Cozy Lighting Pick

Fairy String Lights Plug In, 33 Ft 100 LED Copper Wire

A 33 foot run carrying 100 warm white LEDs on wire thin enough to disappear against a wall, so what you see at night is the points of light rather than the cable holding them. Each LED is wrapped in clear epoxy, which is what gives the string its soft misty glow instead of the hard pinpoint glare cheaper strings have. The wire is three stranded and genuinely bendable, so it holds a shape you twist it into and can be wound around a headboard, a shelf edge or a plant without clips. The string itself is weather rated, though the plug adapter is not, so it works on a covered porch as well as indoors. The LEDs stay cool to the touch even after a full evening on. It reels back up for storage rather than tangling.

What you're getting

• 33 feet carrying 100 warm white LEDs on a thin bare copper wire
• Each LED wrapped in clear epoxy for a soft misty glow, not a hard pinpoint
• Three stranded wire that holds whatever shape you bend it into
• The string is weather rated, though the plug adapter is not
• Stays cool to the touch even after running all evening

Why we picked it

A ceiling light tells a bedroom what time it is and the answer is always wrong after ten at night. A hundred small warm points along a wall do the opposite. What makes this string worth having over the cheap ones is the wire: it is thin enough to vanish in daylight and stiff enough to hold a swag without a single clip, so nothing about the installation shows.