Babyliss Root Boost Styler Review

Okay, so I'm branching out a bit into hair styling hardware, I won't be doing this too often as my hair is very fine and gets annoyed with heat so I'm quite limited in what I can do to it. However, as I have such fine hair, 'volume' is the stuff of legend - I've never managed to achieve any - I wouldn't cope with back combing - the damage and pain is causes looks horrific! And every product I've bought that promises 'volume' thickness and bounce has fallen short - after 5 minutes.

So, I came across the Root Boost styler - it's basically a very mini crimper - and you place it very close to your roots - clamp down and hey presto - you have a mini crimped section of hair close to your root..."why would you want that?" I hear you ask, well, this little crimp creates a textured area of hair which raises the hair away from the scalp - as long as you ensure you keep a top layer of hair crimp free to cover over you won't notice, and you can still brush your hair perfectly normally :) You don't need to use any products - I would though recommend heat protection spray or balm of course. The styler has a number of heat settings from 140 degrees to 200 - I personally find 140 is plenty hot enough for my fine hair!

Overall I was pretty darn impressed with this - you can get a considerable amount of volume, without products - and the volume lasts until you wash it out - with no stickiness! It's very easy to use - I'd only clamp it on the roots for about 3 seconds - but as I said that's due to the fine hair. It took me less than 10 minutes to crimp quite a large portion of my roots on both sides of my head.

Anyway - this is how my hair usually looks:

And this is it after a bit of a root boost (please note there is also 10 years between these pictures - so it's not *just* the root booster in action here - it's wrinkles and general old age ;) )

Anyway, in summary I like this - I'm not sure about the long term effects of heating your roots - so I will be saving this for nights out etc and those times I fancy do something slightly interesting with my hair ;)

I found mine in Boots for around £20 - I think most places stock this and it's a good price for something that could be used quite regularly.