I’m only half-joking when I say that one of the reasons I cut my long hair short last year was because I was just so terrible at blow-drying it myself. I wanted a style change, but I was tired of my inept DIY blowouts. I lacked both the skills and the patience. The 30 mins or more it took—for results that were pretty average and still frizzy—were just not worth it.
I cut my hair, bought a pair of straighteners and accepted the heat damage.
It’s not that I hadn’t tried to find a hair dryer I liked. Over the years, I’ve tried various models, from the cheap to the expensive, and settled on a Parlux as the best of the bunch: It was around the $150 mark, a solid 6 out of 10, and gave good results if I had the patience to persevere. It was also heavy considering the time it took to make my hair okay. I never felt the need to spend more money on a blowout at the salon than I did at home.
I’d pretty much all but given up on a good hair dryer until I met the Gama iQ Perfetto Hair Dryer. Launched in 2019 in Europe, and in the US in 2021, it’s billed as the lightest (weighing in at 0.65 lbs) and most powerful hair dryer in the world, claiming to cut drying time by 30%. It costs $400 and comes with two smoothing nozzles and a diffuser.
Before I tried it I was skeptical. The only thing I can tell you is that you need it.
Gama iQ Perfetto was a revolutionary hair dryer that changed my life. Firstly, the weight—it is extremely light. There is no way you’ll get tired arms, no matter how long you hold it for. Then, there’s the drying time. Unstyled rough-drying took me three minutes. It was surprisingly smooth and shiny. And when I attempted my first properly styled blow dry, it took me ten minutes—I timed it!—and is the closest I’ve ever come to a salon look at home.
Source: Glamour
