- Hey everyone, I'm Mindy from "Cute Girls Hairstyles,"
and today we are filming the Split-End trimmer.
I have seen this go viral on TikTok.
I'm getting served 8 million ads for this
and I'm gonna test it out for you guys today.
If you've been around my channel for a while,
you know that we did something like this similar,
I don't know, 10, eight years ago,
when it was called the Split-Ender.
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We're gonna test out the new version, see how we like it.
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Let's go to it.
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I have natural wave in my hair.
This is just like me having washed it last night
and then sleeping on it, so it just kind of air dried.
I have natural texture, right, to my hair,
it's not straight.
So if I take this piece, like,
because I have natural texture to my hair,
those edges popped.
See the, all those hairs popping out?
Like, because it's not uniform, right?
It's not straightened.
So all of those little endies are gonna be cut off
if you use this.
It's not designed to, like, know where the ends
of your hair are.
It's just cutting a certain amount
as it goes down to your hair shaft.
So if you have pieces that are popping
because you have natural curl or natural texture,
see all those little side pieces?
Those are gonna get cut,
and that's not what I'm looking for.
My goal today is, like, the hair trimmer
is to trim the ends of my hair.
I just run a straightener quickly down it
to, like, take the curl out.
So instead of looking wavy, it just kind of looks like this.
There's some dead ends, there's some dry ends.
I prefer when my hair is straight
'cause then it just kind of hits the ends,
and I'm gonna go finish straightening my hair
and then I'm actually gonna use the machine.
Like, I'm not gonna be too picky
about being super, super stick straight.
This is not my first rodeo with this type of machine.
In fact, I tested this,
only it was under the brand name Hair, oh my gosh,
it was under, oh, Split-Ender, Split-Ender.
I know what my review was,
but I don't remember, like, all the details to what I said.
This actually is not a totally new machine to me.
It's just made a new resurgence, which I think is funny.
This is what my hair looks like now.
When I got the box, this is what it looked like.
It literally was pretty banged up.
There's nothing fancy to it.
Obviously the hair trimmer,
two little hair clips and a brush.
I had thought it didn't come with any instructions,
but I actually just found some.
So let's read 'em,
"Before using clean the machine, charge it."
It does come without a plug.
It comes as a USB and it doesn't come with the charger,
it just comes with the cord.
I had to rummage up another charger.
It will work while it's charging.
And then I'm assuming that when it's fully charged
it will work wirelessly.
It says it will cut and straighten the hair.
There's no heat to this,
it's not gonna straighten your hair.
See there's little, like, hair knobs,
so it might help comb through it.
It's not, that I can tell,
no, there's no heat, there's no heating element
so it's not gonna straighten your hair.
So let's take a little piece of hair.
Always run a brush or comb through it
'cause I don't want it to get snagged
while it's still trimming.
So you just go up to the top,
(trimmer buzzing)
try to do one smooth pass.
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If I'm being brave, which I am,
I try to go down it one more time,
just the bad sections so that it's like the ends, ends.
And I can already see, see trimming.
I would say it's cutting off, I don't know,
a half an inch, maybe a quarter of an inch of hair.
You can't do super huge sections or it's not gonna work.
Combed again.
See, this is why guys, see I almost broke my rule.
This is also why I straightened my hair.
(trimmer buzzing)
Trim, trim.
(trimmer buzzing)
If you just wanna do it once, that's fine.
(trimmer buzzing)
You note on these two sections, you see a difference?
Look at this guy,
that's kind of what the first one looked like.
Now look at this guy.
It's just gonna help notch off those little rough ends
and it's not gonna get all of 'em,
it's not a perfect machine.
After two passes, that's what it looks like in there.
I think stylists would call this a dusting,
a dusting of hair.
(trimmer buzzing)
Trust me, you don't wanna get snagged partway through
'cause it's still cutting while you get snagged,
and then you don't wanna do that.
(trimmer buzzing)
Use the clips at this point if you want to.
(trimmer buzzing)
This entire left side is done.
This right side is not done.
And remember, they looked the same earlier.
It just kind of cleans up those ends.
It didn't, like, chop any crazy amounts of hair.
This is my sink and countertop after running half my hair.
It is definitely, like, shedding and leaking hair,
even outside of the actual container
where the catches the hair, so you should know that.
Make sure you're cutting somewhere
you don't mind a little hair residue.
Open this up, there's an arrow right here.
This says, slide it up, it's the plastic guy,
and I'm gonna show you what came out of my hair
for the first half of my hair.
Put this back on.
This is the pile from the first bit of hair.
That's the little tiny cleaner.
This is my thumb.
So it's not a huge pile.
That's the majority of the size of the hairs.
They're sort of like,
just like a little quarter inch takeoff.
I mean obviously these are just piles,
but ultimately they're just little tiny quarter.
I really don't even see any that are half,
maybe one or two little half inch pieces here or there.
Inside this little guy is the blade.
It spins in a circle and that's what chops, okay,
when your hair comes through here and here it chops it.
That's how it works.
(trimmer buzzing)
See that?
I will tell you, when I feel like this,
having one down and one not,
like, my fingers are definitely getting caught more
on this side 'cause I have those dead ends
and this side feels really soft and smooth.
It does feel nice.
This side, like, it still feels soft up top, but especially
on the ends I can just feel dry, a little dry.
It's catching on my fingers as I'm pulling through.
All right, let's do the other half.
(trimmer buzzing)
It's now done on both sides.
I am going to show you, that's how much hair
came off the second side, about the same amount.
And it does have a lock feature too, you click it.
And just to test it,
'cause it's now been charging for a hot minute.
It does still work wirelessly.
So this was the first side.
This is the second side.
Look at what I rummaged up.
The Split-Ender.
(machine clicking)
This feels so antiquated now after using that one,
it would still work, I betcha.
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Wow, it's funny how sleek and modern,
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much more efficient.
And I just went back and ran my straightener over it
to just, you know, finish up the straightening part
and give my ends just a little bend.
And I'm gonna just put in some Hairitage by Mindy argan oil
to hit those ends.
This just keeps it nice and soft and hydrated looking.
Just a little hair oil, especially down those front pieces
that always have a tendency to get dry,
and I'm ready to go.
So here are the final results for the Split-End trimmer.
It looks super good.
It does feel really soft and nice.
Let me know if you guys think you would use this.
And I just wanna repeat, that just because you're doing
a split end trimmer
does not mean you should not get regular haircuts.
This is not in lieu of regular haircuts.
It's just kind of like a little, like, quick fix
if you're in a pickle
and you feel like your hair's looking particularly endy.
I gave it two thumbs up, I felt like it did the job.
I felt like I wasn't stressed, it didn't cut off
too much hair or anything weird like that.
Don't forget, you can check out my old video
by clicking over here and hope you guys enjoy this video.
We'll talk to you guys later.
Bye.
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