Quick Horse Hair
The middle of the road with this product.<br /><br />I bought this for my daughter as she was interested in it and she also kept using my hot air round brush.  She said the Apalus brush hair straightener made her hair look &#34;fried&#34;, so I thought I'd give it a try myself before returning it.<br /><br />One thing I really love is that it straightens my dry hair in about 15 minutes.  As opposed to using my round hot air brush which took a good hour with damp hair.  I have quite a bit of thick, curly long hair, like Amy Irving or Dee Snider from Twisted Sister, which means it takes a very long time to straighten.  So the quickness of straightening dry hair is a real plus.<br /><br />However, after using the Apalus, my hair did look &#34;fried&#34; after it was straightened, like the texture of a horses mane/tail.  Not smooth and shiny but dry and frizzy and stick looking.<br /><br />It helped somewhat when I put some gel and frizz serum through my hair and then put my hair in a twisted bun for about an hour to compress the strands and give it some shine.  I also used my In-Styler to get it to compress and look silkier.<br /><br />I definitely prefer the look and feel of my hair after drying it with my round brush dryer over the Apalus, but as I mentioned my round brush dryer takes an hour because I have to section it into very small pieces and it just takes forever plus I developed tennis elbow, even though I did it every other washing or less.<br /><br />The speed of the time straightening of the Apalus just really appeals to me, so I will keep it for that reason, but it's not something I can do right before I leave the house unless I want to have that &#34;horse hair&#34; look or walk out with a twisted bun.  I am just really amazed at how quickly it does the job, it's just too bad that the results aren't smooth and shiny like my round hot brush or the Instyler, which both take so much longer.
Rating: 3 stars