Review on UPF 50 Compression Arm Sleeves For Men & Women - Tattoo Cover Up, Sun Protection, Cooling For Basketball & Running by Divina Alejandro

sorry for the length and any typos you might have to fill in the blanks as I use voice dictation for this review and I'm not correcting all the mistakes as I'm too lazy.Honest none of these so-called some protection items such as arm sleeve head wrap palakava etc will protect you from the Sun by themselves in a single layer form. Here's a simple test to test how much so-called protection you may or may not get from an item -Try to loosely hold it up single layer as in looking from the inside to the outside and see how much daylight or artificial lighting comes through. I've yet to find a product where some light doesn't come through. I'm referring to synthetic fabrics here not thick cotton which of course does block at the expensive incredible heat trapping being a dead weight when wet if exercising etc. I do have a pair of synthetic wranglers but they're so thick and heavy duty that they are not breathable at all and are very hot. They do block out 100% light.These arm sleeves are stretchy in nature and if you were to look you would clearly see light pouring through. Maybe it blocks 10 to 25% of the light. So do not put them on and thank you again protection from the Sun and that pretty much goes for any of these arm sleeves. Maybe there's an expensive brand that has a much tighter weave but from my experience even name brand sun protection items can be just as bad as generic. My solution?I double up or triple up my upper bodyThese honestly go underneath at the very least one long sleeve Sun shirt. That's for the late afternoon if in the middle of the day, I wear two wet polyester sport long sleeve shirts on top of the arm sleeve. As the shirts evaporate they help keep me cool this has worked when the outside temperature feels like 90s with the Sun.Back to these arm sleevesThe negativesPurchase two pairs of these over the last several months as I commute by bike to work everyday in a hot Hawaiian climate. The first pair I was still use had I not flushed one down the toilet after washing it by hand in a bucket LOL. The second pair has a 50% failure rate. As in one of the sleeves started unraveling the moment I started using it and still is every time I put it on. It's literally unraveling until I pull off a thread but then it will unravel some more. The other sleeve does fine as does the one sleeve that I originally bought first.I bought the specifically for the thumb hole as that's the only way these things will stay up on top of my hand. I have another pair without thumb holes and they're useless.Inclusion out of two pairs, one out of the four total sleeves started unraveling from the moment of purchase. The other two sleeves have not shown any signs of unraveling. And the fourth item got flushed in the toilet by accident. I guess that should be a positive in that it did not clog up my toilet or sewer system as that was a couple months ago and no plumbing issues LOL.