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The best rotary shaver for a thick beard is one with a high-torque motor, a floating head that flexes in several directions, and cutting slots wide enough to swallow flat-lying hairs. The short version: a three-head rotary with 4D or 5D flexing pods clears a three to five day beard in one pass, while a … Read more

The best hair straighteners for kids hair are not the irons with the highest maximum temperature. They are the ones that can be turned all the way down, switch themselves off, and are small enough that a parent can control the whole pass in one hand. My team and I spent several weeks testing mini … Read more

A professional flat iron is a hair straightener built with salon-grade hardware: titanium, tourmaline, or ceramic-titanium plates, an even heating element, ion technology, and a wide temperature range, rather than the basic ceramic clamshell sold in the discount aisle. All ten sit under 200 dollars, and they are the picks we would hand to almost … Read more

A hooded hair dryer is an enclosed, hands-free dryer with a large hood that sends warm air all the way around your head, so you can dry your hair, set rollers, or sit through a deep conditioning treatment without holding anything in your hand. The best hooded hair dryers for home use fall into three … Read more

A diffuser is the one tool that decides whether a blow-dryer keeps your curl pattern or flattens it. Undiffused airflow hits curls as a narrow hot jet, which roughs the cuticle, kicks up frizz and leaves waves limp by the time you put the dryer down. Over the past few weeks we compared the best … Read more

Most people do not need a full-size iron in a bathroom drawer. They need something that can fix a fringe before a meeting, smooth a cowlick after a car ride, or tame a head of frizz in a hotel room with no outlet near the mirror. That is the whole case for a cordless flat … Read more

A hair straightening brush is an electric styling tool that combines a hot brush with heated bristles or plates, so you smooth and straighten hair by combing it through in one motion instead of clamping it section by section like a flat iron. That single difference is why it is the easiest styling tool a … Read more

A waver iron is built for exactly the kind of hair most people struggle to style: hair that reaches past the shoulders. Where a curling iron wraps one section around a single barrel, a waver presses that section between two or three heated barrels and creates the wave pattern in one pass. On long hair … Read more

Thick hair punishes weak clippers faster than anything else in the bathroom cabinet. A weak motor bogs down halfway through the back of the head, the blades start pushing hair instead of cutting it, and what began as a ten-minute tidy-up turns into a sore-armed restart with a damp towel on your neck. If your … Read more

A fade clipper is not defined by being cordless, cheap or quiet. It is defined by two things: a blade that blends cleanly at a zero setting and a motor with enough torque to drive that blade through coarse hair without stalling. We spent weeks running ten of the most popular fade-capable clippers through the … Read more