HOT TOOLS 24K Gold One-Step Hair Dryer and Volumizer | Style and Dry Quickly with Less Frizz, Professional Blowout with Ease for Shiner, Healthier-Looking Hair

First, let me start off with saying I have always HATED styling my hair. I’m not good at it and it takes WAY too long to do. I’ll spend 45 minutes on makeup (love doing my makeup), but then I get to hair and usually throw my wet mop into a tight ponytail. That “look” not only ends up looking unpolished, but I pull my ponytail so tight that I always breaking hairs just from the tugging several times a day.My hair is medium-long (about 3-5” past my shoulders), fine but fluffy/frizzy, and I have a lot of it. It takes me about 20-25 minutes to dry it with a normal blow drier. When I’m done with drying, it’s normally so frizzy and crazy that I MUST flat iron, or else it looks like I just woke up. Flat ironing would take me another 20 min or so, so we’re looking at 45 min total to do my hair. Nope. I don’t have the time or patience for all that, unless I’m going out at night.And then I discovered this Hot Tools miracle.I’ve only been using this a little less than a week, but it’s changed my hair life and I am telling all my girlfriends.It’s reduced my time from 45 minutes to 10. TEN!! Not only that, I don’t have to flat iron my hair, which saves time and heat exposure to my fine hair.The end result is SO smooth. In fact, I would recommend going light on any additional smoothing serums/lotions until you can anticipate your hair’s needs with this product. I’ve used it bit too much (even just concentrating on the ends) a few times, and my hair almost seems oily. I think this product helps the product penetrate your hair more, or it simply seals the hair shaft so that you don’t need as much.Regardless, in 10 minutes I have a voluminous, healthy, beautiful head of hair that matches the effort/time I put into my makeup, without actually taking long at all.This product is so (superficially) life changing that I’ve begun looking at better hair care products so that I can help grow all the broken hairline hairs into a gorgeous full set of healthy locks.I’m probably going to buy another of these for my gym bag so that I don’t have to worry about ever forgetting it.Okay, more about the device itself:- heat: when I first start using it, it’s reasonably hot, but it’s not excessive. I’ve noticed about halfway through if gets SUPER hot and I have to be careful how/where I position my hands. But .... it’s manageable and I never feel like my hair is burning.- on/off switch: the absolute only thing I struggle with is turning the device on/off/cool blast without feeling awkward. The switch is in a location where you can’t really one-hand it. For me, I must stop what I’m doing, turn the device and locate the switches, and move the switch. This means any section of hair I’m working on must be maneuvered/pinned back first, while I’m changing the setting on the dryer. Some of this is probably just practice / muscle memory, but it’s worth mentioning that this is the only mechanical design issue I have with the device. Also, I’m left handed - I don’t think that has anything to do with my issue, but I tend to do things a little backwards as a right-brained person.- pulling on hair: no tearing!! I’ve put some tension on this thing, and worked the hair at weird angles with awkward sectioning, and haven’t experienced any discernible damage or breakage. Awesome!!- size: Thing thing takes up space! Two design elements would be great with this thing: 1) retractable cord, and 2) hook on the end so that I can hang this in my bathroom. Because this is a brush as well as a dryer, I don’t want to just throw it around and risk damaging the bristles, so I currently put it in another room instead of in my bathroom drawer.Okay, that’s my review. Hopefully it helps someone make their decision!

I honestly don’t know how I lived my whole life without this. I have very thick curly hair and always hard to style. Most of the time I braid it and just call it a day. This has changed my life lol I can blow it out in 10-15 minutes. I love it. The only thing that I don’t like, is that it’s sooooo loudddd my cats freak ahahah but that’s okay a small thing to deal with for good hair. Highly recommend.

Oh wow! I have long, curly, thick, wiry, frizzy, 90% gray hair and am super awkward, clumsy, with the propensity to hurt/burn myself and...this brush WORKS! It's very noisy on the "high" setting, so I've worn earplugs, but I also figured out I can let the hair air dry 50%, or rough dry with a regular blow dryer - and then do the "low" setting. It's still plenty hot and the brush literally GRABS your hair as you twirl it around. Big chunks of hair too. I go from messy bun to sleek flipped out ends in less than 20 minutes. It's literally like a miracle. I do use heat protectant and I wouldn't do this every day, but twice a week is totally OK for my indestructible hair. Watched a couple of YouTube videos just to make sure I was doing it right and yep - it's even flatter the next day. I also finish off with a little argan oil to flatten any fly aways. This Hot Tools brush changed my life, I swear. I WANT to go outside now and not hide under a hat!

This is the second brush hair dryer of this brand I’ve ordered. My last one worked great but I took it on a trip to Europe and tried to use it with a power converter and I think it damaged it. I noticed in the description for this one that it says not to use it with a power converter. I had my last one for a few years so no longer had the box and if it ever said not to use with a power converter I don’t recall. On the same trip I plugged it in to the appropriate outlet on the cruise ship and I smelled a burn smell. When I returned home (in the US) the dryer just didn’t seem to work right. So I looked and looked on Amazon for a new one, reading reviews and comparing prices. I decided to buy this one by Hot Tools again. I have curly hair about 4 inches past my shoulders. I used to use a blow dryer and round brush before I discovered these brush style dryers. It was life changing, lol. Much easier that holding two things and my hair drys straighter and smoother. I still use a flat iron after but a couple passes and it’s good. The only negative with this product is the noise level, but that’s probably because it has a lot of blow. I feel like this dryer blows hotter on high than my last one and I wonder if it’s too hot. I use a heat protectant on my hair before drying.

I have thick, naturally curly hair. This is a game changer! It is better than my straightener and curling iron combined.

This thing is amazing. It dries hair quickly and into the best blowout! It definitely works better for hair that's not too long, but it will still work with longer hair too. It takes much less time than drying with a typical hair dryer and round brush.

Easy to use, adds volume to my hair. My daughter has one which she let me use and I knew I had to get one myself.

I use this daily. It's a wider base than I expected so it took some getting used to. Also, the highest setting will burn your scalp and hair - I only use it in the first 20 seconds of drying, and brush it through fast. Then I use the lowest setting (in the middle) You an also use the "sealing" setting (cooler air) to dry because it's not really cool at all. Like I said, I use it daily but it will take newbies some getting used to. Use heat protectant and you should be good!