 Ladies and gentlemen, it is time for the Diffuser show now! Kind of YouTube allowed us to actually play music. It could be so much easier. Hey Co-Friends! I'm Bianca Renee and you are watching Bianca Renee Today. And today we are going to be putting all of the top blow dryer and diffusers head to head to kind of help you guys figure out who really makes the best diffuser for curly hair. If you are new here, welcome! I post new videos every Sunday all about curly hair, product reviews, and basically your guinea pig so you don't have to waste your money. So if you like what you see today and you want to learn a thing or two about your curls, make sure you subscribe and follow me on Instagram and TikTok at MsBianca Renee. Now I'm coming to you today with very flat hair because I haven't diffused yet because I'm probably going to be using these throughout the video. So my hair is just going to get bigger and bigger as this video progresses. So first let me introduce you the opponents who made the cut in the diffuser showdown. Starting off with our newest contender to the diffuser world also representing for the black owned brands is Pattern Blow Dryer. Next up also known to be making your vacuums. It's not a dolphin, it's not a whale, it's a shark. And it's sister, Sharkisha, the shark flex style and the shark hyper air. Kicking at old school we've got a very affordable amazon fine, the Revlon. Next is the blow dryer made by one of the most popular curly hair brands with a diffuser that looks like a bowl of ramen, the curl de frigeon. Taking it back to what used to be a fan favorite with a diffuser shaped as a hand only to get completely canceled by the entire curly hair community, the diva dryer. The charged diffuser. And last but certainly not least the blow dryer that everybody wants but just can't afford. It's bougie, it's powerful, it's probably the most expensive charger in your Ulta credit card, the Dyson. So I have a total of eight blow dryers and we're gonna be comparing today. All right where do we get started? We have a lot of topics to cover so I'm bringing out the burn book because we're off the burn. Some of these brands but we're not gonna burn our hair. Diffusers only. So I put a poll up on Instagram asking you guys what you wanted me to cover in the diffuser showdown and you guys want me to talk about the price, the noise, the cord length, heat temperatures, the wattage, heat settings, diffuser size, warranty, number of attachments, uniqueness and dry time. Let's get to it. Okay let's start off with the diffuser size. Out of all the ones you're looking at here the obvious largest diffuser absolutely goes to the curl smith, the frijon. This is the largest diffuser on the market. It's eight inches and it's literally made for curls so that you could fit all of your hair in here and do one little scoop to do. If you aren't really diffusing like this it is pretty large um even going this way but it's covering more ground making it faster to diffuse because you're you're obviously hitting more hair at one time so that just makes sense. Who else has a unique diffuser? The shark hyper air it has a little switch right here see how they extend so you can just diffuse like this and then when you want to hit your roots you go like this and now it can actually get in there closer to your root so I thought that was a really cool diffuser and then if you want to talk about uniqueness of diffusers nothing gets more unique than a green hand this used to be a favorite of mine and the only reason I brought it in here is because I mean technically the diffusers didn't get canceled more like the products it's probably just the whole brand in general but here we are I thought we should talk about it because although this used to be my favorite I never use this anymore this is a smart idea because it's just gonna get right to your roots distributing a very soft airflow but now that I've moved on to bigger and better blow dryers I've realized that this took a very long time to dry like it is good for the roots but for the rest of the hair it just wasn't fast enough it will give your curls beautiful definition because it's like such a soft you know gentle diffuser you're not gonna get as much frizz so that makes sense aside from those three everyone else is kind of like your standard circle diffuser they kind of look the same similar prong length like nothing too special slightly bigger than one another but you know just standard let's talk about how they attach oh the shark hyper air is a click Revlon gotta push it on there the flex you have to pull this lever down and then take it off this is probably the most inconvenient uh nozzle in my opinion ion is a magnet just like the Dyson also magnet this acts this magnet feels stronger than the ion for sure curl smith is a popping click and the pattern you have to hold down these little buttons here and then it comes off apparently this was like a bragging fight for them because people said that when they use the Dyson the magnet just like falls off how do we all diffuse in because as much as I've used my Dyson and the