doesn't work the way they show in the commercials
When I first saw this advertised on TV (in retrospect though, it seems, only because I was recording Frasier reruns in the middle of the night, because I didn't see those commercials at any other hour on any other channel I happened to watch) I thought this brush would take the market by storm, and was impatiently waiting for some reviews before I splurged. But none of that ever happened - there still isn't a single review of this on any beauty blog or YouTube, the couple of articles you can Google aren't actually reviews if you read them, their own ad on YouTube hasn't garnered any comments in three months (this is unheard of), and the TV commercials stopped airing as well because I am guessing they ran out of money. A few reviews did trickle in here on Amazon over that period, and half of those couldn't be less helpful.<br /><br />I finally decided to bite the bullet and just try out the brush myself.<br /><br />Well, my experience with the brush really wasn't great (I'd say my true rating is about 1.5 stars). I have 2c/3a half wavy half curly hair, and anyone with curly hair would be able to relate: you know how when you dry brush your curls out you end up with this huge frizzy mane? Well, the effect I got with the Clamp It brush wasn't much better. It did straighten, but it didn't leave the hair smooth or shiny, it was just this big head of straight (and dull) hair. Honestly even when curly my hair is much shinier. It also didn't straighten the ends of my hair for some reason, I still had a little wave going on there. And everything I am describing continued to be the case even after multiple passes.<br /><br />Also, the big selling point of this brush was that it can straighten large strands of hair at a time. Well, here is the thing: with my hair, at least, if I took a wide strand, it wouldn't go THROUGH the heated comb teeth, it went over ON TOP of them, and that's with the brush fully clamped! In order to get my hair to actually go through the heaters, I'd have to take a very small strand at a time, and that kinda defeats the whole purpose - I mean, the whole reason I even wanted the Clamp It in the first place was because using any other straightening tool is such a pain.<br /><br />Oh well, at least I was able to return.
Rating: 2 stars