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T3 Tourmaline 83808 Professional Featherweight Ceramic Ionic Hair Dryer Description:

The most advanced professional hair dryer available. Made of 100% crushed Tourmaline jewels. Powerful 1800 watt motor yet super-lightweight at 13oz. Generates Tourmaline negative ions and infrared heat technolgy for 60% faster drying. The only dry with a true ceramic heater coil.

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2805 in Beauty
• Size: One Size
• Color: Silver/Black
• Brand: T3
• Model: 83808
• Released on: 2005-08-01
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 9.00″ h x 3.50″ w x 9.00″ l, .50 pounds

Features

• Leaves hair soft, smooth and shiny. Doesn’t damage hair like other blow dryers.
• Closes the cuticle layer to protect hair
• Eliminates frizzy, “blow dried” look
• Negative ions add moisture and sheen.
• Comes complete with removable filter and screen, 2 speed settings + cool shot and ionized concentrator.

Customer Reviews:

Amazon.com is not an authorized dealer? T3 won’t give warranty coverage
I like the product. However, having purchased it from Amazon.com, T3 will not allow me to register my product for future warranty because they claim Amazon.com is not an authorized dealer. For such an expensive every day product, a warranty would be nice to have in case anything were to go wrong. I received an email from T3 and a call back both confirming that they do not consider Amazon.com an authorized dealer. When I called Amazon, they had never heard of such a thing. Amazon.com offered to exchange my featherweight tourmaline dryer with another but that did not resolve my issue. I cannot get my T3 Tourmaline Featherweight 83808 hair dryer covered by T3’s warranty because it was purchased through Amazon.com.

Worst hairdryer I’ve ever used. Really.
After being swayed by the reveiws here and getting wise to the warranty situation, I made a point of purchasing this product in a nearby beauty supply store who is an authorized seller and thought I was getting a bargain at $125. I bought it in the hopes of taming the huge, round, coarse frizzball sitting on my head.

Let me note for the skeptical that the product was brand new, unopened in the box and in obvious mint condition. It is an authentic T3 hairdryer. Yes, it dried faster, but left a noticeably dull, dry finish and seemed to strip my hair of it lustre. Not only that but I couldn’t get the ends of my hair to lie straight after they had already shriveled up in the fast drying process, and the more I struggled with the ends the more flyaway my hair became. And it appears to be MORE voluminous than ever - bigger and puffier and with the same amount of frizz, only duller looking.

I immediately plugged it out and plugged in my old, falling apart Babyliss Carerra (non-ionic) dryer and afer a few minutes managed to get the ends straight and see some lustre return. I agree completely with the reviewer who made the comment about losing the healthy shine.

I only hope I can get my money back. I will certainly try.

UPDATE - Comparison of T3 Tourmaline to less expensive Babyliss ProTT

though I couldn’t get my money back, I exchanged the T3 for a Babyliss ProTT 3000 Tourmaline dryer (I’d have stayed away from Tourmaline ionic infrared labels but apparently it’s all the rage and very difficult to find a nice lowtech one that doesn’t incorporate this technology).

Like the T3, the Babyliss is also really lightweight, dries as fast or faster than the T3, and has the added benefit of more heat settings - including medium, low, and high, as well as a cool shot, whereas the T3 only offers a high heat and low heat. The Babyliss has 1900 watts and the T3 has 1800. There are various models of the Bablyiss tourmaline, but this model was at the lower end of the price range at $89, and you can get it on Amazon for about $20 less.

It is for the above reasons and others I’m about to detail that it is a superior product to the T3. Not only does it cost much less but the Babyliss gave my hair a soft, lustrous, shiny smooth sheen and healthy texture, and did not leave it looking dried out and fried as the T3 did.

That said, I still experienced the same problem w/the Babyliss as with the T3- it gives too much volume to my short, thick choppy layered hair and doesn’t allow me to straighten it at any heat setting. What I saved in drying time (easily fifteen minutes without sweating and straining my arm) I paid for dearly in styling time to try to get the full balloon-y volume to calm down and get the ends to lay flat.

In sum, I would strongly recommend saving your money on the T3 and buying the Babyliss if you want to see not merely identical but significantly improved functionality and performance over the more expensive T3 dryer. Yet I would still be less likely to recommend this or any other tourmaline-infused infrared dryer for people with very thick, voluminous hair that they want to take the poof out of and make straight, as that will likely not happen with this or similar units. As a final but very significant note on performance - the Babyliss toned down my frizz (and it’s a very rainy day today) by nearly 100 percent! Also I noticed very few dry flyaways as compared to the T3.

In sum, the Babyliss ProTT is an excellent product, a much better choice than the T3. It is more economical, offers greater functionality and superior performance.

Very light & dries fast but other claims exaggerated
I first saw this hair dryer on a TV show talking about beauty products used by the stars. Then I noticed my hairdresser had switched to this brand. His observations were the same as mine. If you take a lot of time drying hair and the weight of the dryer is an issue, this is a very good purchase. But your hair will be no shinier or softer than with other dryers.

Warranty Offer
All T3 products that are purchased Direct from Amazon.com are covered by a 30 day Amazon warranty. Applies only to products sold by Amazon.com. Does not apply to products sold on our site by third-party merchants or through third-party areas such as Amazon.com Marketplace or Auctions.