This Is How It All Began . . .

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I have long thick hair and it takes at least an hour to dry. I was sitting under a hair dryer one day at the salon and I felt that I was about to burn up from the dryer heat. My contacts were drying out, my face, ears and neck was burning, I had heat bumps on my face and neck - I was miserable. I held my hands up to my face shielding that heat from my forehead and my ears and what a relief! The problem was that I couldn’t hold my hands up long because the heat began to burn my hands.

 

I didn’t like to get hairdos where I had to sit under a hair dryer because of these exact reasons, but this hairdo was for a special occasion and I wanted it to last longer and look a little special. I kept coming from under the dryer because it was unbearable. I would relax and cool off for 3 or 4 minutes and then I would get back under the dryer.

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My beautician said, "you got to stay under the dryer if you want your hair to dry. It is going to take you twice as long to get your hair dry." I told her that the dryer heat was hot, so she turned the temp of the dryer down which means it took me much longer for my hair to dry.

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I thought, if I could just get something like a rim of a hat to shield my face, ears and neck from this hot heat, it would be wonderful. That is when the FEN was birthed in my head.

 

I immediately went home and cut off the brim of a hat and tested it. Even though it was cloth and not heat resistant, it made a difference in the heat that I could feel from the hair dryer. From there I got a lawyer to do the patent search. There were no products on the market like the FEN and I continued to obtain a patent, a manufacturer, packaging and a working prototype. I believe this product will protect a lot of people from getting too hot under a hair dryer.