HANAair Blow dryer review

A couple weeks ago Misikko sent me a HANA blow dryer to try out and review. I was really excited because I know how important styling tools are to your hair routine and one of the best investments you can make regarding your hair is a good blow dryer. I've been using a CHI blow dryer for the last few years, which I really like a lot, but I was eager to try something new, especially since HANAair is considered one of the best blow dryers on Misikko.

I should probably tell you that I don't wash my hair everyday, so I don't blow dry my hair everyday and even when I do wash it (about 2 to 3 times a week) sometimes I just let it air dry-- so it took me a little longer to try it out and form an opinion about it.



The first time I used it, I noticed it had two separate switches on the handle, one blue and the other red, which I assumed was to control the cold and warm temperature settings, which is easy enough. This is where it got a little tricky-- only the blue switch actually turns the blow dryer on, once the cold switch is on, you can turn on the red switch and control the heat temperature. But then it got even trickier! I turned the heat switch on, but still only cold air was blowing out. So I tried pushing the top button, that is normally a "cool shot" button on other dryers, and to my surprise hot air started blowing out! And it isn't a regular button that you have to keep your finger pressed down on it, it just clicks in and out, so you can keep it clicked in to get automatic heat. It didn't take too long to figure it out, it was just a bit different than other blow dryers I've had, but once I got the hang of what switches did what, it was pretty easy.

It isn't as quiet as my CHI is, but it doesn't really bother me. It still makes my hair feel soft, and that's really what's important. I like that it has ionic heat and tourmaline technology-- I find that dryers with those qualities tend to give my hair the best results. I also like that it doesn't just have a one temperature setting with a cool shot button-- but the option of controlling the heat with low, medium and high settings-- which is especially nice in the summer when it's already as hot as it is.

Misikko also sent me some HANA Shine Shield that I put on my hair before I blow dry it-- and it's amazing. It made my hair really soft and shiny, which is what I need for how much I curl/tease/wrap/pin/whatever to my hair. This is the first time I've used any HANA products, but I'm really impressed with what I've tried so far and will most likely try other things from their product line in the future.

You guys can find all these things on Misikko.com along with other products like professional flat irons and curling irons. Have you tried any of these products? What did you think about them?

Summer At Tiffany

"So there we were, baking in the sun, waiting endlessly for lonely midshipmen to stop by. We didn't see a single one. Should have known. Guys don't hang around libraries on the weekend."

--Marjorie Hart, Summer at Tiffany



I saw this book laying on the kitchen table last week while my sister was visiting, and I spontaneously picked it up and started reading it. Not really planning on reading it, just maybe the first page. But then the first page turned into the first chapter, and the first chapter turned into the second chapter and I couldn't put it down. I half jokingly asked my sister if she would leave it for me to read and to my surprise, after she had left to go home, I saw it sitting on the dining room table. I quickly texted her asking if she had meant to leave it. She just responded, "you have 3 days to read it" (that was when my parents were leaving to visit her and she was expecting the book to be coming too) That was on Sunday, and needless to say, I just finished it (Wednesday).

It's a memoir of a woman's best summer ever. The summer of 1945 when two college-aged friends moved from Iowa to New York City and got jobs at Tiffany's. It's everything you could ask for (or at least I could ask for)in a book: 1940's, World War II, Tiffany's, gallivanting around the city with a handsome young Navy officer. And it was all true, that's the kicker. You get to read about their summer job at Tiffany's, with customers such as Judy Garland and Marlene Dietrich among others, seeing the Queen Mary sail into the New York harbor, and being in the midst of Time Square on VJ Day. It's a life experience we all wish we could say was ours. Personally, I could sit and listen to people from that era tell stories for hours.

I've never done a book review on this blog, aside from some random quotes I post, but I just felt like recommending this book to you. Aside from the fact that my sister was nice enough to let me borrow it, and that it felt good to be reading a book again and not be on the computer for once, but because it just made me happy and I wanted to pass it along to you. If you read it, let me know what you think!