2 blow dryers

As one only has to peruse this blog to see…making my curls they way I like is a process involving a lot of time and product. This is because even though my hair is naturally curly, it is also very fine and thin. If I don’t do my full curly routine, my hair is just a frizzy lumpy mess (If you look at my recent sunglass post, that’s exactly what happened in the middle picture!)

To summarize, my routine:

1. Wash or co-wash and condition hair

2. Comb through in shower

3. Rake in curl activator (my fave=AG recoil)

4. Scrunch in 2 layers of mousse, gel, or 1 layer mousse and 1 layer gel. (Fave mousse=cake curl maker. Fave Gel=Giovanni LA)

5. Pat dry with T-shirt

6. Plop

7. Diffuse with blow dryer (about 20 minutes)

8. Air dry for 30-60 minutes until hair is 100% dry (the inside takes a while because of all the product…but no matter how long I blow dry, it never dries), once dry it is hard and crunchy.

9. Scrunch out the crunch.

Phew. It’s a lot! I love the look, and it worked for me before Covid, because I would let it air dry in the car on my way to the office or my first client visit of the day, but working from home it doesn’t work well since I often have to be on video first thing and I like to sleep later when I’m working at home.

Straightening my hair takes less than 10 minutes since it is so fine and thin and takes no product but heat protectant. So…that been happening a lot lately.

Which brings me to the point of this post, which is reviewing 2 blow dryers!

The first one is the blow dryer that has gotten me through the past few months, Revlon has a blow dryer like this that is a very popular, however I chose this one on Amazon because it was cheaper and has great reviews. I love it! I can take my hair from towel dried to fully dry in six minutes, and I don’t have to use a straightening brush or iron afterwards. When I blow dry my hair straight with a normal blow dryer and round brush, I need to use something else after to get the shape. This does it all!

However, the blow dryer of my future is the Dyson supersonic! I have eyed this blow dryer for a long time but never got one because I could never ever ever spend $500 on a blow dryer, and because I really didn’t think I could justify it since my hair is so fine and thin. However I saved up enough SDM optimum points to buy it, and decided to go for it because now with my new working at home routine, I have less time for my hair and really want to dry it first and wear my hair curly the way I like it!

I love it! I do not particularly think my hair looks better or worse after using it than my normal curly routine, but it is so fast! I did my normal routine today and then diffused with it for about 10 minutes, that was literally all I had to do! My hair was 100% dry and ready to scrunch, I didn’t have to wait for it to air-dry. I do not like the phrase “It’s worth the money” because I find it a very privileged phrase that doesn’t recognize that sometimes the money just isn’t there (also, I have often had very good luck with lower priced alternatives). However, it was definitely worth the optimum points! If you have hair that takes long to dry, and are in a position to purchase this blow dryer, either in some kind of points program or out right, I definitely recommend it! It is lightweight, quiet, and super fast! The one caveat is that I find the diffuser very small. That’s not a big deal for me because my hair is not very long and I don’t have a lot of hair, but if I had piles of long curls, I would probably try to figure out how to make my black orchid work on it (Lots of people have figured out how to do this with magnets!). I haven’t tried straightening my hair with it yet, but I probably will in the next couple weeks…Just for testing purposes though. Now that I can wear my hair in my favourite curly style, quickly, I will be back to that!