![]() To achieve that look, I grabbed my flatiron to pass through each section again (though just once instead of the three or four passes I would do with a flatiron on air-dried hair). At the end of the process, my hair was straight, but not the silky, pin-straight finish I like best. "I needed 10 slow passes on each section of hair to get it straight, which took a total of 45 minutes. Like my fellow testers, I soon realized that the slower I went, the straighter, glossier results I got. With the same amount of hair as I would blow-dry with a round brush, I saw my hair dry within seconds of passing my strands through the clamps (with little to no visible steam). “Straight out of the shower, after a rough towel dry, I turned the Airstrait to wet mode and put it on the highest heat setting (275☏) and airflow. ![]() The idea of cutting down drying and styling time with the Dyson Airstrait almost sounded too good to be true. If I don’t have a full day to wait and I use a blow-dryer, my hair turns into a gigantic puffball, requiring many passes to iron it out. Before a flatiron lays its hot plates on a single strand, I've already endured close to 24 hours of air-drying time. “Getting my hair straight is a whole frickin' process. The Airwrap brush attachment also gets my ends straighter than the Airstrait did."Īssociate manager of special projects Talia Gutierrez before (right side) and after (left side) using the Dyson Airstrait. The Airwrap’s brush attachment dries and straightens my whole head in an hour, while the Airstrait takes close to two hours - and I would still want to go in with another tool for a smoother finish. “Overall, I’m going to continue to use the Revair or my beloved Dyson Airwrap. I kept thinking: The Airstrait needs a comb to clip on it to increase the tension and get better straightening for my hair type. "With the Airstrait, I also experienced that burning smell you get when using a traditional flatiron and, because there is not as much tension, the Airstrait didn’t leave my ends as straight as the Revair did. The whole process took almost an hour for half of my head the Revair took 30 minutes for the other half. The Airstrait got it a little flatter, but that’s because I used smaller sections and went over each slowly, two to three times, based on the tutorial I got at the Airstrait launch event. "After using both tools, my hair felt very similar on each side. For a high gloss, I had to go back over my hair with a traditional flatiron, bringing my total styling time to about 45 minutes. With my Airwrap or flatiron, I get a glass-like finish - I didn’t get that with the Airstrait. However, my hair was less shiny than I would have liked. (My usual routine of blow-dryer followed by flatiron typically takes an hour.) Even better, my hair looked like I’d gotten a fresh cut and blowout (mind you, I haven’t had a trim in a year). I chose the highest heat setting in wet mode, went over each section four or five times, and in 30 minutes my hair was bone-dry. Sure enough, it did exactly what it said it would. If I had just gone in and started clamping my hair through the arms, the roots would have stayed damp and lacked volume.Īs someone with long, wavy, not super-thick hair, I was pretty confident this tool would work for me. ![]() I found this rough-dry step crucial because the clamps were a bit too bulky to get really close to my roots. I discovered that if you hold the arms together and lock them shut, the Airstrait can double as a blow-dryer. Most of the Allure editors who tested the Airstrait say they noticed minimal steam during the styling process.Īfter towel-drying my hair, I gave it a quick rough dry with the Airstrait. To prevent the frizz, dullness, and split ends associated with heat damage, “a device used on wet hair would have to remove the water without creating extreme heat or steam,” Joshua Zeichner, MD, a board-certified dermatologist and director of cosmetic and clinical research in dermatology at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, previously told Allure. It's worth noting that the GHD Duet Style also makes a no damage claim - it does have hot plates, but they only reach 248☏, with airflow going up to 302☏. “Once you go above 375☏, that’s when a hot tool becomes damaging to the hair.” Remember, the Airstrait’s highest heat setting is 285☏, with a touchup boost setting at 320☏ (for use on dry hair). “At heats this low, this tool is unlikely to cause damage to even wet hair,” he says. But Evans from TRI Princeton thinks it's a reasonable one (noting that he has not tested the tool himself). As of press time, the brand was not able to provide information on the testing it had performed to back this claim. No heat damage.” That’s the claim Dyson makes with the Airstrait.
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