I love elastic shoelaces and have tried a few different ones. This one seemed promising so I wanted to try on my new shoes. The pictures led me to believe the "tips" are hard plastic but they are soft silicone-like material. Now the problem is this new shoes of mine does not have eyelets, which makes it very difficult to put these in. It took me fair amount of cursing and about half an hour to install on both shoes, only to find out after trying the shoes on, that they're too tight. So I needed to take them out and the plan was to replace with longer ones (there are 9 per shoe, and I've used smaller ones). That plan went out the door when I realized it's even a LOT more effort to take them out. Yeah I've learned that instead of properly pull them out by taking the tips out first (very difficult), it's better to just take a small screwdriver (I've used hex tips) and just shove it repeatedly into the holes hoping the lace tip will eventually pushed out.

So this may work if A) you don't care how tight or loose your shoes are B) if your shoes have round outlets. Returned.