#DamnGood Hair Tools Special! Shark Vs. Dyson, “Air” Straightening and Thermal Brushes - We Put Them All to The Test. Plus! The Under $20 Styling Must You Need to Know
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins
4.7 • 954 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Why do some of the buzziest hair tools cost $700, while others are gaining hype for a fraction of the price? Jill stacks up the Shark FlexStyle against the OG Dyson Airwrap Multi-styler, before taking the leading 2-in-1 straightening hair dryers out for a spin. Next, your daring host pops a hot brush in her brunette mane to find out whether TikTok’s latest obsession with “thermal brushes” for soft, feathered waves à la Matilda Djerf, is as dreamy and low-cost as it seems.
Finally, Carlene reveals the hot tool that she blames for her year of bad hair days. Next week, tune in to hear the 7-step hair routine she created to get her hair soft and shining again, with splurge-and-save buys that will work for every budget.
You’ll discover:
- The highly respected celebrity hairstylist bringing big cred to Shark hair tools
- Dyson AirStrait vs GHD Duet Style vs Revlon One-Step Air Straight – Jill tries them all, with varying results
- What’s up with TikTok’s thermal brush trend? Can an 80s redux hot tool really give you the brushed out curls of every Gen Z’s dreams?
- Meet the best damn curling iron that Jill has ever used
- Heatless rollers: The Less-Than-$20 hack that delivered the most
For any products or links mentioned in this episode, check out our website: https://breakingbeautypodcast.com/episode-recaps/
Get social with us and let us know what you think of the episode! Find us on Instagram, Tiktok, Twitter. Join our private Facebook group, or give us a call and leave us a voicemail at 1-844-227-0302.
PROMO CODES: When you support our sponsors, you support the creation of Breaking Beauty Podcast!
Ouai
Get on your OUAI to save for the holiday. Go to theouai.com for 15% off sitewide and enter promo code BEAUTY15.
Hismile
Hismile is the global leading smilecare brand, providing smilecare solutions for every smile concern across whitening, brightening and everyday care. Visit hismileteeth.com and use code SMILE for up to 50% off your order.
Beyond Miracles
Visit beyond-miracles.com and use code BEAUTY to receive 20% off your first order. Cellstory and MiracleTox’s MicroSpear technology is 20x finer than a micro-needling stamp, suitable for all skin types and unlike most treatments, can be used on active acne with minimal downtime.
Macy’s
Whatever your budget, whatever your vibe, check out macys.com/giftfinder to find the perfect present this year
*Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, all products reviewed are gratis media samples submitted for editorial consideration.*
Hosts: Carlene Higgins and Jill Dunn
Theme song, used with permission: Cherry Bomb by Saya
Produced by Dear Media Studio
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a dear media production. |
| 0:02.8 | Welcome to Breaking Beauty, |
| 0:08.8 | the podcast all about the breakthrough people, products, and moments in beauty. |
| 0:12.9 | We're your host, Jill Dunn, and Carleen Higgins. |
| 0:17.8 | Welcome back to Breaking Beauty Podcast, everybody. It's one of our epic damn goods |
| 0:25.0 | episodes because it's November 1st and why not we need to have some good |
| 0:29.8 | hair days coming up. How are you, Carleen? I am fantastic and yes, cold weather girls are back. |
| 0:36.8 | What's it called? Our cold girl era? Cold girl aesthetic? Cold girl aesthetic. So what else do we need for that we need hot tools we need hot |
| 0:45.2 | tools I just feel like this is the season where everybody is kind of making their |
| 0:51.4 | holiday wish list yes and they're in our |
| 0:54.8 | DMs asking what should be in their Sephirookart? |
| 0:58.4 | Yeah. What should they buy but try to save some coin on? I hear you. |
| 1:02.1 | Or add to their Separate favorites and get their boyfriend |
| 1:05.4 | to like sneakily look at the list, so we hear you, we are here for you. |
| 1:09.1 | Exactly. And honestly, how many times over the past several months have we gotten requests to compare this to that? |
| 1:16.6 | You know, check it out, find out if it's hashtag damn good. |
| 1:19.2 | And it makes sense because Hot Tools typically are high ticket items. So people want to know if it's worth |
| 1:24.1 | to spend and I mean we are of course two former beauty editors turn beauty |
| 1:29.2 | podcasters who have seen it all and swatched it all and yeah we're here every month giving |
| 1:35.1 | you our damn good reviews and we haven't done a lot of hair this year so let's get it. |
| 1:38.8 | I know I keep thinking it's because we're like because you've been on a real hair journey |
| 1:44.3 | I'd say for the last year and you I kept thinking we're going to talk about it but |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -476 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Dear Media, Jill Dunn and Carlene Higgins and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.