The first thing us veterans of the hair dryer sagas ask when we hear this is: did you plug it into the (one and only) correct plug? It's a Babyliss hairdryer, which is a professional model. It may not have been as good as the hairdryer you have at home (if you have a top of the line model), but it's anything but wimpy. It's at least as good as any I've ever seen in a salon around here. If you did use the one correct plug, maybe you had a bad dryer.

But it most definitely *shouldn't* be anything near pointless. (How do I know this--I've plugged the dryer into the wrong outlet before and thought the same thing you did!

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