For as long as I can remember, I?ve had oodles of hair styling tools littered around my bedroom. Back when curly hair was all the rage, I embraced the diffuser and spent hours perfecting my technique in front of the mirror; when straighteners first came to be, this wavy-haired frizz fest was first on the list for her very own at-home solution. I dabbled in those portable styling tools that were powered by gas cylinders that cost almost as much as the device itself, and burnt my hair to a crisp with some overheated GHDs many a time; I was one of the first to try out the ?pro? hairdryers and steampods that provided professional long-lasting results and an eye watering price tag, and I can?t tell you how many times I?ve talked myself out of paying over two-hundred quid for the Dyson dryer. In the last twenty years the hair industry has progressed leaps and bounds, now offering thousands of different solutions to our hair woes across a huge spectrum of price points - helping every one of us to have great hair days every day (or at least when we can bothered to wash it.) But one of the questions that crops up again and again (both from friends and readers) is whether you really need to spend a lot on your tools, or whether you can get away with playing it cheap and cheerful.
Having tried pretty much every type of tool and every brand out there, I can honestly say the majority of the time there?s not much difference. Many brands? tools are actually produced in the same facto...