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  • - You know, maybe it takes a beast to tame the beast.

  • We'll find out.

  • (sign creaking)

  • (air whooshing)

  • - I don't usually blow dry my hair because blow dryers

  • tend to fry my curls and that's not okay.

  • - My hair just kind of does

  • whatever it feels on any given day.

  • It's very very thick, there is a lot of it,

  • tons of volume, relatively high amount of frizz,

  • and it's just kind of like a coarser texture.

  • - My routine is I take a shower,

  • I let it air dry, and then I just throw it up in a bun.

  • The one and only time I've used a blow dryer was

  • in high school, so it's been years.

  • - Alright, so we're going to start off with this blowdryer,

  • that's $20.

  • It says it's powerful and fast drying.

  • - You have the off button, and then the hot and the warm.

  • - I need more options in this life,

  • but well, lets try it out.

  • - Here we go.

  • If you start with a beast

  • you're going to end up with a beast,

  • so if you try to tame it first then

  • maybe you will end up with a nice domesticated beast.

  • (blow dryer roaring)

  • - I already smell burning and I hate that smell.

  • (singing)

  • - I think it looks pretty good.

  • It's a little frizzier than what it would be

  • if I were to air dry it.

  • - This blow dryer was what I'm used to.

  • It kept, you know, the typical drying time.

  • - This was a pretty pleasant experience,

  • I think my hair looks great.

  • I think it took about seven minutes,

  • which actually felt longer just because I was sweating.

  • - The thing is, it gets very very hot.

  • It's like okay is it dry, is that still wet?

  • Or is it just my own sweat?

  • I'm not mad at it but if there's a better solution out there

  • then I'm all for it.

  • (triumphant music)

  • (cash register dings)

  • (laughing)

  • - Ooh, hello, and welcome to your new dryer.

  • That's so sweet.

  • - Wow, this feels very luxurious,

  • it feels very hefty in my hand.

  • - It's great, fast-drying, engineered for balance.

  • - Helps prevent extreme heat damage

  • to protect natural shine, so that's appealing to me.

  • - It's just worth so much money that it should morph

  • into a flat iron, and then the back pulls off

  • and it's like a built-in comb.

  • - If I were just to see this anywhere, I would have no idea

  • that it was a blowdryer.

  • I don't even really know which side is the front or back.

  • - It's like space age blow drying.

  • (dryer attachment clicks)

  • - It's magnetic which is pretty rad.

  • (dryer whines)

  • - Okay, this is so cool actually.

  • You can change the level of wind.

  • (singing)

  • (laughing) oh my God.

  • (upbeat classical music)

  • - Holy cow, this is a wild ride.

  • - It's not blowing my hair everywhere, it's just

  • like heat energy that's very specific.

  • - It was fun.

  • I liked the way it sounds, how it's just like,

  • (dryer whooshes)

  • With this I feel like my hair wasn't blowing everywhere,

  • which I think would reduce frizz.

  • - It was fun to use, just because it was kind of the

  • novelty of having something that looks different,

  • that feels fun.

  • - You could kind of like immediately tell the difference,

  • it was definitely drying it a little more efficient

  • than the previous one.

  • - A $399 blow dryer versus a $20 blowdryer.

  • For me, it's definitely not worth it.

  • If you want to gift this to me I will take it.

  • - This felt very luxurious, I just don't know

  • that the outcome represented how much it cost.

  • - With this particular one we used a smoothing nozzle

  • which I think could be the reason why it took the same

  • amount of time as the previous one.

  • - I will say that I've used a $600 Dyson vaccuum cleaner

  • and that is completely worth the money.

  • I think that it's cool that you have options in terms

  • of like what you're looking for in a blow dryer.

  • Still not worth $400 if you ask me.

  • - I'm like it might be shinier, it might be a little bit

  • faster, is it worth it?

  • (upbeat music)

  • (whooshing)

  • (sign creaking)

- You know, maybe it takes a beast to tame the beast.

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