Dyson, the model finest identified for its distinctive cordless vacuums, has additionally made substantial inroads into the luxurious hair styling market. It’s now constructing on the success of its present merchandise – the Supersonic hair dryer, the Corrale straightener and the Airwrap multi-styler – with the launch of a brand new styling software, the Airstrait.
What’s the Dyson Airstrait?
Dyson’s Airstrait is a wet-to-dry hair straightener that makes use of scorching air, quite than scorching plates, to clean and straighten hair with out using a hair dryer first.
When will the Airstrait be available for purchase?
Should you’re within the US, you should purchase the Airstrait now. It’s obtainable from the US Dyson web site in two colourways: nickel and copper, and copper and blue.
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It’s not but obtainable within the UK, nor has Dyson introduced a particular launch date. You possibly can enroll on its web site to be notified when it arrives.
What is going to the Airstrait price?
Within the US, the Airstrait is priced at $499.99.
Dyson has not but introduced its UK worth level, however given the £399.99 UK launch worth of the Corrale, we’d anticipate the same worth level for the Airstrait.
What options does the Airstrait have?
The Airstrait appears to be like quite a bit like a traditional corded straightener and also you’d use it in the identical manner. However as a substitute of heated plates on its arms, there are two 1.5mm vents, by way of which air is pressured. The 2 streams of air converge to kind a single jet which is projected right down to concurrently dry and straighten the hair. It’s additionally ionising, so it’ll emit damaging ions to assist clean the hair.
The Airstrait options clever warmth management, by which the airflow is measured 30 instances per second to make sure that it stays on the appropriate temperature.
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It has two styling modes, plus a cool mode to set the fashion. Every mode has a alternative of warmth settings. In moist styling mode, the choices are 80°C/ 175°F, 110°C/ 230°F and 140°C/ 285°F and in dry mode, they’re 120°C/ 250°F and 140°C/ 285°F, plus a lift mode.
Dyson claims that the Airstrait will trigger “no warmth injury” however much less warmth injury appears extra doubtless, as even the recent air from a hair dryer could cause breakage – and that’s with out pulling strands of hair taut on the identical time.
The Airstrait will get a lot hotter than the Supersonic hair dryer, which has a high temperature of 105°C/221°F, however crucially, it stays under even the bottom temperature possibility of Dyson’s personal Corrale straightener, which has three warmth settings: 165°C/ 330°F, 185°C/ 365°F and 210°C/ 410°F.
It has two pace settings (high and low circulate), a chilly shot and root drying mode.
All of that is made attainable by Dyson’s very small, very highly effective Hyperdymium motor, which pushes over 11.9 litres of air per second by way of the machine.
It’s additionally acquired some stable clever options. It could actually detect when there’s a lock of hair between its arms and it’ll mechanically flip down the airflow when it’s not wanted. Plus, should you put it down whereas styling, it’ll pause after three seconds and begin up once more once you transfer it.
By way of the {hardware}, it appears typical of Dyson’s excessive construct high quality, with options you may not anticipate on a straightener, similar to a full-colour show.
It’s heavy although. At 2.2lbs/ 998g, it’s nearly twice the burden of the already fairly hefty 1.24 lbs/ 568g Corrale – however we don’t understand how a lot of that’s the plug and rope.
We’re trying ahead to reviewing it however within the meantime, you’ll be able to take a look at our critiques of Dyson’s different hair styling instruments: the Supersonic hair dryer, the Corrale straightener and the Airwrap multi-styler. For extra hair styling tech suggestions, take a look at our round-ups of one of the best hair dryers and finest hair straighteners we’ve examined.