WIRED No heat plates. Lower heat options. Multiple styling settings. Cuts hair routine in half. Can be used on wet or dry hair. Dries and straightens. Has an Auto-Standby mode. TIRED Expensive. Might not work with all hair types. Controls can be confusing
. I'm constantly trying to persuade everyone around me to invest in at least one of them. A couple of years ago, I bought my mom the Supersonic for Mother’s Day. Last year, I convinced my friends to pool our money together to buy the Corrale for our best friend's 30th birthday.
But when Dyson announced the Airstrait, its wet-to-dry flat iron, I had my doubts. Perhaps it's because I'm still scarred from myfrom middle school. It's been over a decade, but I can still clearly hear the sizzle from my wet hair being clamped between the heat plates—resulting in crunchy, damaged strands with each pass. So, you can understand my apprehension toward the Airstrait.
I was slightly relieved to see that it's more of a hair dryer-straightener combo. Instead of squeezing your wet hair between hot plates, it uses airflow to dry and straighten your hair. Still, I wasn't completely convinced. My mix of wavy, curly, and coarse hair requires as much heat as possible to avoid looking frizzy and puffy. And that $500 price tag doesn't help. But as with the company's previous hair tools, I should've known.
The Airstrait has diffusers that help keep the air flowing onto your hair instead of onto you. As someone with sensitive skin, I'm always left with a lot of redness after blow-drying my hair. Regardless of how high the heat setting is, I don't experience irritation with the Airstrait. The diffusers are removable, making it easy to clean away any product, like a heat protectant, that may build up over time.
To set the temperature, there's a digital color display to see what mode you're on and buttons underneath to cycle through each setting. Choose from two main styling modes—wet and dry—and three temperature settings for each. With wet mode, you'll have the choice of 175, 230, or 285 degrees Fahrenheit. In dry mode, you can pick between 250 degrees, 285 degrees, and boost mode. You can alternate between low-flow and high-flow speed settings as well.
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