{"id":899,"date":"2022-01-24T05:09:45","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/?p=899"},"modified":"2022-01-30T06:18:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-30T06:18:38","slug":"hair-dryer-brushes-should-you-bother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerynews.com\/current\/hair-dryer-brushes-should-you-bother\/","title":{"rendered":"Hair Dryer Brushes: Should You Bother?"},"content":{"rendered":"\"\"\n

I think I was late to the party where dryer brushes<\/strong> were concerned. If I noticed them at all, they were just another electronic hair-styling gimmick, lost in a thicket of hairdryers and straightening irons and curling wands.<\/p>\n

I bought a great big wand-thing, like a light saber, about 5 years ago; never used it. My only go-to electrical device was a very reliable (and cheap, like $20) Conair dryer, every bit as good as what you get at the gym or salon.<\/p>\n

For years I never had to think much about these things because it was easy for me to drop a couple hundred with my hair stylist every month, and no one could cut, color, or blowout like her. But now she’s gone, and I’m poor.<\/p>\n

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Moving on, though, I have now acquired a dryer brush. This happened inadvertently. I was potted one night around New Year’s, and while I was trying to make sense of some news blog, there it was in front of me, in some interstitial ad from Amazon. It was a good-looking device and was apparently on sale.<\/p>\n

What it was, was football. No, seriously, it was the basic Revlon model dryer-brush. But I didn’t even notice the brand or type. I just ordered it on impulse and then forgot about it for two weeks, till a huge box arrived. I mean, big enough for shipping a piece of stereo equipment in the olden days.<\/p>\n

The device is huge, twice the size I expected. Think of a big round styling brush, and now double that and give it a big thick handle and the heft of a small Louisville Slugger.<\/p>\n

I finally tried it out in front of the mirrors at the gym today. I am very impressed, and may never go back to the old blow-out dryers again. These doohickeys completely eliminate the need to section-part with a brush held in one hand, while you awkwardly hold the hair dryer with the other.<\/p>\n

This one has four settings: Off, Low, High, and Cold. The Low is what’s usually called Warm on standard dryers. The Low was quite sufficient for most drying. I chopped off six inches a few weeks ago because I can’t deal with unruly below-shoulder-length hair. But I’m old, y’know.<\/p>\n

Now I’m noticing that, like Barbie, these drying brushes have all sorts of accessories. The main one is a rigid rectangular case with zipper and pockets, big enough for your regular comb and brush and hair clips and other implements of destruction. In online reviews I see people are storing makeup in there, too. Goodbye, soft makeup cases!<\/p>\n

I find the whole idea irresistible and will probably order one this week.<\/p>\n

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