Blowing Hot Air

Posted by Kelly on September 9, 2009 in Life, Skye, Starr, Sunny | 5 comments

A hair dryer is a hair dryer. Right? Sometime early in my recent (still) illness, my hair dryer quit on me. I thought I would shower, blow out my hair and try to feel like a human being for the day, but it just blew cold air. Just what I needed.

Starr and I had a spare that I used to blow out her hair with when she was in high school. With her curly hair, twice a week we would sit down in front of a movie and I would methodically straighten her hair. The flat iron didn’t leave her hair shiny and movable like the blow dryer and round brush did, so this was our method of choice.

The spare hair dryer was fairly expensive, but didn’t have much guts. Which was perfect for our blow out sessions,  but not for my thick head of hair. We picked out a gentle dryer on purpose because one day when Starr was in 10th grade, she wasn’t happy about the way her bangs were looking. She was stressed and was using my hair dryer and round brush to try and “fix” them. I was in the living room when I heard the blood curdling scream. I ran. She was hysterical. Not injured, but she no longer HAD bangs! The smell of burnt hair filled the room. Gah. There were tears, lots of tears. You can’t just fix that! We made an emergency trip to the salon to salvage what we could…she was very late to school, it took forever for her hair to grow back the way she wanted, Sunny and Skye started calling her “singey”…poor thing! Anyway, I pulled the spare dryer out of the junk closet and tried to use it, but found that it just wasn’t going to work for me. At all. I spent the next few weeks looking pretty darn feral with my natural hair, too sick to go shopping for a replacement.

Finally, last week, I was able to go shopping. A little overwhelmed at the choices, I was always a “they just blow hot air, right?” kind of girl. Do ions, ceramic, nano-silver and tourmaline really make a difference? Some dryers had one element, others had another, some had none, what worked best? When did it get so complicated? So I picked a dryer that claimed to have all of it: tool science, Nano-Silver Ionic-Ceramic Professional Hair Dryer and just hoped that it blew hot air.

I saved my receipt and tried to carefully unpack the dryer from it’s packaging just in case I needed to return it. Unpacking this dryer without destroying the packaging is apparently a skill that I don’t have. Thankfully it doesn’t matter, because I love this dryer. My hair dries faster and is softer and smoother. Starr could see the difference in my hair right away. Then she tried it on her own hair. It might have been the hair dryer, or just a good hair day, but she received several compliments on her hair that day.

Now she wants one.

Are there better dryers out there? Probably, but I am very happy with this one and felt the need to share.

**This is not a compensated review, I just liked the hair dryer…a lot!