- Hey guys, I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
Today, we're going to put one of my own hair tools
to the test.
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and I'll explain the test to you.
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Hello guys.
We are going to compare the Hairitage by Mindy
Catch the Wave Deep V Waver
with a bunch of other wavers in the market.
So we can compare and contrast to see which ones are better,
which ones have longer cords, which ones are heavier,
all that kind of stuff.
Some people have asked me, like,
why would I do a video like this?
The short answer is, it benefits me nothing at all
to try to convince you by lying to you how great my tool is
because then you're just going to go buy it and use it.
And if I were lying to you,
you would be like, well, that sucks.
And then you would leave a complaint and a bad review.
So, I am straight up going to be
as honest as humanly possible with you in my reviews.
Granted, I put, intentionally,
everything I love about a waver
into the waver that I created.
I'm probably really going to like my waver.
I'm just saying, like, that would be the obvious.
I would hope I would like my waver, right?
But, I am going to try to be very transparent
and honest with you on pros and cons to all of the tools
so that you can determine which one you want to buy.
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Today, we are going to be testing the Allure Waver.
I'll just show you some more about it,
along with side-by-side of what mine is.
And then I'm going to do half my hair and half my hair.
And I'm going to post a picture on Instagram
to see what everyone thinks
they like the waves better on visually,
so that you can get some feedback from not just me.
Here's our line up for today.
We have on the left, the Allure Waver.
It comes in one inch barrels, ceramic tourmaline.
It has an LED display, you can see right here.
It's not soft touch, but it's not like cold plastic either.
Oh, dual voltage.
On mine, it is also dual voltage, also LED display.
It has the soft touch.
I personally think mine's much prettier
because it just has some little jazzy finished touches
that just make it feel a lot more elevated.
This is much more of a deep wave,
like one barrel versus a three, same size,
same shape barrels like this one.
I stretch the ends together and this is the difference.
Mine is nine feet, I know that.
So I would wager theirs is six.
The Allure claims that it heats up in 60 seconds.
We're gonna find out.
Theirs is reading in Celsius.
That's a little tricky if you don't know how to convert.
And then what I'm going to do is divide my hair
straight, flat down the middle,
and we're going to start curling
and see which side we like better.
I don't know which one's going to heat up faster.
Their is climbing upwards in the count and-
Oh, look. Mine's done.
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You just put it in and clamp.
And I like doing bump up.
It takes three on my hair.
Also, mine is set to only have four temperatures.
So it's just, like, incremental temperatures.
400 is the hottest.
You can see theirs opens more dramatically.
The biggest difference I can see
is that this one's going to give you more of, like,
even, I feel, like waves.
Which I don't love because they don't look as natural.
Kay guys, there, the second layer done.
This is mine.
This is the Allure.
And we are going to move up and do it again.
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I am starting to see a very noticeable difference
in the amount of volume this is creating versus this.
This is falling much flatter to my face
and this one's much more dramatic shapes.
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The Hairitage by Mindy Deep Waver.
And the Allure Triple Barrel Waver.
I like volume in mine.
I'm going to do them both exactly the same.
Run my fingers through.
Whoa. Sorry guys.
That's test number one.
So determine which one you like.
Because we have other tools
that we are going to test tomorrow.
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Okay folks, another day and another test.
So we're comparing today,
Hairitage by Mindy Deep Waver versus-
I have two that are nearly identical
and I'm only going to test one actually in my hair.
Our three products today.
First we have the Hairitage by Mindy Deep V Waver.
We have the Hot Tools Professional.
Mine's sold at Walmart.
The Bed Head Wave Artist by Tigi.
Price point, $24.99.
This one's $69 and change, I think, on ulta.com
and mine is $39.94.
Okay. Check this out.
Can you all see this?
Do you see this bump versus this bump versus this bump.
These two look like almost the same size.
This one's much bigger.
The Bed Head is plastic.
It has a lock and unlock button right there.
It has an indicator light.
It has an on-off switch
and then a high-low spinning wheel.
Online, when I read about this one, it said it heats to 400.
It did not say it was dual voltage.
And it said it had a six foot cord.
Hot Tools, this is their professional one.
