For me, a bad hair day automatically means I’m going to have a bad day in general (no, I’m not being dramatic!). I’m the best version of myself when my hair is smooth, bouncy, and full of volume. Unfortunately, I don’t have a personal hairstylist on speed dial (yet) to give me salon-worthy blowouts every morning. So in my quest for consistently good hair days, I’ve tested just about every hot tool on the market.

And for a while, I had completely sworn off blow-dryer brushes. Once I graduated from college, I upgraded to the finer things in life—like heatless curls and the Dyson Airwrap —so my old $50 blow-dry brush quickly entered the beauty tool graveyard.

That changed when I tested the L’Ange Le Volume 2-in-1 Titanium Brush Dryer while reviewing dozens of styling tools for Cosmopolitan ’s 2026 Holy Grail Beauty Awards .…