My blow dryer ate a piece of my client's hair and I almost lost it

Last Thursday I was doing a final blowout for a regular client, Sarah, and my round brush got tangled in the back section near her crown. I tried to pull the brush out but it just sucked more hair into the vent. Her hair started wrapping around the barrel and I had to shut the dryer off real quick. I ended up cutting off a tiny bit of her hair to free it, maybe half an inch, and she was super chill about it thankfully. After she left I took apart the filter and found it was clogged with lint from months of neglect. I cleaned everything out with an old toothbrush and now it runs way cooler and quieter. Anyone else had a dryer grab hair like that or am I just unlucky?

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alice_hart2d ago

Cleaned mine with a toothbrush too, felt like a hair mechanic.

christopherwilson2d ago

Idk how you managed to get in there without breaking anything, did you have to take the whole mechanism apart or just clean around the edges? I've been thinking about doing this to mine but I'm paranoid I'll mess up the alignment or something. Was it pretty straightforward or did you run into any issues with the little plastic tabs or springs flying off? I tried cleaning a keyboard once with a toothbrush and ended up with a key that never clicked the same after, so I'm a bit nervous about trying it on something more delicate.