ion the diffusers have never just fallen off on me while I was diffusing so I don't know how wild y'all are diffusing but if you need something that's very sturdy I mean this is completely locked in so there's that but then when you take it off it's going to be like a two hand situation and I like to do everything one-handed so when it comes to attachability choose accordingly now let's talk about the level of noise I don't have like a noise uh you know reader but let's just see how they all sound I'm gonna need a lot of outlets starting up with the Dyson pattern ion it sounds pretty loud shark loud too do the shark flex okay the Dyson is definitely quieter so smith and Dyson so far are sounding the quietest let me know if you guys agree I will say diva curl has made a new blow dryer and diffuser the new one the whole body is lime green and I did read that these attachments no longer fit the new ones how convenient it's very apple of them we still have this guy the annoying attachment I never like this it just doesn't look cute and you get to like shove it on they say it fits most blow dryers it does not fit my Revlon doesn't fit the shark it fits curl smith doesn't fit the pattern doesn't fit the ion doesn't fit the Dyson so I do like going like this sound wise I feel like the Dyson the curl smith and the diva dryer actually were like the most like normal now let's get down to the nitty gritty and talk numbers you guys want to know about the price one of the most main factors when choosing a blow dryer it's going to be your budget and guess who's coming in at number one for most expensive blow dryer you guessed it the Dyson supersonic diffuser this baby is four hundred twenty nine dollars and ninety nine cents and is rarely ever on sale I purchased this with my own money from Sephora and the only way I'll be getting a little discount is when I got it during the Sephora semi-annual sale is that what it's called super sale spring sale guess why they make the Sephora squad you know that big Sephora sale if you're rude you get 20% for a VIP you get 15% so I only got 15% off it was something and I was gonna take it because that was a pretty penny and as you could see I don't need blow dryers but I had to try this because everyone talks about it and even though it is stupidly expensive I do love this blow dryer I often grab for it over my other ones all the time we'll talk more about specs in a minute oh it fell off after I just said it's never fell off something to keep note of coming in at number two at two hundred ninety nine dollars is the shark flex now this one I kind of understand why it'd be a little bit more expensive because it's not only a diffuser you could take this off a little lever on this one pull it down so once you go like this you can attach this little attachment and now it becomes a curling wand also acting like a Dyson hyper air dupe because it's kind of one of those things where the hair like flies to it and curls around so the fact that you're getting a curling wand and a blow dryer and a diffuser that really makes it worth it because now you're not buying a blow dryer and a diffuser and a curling wand so that makes a little more sense unlike that Dyson price coming in third place is the ion lux supercharged two hundred and forty nine dollars and ninety nine cents kind of made range at this point next is the shark hyper air which is two hundred and twenty nine dollars and ninety nine cents now I'm basing all these prices just off of the website like directly from the retailer you might be able to find this one cheaper at walmart I heard it said Costco I didn't do all the you know the price matching but based off of the standard retail price 229 this one is also compared to the Dyson being said a Dyson dupe because of the technology but we'll talk about it next we have a tie for one hundred and eighty nine dollars ninety nine cents the curl smith diffusion and the pattern blow dryer same exact price which one are you going to get the new diva dryer is a hundred and eighty dollars I feel like it used to be was it always 180 or was it like 150 at the time I remember it being really expensive before I knew about Dyson and everything now it's one of the more affordable options but believe it or not I have a diffuser that is a whopping 2499 no not 2424 dollars and 99 cents I spend more at mcdonald's and that is old faithful the Revlon I got this one off of amazon I think even I paid at least I don't know 30 or 40 bucks but 25 dollars to essentially do the same thing as all the other ones let's talk about it so what is the actual name of this one so this is the Revlon infrared hair dryer let me try it out and see how much volume I can get so there's only a hot and a warm it has high and low and then it has a cool shot button okay so the warm is just fine I don't I don't think you need to go to the hot setting on here maybe for hair soaking wet the reason I actually bought this was because of my sister-in-law she was using it straight out the shower on her wet hair and her hair looks great I was impressed and bought it immediately especially