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I Tried 5 "Easy" Tools to Style My Pixie. Only One Actually Worked
By Carol M. A pixie enthusiast who fell back in love with her cut
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I
am not a hairdresser. I have never been good at doing my own hair. I just wanted my pixie to look like I put in effort, instead of like I rolled out of bed
and gave up.
So I bought things. A blow dryer and a round brush first, then a flat iron, then one of those spinning air brushes, and finally the Airwrap that cost more than my weekly grocery run. Four of them let me down. The fifth one is the reason I am writing this.
If you are wondering whether any of these will actually work on hair like yours, that is the exact question I had. Here is honestly what happened with each one.
I
am not a hairdresser. I have never been good at doing my own hair.
I just wanted my pixie to look like I put in effort, instead of like I rolled out of bed and gave up.
So I bought things. A blow dryer and a round brush first, then a flat iron, then one of those spinning air brushes, and finally the Airwrap that cost more than my weekly grocery run. Four of them let me down. The fifth one is the reason I am writing this.
If you are wondering whether any of these will actually work on hair like yours, that is the exact question I had. Here is honestly what happened with each one.
1
The Blow Dryer And Round Brush
This is what I tried first, and I think it is what most of us try first. Everyone online makes it look simple. For me it turned into a two-handed wrestling match every single morning.
One hand holds the dryer, the other spins the brush, and my short hair kept sliding right off the bristles before it could take any shape. Holding both arms up over my head got tiring fast and On a good day it looked okay. But on most days its did not really do anything for me, and it still looked like I just got straight out of bed.
Here is what went wrong every single time:
It needed both hands at once My hair slipped off the brush before it ever took a shape.
It wore out my arms and shoulders Holding two tools over my head tired me out before my hair was even done.
Results were very inconsistent One wrong move and I was starting the whole thing over.
2
The Flat Iron
So I figured I needed something simpler. One tool, one hand. That seemed like the fix.
It was not. The plates are made for long hair, and on my short pieces they were wider than the hair itself, so I could never grab a clean section. Worse, pressing two hot plates flat against my head squashed the volume right out of the top, which is the one thing a pixie actually needs to look styled.
Here is where it kept going wrong:
The plates were wider than my hair I could never grab a clean section, so nothing ever looked even.
It pressed my crown flat That flat top is exactly what makes short hair look tired instead of styled.
It kept burning my neck and ears The plates got too close to my skin almost every single time.
3
The Spinning Air Brush
By now I was convinced the answer had to be something fancier. This one felt like a gadget from the future. It was heavy, and it was difficult to use all the time.
The barrel spins to wrap your hair, which sounds clever until it catches the short hairs near your roots and tugs. It pulled at my scalp, it was too bulky to steer around my ears, and it never once gave me a finish I would leave the house with.
Here is what it kept doing to me:
It tugged at my roots The spinning motion pulled my short hairs instead of styling them.
It was too heavy and too bulky I could not steer it around my ears or down to my neck.
It left my hair looking undone A lot of effort, and very little to show for it.
4
The Airwrap
This was my last big hope, and my most expensive mistake. I saved up for it because everyone swears by it. Then I opened the box and saw the problem pretty quickly.
It works by wrapping your hair around a stream of air, which is lovely if you have length to wrap. On a pixie there is simply nothing long enough to catch. It is a beautiful tool that happens to be made for long hair. Mine went in a drawer after two tries and that is where it still lives.
Here is what I ran into:
It is built to wrap long hair around air My short pieces were far too short for anything to grab onto.
It was the most expensive miss of them all That is a lot of money to leave sitting in a drawer.
It was never made for a cut like mine Wonderful for long hair, wrong for a pixie.
By that point I had spent a small fortune and I was ready to accept that I was just bad at this. Every tutorial worked for the woman in the video and not for me. Then it hit me. Not one of those tools was actually made for short hair. They were all made for long hair. The problem was never my hands or some secret technique, It was what I was holding.
5
The GoBrush PRO
I have two problems, every morning. Flat hair that were stuck to my head, and having frizz around the whole thing. I could never fix one without making the other worse.
Just the first morning with the GoBrush PRO, both problems were gone. My hair was lifted off my scalp and was smooth all the way round. I was surprised with how easy it was to make my hair look voluminous and it actually took no effort!
Before the go brush pro, getting a lift used to mean a dryer in one hand, a round brush in the other and arms over my head for a whole ten minutes. Now it's just a few passes. The bristles get in under the hair at the root and push it up instead of pressing it down. A dryer, round brush or any other traditional tool is not needed.
If you can brush your hair, you can easily do this.
I no longer have to pick between full volume and frizz-free anymore. I get both, in five easy minutes, that too just using one hand.
A great volume at the crown and having hair that stay frizz free throughout the day.
Everything that changed for me:
Volume is easy now, and it starts at the rootair The bristles lift my hair up off my scalp instead of pressing it flat. No dryer, no round brush, no arms over my head.
No more frizz Flyaways get smoothed down as it passes through, and they are still down at the end of the day.
Volume and no frizz in the same pass I do not have to pick one. One tool, a pass on the head and I get a voluminous crown thats smooth all the way round.
Easy enough that anyone can get the volumepass Nothing to learn and no technique to master. If you can brush your hair, you can do this.
No more burns The anti-scald bristles keep the heat off my scalp and ears, so I stopped dreading my neckline.
Five minutes, one hand, no cord Volume and a smooth finish in the time it takes to brush my teeth. Nothing tethering my arm.
Gentle enough to get volume every single day The heat is kind to fine or thick hair, so it is just part of my morning now.
One Honest Note About Pixie Length
I should tell you that my pixie is on the longer side. It is grown out a bit at the top and the sides, so I am not working with the shortest cut out there.
That said, I do think it works on a shorter pixie too, and here is what I believe. The head on this is small and made for the little two-inch sections short hair is made of. It is not a big tool shrunk down. My nape hair is properly short and it grips that just fine, which is more than I can say for anything else I tried. So if your cut is shorter than mine, I would be surprised if that was the thing that stopped it working.
And if it turns out I am wrong about your hair, you send it back. Which brings me to the last thing.
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