My video review and unboxing of the new limited edition GHD Scarlet Collection Set!
Having used them more thoroughly since recording the video, they do get really hot! Maybe I shouldn’t have expected them to heat up in under 10 seconds in the first place (it didn’t say it would anywhere, not sure why I had assumed that)!
Available from www.ghdhair.com, priced £129.
Lx
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As I was attempting to brush my ratty, desperately in need of a cut, over-dyed, knotty hair, I said out loud, ‘I need to get a better hair brush..’.
Just goes to show the power of cosmic ordering and all that stuff, as later that very day I got an email in my inbox asking me to review some brushes by Denman. I had actually set my sight on getting a fancy schmancy Mason Pearson brush, good brushes are a worthwhile life time investment, but thought I’d try these out first and see how they fared.
I requested to try Denman D81 Medium Porcupine Brush; a natural bristle brush with ‘porcupine-effect’ nylon quill, and they also kindly sent me a couple of others too. I chose a natural bristle brush as over the years all that’s ever been drilled into me by hair dressers and specialists is that natural bristle is best for hair as hair is natural, like likes like, basically. Also, I’ve gotten so used to only using natural my head now hurts if I use something else!
Well, I have to say I’m completely won over by this brush! My long, ratty, desperately in need of a cut hair gets de-knotted swiftly and effortlessly with it. As my hair is thin, it gets through all my hair and I do feel like I’m getting a good, decent brush using it (although if your hair is thicker you might have to get a different size/variation of this brush). Plus, as gross as this sounds, when you’re hair is in the in-between stages of freshly washed to in need of a wash (as long hair often is), it spreads the grease from your roots to the ends. Which sounds yuck, but is better than very dry ends and a little greasy roots. The natural bristles really polish my hair and make it shiny, and help keep it styled and in place. I genuinely will be holding off buying the Mason Pearson number as this more than suffices!
It comes in three sizes (and this isn’t even the only natural hair brush they do!), and other than the smallest being obviously most ideal for handbag it really just equates to different hair types and lengths. I am probably going to pick up the smallest one as well and keep it as a handbag essential as I like it so much. Being so affordable too, it’s easy to have multiple brushes for multiple purposes. These are quality brushes, however the smallest only starts from £8 and the largest is only£12.
They also sent me a Classic Styling Brush (D4 Large 9 Row Styling Brush, the white plastic bristle one) which I didn’t get on very well with as having thin hair and a sensitive scalp, found it too diggy inny, even for blow drying, and this handbag compact travel brush (D7 Hairbrush Compact).
As I mentioned, I can only really use natural bristles now as anything else hurts my sensitive scalp (I even used to groan in agony when my mum tried to brush my hair as a child!), but this compact hairbrush is worth a mention as it’s only £2.56 and is perfect for the handbag. I’ve tried it a few times and whilst it’s not as comfortable usage as the natural bristles it suffices for getting a few knots out for when on the go. It fits in your palm, folds into itself and comes with its own mirror! Shame the bristles are plastic but hey, for this cheap what do you expect? Although I wouldn’t mind paying a little extra and getting a natural bristle version. What say you, Denman? Will you think about it?
Lx
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I was massively chuffed the other day when my friend produced my much belated birthday present. He had bought it for me all the way back in June (when my birthday was) but knew, even though he was out for my birthday, that it was probably not a good idea to give it to me right then and there taking into account my penchant for losing everything. That turned out to be a good idea, actually, seeing as around 11pm that night I was walking around London Fields, sans bag and jacket, looking for somewhere to puke (don’t worry, I got my second and third and fourth wind soon after that). The hairdryer would no doubt have been a goner.
I thought this was such a great present as I don’t have a travel hairdryer and ALWAYS need one when I stay anywhere. I think he bought this for me because when I stayed at his Summer house in Brighton last year I was borrowing the house’s travel hairdryer and kept exclaiming, through bursts of hot air, how GREAT the travel hairdryer was! So he remembered and picked one up for me, ahhhhh.
Anyway, I love it! I’ve already taken it somewhere (only to ‘the boys’ house when I went to stay for the weekend – he was quite surprised when I produced a hairdryer out of my Mary Poppins-esque bag) and think it’s brilliant. Actually, I’d go so far as to say I prefer it to a normal sized hairdryer as I can get my small hands around it easier and can control it much better!
It folds up nice and easily and really is very compact! The heat goes up to 1500w and there are two heat settings (although I only ever use the highest). It dries my hair super quick and there’s also a concentrate nozzle which I leave permanently on. The only thing that is a bit annoying about it is that it doesn’t come with it’s own cover case. Oh well.
The particular model I have, the Babyliss Travel Dryer 1500w, is around the £10 mark to purchase and I really do think it’s a worthwhile investment. Not quite slinky hand bag size, but deffo big bag size (it looks much bigger in the picture – it’s tiiiiiiny in real life!). I can actually see this becoming a weekend-handbag staple (I’m such an extremist). Blow dried hair on tap, yes please.
Lx
