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- Hey everyone, I'm Mindy from Cute Girls Hairstyles.
Today is a Fab or Fail.
We haven't done one for a while,
drum roll and I found a new item to test.
You're gonna see in the boxes
'cause I wanted you to actually see me taking them out.
So they are basically like a 2-in-1 and a 3-in-1
straightener slash round brush.
That's supposed to give you big bouncy curls.
So we're gonna try 'em out and see if they work.
I'll show you what they look like in just second.
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Okay guys, just so you know, I wash in my hair
just kind of let it air dry.
So this is what we're going with today.
I have done nothing to it, there's no product in it,
there's no style, or curls, or any kind of styling tools.
So the first one we're gonna try
is called the Miracomb Hair Original.
This is what the box looks like,
this is what it looks like inside.
It has a nice presentation.
Let me show you what it looks like
just so you can see what we're working with today.
Here's the thing is it's like a...
Basically, like a flat iron
with like brown brush bristles on both sides.
So I think the idea is...
I have not read the directions but from what I can tell
the idea is that you could use it to one,
(indistinct) your hair like this just like a flat iron,
or two, take it and in theory, put your hair on it
and like round brush it or curl it.
It goes between 250 Fahrenheit and 400.
So I'm gonna take it up to 400
just so that we test it at its hottest, then it's blinking
and it will indicate when it's ready to go, directions say,
"Do not roll your hair into the brush
"as this would cause your hair to tangle.
"Close the barrel to curl hair as you use
"or use as a round brush.
"Open the barrel to straighten hair."
So you would lock it and close it
and it's a heated round-brush,
or open it and it's a straightener.
"To straighten hair insert it into the open barrel,
"slide slowly to curl hair,
"roll you as you would with a round brush and a blow dryer."
So I'm using a hot tool, a styling tool on my dry hair
and then they want me to get a blow dryer out.
- [Shaun] No it's saying,
"Use the round brush like you would this round brush
"with the heater on it.
"Like you would if you just had a plain round brush
"and a blow dryer."
- Thank you Shaun, for clarifying that.
- [Shaun] Glad I could help.
- It's finally red, that took forever.
Let's see how the straightening feature works first.
Let's just take a piece of hair
since we're all familiar with how straightener works.
So start at the top, work my way down.
I don't feel like the plates are super tight,
like they're a little loose.
So it's not like squeezing my hair
as tight as I normally would like it.
I don't personally even think it works as well
as my normal straightener, but it did get it straighter.
Okay, so then in theory, this becomes a round brush.
So I would basically take a piece of hair,
like I would use a blow dryer and a round brush.
So that would be more like this, I think.
But the problem is like doesn't catch on the hair very well
and you can see that through there
it's gripping pretty well,
but then you get to the end and it kind of peters out.
I mean, you can see
that it's giving me curl at the very end
but it's sort of just straightening the rest of it.
These are not hot for the record.
They're warm if I leave my fingers there
but not like burn you hot for sure.
The plates inside I can feel the heat there.
I definitely wouldn't want my fingers down in there
but this kinda keeps you
from getting where you might burn yourself.
It's pretty comfortable in my hand,
I like the soft touch on it.
So aesthetically, I like this one.
Okay y'all, I did my best with this
to do this side of my hair.
Here's the results.
The straightening feature to me,
I get that they just kind of wanted to make a 2-in-1
but it doesn't really make sense
'cause it's not that great a straight iron.
Number one, it said,
"To create a lot of volume at the root,
"you're supposed to pick up a section of hair like this,
"put this underneath, and then kinda hold it there
"with tension on your roots for like five seconds."
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and then kind of brush away,
and that's supposed to create more volume.
I discovered that unless I wrapped it around my hair...
If I just went in like this, it doesn't grab at the root.
The bristles aren't close enough together.
So I kind of had to wrap it like this
which it sort of specifically says not to do.
But then I found that that worked a lot better
and I could definitely get like a curl at the end,
and a little more straight through the rest of my hair.
If I didn't wrap it,
it wouldn't straighten the top of my hair.
It just would've been kind of like not uniformly,
would've just been a mess.
I do think it's a little confusing because it opens.
So I think your instinct is
to want to do this with the brush, like and then turn it.
In my personal opinion,
something like this works much better
because it's also basically giving you
the look of a blowout, but it's giving you a lot more volume
because the tool itself is wider.
There's many, many more bristles, like a round brush on here
and it's using air versus a lot of heat,
which is less damaging to your hair.
And guess who this one's by, Hairitage by Mindy.
You can see she's so pretty.
Also I compared this,
like you can see this is a round brush.
Sorry guys I got hair everywhere.
This is a round brush from Hairitage by Mindy.
I tested these bristles a million times.
