My current salon-style hair dryer is pretty stellar – with 3 speeds and 3 heat settings. With 2 speeds and heat settings, but a portable use, I felt Kadori could be a good alternative.

The instructions are mainly warnings, but I was dismayed to find out there are two speeds, but no real way to change the heat setting. I assume to change the voltage from 110V to 220V is to use a flat headed screwdriver to move the centre groove to reflect the required voltage?

The dryer was semi quiet (compared to my hair flowing regular dryer), and took about 4 minutes to fully dry my fine thin long hair.

If the dryer gets too close to my head, it is REALLY hot, even with changing settings. So I just keep the dryer in pace with my ceramic roll style brush in order to prevent direct contact with my skin. After setting the dryer down, I could barely touch it, as it was REALLY hot. Again, I used this for a maximum of 5 minutes, so this should not be enough time to overheat a quality dryer!

Thankfully the cord was still cool to touch, so it’s just whatever plastic material the dryer is made of.

I have also compared it to my mainstream portable Conair dryer, which is heavier, but the settings are more tolerable for my skin, and dries in about the same amount of time with a higher speed option at less than half the cost.

It *is* very lightweight, very portable (easy to fold), dries my hair in a decent amount of time in the mornings, and my hair does look good and stays styled most of the day - so it has some positive attributes. I just feel let down that I was expecting more from this dryer.