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Does anyone use a 12v hairdryer and if so are they any good, we are off camping this weekend without electric hook-up and without a dryer my hair is wild. Ive been and had a look at them in the camping shop and the one ive seen is 100 watts mine at home is 1200 watts so this seems really low wattage im worried that it will be a bit pathetic. Is there anyone who has uncontrolable hair and if so what do you do. I cant wear a hat as i look a right numpty in them.

thanks s.j

They are hopeless !

my mrs bought one it is totally useless for drying hair

but i found a good use for it as our car is a diesel it takes a while for engine to get hot in winter so you can demist inside windows the 12v hairdrier has my windows clear on inside in about 1 min flat otherwise its 10 mins before they start to clear result extra 10 mins in bed

I used the hand-drier at a camp last year, we didn't have ehu, and there wasn't anywhere to plug in my hair-dryer.  That worked fine, I have curly hair that i straighten every day. 

 I also bought a straightener last year, rechargeable, which was worse that useless. It hardly heated, and lasted ten minutes before needing charged up again.  It worked from the cig lighter, but I gave up in the end.

The next site we went to had a place for hair dryers, and straighteners.  But I had left my 'real' straighteners at home.  I was raging because I watched everybody use theirs every night before they went to the club, and I had left mine behind.

If all else fails, wear a cap in the daytime, and have a few drinks at night, so you don't care what it looks like!!!

Roz