Is It Worth The Hype? We Reviewed Revlon's One-Step Hair Dryer And Volumizer
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The Revlon One-Step Hair Dryer And Volumizer Brush has become the stuff of legend. At first, it was whispered about in office bathrooms, discussed in Instagram DMs and confined to the corners of beauty tutorial YouTube.
Although it has been around since 2016, the Revlon One-Step shot to fame at the end of 2019. Searches for the product surged during the last-minute holiday shopping rush as word of a miracle air brush that could take the burden out of blowing out your hair at home spread. Publications like Vox’s The Goods, Hearst’s Best Products and, well, us, featuring it in holiday gift guides and think pieces.
Since then, this hot-air brush has racked up a collective 30,000+ reviews across the internet, including about 26,000 on Amazon alone. Converted shoppers have also congregated in the comments sections of Walmart, Target and Ulta.
The brush normally retails for $60 but has been on sale for as low as $35 and is available in five colors.
So, why the heck is the Revlon One-Step air brush suddenly so popular? The clunky hair-brush-had-a-baby-with-a-blow-dryer gadget isn’t exactly a groundbreaking invention. In fact, products that both dry and style hair have been around since at least the ’70s, when the Clairol Pretty Power “hairbrush styling dryer” and the Sears Styler/Dryer were popular. Dyson also released the Dyson Airwrap in 2018 — but for a jaw-dropping price tag of up to $550.
Budget-conscious beauty lovers eager to get an at-home blowout without breaking the bank turned to the Revlon One-Step instead. It now has a cult following thanks to its ability to detangle, dry and volumize hair in a fraction of the time it takes to finesse a blow-dryer and round brush.
Is the Revlon One-Step Hair Dryer And Volumizer Brush really, truly worth the hype? Three members of HuffPost Finds — all with very different hair types and beauty routines — decided to try it out for themselves to see if actually lives up to the hype.