Like I pushed back on my design team
and I literally was like hand counting the bristles
on these when I would get samples,
because I wanted a very specific feel
and texture to my brush and grip.
Do you see that instant grip?
You can see that it's creating tension on the hair
but not like ripping my hair.
That is what a round brush is supposed to do.
And that is why when you're using a blow dryer,
you can get those nice bouncy waves and that nice volume
because it has that nice tension on your hair.
That is a good round brush.
Now, just because you guys know
that I like to be very diligent in my fab or fails.
I actually ordered another brand.
This one's by InStyler.
This one claims it's a 3-in-1.
So I'm excited to see a third thing is that it does.
So we're gonna try it.
This is what the packaging would like.
Not nearly as pretty.
(paper rustling)
(Mindy laughing)
Okay, there we go.
Hello?
Nope just kidding.
(paper rustling)
Wow. - [Shaun] Packaging was an F.
- That was a fail.
It feels heavy.
This one's a lot lighter,
this one doesn't have the soft touch on it.
It's just kind of like less expensive plastic.
Miracomb's barrel is...
There's basically no difference,
they're like almost identical.
They each have six rows of teeth on top and bottom.
You know, very similar.
The finger hold is not...
The finger grip is not nearly as nice on this one.
Okay, I was looking up the listings
and actually it's the Miracomb that says it's a 3-in-1.
And this one just says, "Ceramic, flat iron and hot brush."
So the InStyler says two things, the Miracomb says three.
I don't know what the third one is still,
can't figure it out.
If I'm being honest, this one actually grips a lot better.
Like the plates are tighter together
so it's holding the hair better,
and that's giving a little more like grip
as my flat iron's going down.
So that one, I actually feel like gave me a lot better.
Just straightened hair, which that's good.
I liked that.
Let's lock it, just use the locking mechanism.
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No grip almost at all till the very end.
Okay, same thing guys.
I just don't feel like it's gripping the hair,
I feel like it catches maybe right in there.
It starts catching actually,
and then you can see it kind of is catching
the rest of the way down.
Miracomb is $39.99 on Amazon,
the InStyler is $58.16 on Amazon.
So yeah, almost $20 more.
And I will tell you this one
feels a lot more Luxe than this one.
The Miracomb feels more Luxe than the InStyler.
We're gonna kind of pause for a second
and I'm gonna do the same thing
where I just try to take it all the way through my hair.
I'm gonna end up wrapping it around like I did before.
You know, where you take a piece
and you kinda have to do the wrap thing to get it to work,
and then hope it doesn't rip your hair in half
and I'll be back.
Okay guys, this is what this side ended up looking like.
I ended up doing the wrap thing like I showed you,
but this brush actually got a little more tangled
even doing that than the first brush.
The InStyler had a tendency to get more tangled
than the Miracomb so it was harder to pull through.
And so because of that, I wasn't able to as much.
And so you can see at the top of my hair,
a lot of it is still not very like...
It's definitely not like super-blown out,
looking like it still has my natural curl pattern
hanging out in there somewhere,
where this side I do feel
like I got a little bit more of that pulled out
like I would, if I was having my hair blown.
Okay, let's do the final wrap up on these.
The cord is definitely shorter on the InStyler,
it's also shorter barrel overall.
The hot part actually tends to be about the same length
but the handle itself is much shorter.
The functionality of the buttons and stuff,
the Miracomb wins over the InStyler.
Pricing-wise, the Miracomb at $20 less.
So in my opinion, it wins.
Would I recommend this to anybody?
I am going to give both of these tools two thumbs down.
In theory, it might be an okay idea,
but the bristles are not close enough together
to actually work like a true round brush.
So I just don't feel like you get that fully blown outlook.
I think that you're gonna have a lot better results
if you literally use a regular round butt brush
and a hair dryer, or something like this
where it's like a volumizing straightening brush.
They have like so many more bristles,
they grip the hair better which allows you
put a little bit of that tension on the hair
that you need to straighten it out
and really give it that full voluminous look.
I also think like this...
You know, you can see the width of this barrel,
so you're gonna get nice volume.
Same with something like this,
depending on which one you wanna use
versus this at one and a quarter is very small.
So even the volume it does give you,
you know you can't see it really like volumizing your roots.
Far as straightening capacities go,
I do think that the InStyler won.
If you're only looking to use it as a straightener,
this was the better tool.
It's a 2-in-1, so the idea is that you buy one tool,
you spend one amount of money
and you get two things to do with it.
But if I'm being honest,
I just don't think you're gonna be happy
spending your money here,
and that is why I'm giving it thumbs down.
So, that's my verdict.
Let me know if you guys have tried
either one of these 2-in-1 straightening round brush tools.
Let me know if you liked them, what did you think?
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