Despite being a beauty editor, I make no secret of the fact that I am utterly useless when it comes to styling my own hair. I have wasted countless hours armed with the best hair dryers trying to nail an at-home blow dry with the finished result always being totally underwhelming. As someone with hair that has a natural curl and is prone to frizz, I find that my hair often looks slightly dull with an abundance of flyaways at the roots. Of course, I’m well aware that much of this is probably down to my total lack of styling skills rather than the tools themselves. After all, when I’m at a salon, hairstylists seem to have no problem blow drying my hair into a sleek, shiny, bouncy style using a hair dryer alone. But, for me, I tend to find that haphazardly drying my hair and then styling it with tools like my beloved curling wand or some hair straighteners is the only way that I can get close to the look I want.
Suffice to say, this is why I’ve never had much interest at all in the blow-dry brushes and Dyson Airwrap multi-stylers that everyone raves about. To me, they often look like a bit of a faff to use and I’ve never been convinced that I’d be able to achieve the kind of impressive-looking blowouts that some people do using them.
