Okay, I rarely do reviews, but I have to for this one, for the sake of my fellow hair sisters and their hair.
I wanted to wait until I did a full wash and dry with this, and...
IT IS AMAZING!
I researched this along with the dyson and the marketing and hype (and well, it's dyson) swayed me to buy the dyson. I should have bought this first!!
My hair was drier faster and sleeker with MUCH LESS HEAT! I could not believe how I achieved pin straight hair (I'm relaxed) by just blow drying (or reverse drying or whatever). It looked like I had not only blow dried, but also flat ironed. That's how straight it got my hair. My hair was soft and ends did not revert, like they did with the Dyson. With the dyson, I had to crank the heat and use setting foam (Nairobi) and I began to resent that because I never had to do that before.
Also, I was able to dry much larger sections of hair than I ever had to with the tension method. I did bump my ends with a curling iron on the LOWEST heat setting and was able my curl each section for like literally 2 secs on low heat. I received so many compliments today on a look I could only previously achieve by going to the salon and her frying my hair off.
I'm pretty confident there was minimal heat damage!
*I think this is a Godsend for black women!
So those are the pros. Here are the cons:
- It is so bulky and heavy. Does not look like a device that we would be using in 2018. lol
- Make sure to detangle hair very well. I did, but also found my shed hairs would get caught in the ends, then when I went to comb, the ends would be
slightly tangly. No biggie after I carefully combed them out. I also found more tangles where my hair was not as healthy. Also keeping relatively wet along the way (not too wet) helped.
- Can't travel with it! Hopefully the company profits enough money to invest in making this waaay more compact and travel-friendly!
- Price* Some say this is a con, but I don't see it as this. Given what I have seen with this dryer, it is more than worth it, as there is literally nothing else like it on the market in how it treats the hair and the way it does it (reverse drying).
- No diffuser. This is where the Dyson still shines. If I was natural, Dyson would still be worth it to me for the diffuser aspect. Because I'm not natural, my Dyson will now be used for drying my nails, I guess.