for that price it does have the tourmaline ionic technology ceramic has a 1,875 watt which spoiler is one of the higher wattages out of all my blow dryers um so you just really get a lot for your money if you think about it let's say you bought this and it broke right you can buy 17 of these for the price of one Dyson blow dryer your mama your dada your sister your cousin your neighbors the whole family could get one put in their stocking it's a great blow dryer look at my hair I mean I guess the job done you got to hold down the cool shop button so there's that 25 dollars I'm gonna use this in one of my next videos I forgot I like this one yeah so basically out of all the ones I have some are 25 dollars some are 430 dollars what's your budget what's in your wallet okay let's talk about number of attachments most blow dryers give you two they're going to give you the diffuser and like the standard concentrator nozzle the blow dryer with the most attachments is the Dyson now this is new when I bought this Dyson I got like a weird little comb that I've never used I got the concentrator nozzle the diffuser attachment I didn't even get a carrying case in this little special edition I got and that was it and then you have to pay like an additional sometimes up to 50 dollars for their other attachments but when I checked on the website yesterday on the little bundle that they currently have right now you get four attachments and then when you check out it says you could pick two more so you're getting a total of six different attachments and the comb and a carrying case so for that price you better give me six attachments second place for most attachment goes to the shark flex tied with the pattern blow dryer pattern has some really unique ones from this diffuser to this long tooth comb this one for like brushing out your hair which I think I'm going to try today actually and then the standard concentrator nozzle where the shark flex gives you the diffuser the concentrator nozzle a left and right wand and I believe oh correction I think this shark flex style has more options than the Dyson one two three four five six seven eight yeah there's eight different attachments you have the left and right wrap curlers the auto wrap curlers that are a little bit smaller a wide tooth comb a styling concentrator a round brush an oval brush a paddle brush and the diffuser if you want the bundle of all of them that does raise this price up to 279 but it's still cheaper than the Dyson so now we have shark flex Dyson then pattern with four curl smith comes with three that I was excited about it has the large diffuser it has a concentrator nozzle and when it looks like a pic to kind of give you some more volume and then all the other ones only give you two the diffuser and the concentrator nozzle attachments matter so keep that in mind when choosing okay now let's talk power wattage intensity what's gonna give me a lot of airflow to dry my hair really fast who would you think is in the top spot for wattage and power in my mind my guess was Dyson because it's so expensive but it's not and it's like really not the top spot with 2000 watts goes to the curl smith de frijon let me see what 2000 watts feels like I would think that the most powerful one would feel like a really strong breeze but the diffuser does such a good job at like concentrating the air that you don't have like a really harsh airflow it's still very soft and they did that on purpose to be gentle with our curls so that's interesting I don't think it feels the strongest when you actually use it second place we have a three-way tie with 1875 watts that goes to the pattern the ion and out here hanging out with the contenders with the highest wattage second place 25 okay let's see what they feel like let's start off with the ion this airflow definitely feels stronger not as soft as the curl smith one it might not be a bad thing if you're in a rush and you just really want a lot of air like on your curls let's try the pattern at full speed solid airflow on this one too and let's see what the other red one does definitely lighter so when it comes to like how it feels I would say the ion feels most powerful than the pattern than the Revlon and I did see the Revlon on an article that said it would win for best blow dryer to not overdry your curls and I can see that because it's not too much airflow guess it depends on what you like next in line is the shark air which is 1680 watts let's try you for being as a hunky donkey as this is that was a pretty light airflow I would compare this to the airflow of the curl smith and Revlon maybe a little bit more than the Revlon uh Dyson let's see how you feel pretty light interesting Dyson has 1600 it's in the second lowest spot of watts and the lowest wattage goes to the shark flex just so you guys know look what I've done oh my god it's still pretty soft though so what I've learned is the wattage does not equal the strength of the airflow you guys know that next up let's talk about the heat temperatures I actually was not able to find how hot each blow dryer got on anyone's