INFINITIPRO BY CONAIR Spin Air Rotating Styler/Hot Air Brush, 2-inch, Black

I stand by my orginal reveiw but please be sure to see my updated comments at the bottom!I will begin this review by mentioning that I am a licensed cosmetologist with over 25 years experience styling hair and an unabashed hair appliance junky. When I walk through a store that sells blow dryers, flat irons, hot rollers I always peruse them. I have at least a dozen flat irons, ten curling irons, 4 sets of hot rollers, hooded dryers both hard top and bonnet style. This does not include the dozens of things I've given away over the years or the things I've bought and didn't like so I returned. The bottom line is there is not a type of hair appliance on the planet I haven't tried and I have never been more impressed by the performance of a hair appliance than I am with this Infinitipro Spin Air Rotating Styler. I've used products similar to this many times but this is far superior to anything I've ever used. That ridiculous waste of money InStyler, which I returned, doesn't do a thing. I colored my hair dark blond for many year and last year I got carried away making it lighter and lighter platinum until I finally fried it to the point of no return. So last January had no choice but to cut off my beautiful long thick wavy hair and what little hair was left was still extremely damaged. I brought my color back to the medium/dark brown I was born with but it was still damaged and so short I couldn't do a thing with it. I began slicking it back in a French twist and wearing clip on hair pieces. This has worked well because my hair always looks good and it's so easy to do, but I missed being able to style my own hair. Using a blow-dryer and flat iron was so much work and the results were always disappointing. When I saw a commercial for this and became curious. I was dubious that the large 2 inch barrel would not work well in my short hair, while my length is nearly to my shoulders because of the damage I had to layer my hair, so it is about five inches around. Also because of the layers my hair has become very curly and gets knotted and frizzy. Not very attractive! In a review I read a when I was thinking about buying this a woman complained about having to still dry her hair most of the way before using this. The fact is your hair should always be about 80% dry before you start to style it. When I'm blow drying a clients hair I use the blow-dryer to take out most of the moisture before I pick up a brush. For my own hair I usually let it air dry. So with my hair damp and I started using the Infinitipro first at the bottom and it easily starts to glide through my hair, no tangles or knotting, just effortlessly gliding. Plus even though the bristles are soft it is easily picking up my hair. I'm psyched but this is the longest part of my hair so I go to the top and that is when I discover you can easily switch directions, I never read the instructions, so now I'm getting really excited because it is light and easy to hold and I don't have to twist my arms in to odd ways to hold he Infinitipro where I need it. Then the most amazing thing happened, as I'm holding it at the top of my Occipital bone the brush starts to pick up hair from below buts it isn't knotting. It's just gliding. If I hold my hand steady it doesn't do this but so If I want to add fullness to one spot, but that gliding and picking up hair is great for smoothing. I was finished in about ten minutes and my hair looked amazing for the first time in a year. I used my flat iron just to make it a bit straighter, it took about three minutes because it was alreasy nice and smooth and it looked fantastic. I almost began to cry with joy that my hair actually looked good for the first time in a year!I went to cosmetology school in high school and in the twenty five years I have done this professionally I have used at least a hundred different hair appliances. I've tried every sold on TV gimmicky product, every type of professional product and every type of drug store product. This product is unique and exceptional so buy it with confidence. Make sure you dry your hair about 80% before using it and be AMAZED at the results!Product Update December 2, 2012:I still love this product and still give it 5 stars but a recent question Amazon asked me to answer about using this is African American hair made me want to update my review. I have moderately thick hair with a loose natural curl but the texture is not coarse. I don't think this product will work well in hair that is coarse in texture, very thick or with extremely tight curl. The bristles are very soft and I find I need to take small sections and on the top I need to softly cup the brush so it will pick up my hair. They probably make the bristles so soft so they don't tangle the hair but I think they could make them a bit firmer without that happening. I also think it would help if they made out a 1 ½ inch brush. For thicker coarse hair I recommend the Conair 2-in-1 Hot Air Brush which I also own and like a lot. I never had any use for the regular bristle brush but the 1 ½ inch brush with the plastic bristles works really well. IMPORTANT NOTE: There are several models of this brush make sure you get the one with at least 1000 watts of power or it won't get hot enough to smooth your hair. It doesn't spin on its own but it's still easy to use if you work section by section and spin the appliance yourself. Take about a one inch section and starting at the scalp pull the brush down the section, then roll the section up let it heat up well, and then pull it down again. Repeat this on the section until you get the smooth result you're looking for. This will give the hair some flip so if you're looking for straight you'll need to finish with a flat iron, but it will only take a quick pass or two. This is also true of your hair is very coarse, you may get better result and have them last longer with a quick pass of a flat iron. I still think it is a good product and does what it says it will do. Once again both of these items are styling products so you need to dry your hair about 80% before using it or it will not work well. Good Luck! One last suggestion, don't waste your time or money on cheap flat irons, buy a Chi, Rusk, Bayless, anything that normally retails for at least $150, you can find them much cheaper on Amazon or even at TJ Maxx or Marshalls. Cheap flat irons don't work nearly as well or as quickly.

I have EXTREMELY curly hair (it looks like an Irish dancer wig) and over half a year ago I stopped chemically straightening my hair for the first time in years... Which I didn't think about very much until I decided to get a very short A-line!I always dried my hair in braids, even when it was "straightened" to be more normal-person curly, because that was the best way I could prevent frizz and end up with dry hair that was easily flat-ironed.I tried the normal round brush and hair dryer method on many occasions for over a decade, and I'm just not coordinated enough for it or strong/patient enough to hold them up for the amount of time it takes trying to style my thick hair. But when I chopped off all my hair unthinkingly, I couldn't put it in braids or any kind of ponytail, so by the time it dried it was defying gravity and just could not be flat-ironed nicely. (And the cut I got was NOT made for curly girlies like me.) Then I found this product when I was desperately searching for a solution to my accidental high-maintenance nightmare hair.This may give nice flowing bounce to hair that is naturally straight or long, but I have never straightened my hair so easily in my life!! I LOVE this thing. Now I can not only have short hair with layers, but I can dry my hair in no time, and I don't even have to touch my flat-iron anymore. It's much more gentle on my hair and definitely takes a lot less time than any method I (or a hair-stylist) has used for me before.My advice for use:--DO let your hair air dry most of the way before you use this styler--DO use the low setting unless you really need the high setting to set your style (less damage & fly aways)--DO NOT keep your finger on the spin buttons the whole time, your hair will still dry nicely wrapped around the unmoving brush--DO make sure your hair is BELOW the top of the bristles, using the top of the brush is NOT how this was designed to workIf you notice your *Spin* is starting to lose its gusto in the middle of styling, it's probably because the little motor is overworking itself. And by overworking, I mean overheating. This is why I recommend using just the low setting and not over-doing the rotate function. Rotate works best for getting your hair into the bristles of the brush and catching tricky layers. The longer or more textured the hair you want to style is, the more likely you will have to manually rotate. (I am very sorry to say that this is not an actual magical hair dryer.)This device is limited, like all modern tech, in its capacity to do work for you. You don't get to hold it in a static position and end up with fabulous hair with no effort at all. However, I believe this is the only cord I have ever encountered and not tangled, because it has a fantastic pivot base on the styler. So while you are required to still do some wrist-work, you don't have to fight a cord every time you move, and the dryer works fantastically without the spin function being on, so you only have to hold one thing. It might not live up to the perfect picture of convenience Conair adverts may lead you to believe it is, but in my opinion it does enough to be worth the money.In 4 months, my spin in going strong (I don't push it, of course) but if I do ever kill the motor I will continue using this product without auto-rotate.