Paul Mitchell Pro Tools Express Ion WavePress

These made the nicest waves! It was good quality and it also heated up fast. Would recommend

I have several hair tools to make beach style waves. I have a 3 barrel, 5 barrel and this WavePress. The WavePress is by far my favorite. The other tools I struggled with making creases where I didn't want them. I never ran into that issue with the WavePress. I used it more when I had a shorter style haircut, it can get tedious to use on long hair. Overall, easy to use and creates beautiful wavy hair!

This crimper has a bit of a learning curve - it doesn't quite crimp so much as wave your hair, but it works fast and is not difficult to use

Not effective

Crimped hair was a thing and wavy hair is a thing. First of all, this product's barrels are waaaay too large to be a crimper in the 80's sense. Second of all, the barrels didn't seem to get hot enough to make waves that were noticeable. It did heat up and it did make "waves" but these so-called waves were barely wavy, I mean, I didn't notice much change to the hair texture!I have a smaller barrelled waver (BaByliss) and a crimper (ghd). Both work fantastic. The BaByliss waver makes some nice waves for shorter hair. The ghd crimper is a true crimper. I got this thinking it would make larger, deeper waves, especially on my longer hair.I tried this tool on my fine, thin wavy straight hair, which will usually crimp, wave, or curl without a lot of heat. But, honestly, this thing didn't seem to wave my hair much at all. The results were seriously ho hum! The unit got hot -- typical "too hot to touch" from Paul Mitchell Pro Tools tools -- but the barrels were just too big to really wave my hair effectively. I tried this on a medium heat with poor results. Even at the hottest setting, this was a disappointment with poorly looking waves. My hair will wave a little naturally if I let it air dry, and the wave *this* tool made was less than my natural wave.I next tried this on my daughter's thicker hair. Like mine, I sectioned it in small sections (even smaller for her thicker hair), and the results were just nothing but anti-climatic. It was a serious letdown of a styling product.Surely, I was not using it correctly, I thought, so I sought out a how-to video or two. I found one from Paul Mitchell Pro Tools and was dumbfounded. The stylist was demonstrating the tool on a model, and would use the tool on the model's hair. There was little detectable change to the model's hair. I mean, there was some more wave to her hair that before, but it was not much. The product pictures of models with waved hair really show how this tool seems to hardly wave hair.At that point I felt like a sucker. Seriously Paul Mitchell Pro Tools would sell me this expensive tool KNOWING it did hardly anything to wave the hair?! I really remain dumbfounded, days after I returned it, as to whose hair this tool would make a difference on.So, who's the target market? If you want to drop some money on a hair tool that kinda waves hair, there are cheaper alternatives that may give you the results. No doubt this product likely works on someone's hair, but it wasn't mine. Actually, no, this product likely doesn't work well on anyone's hair without really coaxing the results out and working the hair a LOT. Just a poorly designed product that was nothing more than a waste of money for me. And I own several Paul Mitchell Pro Tools that I *really* like, just not this one.