Diffuser Week: Remington Tstudio Tourmaline and Ceramic Diffuser Attachment

AKA the WORST diffuser attachment I have EVER used. Let's take a look:

From this picture, the diffuser looks pretty similar to the Vidal Sassoon Ion Select, though perhaps with shorter fingers. It's a nice size with relatively small holes. I'll zoom in for you.

Here's what arrived in the mail:

In what universe are these two diffusers the same?! Not only is it just practically one large hole (because there's not much separating all of those) but it's also way smaller in person:

What IS that?!

The stats:

Price: $39.99 with dryer and free shipping from Amazon

Bowl Size: A whopping 4 1/2 inches across

Bowl Depth: Slight

Finger Length: It varies. This has graduated fingers. So the tallest one is 1.3 inches and the shortest is 2/3 inch. The biggest is also on the edge of the bowl with the shortest in the middle. The "dip" of the bowl makes it worse.

Hole Size: Ridiculously huge

Easily Adaptable to Other Dryers: No

Pros:

• I guess you could say the design of the holes is cute

Cons:

• The fingers don't do anything for me; too small, made of hard plastic, spaced out weirdly
• The bowl is too small to function
• The hole size is ridiculous. Nevermind the fact that the only dryer it attaches to has temperature issues (even low heat with a low speed is scalding!), the frizz you get from just turning it on is ridiculous
  
  

Overall Experience:

From day one, it was horrible. The dryer's issues combined with the fact that it is SO small made drying time well over an hour. The frizz was intolerable. There was no curl enhancement.

The instructions that came with this stated that you need to hole the dryer at least 9 inches from your scalp while drying your hair. If I did that, there would be nothing touching my hair. And honestly, what would the point be? It's not like the air is in any way being diffused due to the huge size of the holes. I chose to use this in the traditional way (with my finger almost glued to the cool shot button) and my scalp dearly suffered for it.

Would I buy this again? Hell no. I'm making the dryer work since I needed one, but I bought this specifically for the diffuser and was clearly disappointed.