Beauty

[WenGirl42]

Good morning ladies

I'm wondering if getting a new hair dryer (and/or a better one) will solve the problem I'm having or not. Current situation: I can't recall when I bought my hair dryer but it's got to be at least 7-8 years old, and I probably spent $25 on it at WalMart. At the time it seemed okay, it's ionic at least. It has 3 heat settings and 2 speeds...but the middle heat setting ("warm") might as well be the hottest because it gets super hot and I need to use the cool shot button every couple of minutes.

I wear my hair curly and use a diffuser (thick curly hair, just past my shoulders in a layered cut), so I prefer to keep it on the cool temperature setting on the lowest speed. Between the thickness of my hair and not wanting to squeeze/rub too much when it's soaking wet, and all the product I leave in to achieve the curly look I want (conditioner and gel)...it takes for-freaking-EVER to dry my hair. Like upwards of an hour if I use mainly the cool setting, and close to 45 minutes if I use a combination of cool and warm (which as I said ends up being hot/cool/hot/cool). Will a new and/or better dryer enable me to dry my hair faster without having to use a higher speed or higher heat, both of which seem detrimental to my curls? Will I get an actual "warm" setting that doesn't get too hot and can be used for longer periods of time to dry my hair faster? Or is the tradeoff for my curls just going to be that it takes them forever to dry gently enough that they're not disturbed by the process? I just don't know enough about how hair dryers work to know if this is an area where spending more will get me what I want and let me save time, or if I'll just have a more expensive hair dryer that still takes an hour to dry my hair because I won't use a higher speed or heat? I'd appreciate any advice you can provide