So Reniece tried this on me about 2 weeks ago. She did half my head. My hair, it makes me so frustrated sometimes.
As I was there for about 4 hours and she spent 2 hours just detangling with pre-wash oil mixture stuff. And I had done a medium detangle of my hair before going. So anyway, I had to leave and we ran out of time, so we only got half my hair blow dried, lol. The half she did was nice, though. Took about 45 minutes on the blow dry for that half. Like, seriously, what is wrong with my hair?! This is with me trying to "keep up" on the detangling, wearing my hair in cornrows for 6 weeks, with taking them down every 2 or 3 weeks to wash and blow dry with pick attachment. Okay *whoosah*, what was I saying?
She did half my head. You'll notice the technique she has in the video she posted, where she moves the dryer around at the base to keep tension and stretch in all ways. At home, I rely on the pick attachment to help with the detangling, but since this doesn't have that, if you want comb-able hair after, you have to make sure you detangle THOROUGHLY beforehand. My hair is difficult for me to detangle absolutely thoroughly because it takes so much time to get it to that level and I ain't got that time with a full time job and 2 young kids. Anyway, she detangled my hair by hand and combed many many many times before she thought it was ready for that blow dryer. But the results were good. Even down to the ends which she says she generally has to do a warm flat iron with chase at the ends to get them that straightened out. She said the result was definitely better and faster with this dryer than with the one(s) she had been using before. And it was more stretched out than some of the videos I've seen on YouTube showing that, once again, technique matters. She has better technique than most, and it might take a while for someone to figure out how to get the best results with the dryer.
I can't do the $400 for a blow dryer at this time in my life, I gotta get a huge tree in my front yard cut down, lol. But if you got it like that, it wouldn't be the worst $400 spent. As for me, per her suggestion, I upgraded by about $15 from the Yellow Bird to the Silver Bird. That's going to have to do!