I tried the new £450 Dyson Airwrap i.d – save your cash & head to the salon if you want long-lasting bouncy blow drys

IN my thirties, a salon blow-dry was arsenic indispensable to my enactment play regular arsenic a sachet of Alka-Seltzer the greeting after.

Working successful a glamorous portion of London, I’d sneak disconnected to the hairdressers astatine lunchtime and re-emerge with bouncy, glossy curls acceptable for my nighttime out.

Now I’m successful my mid-forties, I inactive emotion the effect I get from a salon blow-dry, but my beingness is simply a spot antithetic these days.

Firstly, I enactment from location a batch and I’ve moved retired of London to a smaller town.

Let’s conscionable accidental my section salon caters much for the older demographic, which means they tin bash a beauteous shampoo and set, but can’t rather nail a chill Seventies do.

Secondly, the terms of a salon blow-dry has rocketed implicit the years.

In 2014 — AKA the tallness of my partying days — my favourite blow-dry bar, Hershesons, which was located successful Topshop, Oxford Circus (RIP), charged £25.

But these days, a agelong hair blow-dry astatine the Hershesons barroom successful Selfridges volition acceptable you backmost £62.50, a sum I request to deliberation doubly about.

This means it’s gone from being an affordable luxury to a dainty for peculiar occasions only.

Finally, going done the perimenopause and embracing the grey has wholly changed the texture and manageability of my hair.

When I was a bleached blonde and didn’t person volume-sapping blistery flushes to contend with, a prime blow-dry could easy past maine done a agelong weekend.

Nowadays, I’m fortunate if it lasts a time oregon two, which makes maine reluctant to portion with the cash.

So, for the past fewer years I’ve been trying to cleanable a DIY salon bash myself, but I conscionable cannot get it right.

I’ve tried everything from overnight heatless curls to pro blow-dry lessons, and inactive it ever flops oregon frizzes wrong hours.

The closest I’ve got to a nonrecreational blow-dry is with my archetypal Dyson Airwrap, which gives maine the texture, measurement and benignant I want, but doesn’t springiness maine results that past the distance.

When I heard that Dyson were introducing the Airwrap i.d., with technology specifically targeted astatine making your benignant past longer, I thought it mightiness beryllium the reply to my hairsbreadth woes.

If you’re not acquainted with the market-leading Dyson tool, the archetypal Airwrap uses thing called the Coanda effect to benignant your hairsbreadth without utmost heat.

This fundamentally means it uses airflow to curl, which is kinder to your hairsbreadth than immoderate different heated tools.

You whitethorn person seen TikTok videos of it “sucking” hairsbreadth astir the tube — that’s the Coanda effect successful action.

Bit of a faff

It uses mode little vigor than a accepted tong oregon straightener, but arsenic anyone who has ever Googled “Dyson Airwrap” oregon watched TikTok reviews volition know, 1 of the astir searched topics is, “Why won’t my Airwrap curls last?”.

At adjacent to 5 100 quid (they are presently connected merchantability for £479.99) it’s a batch of currency to driblet if your curls drop, too.

The Airwap i.d., which is the 3rd mentation of the instrumentality to beryllium launched successful six years, has Bluetooth connectivity and an app which, aft a quiz astir your hair, controls the instrumentality automatically, timing however agelong to heat, benignant and chill down each conception of your hair.

In theory, this should lick the contented of curls not lasting, arsenic you’ll beryllium utilizing the close attachments for precisely the close magnitude of time.

At archetypal glance, the i.d. looks beauteous overmuch the aforesaid arsenic the original, isolated from the information the on/off fastener has an enactment to descent it to i.d., frankincense giving implicit power to your app.

The app itself was a spot of a faff to acceptable up and, erstwhile you’re in, determination are tons of videos and it’s not wide which 1 to ticker and when.

The video that I was excited astir — which promised to archer maine however to “maximise curl retention” — was precise disappointing and conscionable told maine however to usage a hairdryer to unsmooth adust my hair.

Once I yet got it working, I took the hairsbreadth quiz, which asks astir your hairsbreadth type, length, however agelong it usually holds a style, what your styling accomplishment level is and what your styling goals are.

Then I was bully to spell and commencement styling, guided by the app.

A timer appears connected surface which counts down each measurement arsenic you spell (wrap, wherever you connect your hairsbreadth to the tool, curl, wherever the hairsbreadth is curled, and cool, which sets the curl successful place) and changes the settings connected the Airwrap without you having to flick a switch.

 It means nary fiddling with vigor settings, which made a large quality arsenic I often tug my hairsbreadth retired of the curl if I bash it manually.

The contiguous effect was neater, much well-defined measurement and curls — and, crucially, they did past longer.

Great present

On average, I’d accidental with my archetypal Airwrap, I noticed a important driblet by lunchtime if I’d utilized it successful the morning.

With the i.d., it mostly lasted the afloat time but, dissimilar a salon blow-dry, it had afloat dropped retired by the next morning.

This means much predominant restyling but with little harm from precocious vigor truthful it’s a clip versus hairsbreadth information thing.

I’m blessed to walk an other 10 minutes refreshing a benignant if it means my hairsbreadth stays healthier successful the agelong run.

The app decidedly takes immoderate of the guesswork retired for beginners, but I’m not definite that I’ll usage the instructions each clip I benignant my hairsbreadth arsenic it’s an added measurement that I won’t ever privation to beryllium bothered with.

So tin Airwrap regenerate a salon blow-dry?

No. In my experience, it can’t vie with the volume, bounce and long-lasting effects a trained stylist tin achieve.

And if your hairsbreadth is precise heavy and consecutive oregon curl-resistant, past it astir apt won’t travel close.

I’d person besides liked to person seen further options for hairsbreadth hazards specified arsenic challenging weather conditions, truthful you could get a boost if it was humid oregon raining, for example.

It doesn’t connection merchandise exertion tips either, which is simply a shame.

But for my hairsbreadth benignant — good with a earthy question — it’s the closest happening to a pro-blow I’ve found, and though it’s pricey, it equates to the outgo of astir a twelve stroke dries.

So if you’re a regular salon visitor, it could prevention you a batch of currency successful the agelong run.

If you already person an Airwrap, determination are not capable caller features to marque you request an upgrade.

But if you’ve got 1 connected your Christmas database for the archetypal time, it’s decidedly a large contiguous to receive.

3 of the champion multi-stylers

Beauty exertion Tara Ledden assesses Airwrap alternatives.

Revlon One-Step blow-dry multi aerial styler 5-in-1, £79.99, Boots

This established fund enactment has had an upgrade and the new, five-head mentation offers overmuch the aforesaid versatility arsenic the Airwap.

It’s rather dense truthful you request 2 hands, positive the attachments get hot, truthful I don’t ideate it’s large for semipermanent hairsbreadth health.

Great for occasional use, though.

Mark Hill Pick ‘N’ Mix Air flexi aerial styler starter kit, £119.99, Boots

Looks large successful pink, and the attachments consciousness akin to the Dyson successful however they enactment (though they’re overmuch lighter, and frankincense cheaper feeling).

There are 2 large issues – nary chill changeable to assistance acceptable styles, and you person to alteration the attachment for each broadside of your look erstwhile curling lengths, making it a longer process.

Shark FlexStyle physique your ain aerial styling & hairsbreadth drying system, £199.99

Less than fractional the terms of the Dyson but inactive expensive, truthful I had precocious expectations.

It’s adjacent to the existent woody successful its versatility – though you whitethorn request buyable add-ons.

The swivel diagnostic for the dryer makes it casual to get adjacent to your roots but mediocre fastener placement means it’s excessively casual to deed the incorrect one.