BaBylissPRO Style/Switch Ionic Multi-Styler & Dryer

Most Helpful Critical Review

Not worth the money....

I wanted to love this so bad but it really fell flat for me and for nearly $300 that is just not acceptable. Strongly considering returning it. the ONE good thing about it is the diffuser which may be the only reason I keep it. The bowl is BIG and deep which is amazing for my long curly hair. No ha...ir flying out the sides and no hair getting sucked up the fan in the back and I love how my curls turn out. But that's about where it ends for me. There are only three heat settings plus the cold shot. The cold shot is NOT cold enough, its more or less the same as the coolest heat setting. The hottest setting is too hot for me and the medium is not quite hot enough which is frustrating. The pause function is cool but gimicky; its not that much easier than just turning it off and on again. Now for the attachments.... Smoother/straightener - useless for me. The way it is design is so bizarre, you can't open it so you just have to shove your hair through and it did not straighten my hair one bit since the plates are not pressing together. The detangler attachment did a better job at straightening than this thing. Detangler - fine I guess but sharp and painful on the scalp, did an okay job of smoothing out my hair for further styling. Round brush - RIPPED my hair to shreds. The plastic is quite cheap and I could not roll it all the way up and then unravel it. My hair got soooo stuckl. I was only able to pull the whole thing through which for my long hair was not much better than a straightener with a little flip at the ends. It also blows your hair everywhere so it was really hard to get it down to my roots without it picking up extra hair from others sections and creating a ton of flyaways. **free curler attachments - eh, they were okay I guess, but again the air was too strong and led to a lot of flyaways. Overall I am giving this three starts because I do really love the diffuser and I do think some of it is user error that will just take time and practice to really figure out. That being said, for the money I did expect it to be a bit more user friendly and for certain elements to be better. The cold shot not being cold enough being a good example. It's something so simple that would have made it feel high end. I consider this average at a high end price which is not worth it to me.