We have now been over a year and my daughters have shoulder-length or 1/2 back long hair, rather fine. This brush is only scratching the surface in all around, to the deeper skein one can not turn even if it takes forever so that my children lose their nerve. The daughter with the long hair she has not even used and asks always where our normal brush is. Well, it works for my very short fine hairs, with me but then missing the familiar feeling of "scalp massage".