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Your support makes all the difference.Nothing quite beats the feeling of stepping out of the hairdressers with a bouncy blow-dry, but with salons forced to intermittently close over the last year, we’ve had to take matters into our own hands.
Try as hard as we might, achieving the same look at home is no mean feat and, while there are endless tutorials online for using a hairdryer and round brush to create the sleek look, the results are never quite the same.
Thankfully there’s one piece of equipment that can help you achieve the blow-dry your usual stylist gives you with minimal effort: the hot hair brush.
Available in all shapes and sizes, these tools are a hybrid between a hairbrush and hairdryer, allowing you to create a smooth, salon-worthy finish in a matter of minutes. Made with integrated bristles, they can be used on damp hair to blast hot air onto your tresses, meaning you can dry and style your locks at the same time, giving you bouncy curls and lashings of volume.
While certainly cheaper than visiting a salon every time you wash your hair, many top models don’t come cheap, with some even nearing £500.
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But luckily, we’ve found an impressive deal that means you can now get your hands on one of our favourite styling tools for just £45.
The BaByliss big hair care hot air styler featured in our round-up of the best hot air brushes and currently has a saving of 40 per cent on Amazon, where it has received 200 five-star reviews, with shoppers claiming it gives them professional results.
With such a big discount, you’ll have to be quick if you want to get your hands on one, as we suspect it won’t stay in stock for long.
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BaByliss big hair care hot air styler: Was £70, now £45, Amazon.co.uk
With rave reviews from happy shoppers, we put the hot air brush to the test to find out if it really delivers.
The brush manages the level of heat for perfect styling while protecting your hair from over-heating, and the large ceramic brush head, which has soft polishing bristles, replicates the action of a hairdressers blow-dry by rotating through the hair to create volume for a bouncy look.
In our round-up of the best hot air brushes, our tester praised it as an affordable option for anyone looking to cut down on salon visits.
“Easy to use, it has two heat settings and never gets too hot due to its intelligent ‘sensor protect’ technology. Its large gold barrel, which has air outlet holes, also has soft bristles attached to it, while the whole product proved very light,” they said.
“After you’ve given your hair a quick blow-dry and while the hair is still damp, the air and barrel format first gives your roots some volume and then the rotation buttons style the rest of your tresses. Once we’d got the hang of it, we loved the lift and volume it gave our hair – but we’d love to see the speeds altered so we could feel more in control of our at-home blow-dry.”
Should you miss out on this particular deal, you can find plenty of recommendations to suit all budgets in our guide to the best hot air brushes.
We loved the Revlon one-step dryer and volumiser (£59.99, Boots.com), which was selected as the best buy in our review. Well known for going viral on TikTok, our tester said it lived up to expectations and praised it for delivering a “fuzz-free and bouncy blow-dry”.
“At first glance this hefty oval hot brush in a pink and black colourway looks quite big, but its heat and styling is spot on,” they said. “The brush’s power is apparent as soon as you turn it on, with hot air flowing right to the root, thanks to its ionic technology that helps dry, detangle and style your locks. The settings are simple too, with one click to start and a second click for more power. It didn’t get too warm, even on its hotter setting, unlike some of the other models we tried.”
Not quite the style you’re after? Check out our review of the best hair wavers that will give you mermaid locks