After my daughter was born, I soon realized the struggle facing them: the maintenance.
#LongHairDontCare is a lie. It’s difficult to take care of a lot of hair and keep it healthy and looking great. Weekly wash days with my daughter were always full of tearful agony—her tears and my agony because I did not want to deal with her hair, which took an entire day to wash, detangle, blow-dry, and then style. Back then, I would pray for tools that could ease the hours of blow-drying and straightening her hair. I spent a fortune on products that, in the end, did little to shorten the time spent or offer her any comfort.
These days we have a lot more tools, such as high-quality hair dryers with good attachments, and, more recently, the RevAir. TikToks I saw made me too terrified to try it. The thought of a machine sucking your hair in—instead of blowing air out of the device—was a lot to wrap my head around (no pun intended). Hair would disappear into a mysterious cavity and return dry and straightened. It sounded too good to be true, but if it worked, it would be a game changer and maybe cut time spent on our wash days by a lot. We had to try it.
My daughter and I, along with two Consumer Reports employees and another daughter, evaluated the RevAir to see how easy it was to set up, use, and store. We also wanted to find out if the device does what it claims to do: cut down on hair-drying time while stretching hair in the process.
