You beauty! Annabel Rivkin has a brush with BaByliss Brilliant Shine
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If you have moderate to bad hair, this may chime with you. Every single time I wash my hair I get a bit nervous, because I never know what it will do. Perhaps this has informed a generally cautious nature, one that embraces neither unpredictable people nor surprises. Maybe if I could be sure of my hair, I’d skydive and do performance poetry and internet-date.
Anyway, every time I wash and dry my hair I wonder which bit will kink, which will frizz and which will flop. Using follicle-flogging backcombing to rescue the general silhouette just inspires a halo of frizzy broken bits that entirely gives the game away. And if you pests with thick hair say ‘serum’, I say ‘grease’.
BaByliss’ Brilliant Shine brush looks thoroughly cheap and nasty. It’s plastic, very light and yet costs nearly £30. Why? I’ll tell you why. Because £30 is not a lot of money to change your hair life, that’s why. It’s battery operated, but it doesn’t roar or judder, it merely emits static-destroying ions that smooth the scales on the hair cuticle to lend a shiny, glass-like gleam to straight hair and glamorous control to curls. For an incredibly subtle finish that won’t kill a style, you simply hold the brush millimetres from your hair and the stream of ions neutralises rough texture and almost polishes the hair. Sound like magic? It kind of is.
BaByliss Brilliant Shine brush, £29.95, at