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Brookie –
This tool makes easy beautiful beach waves which is why I wanted to try it! I have been using a flat iron to create waves and they’re never consistent. This has made the job so easy and creates the perfect size wave. It’s beautifully designed and easy to operate. It heats up quickly and stays at an even temp.
At the end if you feel too curly you can mist with water to loosen up your waves and hairspray to hold for a more beachy look. Excellent product!
Hope –
Super hot and effective wave tool for my coarse hair! My hair is usually very straight and I took before and after pictures just using the iron once! I love the different temperatures you can set this on and that the end of the iron has a place I can hold onto with my other hand so I won’t get burned. Easy to clamp, count down and release, then move down my hair. The more I practiced with it the better I got. It will take time to get my timing set for my hair texture, but this worked very well for me! Great as a gift for someone too!
MrE –
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!
Hope –
I was a little perplexed when I opened the Amazon mailer, because this ExpressIon Wave Press is made by Paul Mitchell. I don’t know why they don’t make the brand prominent, since it’s so well known.
The tool heats up quickly, and once you discern the heat setting that works best for you, waves your hair nicely to the shape of the heated plates. But there’s no way to adjust the wave, so you have no options if you don’t like the look this gives.
Another negative is that there is no way to lock the arms closed, and no tie for wrapping the cord together, so it isn’t going to sit neatly in a drawer.
The directions for use aren’t too clear. It says to clamp it on your hair (after treating it to protect it from the heat) for a specified number of seconds (designated by the thickness of your hair). It then says to hold it for less time at the end, where your hair is thinner. I’ve never used anything similar to this, so I wasn’t sure if I should open it and reposition it on my hair, or slide it. Opening it would lead to inconsistent wave, but sliding it would undo what you’ve just set. I opted for opening and repositioning it. It didn’t seem to create any unevenness to the wave.
I’m only giving this 3 stars because you can only use it for a single look, a single size wave, and that’s pretty restrictive.
Valory –
These made the nicest waves! It was good quality and it also heated up fast. Would recommend
mama Ruggles –
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
wt –
Not effective
Ladd L. or Cara L. Anderson –
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.