My daughter has long, troublesome hair. It takes forever to brush through it once it starts tangling, which it will anytime she wears a scarf or falls asleep without having it in a braid first, or just on a windy day. It hurts her to get her hair brushed and every night is a tearful disaster.
I tried this brush and it worked like a charm! It's not instant, I mean, you do still have to go over trouble spots and so on. And my daughter's hair is thin so I don't know how it would react to thick hair. But it worked so well, and so smoothly, my daughter was ecstatic. It took probably only a quarter of the usual time we have to spend on her hair, and without pulling or tugging her scalp! Once the knots and snarls were out, she told me she wanted me to keep brushing her hair because it felt so good to have her hair brushed. She has never in her life enjoyed having her hair brushed, no matter how well I thought I'd smoothed it, so this brush is a marvel. I swear her hair looked shinier, too, but that might just have been my joy.
Other reviewers have noted that this doesn't have a handle. I didn't have any trouble at all using it. To me it felt like smoothing her hair with my hand. It's small enough to fit easily in your hand so it's not like you can' t use it without a handle. Also, if it's for a little girl, the bright shiny pink color totally makes up for it!
She managed to lose it within a week, and I just re-ordered it. It might turn up, I don't care about the wasted money, I'd like to have two of them around.