There’s no hairstyle quite as transformative or difficult to re-create at home as a real good blowout. Blow-drying your own hair is hard, despite stylists swearing on their lives, graves, and favorite hairspray that with the right hairdryer even the most round-brush-inept can pull off a perfect blowout. No shade to the experts, but dropping half your rent money on a beauty tool that might leave you fried or frizzy is reason enough to keep booking Drybar appointments. Heck, it’s borderline fiscally responsible. But as much as we’d like to live in a world where we can budget both time and money on a pro job, we’d rather a good hair day be in our own hands. So our editors tested all the fanciest, most innovative hair-dryers to see if a faux-professional blowout at home is the stuff of myth or actually attainable. Spoiler: these dryers work like magic—and live up to their price tags.