as three packs of three in neutral shades for about 9.99 dollars as of November 2026. Scunci markets no slip grip technology for a secure hold, says they are easy to snap in and out, and positions them for taming stray strands and accenting updos.

That 8 cm figure is the most useful number any of these brands publishes, and it is the reason to buy this pack. Three inches is roughly where a snap clip stops managing strands and starts holding a section: a half-up back panel, a quadrant of thick hair, a twist with real weight in it. Goody's medium clips and Revlon's unlabelled ones are probably shorter, but they do not say by how much.

Two honest marks against it. At 1.11 dollars a clip it is nearly three times Goody's price per clip for 25 percent fewer clips in the box, and the three-packs-of-three packaging is part of why a nine count reads bigger on the shelf than it feels in the hand. And a long, straight-based clip has a geometry problem a short one does not: a head is curved and a base plate is not, so long clips work best along a natural plane such as the back of the head or the line above an ear.

Buy it when you specifically need the length. Do not buy it as your default.

Kitsch: Count the Pieces Before You Compare the Price

Here is the trap, stated plainly. The Kitsch Gold Metal Bobby Pins and Snap Clips Set - Sedona is sold as an 8-piece set. It contains six bobby pins and two snap hair clips. It is not eight snap clips.

At about 9.99 dollars as of November 2026 that is roughly 1.25 dollars per piece, which reads like a mid-priced multipack. Measured the way the rest of this page is measured, it is about 5.00 dollars per snap clip - roughly thirteen times Goody's 38 cents. Any comparison that treats it as an 8-pack of clips is off by a factor of four before it starts.

None of which makes it a bad product; it makes it a different product. Kitsch describes the set as a polished gold finish with an anti-rust coating in warm Sedona-inspired tones, and says the pieces are designed for all hair types and stay put without snagging. The brand's history tells you what it is for: according to CEW, founder Cassandra Morales Thurswell "founded Kitsch at 25" by "selling handcrafted hair ties door-to-door", and built it "bootstrapping the business without outside investment or revolving credit lines". This is a fashion-accessory company whose products are meant to be seen, not to disappear under a section.

So treat the Sedona set as two visible gold clips with six matching pins, for a style where the metal is part of the look. If it is the pins you want, the serious end of that market is premium bobby pin brands.

What None of These Brands Will Tell You

Three of the four publish no length for their snap clips. Goody says medium, Revlon and Kitsch say nothing, and only Scunci commits to a number. That matters because mini, medium and large are marketing words with no standards body behind them, so one brand's medium can arrive shorter than another's small.

The practical consequence: in the aisle you are shopping on finish and color, which the packaging shows, and shopping blind on the one spec that predicts hold - length. If hold is your problem rather than price, size first and brand second, which is what our size guide is for. If you want brands that publish real specifications you have to leave this aisle, as the premium claw clip brands do, at several dollars a clip.

Which Brand to Buy, by Job

• Everyday sectioning and pin-backs, in quantity. Goody 12-count dark neutral, about 38 cents a clip. The default, and the best value here.
• Clips that slide out of fine or freshly washed hair. Revlon Double Grip, about 75 cents a clip, for the grip dots and comb teeth.
• Sections rather than strands. Scunci No-Slip Grip oval at 8 cm, about 1.11 dollars a clip, and the only published length here.
• Brunette hair, clips that should vanish. Goody 6-count brunette, about 87 cents a clip.
• One box covering several jobs. Goody 12-count assorted, about 54 cents a clip, accepting that you do not choose the sizes.
• A visible gold accent for an event. Kitsch Sedona, remembering that two of the eight pieces are clips.

Wear Time Matters More Than the Logo

A snap clip's force is fixed by its spring. You cannot tighten or loosen it the way you can a braid, so the variables you control are how much hair goes in, where it sits, and how long you leave it.

Pulling styles have a documented cost. The American Academy of Dermatology lists "Buns, ponytails, and up-dos that are tightly pulled" among the hairstyles that can cause traction alopecia when they are too tight, and its guidance is usefully blunt: "If your hairstyle feels painful, the style is too tight." It also advises readers to "Switch up your hairstyle regularly so your hair can recover from tight styles."

Applied here: no brand in this group is likely to be the risky variable, and none protects you either. Use the smallest clip that will actually latch, move clips between wears rather than parking one in the same spot daily, and take down anything that hurts. More on the mechanism in traction alopecia from hair accessories.

The Bottom Line

Buy Goody's 12-count contour pack at about 38 cents a clip and stop there unless you have a specific reason not to. The specific reasons are real but narrow: Revlon if clips slide out of your hair, Scunci if you need 8 cm of jaw, Goody's brunette pack if the clip has to disappear, Kitsch if you want two gold clips you can see.

What should not survive this page is the 8-piece Kitsch set read as eight clips, or a 6-count pack read as cheap because its shelf price is low. Both are the same error: counting the dollars on the front of the pack instead of dividing by the clips inside.

For what brand does not settle - length, finish, shape and how many to own - our snap hair clip guide is the next stop, and ten things to do with them the one after.