Tangle Teezer?

[saintsandpoets]

I bought one on Thursday after hearing multiple people rant and rave about how much it would change my life.

Well I'm not finding that.

I have long, dark, straight, thick hair that matts into knots the second it touches anything. Pillows especially. I wake up with a birds nest everyday.

Had previously been using a paddle brush to tame it. Switched the Tangle Teezer.

I'm finding the bristles aren't strong enough to penetrate my knots, that the thing is difficult to hold, and because of the shape, my hand gets covered in shaded hair, rather that around the bristles like a normal brush.

What am I doing wrong? How do you use yours?

I really want to like this thing.

It a very different technique with a Tangle Teaser - you start on the "surface" of the hair, and brush brush brush the surface until the prongs eventually penetrate the tangles and gradually get deeper into the hair.

Whereas with a normal brush you put the bristles straight against the scalp and pull the tangles out that way. The Tangle Teaser bristles aren't firm enough to do that, so if you try and use it the usual way it will end up feeling a bit feeble.