Blow dryer brushes? Sunday morning pea thoughts?

I have the same issues as you. I also air dry my hair and only use the combo dryer on my bangs. It's light weight enough for my arthritic hands and does the job. Not sure of the brand I have.

Yeah I love my Revlon one, but wouldn’t use it as my only dryer. I dry my hair about 80% of the way with my normal blow dryer and then use the Revlon to finish and style my hair. It would take forever to dry from completely wet and it would be really hard to get the roots dry with a brush dryer.

Agree with others, you have to let your hair air or use a regular blow dryer to get the wet out. Then as your hair is damp you can you use the blow dryer brush to finish off. I have the Revlon, I find it hot compared to my blow dryer.

I have hair like yours and use the Revlon one, love it!

Yep. I let my hair get fairly dry before using it. I use a medium heat setting. It works pretty well.

I have the Revlon one as well. I do let my hair "air dry" for a bit - but after that, the dryer works well enough. I do find I have to do more "sectioning" - but I can to that with my fingers while keeping the drying going. I think that the "brush" grabs more hair "behind" it -- while I'm working one section, it seems to grab hair up -- for me, that creates snarls. It has worked well - as of now, however, I'm back to a big round brush and regular dryer -- my hair has gotten a bit longer and I'm having "issues" with getting it rounded at the ends - and my round brush does a better job of that. I think mind was around $30.00 at Target -

Have you tried the Olivia Garden brushes? They are the best and my hair dries quickly and with little effort in styling with them. While the dryer brush sounds intriguing I don’t think I could give up my brushes.

I agree that it is more of a styler than a dryer. I also used it when my hair was drier. But it got too hot for my fine, thin hair and I started noticing damage so I gave it up

I have the Revlon and it works great for me. I have shoulder length, colour treated hair. It is fairly thick and I am useless with a round brush and regular blow dryer. 

I have one of these (wet detangler): store.oliviagarden.com/products/divine?variant=992272744454
It's nice, but I have to replace it often because the little nubs come off.

I have the Babyliss big hair styler which smooths and tames my very curly hair. As others have said, you need to dry your hair with a normal dryer until about 80% dry then use the styler. Mine came with a couple of different heads and I didn’t think I’d use the large one as it seemed huge and much bigger than any round brush I’d used previously but I got used to it very quickly and the bigger the brush the easier and quicker it is to smooth out the hair even if it isn’t that long.

I have the Hot Tools. Got it on sale at Ulta. I have shoulder length fine wavy/curly hair. I use it to dry and straighten my hair. It takes me 7 minutes. I still have some wave but that’s ok.

 Several years ago I fell and shattered my elbow. It was a very lengthy recuperation period where I could not use that arm at all.  I had waist-length hair that really needed to be blown dry because it tool much too long to air dry.  I purchased a hair dryer stand similar to this:

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I also added a bit of velcro to strap it on even more securely.  I loved the hair dryer I already had and just needed help in having it point at my hair.  I love it.  I love it so much that after my elbow was usable again, I continued to use the stand and still use it today.  

My sister had surgery on both of her shoulders, one of them twice, and was unable to hold her dryer too.  Her solution was to make an appointment to get her long hair cut off.  I told her my solution and she wasn't interested.  I ordered one to be sent to her house anyway because I knew she would love it if she tried it.  She does.  It has been several years since her final surgery and she still uses her stand too.  

I find having both hands free to brush and position my hair to be so much easier.  I have a large round brush that I use to give my hair more body and it wasn't as easy to use with only one hand.  Now with the stand, I can use both hands to roll up my almost dry hair in the brush roller with ease.  I can't imagine ever returning to holding my hair dryer in one hand ever again.