- We tested the Remington Tame The Mane electric detangling brush, an automatic detangler that claims to instantly and easily detangle wet or dry
hair . - We tested the detangler on three of its claims: Does it actually detangle, does it detangle quickly, and does it detangle painlessly?
- Though slightly painful if pulled through snags, the detangler was successful in detangling three different hair types and was quicker than normal detangling.
Nico Reyes: This is the Remington Tame the Mane electric detangling brush, and it's supposed to do all of the detangling for me. These little bristle things move back and forth, and they're supposed to detangle quickly and painlessly. The box says that you can use this on wet or dry hair, so I figured we'd split the hair down the middle and do one side wet and the other side dry. I'm going to be testing this detangler out on how well it detangles, how quickly it detangles, and how painlessly it detangles. I'm not really sure about the last one, because this [brush whirring] is terrifying. All I have in my hair right now is my normal detangling spray that I use every single time I detangle. So, what they want you to do is kind of work bottom up. So, like, do it little by little, raise it, do it little by little, raise it, until you get to the top, and you keep doing it until it's all detangled. Oh. Oh! Actually, it's literally not as terrifying as I thought at all. I have to say that so far, even though I did hit one or two snags because I didn't remove the brush and then start at the top again, that was my own fault, this thing is working pretty painlessly. Like, I don't feel anything when it's going through my hair, and I expected the dry side to be literally so painful. One thing that I can say is that with my normal detangling brush in the shower, I feel like I shed a lot more. This is, like, no big deal. This is nothing compared to what's left over in the shower when I'm done brushing my hair. OK, so now we're going to do the wet side. I'm just going to spray my hair with my spray bottle. I don't want it to be soaking, soaking wet, but thoroughly damp. I'm already noticing a huge difference in detangling the wet side versus the dry side. It's just gliding through the hair so much easier. Obviously, I just think wet hair in general is easier to detangle, but I'm liking it a lot better on the wet side. I also think it's moving so much faster through my wet hair, so I do think that it's possible that this detangles faster than my normal way of detangling, but only if your hair is actually wet. Before I tell you guys what I think about the detangler, I'm going to have my friends Celia and A. C. also try it out so we can see how it performs on different hair types.
Celia Skvaril: I have
A. C. Fowler: So, my natural hair is what I think is
Celia: It feels really, like, skinny. I feel like it feels like, I mean, my hair is very thin, but I feel like it feels less thick. It just feels very smooth. I feel like a lot, since my hair is so fine, it kind of slipped through a lot of places. But other than that, I mean, I think it's, it feels pretty untangled. When I finger-comb it, I didn't really snag.
A. C.: I'm surprised that this is even kind of working. It hits a snag, but it doesn't feel like it's pulling at my hair. So I'm fine. Like, it doesn't... I could see a kid maybe being like, "Ow, it hurts." Just at any feeling of a pull, but as an adult man, [laughing] it's just fine. One thing I'm noticing is that it's just really easy for parts of the hair to completely go through because the bristles are so wide, so it just might not even get touched when you pass through it.
Nico: Is it still not painful?
Celia: No, it's not painful, but I feel like it's hard because for some reason this isn't feeling as smooth to me.
A. C.: I'm shocked, because I did not think this was gonna work at all, wet or dry. [laughing]
Nico: I literally was expecting it to be like...
A. C.: [laughing] Me too. I was expecting it to be spinning, and then be like [imitates stopping]. [laughing] Wow, so it just encountered a pretty thick clump, and I just slowed down and went through it a few times, and then it just went straight through. So, on the first side, the dry side, definitely took a long, long time, much longer than usual. On the wet side, much quicker.
Nico: Taking A. C. and Celia's experiences into consideration, I think that I can say that this product does work, and it does work for different hair types depending on how you use it. I don't think that this is going to replace my normal method of detangling, because I do like to do it in the shower and this thing has batteries in it, but it's a product that does what it says it's going to do