Some products show up everywhere — subway ads, Instagram, celeb endorsements. With this series, we're testing such products to conclude one thing: Does it live up to the hype?
The Revlon Salon One-Step Hair Dryer and Volumizer, a 2-in-1 hair drying and brushing device.
Hot air dryers may not be new, but their easy 2-in-1 functionality is nothing short of a novel concept. Though the Revlon Salon One-Step Hair Dryer and Volumizer launched back in 2016, the hype around this hair tool hasn't slowed since.
- Reviews from The Cut, Wirecutter, Good Housekeeping, Allure, The Business of Fashion, and CNN
- Beauty bloggers and podcasters
- An endless number of YouTube videos 👇
The Revlon Hot Air Brush claims to give fresh-from-the-salon-chair volume, and the pages full of YouTube videos showcase the real results as folks with various hair types and textures test it out for the camera. I wasn't getting the optimal hair-flip experience from attempting to blow-dry and round-brush my hair in my bathroom at home, so I went in for the purchase, and planned to keep the receipt just in case.
It is important to know that the Revlon air brush is quite big. It's about the same length as a curling wand, but with the heft comparable to a hair dryer. I actually laughed as I unboxed it, not sure how well this was going to go.
The air brush has plastic spokes, as well as shorter fibrous bristles, and the brush head is a wide oval shape. It also has three blow settings: high, low, and cool. To prep my towel-dried shoulder-length hair for my first at-home blowout, I sprayed my head down with some heat-protectant spray, clipped my hair up into two separate sections, and then flipped the switch on the brush to “low.” The dryer began to blow through the brush head.
I brushed separate pieces of my hair out with it while trying to lift my roots a bit for volume, and was really impressed that it only took about two passes with the brush until each piece of hair was completely dry, even on a low heat setting! The bristles hold the hair in place as it dries, and the entire brush can be spun around infinitely without tangling up.
I used a “lift and twirl” method to blow-dry the rest of my head, so it would accentuate my layers and give my hair some much-needed volume. Blow-drying my entire head this way took less than 10 minutes, and I could skip the styling afterward, since it was already done for me!
That iconic shampoo-commercial hair toss always seemed to me like TV magic, but with the right tools, it's actually possible to achieve IRL! If you can shell out the dough (and a little extra bathroom counter space), the Revlon Hot Air Brush is a user-friendly device that does the work of two hair tools in just a fraction of the time.
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