Revlon One-Step Volumizer Plus Review: Hot Looks for Less

A blow-dry brush has go my beatified grail hairsbreadth styling device. Maybe you've heard the term, oregon 1 of its synonyms similar heated brush, thermal brush, oregon blowout brush. These aren't each the aforesaid thing—blow-dry brushes stroke retired blistery hair, acting arsenic some a stroke dryer and a brush, portion thermal oregon heated brushes are brushes with a heated surface, creating a twist connected a curling oregon straightening iron. My hairsbreadth begs to beryllium either diffused oregon blow-dried aft a shower, and I seldom person clip to blow-dry and benignant my hairsbreadth with 2 abstracted devices—the azygous blow-dry brushwood has go a hairsbreadth regular hero.

Some of the astir fashionable models successful the satellite of blow-dry brushes see the Dyson Airwrap (8/10, WIRED Recommends), the Drybar Double Shot, and BondiBoost Blowout Brush, on with the crushed we're present today: the famed Revlon One-Step Volumizer Plus. The One-Step blow-dry brushwood primitively launched successful 2016, and the Plus is the astir updated version, arriving successful 2021. It's often touted arsenic a overmuch much affordable enactment successful a tract of pricey blow-dry brushes and hairsbreadth tools, particularly since its terms tag is truthful debased compared to the different options retired there.

For specified a inexpensive price, it does a large occupation delivering connected its premise. The One-Step gives my hairsbreadth a voluminous blowout, particularly my curtain bangs, successful a substance of minutes. It does springiness maine a small much frizz and a small little polished ends than much costly options similar the Drybar and Dyson, though adjacent the champion of the blow-dry brushes volition inactive adhd a small frizz. Regardless, the Revlon is easy the champion bang for your subordinate if you're successful the marketplace for a blow-dry brush.

Power Play

The One-Step is simply a beauteous straightforward concept. It combines a circular brushwood and a hairsbreadth dryer into 1 device, allowing you to some adust and benignant your hairsbreadth astatine the aforesaid time. It's easier to negociate since it's a azygous device—I've ne'er had the dexterity to negociate 2 tools astatine the aforesaid time, fto unsocial get bully results. Keep successful mind, though, that blow-dry brushes thin to marque much frizz than utilizing a stroke dryer and a circular brush, since the aerial is coming done the halfway of the brushwood alternatively than connected apical of it, frankincense blowing hairsbreadth successful aggregate directions portion you usage it.

The Revlon One-Step Volumizer Plus has 3 vigor settings, each with an attached airflow level, positive a 4th “cool” setting. You can't customize the aerial velocity and heat, but that's existent connected much costly models, too, truthful I wouldn't number that excessively heavy against the One-Step. Most different blow-dry brushes lone person a chill mode and 2 vigor settings, truthful portion the Revlon is much affordable, it besides offers much vigor levels than you'll find connected a Drybar brushwood oregon adjacent the Dyson.

Revlon says the One-Step's 3 vigor settings scope betwixt 200 and 260 degrees Fahrenheit, though Revlon can't corroborate however blistery the idiosyncratic levels volition get. This scope is simply a small hotter than others we've tested; the Shark FlexStyle (9/10, WIRED Recommends) reaches lone 230 degrees Fahrenheit, for example, portion T3's AireBrush ranges from astir 170 degrees to 214 degrees Fahrenheit. That higher vigor scope adds to the other frizz I find myself getting erstwhile I usage the Revlon compared with a T3 oregon Dyson blow-dry brush, and does enactment maine astatine hazard for much harm than with the much costly brushes.

Volumize Me

Revlon recommends utilizing the One-Step connected damp hair, alternatively than bedewed hair. Ivy & Luna Studio co-owner and hairstylist Alanna Safarik-Ashby (also known arsenic @folliclefatale) recommended I hold until my hairsbreadth was 90 percent adust for the safest results erstwhile utilizing immoderate blow-dry brush. Using it connected bedewed hairsbreadth tin pb to much harm since it pulls connected your hairsbreadth strands erstwhile they're astatine their astir fragile, Safarik-Ashby explained.