About a month ago a brush called the Dafni brush was given to me to review. It has been widely touted as the answer to those curly girls’ needs to straighten their hair without breaking / destroying fragile curls. It is basically a ceramic straightening brush that does not heat up to high levels (which is how it avoids the damage).
After having sat in a number of hair stylists’ chairs and watched them fumble about with my unruly hair for a while in despair – this is usually followed by the question ‘But have you ever done a blow-dry before’ – I was somewhat skeptical. However, being a product junkie, still interested in giving it a go. I believe that this is something you should see for yourself so I filmed a short video of me using this brush. The whole process took 5 minutes but the video is shorter than that as it’s on road runner mode.
Detailed Review
I’ve used this brush on a few different occasions and in different ways. I’ve used it as the only method of hair straightening and I’ve also used it as a top up e.g. the day after a blow-dry. At this point, I’d also like to point out that I am utterly hopeless at hair styling so this was definitely not in the hands of a pro.
Things I Love
The brush is so easy to use, there’s no application method to get it right. The only instruction is to ensure that the hair is 100% dry, otherwise, switch it on, wait for the light to stop blinking(about 1 minute) and you’re good to go. This is the perfect travelling tool as it’s light and doesn’t take up much space. It’s also great at getting you out of the house all done up in record time.
I also love that it doesn’t damage the hair (although it does get somewhat hot so if you hit it against your hands or ears, you’ll wince – hit in the vid)
Things I Loved Less
The start button is in a really annoying place and is super easy to hit when you’re using it. Since travel use is one if the highlights, I wish it came with a travel pouch that protects it. Now about the result, as you can see in the video it really does work impressively well. However, there is one issue I must raise, if your hair is as curly as mine and you live in Malta, on a really humid day, the longevity of the straight style will be slightly reduced. This is because since it uses lower temperatures, the ‘blow-dry’ is not a heat set so it cannot resist extreme humid weather. However, the hair won’t frizz or at least mine didn’t – it just got a bit wavier after a few hours. For less curly hair, this won’t be an issue of course and it is worth pointing out that when I’ve tried using powerful hair straighteners in this manner, the result was actually far less effective.
Conclusion
I’m really happy with this brush. It is so easy to use and it means I can have straight hair in spite of not managing to make it to the hair salon. It also means I can have straight hair when I travel which is always one of my greatest worries.
Last weekend I was in Paris. The day before I left, I blow-dried my hair at my usual salon and took this brush with me. At night in summer, generally my blow-dry always suffers slightly, so in the morning I used the brush to ‘fix it’ and that was utter perfection. The result was really impressive, actually much better than when I use ceramic straighteners.
In Winter I’ll probably be using this brush every day, in summer the curly look appeals to me more plus it’s just too hot and sweat turns it back to curly so it feels like wasted effort.
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