Rotating brush hair dryers

I use one every day square and I'm entirely the opposite of a lovely young girl with lovely flowing locks!!

I am hopeless with my hair and I find mine a godsend - my hairdresser gave a quick lesson. I have short hair (about as per my profile pic) and it just gives me lift and a bit of styling ability. Also, if I need to redo my hair, after a windy walk or something, I just use it again.

Yes I bought one a few months ago Squaredog.
My hair is short but not very short, IYKWIM.
I can manage the hairdryer, and it gives good results, (which I think is actually related more to the size of the brush than anything else), but it does take some getting used to.
I don't have any problems like arthritis with my hands but the difficulty is that the brush can rotate both ways.
You have to be sure that the brush is rotating the right way for that particular lock of hair, or your hair gets all tangled up
I've got to the stage now where I don't really have to think about it but there was a definite learning curve and it isn't intuitive!
Next time I will get one that blows air but doesn't rotate.
However you can use the rotating one without rotating it.
Hope that helps.

Mine doesn't rotate jane, I didn't know that they did. I wasn't sure that I would cope and bought the cheapest (maybe Vidal Sassoon) about £13, I think and it has lasted about 4 years to date. I'll investigate rotating ones when it dies.

Kitty..... The OP was about rotating ones
But honestly I'd stick with the one you've got!

Don't they all blow air?

I use a rotating drying styler thing. I have mid length hair with quite a lot of wave in it and find ordinary blow drying difficult. The styler works very well and I know someone who uses the same model with straight hair that tends to frizz and it works well with that too.

It didn't take too long to get used to it but it rotates in both directions and I had to get used to which way to rotate it for each section of my head!

No, you can get stylers that don't, but they're for use on dry hair. I've got one of those too, because my hair dries very quickly, usually by the time I've finished faffing about getting dressed etc.

Mine blows hot air. I thought the OP meant rotating them up the hair - manually. I forgot to say that I use some sort of a 'product' from the hairdresser before I dry my hair or even leave it to dry itself while I am faffing, too jane. That leaves my hair quite 'full' and then I use the brush to tone it down. If I didn't use anything (mine is Small Talk by Bedhead) there would be no point using the brush rotating or not!

meercat I have one too and also ended up with forward when I wanted to go back at first! (I looked like a Beatle). But once you get the hang of it, they're brilliant.

kitty you press buttons and it does all the hard work!

kitty I have sometimes got a reproving comment from whoever washes my hair, along the lines of 'Ooh! There's a lot of product in it, isn't there?'
But if I didn't use 'product' my hair would lie flat on my head and hang limply down the sides of my face.
My current favourite is John Frieda Volume Spray Blow Dry Lotion and root booster.
It does what it says on the tin - I don't quite look like Dusty Springfield, but at least my hair is visible.
It's good for travelling too as it's a spray on liquid and doesn't take up a lot of space in the wash bag.

Wash, tussle and go- that's it. And if we go out for a special do, go to myl local haridresser who will blow dry it for me, as I am hopeless with my hair.

I normally do as Granjura does, as I have just above shoulder length naturally wavy hair. If I want a more professional finish I use another rotating type of hair styler, Babyliss Curl Secret, which sucks up each section of dry hair and in a few seconds it comes out in a glossy ringlet!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FJOsTg6D_w

I'd be lost without my product Jane

I use the Babyliss rotating dryer. It's great. I only wish someone had invented it years ago.

I have naturally curly hair and have struggled blow drying it straight for years.

As it tends to frizz I comb argon oil through it before drying.

I take the dryer everywhere. x

Same as J52.... It's a great item and also gives shiny hair .

That curl-making thingy looks good, shysal - never seen it before.
What a good invention!

Those of us with sons, really don't know what's going on out there, do we?

Curl machines. Fantastic. Whatever next?

I have watched a couple of videos of models using the Babyliss Rotating hairbrush. The brush looks really big and chunky and I am not sure how it would work on short hair. Any thoughts GNs ?

The brush has a non rotating setting. You can add volume and dry, by just brushing through your short hair.
Hair must be towel dry before you start.

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I've bought the Babyliss 42 rotating, and woohoo, flipping brilliant hair ON THE DAY ITS WASHED!

Only before achieved at the hairdressers.

My hairs short and layered, and no, it doesn't all actually all fit in, but enough kind of does, to give it that lift.

A new toy that's going to get PLENTY of use........

squaredog that's just how I felt when I first got mine. Finally I could manage my hair.

Glad it has worked for you

I've also got curly hair and struggle to straighten it so I've ordered the Babyliss 42 on Tesco clubcard voucher deals , can't wait to pick it up later today and give it a 'whirl'

My Babyliss rotating drier has just died! It was the only way I could tame my fairly long, wavy, prone to frizz hair. I do have another non rotating drying brush so I'll have to give that a go.

I've extoled the virtues of this great piece of kit on GN in the past - love mine!

Originally had the Babyliss 50 but the barrel was a little bit big for my layered jaw-length bob however it still did a good job - it blew a fuse one day so I chucked it away and by then the 42 was out.

For best results wait until hair is half dry.

Once you get the hang of it, it's easy peasy