Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I searched high and low for the absolute smallest, lightest hair dryer that yet would be the most powerful travel dryer that was dual voltage for a trip to Italy. Here's the key things I found in my ridiculously extensive research: 1. Dual voltage dryers that have multiple speed/heat settings may not work on all settings once you convert to the Europe voltage. It's like a cruel trick. Here's this fabulous dryer, and it works over seas, but nothing about it's fabulousness will work over seas. Haha! This dryer promises that both of it's settings (high or low) will work. 2. There is much controversy over Ionic/non Ionic dyers. Allegedly, Ionic works fast and eliminates frizz, but possibly at the cost of volume and body. I went with this one not because I choose any side in this war of hair dryers, but because it seemed the only one that fit all my needs. Mainly that it be insanely light and tiny to justify my taking it all the way to Italy when there might be dryers in the hotels I'm staying in, anyway. 3. Many dryers call themselves light but aren't really. 4. You can spend hundreds of dollars for a dryer that is no hotter or stronger than one for less than $50. But the expensive one may last longer. (This I knew years ago when I finally got sick of buying a $35 dryer every year and bought, instead, a Super Solano and haven't had to buy one for... about a decade?) Ok, so on to the review. This thing is miniscule. I have never seen a dryer so small. It's like a toy. See the photo. And it's about half a pound or even less. I was thrilled. It's hot! Much hotter than I expected. There's no cool setting and no cool 'shot'. This is a bummer- not because I really put much stock into the whole, "sealing the cuticle" thing of the cool shot, but because after I dry my hair my head is hot and I like to cool it down. My hair is long. So after drying it's like a hot wig for a few uncomfortable minutes. I used a moroccan oil only for hair product because my hair is kind of dry right now. I live in a zero humidity environment in the desert and had AC on and blasting while I dried my hair. And it was a little dry and sort of frizzy after I dried it. So I added some Rusk Shining and went on my way. I do attribute some of this to the dryer so in the future and on the trip I will use a blow out cream instead of the oil. It wasn't a big deal but it was notable. My usual dryer is not Ionic. But is ceramic so... maybe it wasn't the dryer. So long as it does not burst into flames or break, and so long as the high setting really does work in Rome, I'd rate this dryer at 90%.