Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer Review: Fast, Kind, Comfortable

At a Look

Professional’s Score

Professionals

• Wonderful efficiency
• Vary of magnetic attachments
• Simple to make use of
• Nice construct high quality

Our Verdict

It’s eye-wateringly costly however the astonishing efficiency, ease of use and wide selection of useful magnetic attachments nearly justifies its worth.

Worth When Reviewed

$429.99

Finest Costs Immediately: Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer

$449.00 ($6.05 / Ounce)

Hair drying know-how hasn’t modified for round 50 years, primarily due to the cumbersome motors you discover contained in the dryers.

The identical may have been mentioned for vacuum cleaners till James Dyson’s intelligent cyclone know-how did away with mud luggage and introduced in fashionable new designs and superior cleansing (even with out mains energy). Then Dyson has turned its air aptitude in the direction of hair care.

The Dyson Supersonic is an enormous identify for a small system, albeit one with a gasp-worthy price ticket.

Design & Construct

The Supersonic is compact and light-weight (560g with out attachments), in comparison with fashions that may weigh over 1kg. That mentioned, there are hair dryers on the market at across the identical weight.

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Dyson calls the dryer “engineered for stability”. Typical dryers will be uncomfortable as a result of they’re heavy and require odd postures to succeed in all of the hair. If it takes you greater than ten minutes to dry your hair, your arm and wrist are going to take the punishment of such heavy, unwieldy dryers.

As a result of much-reduced dimension of Dyson’s motor it has been faraway from the top of the product to the dryer’s deal with itself. For higher stability the centre of mass must be moved as shut as doable to the hand or pivot level.

And taking the motor from the top permits the size of the dryer barrel to be diminished, which means it could actually get nearer to the top whereas your elbow stays nearer to your physique reasonably than having to carry the elbow away.

There’s one other profit, too: as a substitute of sucking air at the back of the dryer, it’s sucked in on the base of the deal with. This helps to stop hair getting sucked in and burned, and we additionally like that the filter is definitely detachable to scrub.

One other boon is the lengthy energy wire, which proved way more handy to all testers, however they did notice that this turned a slight drawback when storing it.

Clever Warmth Management

Dyson places its product advances right down to its expertise in motor and airflow know-how, plus 5 years of analysis into “the science of hair”.

We are likely to affiliate wholesome hair with shiny hair, and defending hair from excessive warmth will assist enhance the shine.

Once you use any product that goes above 150°C structural adjustments begin to happen within the hair. If hair is heated excessively it could actually punch holes within the strand, inflicting gentle to scatter – with the top outcome that broken hair finally ends up trying uninteresting.

Dyson’s clever heat-control system measures the temperature of the airflow, and feeds that data again to the microprocessor 20 instances per second. If it begins to get too scorching the system will settle down the heating factor, which implies the airflow won’t ever exceed a sure excessive temperature on the outlet.

So while you put the warmth setting on the highest degree it is going to all the time keep at a continuing temperature reasonably than going too excessive or too low through the styling. Even the “no warmth” choice is about as a continuing 28°C.

Quick Drying

At its highest velocity and warmth settings the Supersonic is likely one of the quickest hair dryers accessible – some testers say that it could actually dry hair in half the standard time.

Dyson says that the issue with commonplace hairdryers is that they’ve standard motors which are cumbersome and gradual.

The agency’s digital motor, the V9, is on the coronary heart of the hair dryer, spinning at as much as 110,000 revolutions per minute with what Dyson calls an “inaudible frequency”. Once more that is right down to intelligent design: the motor makes use of 13 reasonably than 11 blades, which pushes one tone inside the motor to a sound frequency past the audible vary of people.

Dyson additionally makes use of a rubber mount to scale back the vibration between the deal with and the motor.

Possibly Dyson thinks it’s been so lengthy since we related the phrase “supersonic” with Concorde (or V9 with racing automobile engines) that it could actually use the time period for one thing that’s speculated to be extremely low noise. Really this Supersonic is absolutely quiet, lower than 75dB in our checks. It’s not inaudible however it’s noticeably quieter than different dryers.

It’s sooner (8x, claims Dyson) and lighter (on common half the load) than most different dryer motors. Its tiny fan is just 27mm extensive.

To dry hair you want a mixture of velocity and temperature. Warmth by itself would evaporate the water from the hair however it could take a really very long time. Velocity helps to strip water off from the floor of the hair.

The V9 motor can create excessive airflow pressures. It attracts in 0.8 cubic metres of airflow per minute, and that is amplified because the air passes by means of air-multiplier know-how to 2.4 cubic metres per minute. That signifies that the airflow is eradicating extra water so the dryer wants much less warmth to get the job carried out.

Attachments & Efficiency

Hair dryers aren’t only for drying hair. They’re additionally for styling and sculpting hair.