It has a lock-unlock.
It also has the on-off switch.
Their dial, instead of being high-low,
is heat indicated and it goes to 430.
Online, it said it's ceramic only.
This one's ceramic tourmaline.
This one is ceramic tourmaline.
Theirs is a plastic as well, but it's like a matte plastic.
LED indicator, on-off button is here.
It does have a lock feature too.
I, again, this one's just prettier, guys.
It's just prettier.
The shortest one right there is the Bed Head.
It said it was six feet online.
This one says it's eight feet, which looks about accurate.
The secondary black one, and that's the Hot Tools.
The Hairitage by Mindy Deep V Waver is that gray port,
which, nine feet.
Almost identical. And there's a $40 price difference.
Not sure it's going to be worth the $40 just to try it out.
I'm going to test against the Hot Tools version.
This one doesn't have any kind of indicator.
So it doesn't tell me when it's hot or when it's not hot.
You spin the dial and that's it.
Hairitage by Mindy blinks on the LED
and then stops blinking when it's hot.
I think it's going to be a little harder
to tell the difference in the waves today
because they're very similar shaped plates.
Oh, mine stopped beeping.
I mean, that feels hot.
I can't test which one heated up faster
because it doesn't show me.
I'm having to assume that it's hot, feels hot.
So I'm going to go for it.
I like bump up
and I already put on heat protectant this morning.
Hair is all good to go.
Do you like these videos?
If you like these kinds of videos,
let me know in the comments below.
I do like that you can clamp.
Like, remember yesterday, you couldn't clamp.
So I couldn't, like, put pressure on it myself.
It was more of just, like,
that I'd just hope that it was tight enough on your hair.
For whatever weird reason,
I am going to end up with four clamps instead of three.
There's our first round.
On the back, they have these little lines.
I was just noticing when I was holding it like this.
Probably designed for your thumb to sit there
but it kind of irritates my thumb.
That wouldn't make or break whether I bought it.
Just something to note.
Okay guys, we're on our last piece.
Having now done a few little sections,
couple things I've noticed.
The Hairitage by Mindy waver sits more comfortably
in my hand.
However, I did notice that-
See where my thumb is on the bottom?
I did, at least once, like,
accidentally put it up a little too far on the underplate.
It's a little hot, like, your thumb is fine here
but if you move down here where the plates are,
it's a little warmer.
It's harder to tell where that starts and ends
on the Hairitage by Mindy one.
I know I've just told you that I didn't like
the little etching on the under side of this one right here
because it's uncomfortable to hold and it is.
This one's definitely more comfortable
sitting in your hand.
However, I did notice that that little etching
kept my thumb from scooching up too far on the underplates.
So, it's not as comfortable to hold
but it is kind of like a little, like, mental indicator.
Like, hey, don't put your thumb up too far
or it's going to be hot.
I'm just finishing up the last little bit.
Overall, I like both of these
better than the Allure yesterday.
I like that they clamp down on my hair.
I like the shape of the wave better.
So for me, this is definitely the shape of plate I prefer.
In the spirit of being totally transparent with you guys,
because you know that's how I like to be,
this one, the lock-unlock right here,
it's easy to use in one-handed.
Example, if I had it locked and I wanted to unlock it,
I could just flip it with one hand, no problem.
On mine, I have noticed,
because I had done this once and it hurt.
If you lock it, no problem.
If you unlock it while you're holding it, no problem.
But if you unlock it with one hand like this,
something about the placement, like,
you're pulling down right here.
In order to pull down, you have to have your thumb there.
Like, see what happens.
Pinchy. Ouch.
Feel like I was getting less curls
on this side than this side.
And this one is two and three quarters.
Interesting.
Hot Tools' plate
is just the tiniest, tiniest, tiniest bit narrower,
which is why I was getting three on this side
and four on this.
Overall.
Definitely, this shape,
thousand times better than the Allure.
So far, this barrel and shape wins a thousand percent.
And remember guys, like, in real life,
I probably wouldn't wear my hair
parted down the middle like this.
I would flip it.
See how much better that looks.
And then you just let the curls be free.
The thing is, is that it looks so natural.
People are always like, is that your natural hair?