website the only one that I was able to find was Dyson and the Dyson can get up to 212 degrees Fahrenheit that is very hot um if you know any of the specs for any of the blow dryers we're talking about please leave a comment down below let me know I wasn't able to find it but I will tell you which blow dryers I believe get too hot for curly hair on certain settings so in general you're always going to want to diffuse your hair on a medium heat you never really want to go full heat if you do want to go full heat because you're in a rush or whatever it may be you want to use it while your hair is soaking wet and then switch to a medium heat and then also hit that cool shot button so let's talk about how the blow dryer actually feels heat wise and that cool shot button so the Dyson I would only be using it on the coolest heat setting the lowest one is still pretty hot so if you go all the way up to the third one I could see you possibly getting heat damage or at least some dryness if you overuse your blow dryer on the highest setting so with the Dyson keep it with the lowest one with the cool shot button you do have to push down the button it doesn't stay but now let's think about the button placement when using this most curly girls are always diffusing like upside down red angle you do things with your thumb but you have to flip it around and then go like this and then also reach up for the fan speeds and the heat controls all the way up top here so when it comes to like using it you kind of like stop change and then do what you want to do if you are straightening your hair and you're changing it to like the concentrator nozzle maybe for straight hair the buttons make more sense because you're going to go like this and now your thumb is here to push the buttons you kind of slide up but for curly hair and no one how we're always like this I don't know the buttons might not be in the best placement for curls ion lux the on and off switch is right by the thumb and then on the front you have the three heat settings three fan speeds and a cool shot button so the cool shot button isn't like the other ones where you hold it down and it releases cold air you actually can just make a low medium or high cool setting so right now it's cool stronger cool and strong is cool same with the ion I think the strongest one is probably too hot when you feel like you start to smell your hair kind of like not burning but you smell your hair I kind of get that vibe on the highest setting on this one and on the Dyson the other thing I don't like about this one is that the heat and the fan speed have to correlate so I can't do a low heat setting at a high fan speed I have to do low heat low fan speed medium heat medium fan speed high heat high fan speed you can't interchange which is kind of weird when you really think about it I would rather do high fan speed at a lower heat setting but it doesn't let you do that shark air three fan speeds three heat settings power button on the back cool shot button on the front conclusion I like the first heat setting on here it's hot enough for our curl and I love when a diffuser can go on the first level and still be warm enough maybe the middle setting definitely wouldn't have to go high heat just for our curls this one you can change between fan speed and heat you could switch it up but it is all the way back here which isn't the most convenient when you're trying to do things Revlon I briefly talked about only has low and high no middle ground and it has warm and hot the cool shot button you do have to hold down and I think the warm setting is just fine for the Revlon the shark flex style really switched it up by having all the controls down here at the bottom the buttons are flushed so there's three heat settings three fan speeds power buttons down here and a cool shot button yeah the top level smells like fire but the first one is a pretty warm it's like a coolish warm I probably see myself using the medium heat setting on this one and then going down to the first probably won't need the high heat as well cool shot button you have to hold down while you're using to activate but now let's talk about the two brands that really have our curls in mind and listen to their audience now pattern has three heat settings only two fan speeds it has an ion button so basically every blow dryer has ion technology everyone tries to make it seem like this cool thing that's supposed to reduce frizz seal your cuticles make your hair shiny reduce heat damage pattern for some reason said let's make that optional so if you don't have ion technology you could get more volume on fine hair just how they promote it but you gotta push that button on or off if you want to use it the cool shot button they actually have it so it locks so you push to activate and then it could just stay cool versus you having to hold down anything I think I've even said this in my pattern video I feel like the heating settings on this blow dryer are perfect like the high is just enough to be more hot but not like overbearing middle is like perfect but even if you just need like a