mdlondon Wave Heated Barrel Brush (Berry) Hot Brush for Short or Long Hair with 5 Heats + Retractable Bristles, Heated Round Brush - Genuine mdlondon Hair Styling Appliances

Incredible tool & easy to use! Love the fact that I can control the heat level and there’s a button to get the “bristles” to retract! Makes it so much easier to use and clean too.

Be careful they become very hot quite quickly, a glove is provided to safeguard your hand, product more useful with long hair

I don't normally write reviews, but ... although it's a bit pricy it's a fantastic product. Iam over the moon with it. I have tried lots of other styling products but this is a game changer. The only thing I wish I had purchased it direct from mdlondon as they included 3 brushes with it. As a special for Christmas. If you are thinking of buying, go ahead, you won't be disappointed.

I have had some bad experiences with hot brushes in the past, including one that auto rotated and grabbed my hair and another that broke apart only to expose some shoddy electrics inside. This one thankfully is of a much higher calibre. It is expensive, but as soon as you pick it up you feel the quality. It is easy to hold, button presses are responsive and it heats up fairly quickly. As a safety feature, you have to press and hold the power button, but it fires up and an indicator light shows you what temperature it is set at. You can easily alter this with a simple button tap up or down. I wanted this to add gentle curls to my hair and it does exactly that. Wrap some hair around it, hold for a few seconds and the curl is complete. You can either unwind or push a small lever and the bristles disappear into the body of the brush and you simply pull it free – no more hair tangles. There are soft ended bristles and 2 rows of straight combs which helped grip the hair when I was curling. There is about 2 meters of cable which was plenty for me. The cable is attached to the brush by a rotating connector, so you avoid tangles and twisted wires. It comes in a simple card-based box with no single use plastic in sight (I wish others would follow this example). It also comes with a silicone mat which can wrap around the hot brush and a little band wraps over the top to hold it in place – genius! There is little to displike about the brush, but I did have a few burnt fingers when I first started to use it as there is little to define the point where handle becomes brush, but you quickly get used to it. Most of the time I burnt a finger was when I was fumbling around for the lever to pull the bristles in, but again, you get used to it. The other minor point is that the trade-off for having the pull in bristles is that the head needs to accommodate this and thus it is a bit chunkier which can limit how tight a curl I can get. Bottom line: it is expensive (currently £125) so value for money is not great, but you do get a good quality brush which gives good results.

Why did you choose this product over others?: Was looking for a styling brush to help give body and wave to help as I try to grow my hair. Like the retractable bristles. Very easy to get good results with spending too long

Had to choose a star rating of minimum 1star - I’d actually rate it 0 star! Don’t purchase this item- the on/off button and the temperature gauge change involuntarily due to hand pressure round the barrel-ie it switches off and temperature changes!!! pretty essential things to get right you would think and making it not fit for purpose- I contacted the company, unfortunately not within a month of purchase, they acknowledged that these traits were an issue and have rectified them in the newer model which you can buy for a mere £199!!!! Very unsatisfactory !

Bought as a gift for my partner, she is quite happy with the device, it works well and is simple to use.

Very disappointed with this barrel brush. When trying to use it, I found that the bar to alter the temperature was too easy to adjust when rolling hair round brush. Also, the button to release the bristles from hair, was very hard to press. And the handle was very chunky.