BABYLISSPRO GOLDFX BOOST+ CLIPPER REVIEW

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The GoldFX Boost+ FX870GBP is the FX870 platform with the BOOST+ motor upgrade and a corrosion-resistant gold titanium finish. The motor is brushless at 6,800 RPM and the runtime is 120+ minutes, which is a full day for most chairs. Against a standard FX870 at the same money the gain is marginal.

SCORE BREAKDOWN

What BOOST+ Actually Changes

The FX870 has been BaBylissPRO’s flagship cordless clipper for years, and the Boost+ revision does not redesign it — it upgrades the motor. The claim on the box is more strokes per minute, which matters in one specific place: pushing through thick or coarse hair without the blade stalling and pulling. Everything else about the tool — the all-metal body, the accessory set, the charging stand — is the platform barbers already know, which is the point. A shop that runs FX870s can add one without changing anything about how it works.

The motor is brushless, running at 6,800 RPM. That is worth stating plainly because this catalogue had it wrong until 2026-10-25 — it read “Rotary BOOST+”, which is a marketing name, not a motor type. Brushless matters for two reasons a barber feels: there are no brushes to wear down, so the motor outlives a rotary one, and it holds speed under load instead of dragging when the blade meets dense hair.

The Battery

120+ minutes, which scores 9.4 here. That is a full day of back-to-back cuts for most chairs and it removes the thing that interrupts a busy Saturday more than anything else: hunting for a charging stand between clients. For a mobile barber working out of a bag, runtime is not a luxury feature, it is the whole job.

The Gold Finish, and What It Is For

The gold titanium finish is the obvious thing about this clipper and the easiest to dismiss as decoration. It is corrosion resistance first: a clipper that lives in a damp station drawer and gets sprayed with disinfectant several times a day is in a harsher environment than it looks. The finish is also the one part of the tool that shows damage — drop an all-metal clipper on tile and the housing marks where a plastic one would flex. A grip band is cheap insurance.

Boost+ vs the Wahl Senior Cordless

Against the Wahl 5-Star Senior Cordless this is a motor-technology comparison, and it was not clear that it was one until the catalogue was corrected. The Boost+ is brushless; that Senior is rotary. The Boost+ holds 120+ minutes against the Senior’s 80. The Senior answers with the taper-lever feel barbers learned blending on and a far deeper tutorial library, and if the blend is what you are buying, that still counts for a lot. But on motor and runtime there is no argument to have.

The closer comparison is in-house. The LO-PROFX FX825 is brushless at the same 6,800 RPM, and the catalogue records its runtime as “2+ hr” against this one’s “120+ min” — the same figure in different words. The two are barely apart on paper; what separates them is the body. The Boost+ is a conventional upright all-metal clipper; the LO-PROFX sits low in the palm for fingertip control. Pick by which grip suits your hand, not by the spec sheet.

Who Should Buy It

• High-volume shops cutting thick or coarse hair all day who need maximum battery and motor power.
• Shops already running FX870s — every accessory carries over, so it drops into an existing kit.
• Mobile barbers — 120+ minutes is the spec that decides a day away from a socket.

Who Might Look Elsewhere

• Anyone who already owns a standard FX870 — the gain is marginal at the same money, and the catalogue says so.
• Noise-sensitive chairs — Louder than Wahl options — clients with noise sensitivity may notice. Less tutorial content than the base FX870.
• Barbers who work off their fingertips — the LO-PROFX has the same motor in a low-profile body.

Verdict — 8.8/10

Same legendary FX870 platform but with the BOOST+ motor upgrade — a brushless motor at 6,800 RPM for more cutting power through thick hair. Gold titanium finish resists corrosion. 120+ min battery and a DLC fade blade.

The score is our own assessment, built from manufacturer specifications and professional barber use cases rather than from a test bench — we do not run one. What holds it under the top clippers in this category is not the tool but the proposition: at the same price as the standard FX870 the Boost+ buys a motor step and a finish, and whether that is worth it depends entirely on whether you are replacing a clipper or adding one.

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