It is thick and does blackout however the handle makes it look a little cheap. It’s ok fir the money

Beautiful sleek easy to move up and down.

Nice fabric, feels well made. Blackout function is great. Only problem with it is hanging hardware for “outside mount” hangs them a few inches away from the window, allowing light to come in around the sides.

I love these shades they give just the right amount of privacy for our bathroom.

If you want a real black out shade these are it!! they really blackout all the lights, we like them but there are two down side to these and is that when you push them up it like one of these roll shade mechanism were you have to push down first for them to go up and its ok but is not ideal, another down side is that when you put them up they don't fold all the way up it covers part of the window on top I would say too much almost a quarter of the window so if your windows are not too tall or high enough these might not work for you. We decided to keep them and are please with them.