Review: the Tangle Teezer

Yes, I am 100 years behind everyone else, but I finally bought a Tangle Teezer two weeks ago. I'd honestly forgotten about it, but a quick trip to a different Sally's jogged my memory. Lo & behold, they had one! I was super excited since I'd heard so many great things about it since its debut.

As soon as I got home, I tested it on a small section of hair. It did okay, nothing special. I didn't want to go further since my hair was super dry; I decided the time to test it would be when the hair was wet. Fast forward a few days when I decided to wash & twist my hair. After I washed my hair & let it dry just a bit (I hate working with sopping wet hair) I sectioned off my hair and tried to go to work. One problem: I couldn't get a sizable section through the TT. With too much hair, the comb just seemed to glide over the hair instead of actually getting in there and detangling. I had to keep making smaller and smaller sections until I finally had just a tiny bit of hair between my fingers. My hair is too thick and my head is too big to deal with all those little sections, so I said forget it.

Fast forward again to Monday night, when I washed and DC'd (I need not ever go more than three weeks again... Lawd it was a struggle!). While the conditioner was still in, I decided to give the TT another go. This time it was a little better, and I actually got through most of my head. (By the time I got to the crown where the real monster hair is, I was worn out.) I was still a little frustrated that I had to divide my hair into such small sections to make it work. And the hair loss was about the same as when I use my wide-tooth comb to detangle. One pleasant surprise though: after rinsing the conditioner out, the hair that detangled with the TT did not tangle up again as bad as it usually does. The whole re-tangling after detangling thing is my least favorite part about doing my hair, so I was pretty happy with that.

Overall, the Tangle Teezer is an OK product to me, but not the miracle that it was made out to be. It doesn't seem to be made with the super thick haired gals in mind. I'll give it a few more tries before I write it off, but for the time being my old faithful wide-tooth comb has it beat.

(Sidenote: I've been seeing some updates with people saying that after using the TT for a while, they've noticed breakage, damaged ends, etc. Have any of you experienced this?)