The Dyson smoothing nozzle offers a extra widespread airflow. This implies you’ll be able to model and dry on the identical time, lowering the “race” to get the styling carried out earlier than the hair is dry. That mentioned a few of our testers discovered that even at low warmth the Supersonic dried the hair virtually too quick to permit styling.

Our testers have been impressed with how drying with the Supersonic made their hair straighter and smoother.

Certainly one of our testers curses her hair’s “horrible wave and frizz”. Usually she has to dry her hair after which use straighteners. She praised the Dyson for drying her hair with out the necessity for straighteners. It was additionally much less frizzy.

A second tester additionally got here to the identical conclusion, saying that her hair was “actually clean – as if straightened – and that it wasn’t in any respect frizzy or flyaway” after utilizing the Supersonic. She was additionally impressed that the dryer didn’t get scorching, and was protected to place down instantly after utilizing it (with youngsters round).

Intelligent design signifies that the warmth is avoided the nozzle. Dyson calls this Warmth Protect know-how, which retains the surfaces of the attachments cool.

The Dyson diffuser disperses air evenly round curls, serving to to scale back frizz and enhance definition. The Dyson Concentrator creates wider airflow, so ought to require fewer brush strokes for exact styling. With the concentrator you’ll be able to form your hair one part at a time.

The nozzle and different equipment connect magnetically, which acquired reward from all of our testers. It brings to thoughts Apple’s MagSafe laptop computer energy connectors.

The latest attachment for the Supersonic is the Flyaway. Dyson says that is impressed by skilled stylists and the thought is to offer you a clean, salon-quality end.

Directing the airflow across the curve of the attachment and out of a gap, a Coanda impact happens the place your hair sticks like a magnet. Working high to backside, it improves a straight model whereas stopping ‘flyaway’, or unfastened, hair.

It really works very properly and is straightforward to use even on the again by rotating the magnetic attachment to a handy angle. The result’s fairly flat, although, so should you favor extra quantity, one other approach or a mixture of attachments could also be wanted.

Settings & Capabilities

There are three velocity settings (Quick drying, Common drying and Styling) and 4 exact warmth settings (100°C Quick drying and styling, 80°C Common drying, 60°C Light drying, and 28°C Fixed chilly), although to alter the temperature or velocity you could cease drying, which some may discover a trouble.

The Supersonic options ionic performance. The hair is conditioned by negatively charged ions, created by passing air over an electrical present.

Pumping out unfavourable ions cancels out the static that builds up while you’re touching, brushing and styling your hair. This can assist shield hair (particularly at excessive warmth), scale back frizz, enhance shine and take away static.

Worth & Availability

The Dyson Supersonic prices $399.99 or £299.99, which makes it one of many priciest hair dryers round. It’s accessible in a spread of colors.

If you need an much more luxurious gifting choice, there’s the $499.99/ £399.99 23.75 karat gold model. This is available in a putting blue end with real gold leaf, and likewise consists of the protecting case – so it’s actually solely a $50/ £70 premium for the additional gold.

It’s additionally value noting you can purchase the Supersonic from Dyson refurbished for £239.99. It is available in a fundamental cardboard field however nonetheless has free supply, a 1-year assure and the 35-day money-back assure nonetheless applies, too.

temperature and airflow settings that can assist create a wider vary of types.

With the Dyson Supersonic you’re shopping for not simply the leading edge know-how and design, however an announcement. Proudly owning a Dyson Supersonic is a bit like proudly owning an Apple product. You get top of the range however at a premium worth.

However caring on your hair and attaining a terrific model are severe issues, and with most haircuts and styling costing over £100 a go that £300/$400 funding isn’t as nice because it first seems.

Nonetheless, rivals have adopted the place Dyson led and for the same worth level, now you can purchase the equally luxe Zuvi Halo, which gives a cooler styling expertise. And if you would like the Supersonic expertise for much less, you may wish to take a look at the Laifen Swift, which is beneath half the worth of the Supersonic.

Verdict

The Dyson Supersonic is a technological marvel (dare we name it “leading edge”), which guarantees to be kinder to your valuable hair, extra snug on beforehand weighed down arms, quiet, and sooner at drying and styling.

Our testers have been impressed with the Supersonic however initially aghast on the excessive price ticket, though we predict that $399/ £299 isn’t that a lot cash when in comparison with the worth of a high quality haircut, not to mention the care of your valuable hair.

You may even avoid wasting cash by having to make use of much less hair product in addition to worthwhile time. It’s very quick at drying (some might discover it a little bit too quick when drying at low velocity), tremendous quiet, easy and cozy to make use of, and with some neat design options such because the magnetic attachments.

There are definitely cheaper, high-quality hair dryers accessible however we predict the hair-friendly Dyson Supersonic is sensible sufficient to justify the comparatively excessive price ticket. To take a look at its rivals, take a look at our round-up of the most effective hair dryers we’ve examined.