Revlon’s One-Step Volumizer Plus Packs an Spectacular Blowout for Low cost

A blow-dry brush has turn into my holy grail hair styling gadget. Possibly you’ve got heard the time period, or one in all its synonyms like heated brush, thermal brush, or blowout brush. These aren’t all the identical factor—blow-dry brushes blow out scorching hair, appearing as each a blow dryer and a brush, whereas thermal or heated brushes are brushes with a heated floor, making a twist on a curling or straightening iron. My hair begs to be both subtle or blow-dried after a bathe, and I not often have time to blow-dry and elegance my hair with two separate gadgets—the one blow-dry brush has turn into a hair routine hero.

A number of the hottest fashions on this planet of blow-dry brushes embrace the Dyson Airwrap (8/10, WIRED Recommends), the Drybar Double Shot, and BondiBoost Blowout Brush, together with the explanation we’re right here at this time: the famed Revlon One-Step Volumizer Plus. The One-Step blow-dry brush initially launched in 2016, and the Plus is probably the most up to date model, arriving in 2021. It is typically touted as a way more inexpensive possibility in a discipline of expensive blow-dry brushes and hair instruments, particularly since its price ticket is so low in comparison with the opposite choices on the market.

For such an inexpensive worth, it does an ideal job delivering on its premise. The One-Step provides my hair a voluminous blowout, particularly my curtain bangs, in a matter of minutes. It does give me slightly extra frizz and rather less polished ends than costlier choices just like the Drybar and Dyson, although even the perfect of the blow-dry brushes will nonetheless add slightly frizz. Regardless, the Revlon is well the perfect bang in your buck if you happen to’re out there for a blow-dry brush.

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The One-Step is a fairly easy idea. It combines a spherical brush and a hair dryer into one gadget, permitting you to each dry and elegance your hair on the identical time. It is simpler to handle since it is a single gadget—I’ve by no means had the dexterity to handle two instruments on the identical time, not to mention get good outcomes. Be mindful, although, that blow-dry brushes are likely to make extra frizz than utilizing a blow dryer and a spherical brush, for the reason that air is coming via the middle of the comb quite than on prime of it, thus blowing hair in a number of instructions whilst you use it.

The Revlon One-Step Volumizer Plus has three warmth settings, every with an connected airflow stage, plus a fourth “cool” setting. You may’t customise the air velocity and warmth, however that is true on costlier fashions, too, so I would not depend that too closely in opposition to the One-Step. Most different blow-dry brushes solely have a cool mode and two warmth settings, so whereas the Revlon is extra inexpensive, it additionally presents extra warmth ranges than you will discover on a Drybar brush and even the Dyson.

Revlon says the One-Step’s three warmth settings attain between 200 and 260 levels Fahrenheit, although Revlon cannot affirm how scorching the person ranges will get. This vary is slightly hotter than others we have examined; the Shark FlexStyle (9/10, WIRED Recommends) reaches solely 230 levels Fahrenheit, for instance, whereas T3’s AireBrush ranges from about 170 levels to 214 levels Fahrenheit. That larger warmth vary provides to the additional frizz I discover myself getting once I use the Revlon in contrast with a T3 or Dyson blow-dry brush, and does put me in danger for extra harm than with the costlier brushes.

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Revlon recommends utilizing the One-Step on damp hair, quite than moist hair. Ivy & Luna Studio co-owner and hairstylist Alanna Safarik-Ashby (also referred to as @folliclefatale) really useful I wait till my hair was 90 p.c dry for the most secure outcomes when utilizing any blow-dry brush. Utilizing it on moist hair can result in extra harm because it pulls in your hair strands after they’re at their most fragile, Safarik-Ashby defined.