refresh type of diffuse the low setting is also great so I love the heat settings on the pattern one having only two fan speeds I guess works lower high um and then the permanent cool shot is also really cool when it comes to button placement they switched up so let's put it on the side so I guess when you're diffusing your thumb is here but then if you're doing like some sideways stuff I guess your thumb does end up like on the side but then you gotta switch this way I don't know you're kind of moving that around to reach all the buttons curl Smith with our curls in mind they have everything around the front which is I feel like just most normal so now when I'm diffusing I can switch from low meat or meat that's not a setting low medium heat lower high without even looking so I don't have to look I could just be flipping the switches instead of even sideways so I feel like that just makes more sense when you hold it and then the cool shot button also stays so you don't have to hold it so the fact that like pattern beauty is a hair care brand for natural hair curl Smith is also a brand for curly hair I think they knew that we don't like those kind of things and they made the blow dryer with us in mind versus everyone else is kind of made for straight hair let's be honest but even on the highest heat setting of the curl Smith it is not getting hot so I don't see you accidentally getting heat damage with the curl Smith one or the pattern beauty one these are really made for our curls so with all that said you're probably thinking okay what I really want to know is the dry time I only have 10 minutes to get out the door and I don't want to spend my entire day diffusing I can tell you right now the diva curl we were diffusing for hours because it just does take a long time with this diffuser so if you're looking for speed I wouldn't recommend the diva curl one in my past comparison videos I have timed myself using the Dyson the curl Smith the pattern and the ion and they all kind of took about 10 minutes for me it's actually really hard to talk about the fastest dry time because there's so many factors that come into play when you're diffusing your hair that involve human air so if you are diffusing really thick hair versus fine hair that could be two different dry times if you have short hair versus long hair that's going to play a factor your porosity how fast water absorbs into your hair versus how much is being dried by the blow dryer is going to make a factor the products that you use if you use a gel that creates a cast when it dries that's going to drive faster than a hair that is like super moisturized with a bunch of creams so it's kind of hard to say because it's going to depend on your routine I feel like that I have it when I'm in a rush I do often reach for my Dyson but now after doing this battle I realize that it doesn't even have the highest wattages it does get really hot but that's not always a good thing I even read this article that also did a super comparison of all blow dryers and even they said not one blow dryer really dried their hair like too much faster than the next they all kind of relatively do the same thing I know it's probably not the answer you're looking for but I know I am able to dry my hair really fast when I want to use a gel that's going to create a cast on my hair I do prefer to air dry first so keep that in mind when I do my hair I don't think I could say that like this blow dryer takes me an hour to blow dry and this one takes me five minutes you know what I mean cord length let's go measure and now for the length test of the longest cord goes to curl smith just made it the curl smith the frijohn has the longest cord second place would be the ion lux then I'd probably say it's between the shark flex and the Dyson then the shark air and the mmm diva curl is actually pretty close too the shortest ones were Revlon and pattern didn't give us much cord well there you have it because the length definitely matters if you want to reach that outlet could make or break you now when it comes to warranty I would say your best bet would be the expensive ones like Dyson and shark these are also two brands that make vacuum so they just kind of know that people are expecting warranties with these high price items they both offer a two year warranty Dyson has two years parts and labor and shark has two year limited warranty where it's already included you don't have to like fill out any paperwork I know pattern also has two years it's kind of like you had to search for it when you go on the curls for the website it doesn't have anything like up front about the warranty it might be like a customer service situation same with like you know Revlon from Amazon and Ion I don't see too much up front about it so you might have to apply for it pay for one or you know read that fine print but if you just want like a very easy simple warranty situation Dyson or shark and last but not least let me just tell you the unique features of each one that might just further convince you into buying that blow dryer so like I said with curl Smith it's really