K.A.
The only way I could keep clips in is to use a little rubber hair band (they look a bit like those rubber bands you use on braces) to pull back a small partition of hair and then clip the barette on to cover the rubber band, slipping it in a small amount of the hair just up against the head before the band. I have to do the same for any decorative hair ties too. Headbands are the same. My daughter is 3 and I still have to do it because they either slip out on their own or she takes them out. The rubber bands are doing all the holding, anything else is simply decorative.