But the promise of having a hair salon bouncy blow dry at home was more than enough for me to want to give it a go.
So, as soon as I opened my box, the pink-coloured packaging and compact storage case to match the air styler and its attachments caught my eye.
In terms of design, I can say these two products are very similar in look and functionality, and the added touch of colour is, of course, a plus.
Then I tested the air styler’s powerful 1200W hair drier, which dried my hair thoroughly and effortlessly as I combined its three heat and three-speed settings to suit each part of my head.
But the true test came at the time of styling my wavy hair into sleek curls, a process I was not quite so sure would work so effortlessly, considering I’d become used to doing it with straighteners or a curling iron.
While it took me a moment to figure out how to use the auto curling barrels, the twist-to-style handle soon became a lot easier to manipulate, helping me create waves with a lot more volume and bounce than I had previously envisioned.
And even though I don’t have the same ability to use this handy tool as I do with straighteners yet, my motivation to keep practising is that, after using the styler, my hair was a lot less damaged and fried than when I use straighteners.
Usually, when I wash my styled hair, and it goes back to its natural shape after curling it with my straighteners, it feels and looks a lot rougher, duller and more frizzy.
That was surprisingly not the case after using the air styler, which means there’s a possibility I might have been frying my hair off (guilty?), or that this tool is actually a lot less damaging.