made with our curls in mind super large bowl if you diffuse like this and you like all your hair in there and you want it to be fastly covered at a nice even airflow that's not going to overheat your curls feels comfortable in the hand curl Smith might be for you standout feature for me aside from the large diffuser is it has the little kickstand those two little prongs right here allow it to stand up and be hands free so if you really wanted to just diffuse like this you could and the permanent cool shop standout features for pattern the permanent cool shop button and it's really pretty so I think it might be the best looking blow dryer I love things in color the Dyson also comes really pretty colors it says pattern right there on the grill it has the ion button if you want to turn it off maybe get more volume if you have fine hair and if you don't like the magnetic type of diffusers it's very sturdy because of the clicking technology here Dyson I mean fan favorite there's a pro addition for professionals they're using it in the salons that comes in a lot of pretty color they have a lot of pretty cases they have a lot of cool attachments I think the attachments is probably like the biggest seller for the Dyson as well as it just working really well and gives me frizz free results the shark biggest feature is the raising of the prongs the shark flex just does so many different things if you're looking for a curling wand and a blow dryer and a diffuser it's just so many things all together the isle looks super charged has a memory recovery so whatever your last settings were next time you plug it in it's going to be those same settings remembering how you like to diffuse your hair it also has that ultra fast airflow for faster drying diva curl standout feature would be the very unique diffuser but I don't know if you want to support diva curl right now and the best standout feature from the Revlon is that it's only $25 and the last important spec I think we should talk about is the weight because you're holding it you don't want it to be too heavy when it comes to the lightest blow dryer just the base alone without the diffuser is the shark flex style it's only one pound but once you put the diffuser on which is actually kind of heavy it takes it down to the third spot when it comes to the weight with the diffuser the lightest blow dryer with the diffuser attachment is the Revlon coming in at the number one spot it is the second lightest without the diffuser and the top lightest with the diffuser only one pound five ounces now I will say don't quote me on these numbers because I was literally weighing these all on my food scale might not be the most accurate when it comes to numbers but it's so I was consistent I did weigh all of them on this scale just to see which one was heavier which one is lighter and the heaviest blow dryer getting up to two pounds is the shark hyper air this is really heavy it's heavy on its own and then gets even heavier with the diffuser so the heaviest blow dryer diffuser is the shark air the second heaviest is the curl smith because this diffuser makes it heavy so to compare the shark air was two pounds one ounce and the curl smith was one pound 12 ounce so they're both up there but this one is definitely the heaviest and the two lightest being the Revlon and the ion lux both very lightweight all right we did it we compared all of the top blow dryer diffusers that I own I hope this was helpful for you and I hope you can decide which one you want I'm really curious though what were these standout features that really just were the deciding factor for you which blow dryer do you own do you love it do you hate it do you want to swap it out let us know all your thoughts below so we could help more people make a decision if I absolutely had to choose I mean the Revlon one if you're on a budget just get the Revlon one they all do the same thing your hair's gonna dry eventually it has really high wattage it's a great blow dryer that's just gonna get the job done if you want to be bougie and stunt get the Dyson if you want to support Trace Els Ross and you like the nice round shade and you think it looks pretty beautiful heat settings no matter what setting you're on if you're looking for something made for curls that has a large bowl with a very soft airflow and it's not going to give you any heat damage get the curl smith one I will suggest that you get a diffuser just so you own one because your curls will look different and I personally diffuse my hair every day even on my refresh days I just love how it makes my curls look I have fine hair I need it to get the volume and just to dry faster otherwise it might take seven ten business days if you enjoyed this blow dryer show down make sure to give me a thumbs up and subscribe I put a lot of work did a lot of research in this video so I hope it was helpful let me know in the comments below also follow me on instagram and tiktok at miss beyond grenade and subscribe so you don't miss any more curly hair helpful tips I'll see you guys next time thanks for watching beyond grenade today