Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer Review: Yay or Nay?

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• How exactly does it straighten without heated plates?
• All the Best Dyson Products We Recommend, From Vacuums to Hair Dryers
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• Stay away the worst product
• What reviewers liked about the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer:
• We Tried Dyson’s Latest Hair Tool, the Airstrait, on Four Different Hair Types

That being said, Who What Wear UK fashion editor Remy Farrell tells me that the attachments are great for her Afro hair. "I use the wide-tooth comb a lot and the styling concentrator to set gel, but I mostly don't use the attachments," she says. On top of the advanced technology features, the Supersonic has a variety of drying speeds, heat settings, and attachments to choose from so you can get the best drying experience for your hair every time.

How exactly does it straighten without heated plates?

When you use any product that goes above 150°C structural changes start to take place in the hair. If hair is heated excessively it can punch holes in the strand, causing light to scatter – with the end result that damaged hair ends up looking dull. It’s eye-wateringly expensive but the astonishing performance, ease of use and wide range of handy magnetic attachments just about justifies its price. Of the Dyson Supersonic lookalikes, the Karrong F350 seemed the most promising to us, but it ended up being half as fast, with no way to control speed separately from temperature—the hotter it got, the faster it got. The Conair InfinitiPro SmoothWrap Hair Dryer is slower and has a shorter cord than all of our picks. However, it is lightweight (a pound), and it reaches temperatures above 245 °F.

All the Best Dyson Products We Recommend, From Vacuums to Hair Dryers

My readers have had luck buying refurbished Dyson dryers from Nordstrom Rack, where they’re usually ~25% off. I received my Dyson as a gift, but they’re carried by Nordstrom, Sephora, Sax Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Bed Bath & