REVAMP Progloss 5500 Hairdryer – Lightweight Blow Dryer

This is a top class hairdryer with all the bells and whistles you would expect – and a pleasingly long cord so you can wander around while drying your hair. If you are someone who spends lots of time and effort styling your hair, and would use all the attachments (which I admit I haven’t) this is the dryer for you. For someone like me, who just wants dry hair that looks neat, it’s not really worth the almost 100 price tag.

You can choose at what level you wish to purchase a hairdryer. The ‘Revamp Progloss 5500’ is certainly towards the upper end and it purports to offer salon levels of quality in the home. It does not quite do this, but that might be more to the professionalism of the hairdryer than the tools they use. The ‘Revamp’ is a classy piece of kit that will be many people’s best hairdryer yet.

There are three attachments required, the standard concentrator is fantastic. It is powerful and fast, managing to dry hair faster than the old hairdryer. To produce this type of power the ‘Revamp’ has a weight to it that is a sign of quality, but may be a little bit for some people, especially if they add attachments. I am happy to have this heft if it is used to provide the great power offered here.

This looks and feels like a really good quality product. It arrived encased in a black cardboard box, and the hairdryer comes complete with three nozzle attachments, consisting of two concentrators with the slim ends, and one diffuser bowl.

It’s got three different heat settings as well as a cool setting, and two speeds. The cable is a decent length which is very helpful when the nearest socket isn’t so handy. It does feel a little heavier than the dryer I had before, and although it’s claimed that it is quiet, I wouldn’t say it is particularly quiet when drying.

It does seem to dry my hair – long, straight, fairly thick – quite quickly, which is great, and the concentrator end does help give a smoother finish when drying. I usually use the middle heat setting after sometimes using the highest heat setting briefly just to get my hair a bit drier initially.

I received this item through the Amazon Vine programme. This hair dryer came beautifully packaged though there could be more information about the “Ionic Jet” in the instructions. The machine itself is a work of art, the sort of thing that in the future will be in a design museum: sleek matte black, curvaceous, light weight, it really is a lovely thing. Various family members have used this dryer to allow me to write this review and comment on it’s effect on different types of hair.
The attachments all fit very well, and firmly to the machine, and the noise it makes seems to be quieter and of a lower tone than previous dryer’s: more of a drone than the screech one is used to.
When used on my granddaughter’s naturally straight hair, the effect of the ions were apparent, her hair was sleek and almost looked like it had been straightened with irons.
However, my daughter-in-law, who has extremely curly hair, could not get the straightening effect she wanted with any setting: the dryer always added frizz, just in differing amounts according to the setting. Mind you, the only way she can get almost no frizz is to let her hair dry naturally, and if she is in a hurry she will use this dryer which is something she would not do with other dryers.
Everyone who has used this dryer says it works well, and better than other dryers, and I must assume the effects on their hair is an objective fact: this dryer is better than others.
At time of review it is selling for 100, which is considerably more than ordinary hairdryers, and about average for professional/ionic models. However, having received 100% approval from those who have used it, I would say it is value for money. 5 stars and recommended.

I’ve always used cheap hairdryers and they’ve done me okay until now. I wouldn’t say this is anything insanely special compared to a normal hairdryer, but the ionising feature is pretty cool for either a smoothing or volumising edge.

Pros:
– Really elegant design. It looks great, proper salon-quality, and doesn’t mark easy like other hairdryers I’ve owned
– Comes with three attachments: two concentrators (which I only use if I want straight hair or for my fringe) and a diffuser. I have really fine, naturally wavy hair and I scrunch it up to be curly with serum. I found using any other attachment (or no attachment) was so powerful that if straightened out my curls, so the diffuser is what I’ll use from now on for this
– Super long wire, which is so great. My old hairdryer had a really short one
– Comfortable to hold and placement of switches are good
– Ioniser switch is a cool feature and a light comes on when it’s in use – I use smooth (green light) for my fringe and volume (blue light) for the rest of my hair. I’d say the smooth one works but not sure about volume
– Has a cold switch feature which sets hairstyle
– The heat and speed settings cover my use cases! I use the middle heat and vary between speeds
– Apparently the grill is infused with oil (I’ve always found this a weird selling point and don’t know how it works). I have noticed my hair is a lot healthier since using it so maybe it works

Cons:
– The airflow is very concentrated, which actually isn’t ideal for my hair. I try to lift my hair up at the roots and blast dry but this doesn’t really work with a powerful, directed hairdryer, it volumises the ends but not the roots. I’ve tried different techniques and still can’t really get the volume I want. I may try doing my roots on the slower setting to see if that helps
– It’s a little bit heavier than my previous hairdryer, which means my weak wrists get tired when doing my roots! But it’s so quick at drying this isn’t a huge issue

Would I buy it? —
I honestly would be happy to pay the price it’s being sold for. You can certainly tell it’s worth the money due to the quality build, salon design and attachments and features, but obviously you may find it hard to compare it to other well known brands. The ioniser wins it for me, and the fact my hair is a lot stronger.

This hairdryer comes with three attachments which can easily be pushed on.

The actual hairdryer is on the heavy side but on the plus side, it has a 3 meter cable and a good plug, which is a lot easier to remove from the socket. The handle is easy to grip and non slip. The buttons are easily accessible and are in a good location, so your fingers whilst gripping the hairdryer, don’t adjust the settings.

There are three heat settings; the lowest is on the cool side whereas, the other two setting pack serious heat, to get the job done. I found the highest heat setting, very hot but it would probably suit those with thick hair.

You can select and adjust your style from smooth/silky to volume/bounce.

This hairdryer is powerful, sleek and easy to use.

When this arrived I was so excited to try it… it looks a real quality item, the packaging is impressive and would make a great gift. On using it I was really impressed with the nozzles that attach to the dryer. They have several ridges and fit snugly so they won’t fall off, but don’t fit so tight it’s impossible to remove them. The cover for the back vent is detachable for cleaning which I also think is a nice idea. The controls are simple to use – 3 heat settings with a notable difference in heat and 2 speed settings. There is also a rocker switch at the top which adjusts for sleekness or volume and a cool shot button which blows very cold air!! My hair dried really quickly – this is a very powerful hair dryer – and it was considerably less frizzy than it usually is. If I had the skills to style my hair I’d be reasonably confident it would be possible to dry it straight with this dryer…. but I don’t know how to style it properly so less frizzy is the best I can hope for!! The cord is nice and long too which is also a bonus!! It’s a bit of a weird thing to say but I really like the plug! It’s quite big and reinforced where the cord meets the plug so it will withstand lots of movement without the wire coming loose.

This is great hairdryer – it’s powerful and I think could be used in a salon. The downside for me is that it’s quite heavy – much heavier than all other hair dryers I’ve ever owned. It’s not so heavy as to be a particular issue for me but could be for some users and potentially could make styling hair quite difficult. Also, despite saying it has a super silencer… I think it’s super noisy!! Admittedly, I’ve never had a hair dryer this powerful but I think the noise would stop me using this early in the morning so as not to disturb others in the house (and possibly my next door neighbours!)

I hadn’t heard of the ‘Revamp’ brand before ordering this hairdryer, but have to say I was really quite impressed. It’s a well made dryer with a smart rubberised finish (a bit like the expensive soft-touch plastics in an Audi!). It comes with three different attachments — a large dish-like diffuser and two concentrator nozzles. One thing I noticed immediately and really liked was that the plug has a kind of ridge or lump on the back so that there’s something to get a grip on when pulling it out of the wall — think how many devices and appliances these days come with those slimline plugs that are bloody impossible to unplug — this is the solution! It’s quite a large dryer, and ideally I would have liked something a bit smaller, as the bigger they are, the more cumbersome they are to hold and distance correctly from your head. That said, it’s not particularly heavy, given the size, so that perhaps doesn’t have to be a dealbreaker. Lastly, in terms of aesthetics/appearance, it comes in a smart cardboard box with an outer card sleeve.

In use, the dryer does an excellent job. It has multiple heat and speed settings and a cool shot (not that I ever use the latter tbh). It’s the fastest hairdryer I have ever used and I think would probably even give the new Dyson a run for its money in terms of drying time. Whilst certainly not cheap, it is around a third of the cost of the Dyson, so something to bear in mind if you are in the market for a pro-quality appliance. I got a lovely smooth, shiny, static-free finish, though the high power seemed to knock out some of the volume if I’m honest. I think this product is thus probably best suited to people with thick, coarse or curly hair, or those trying to get little kids hair dry very quickly after bath time. If you have fine or flyaway hair, it will be hard to retain full control of your style as it’s so powerful, even on the very lowest speed setting, that it just blasts hair everywhere.

Very good, but needs a slower speed option for thin hair to get the full five stars — as it is, it gets four.

A very powerful hair dryer that is simple to use and dries hair very quickly. The controls are very intuitive and you don’t really need to read the manual to do what you need to do. However, I absolutely didn’t see enough of a difference between this hair dryer and any other hair dryer I had to justify the price tag. Yes, it is a bit more powerful but I am not sure that I would want to spend the amount of money just to save 5 minutes!