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5:31am January 4, 2014

Well my first trial of The Wet Brush was a success. And despite the trouble it gave me, that olive oil has made my hair shiny ever since I used it a week or two ago. (My hair is coarse and normally dull.)

The Wet Brush doesn’t have to be used wet, I used it dry since I don’t wash my hair often at all and never shower. I’d planned to get a different brush, but all the reviews I read warned people away from it and many told them to use this brush instead, so I got this one. It has bristles that are one stiffness most of the time, and loosen considerably when they encounter resistance like a tangle. I was concerned because the last brush I tried that had little balls at the end, got stuck in my hair and had to be cut out. But actually it worked very well.

It does still hurt if you pull too hard when you hit a tangle. But it doesn’t hurt as much. And it hurts considerably less if you brush gently – very considerably less than a normal hairbrush brushing gently, too.

Unlike my previous brush, this one (I got one that said it was for thick hair, I don’t know if they all are for thick hair or only some) reaches all or most of the way through my hair when I brush it. And when I was done, my hair was much smoother and shinier than usual.

I think it might have had a bit of a straightening effect on some of my waves. But I’m not sure. It could have just brushed some of my straighter hair to the front. I don’t know.

I heard a lot of static, but that’s normal even running my hands through my hair at this time of year, it’s like a constant pop-pop-pop. Even my cat has hair sticking up in weird places from static right now.

Anyway I like this brush a lot better than the random brush someone got me at the store. I’m normally very wary of brushes, but now that I’m able to take better care of my hair, and I’m detangling several times a day, it seems to be useful.

YMMV of course, I don’t know what other hair types are like with this brush.