And you're like, yeah it is.
Just kidding, you say no, it's not.
It's my Hairitage by Mindy waver.
For the $10 difference between Bed Head and mine, mine wins.
Hot Tools.
I think pretty close.
They have a good concept here.
I dislike this roughness on the bottom.
I don't like that it's not LED
and I can't tell when it's hot.
I do like that it's an eight foot cord.
For $69, $70, mine wins.
Maybe a good secondary option.
If you want to spend twice as much money.
Also, mine's still prettier.
And I'm going to put up a picture of this
and see what you guys think
and I'll post those results here too.
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I'm probably going to get asked the difference between
ceramic tourmaline and titanium.
Here's the thing.
Ceramic is a really great metal.
It heats up quickly
and it also protects your hair from heat damage.
It's a really good material to use.
Tourmaline, it's a semi-precious, like, stone.
But you can use it alone,
but a lot of times it's added to ceramic.
It produces negative ions,
extra negative ions to help with frizz
and add shine and silky, like, smoothness.
Titanium is an actual metal.
It heats up very fast and it's lightweight.
However, it damages your hair.
The best case scenario, in my opinion,
is when it's ceramic tourmaline,
cause it's mixing strength of the ceramic,
the quick heat-up and the heat protection,
with the smooth silkiness, frizz-free.
And on that random note,
this is the side I curled with mine.
And this is the side I curled with Hot Tools.
Which one looks frizzier to you?
I mean, I'm not dreaming this up, guys.
I have done nothing.
Which one looks more frizzy?
Yeah, you're thinking what I'm thinking.
Ceramic only, ceramic tourmaline.
Just saying.
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Today, we are doing our last and final waver comparison.
And I feel like this is the one
that you guys are going to want to know the most.
So, we're doing, of course, the Hairitage by Mindy waver,
Deep Waver.
And the Bondiboost.
Let me give you the deets.
Ceramic tourmaline. You guys already know this.
This one is saying on it's website, it's only ceramic.
This one is calling itself a triple barrel.
This one's calling itself a waver.
This one opens, the Amazon one did, like this.
This one, push down.
It looks like they both have LEDs.
They both have swivel cords at the end.
And for cord length, let's check it.
Happy to report they are both nine foot cords.
They both say dual voltage on them.
This one says on its website, instant heat-up.
Whatever that means.
For the record, this one reads in Celsius.
Oh, done, done, done, done.
This one's still counting.
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Now, I'm not going to say that wasn't fast
but I don't think I would use the word instant.
Let's go for it.
My dogs are giving us a chorus here.
And as usual, I've already put heat protectant in my hair.
So we're all good to go.
One of the things I did-
That's a workout for your fingers.
I'm having-
And then you have this flippy thing.
These bother me, for some reason.
Just in general, because I feel like they get hot.
So then if you want to flip them up and down,
it's, like, harder.
I did get three waves out of this one.
This is their 32 millimeter.
They have a smaller one too.
This is a little bit bigger barrel.
So I'm getting three out of this.
Okay, I keep almost hitting this button.
I haven't yet.
Oh, shoot.
As I say that, I accidentally turned it off.
The others must not have been as heavy
because I didn't notice it being a concern for me.
But this Bondi one is heavy.
This is really hard to open.
Okay. Yikes.
Feels like, forward heavy.
Like the barrels are heavy.
Which is probably why it's even harder to open.
Cause you're using one finger
and it's, like, already kind of weighted forward.
I'm having to really think about opening it.
I don't know.
I didn't feel this way about the Allure one from Amazon.
So that's weird to me.
It's really hard to open.
Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool. Cool.
And then I just add some dry shampoo at the top, you guys,
and I'm good to go.
Oh my gosh, you guys, that was the longest video to film.
It took me forever.
And I had to wash my hair so many times
but I think it was really interesting to just, literally,
side-by-side all of the wavers
and see the pros and cons to each of them
and determine for yourself,
which one you think you want to invest your money in.
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Oh, I think it was super interesting to see the polls
and which ones you guys chose
because that's not my personal opinion coming into it.
Yeah. Straight up, check out the polls
and thank you guys for watching.
We'll see you guys next week.