Olivia Garden Ceramic + Ion XL Pro Paddle Brush - Anti-Static & Comfort-Grip

Best vented paddle brush out there. Really straightens. I want one everywhere like for travel and home. Wonderful

Hard to find a good brush these days. This one is great; thank you for a good product.

Nice brush good weight real ceramic so it heats nicely nice big sized paddle brush

Ditched my hard bristle brush and now massage my scalp daily by brushing with my new Olivia brand brush. Has a great feel!

The bristles are smooth at the bottom where the bed of the hairbrush. They don’t have rough edges poking out like most hairbrushes. It’s not as heavy as most hairbrushes. The bristles are flexible & a thick plastic. The bristles aren’t as flexible as other hairbrushes I had in the past but those had rubber bristles & can be costly. This is a cheaper alternative. The pick at the end is attachable to the of the handle. The pick isn’t a sharp point. I did try it out when getting a tangle out & I liked it. It’s stays in place & attached. It didn’t fall off I was using it. It’s easy to flip around to put it back in at the end of the handle. The bristles are spread out enough to clean the hair out. I purchased the purple color & it is very nice pastel shade. It got all my tangles out easily & I always start from the ends first to work my way up because I have long hair. I didn’t loose many hair strands.

So, I ordered this brush after a long and at times frustratingly difficult search for a "non-curved" (i.e. basic paddle shape/only curved along 1 axis) vented paddle brush. I knew that with my very long, thick, strong and extremely fine hair that I would need a brush that had a lot of vented surface area as well as stiff . After finding only "curved" examples of this I finally stumbled upon this brush. It seems to work well, is indeed not rounded like some of the other options and has plenty of ventilation, but I have two main complaints:First: The bristles are not as stiff as I'm used to in my brushes and they don't really provide the resistance my hair needs to be detangles (esp. when wet)Second: the picture of this brush shows that it has a two sided barrel (i.e. from the top view there is a front face with the bristles attached and a back face which mirrors the front but w/o bristles) but the brush I received is has only a single surface with the bristles. I would have liked the extra strength and heft the back piece of plastic would have provided and indeed decided on this brush based upon the top view picture. It seems that perhaps Olivia Garden once sold this brush with the two-faced design but now all of the retailers and Olivia Garden website show only a single face. So BEWARE.Other than that, this is definitely exactly what I was looking for. Though I will still be on the hunt for a brush that can deliver as much as this one as well as avoid the two issues I had.

This is the best brush I ever had. I buy it for everyone! Men or women. Any style hair… great for brushing wet hair. Great for blowing out my long curly frizzy hair to smooth perfection every time… I’ve actually never had to replace it except for when family members have stolen it or I’ve lost it… bristles are sturdy and the whole brush is like magic! Been using it for almost 20 years; I’ll never be happy with anything else again.

Had since February and noticed recently that there is a bristle bent. I don't think it was like that when I received it.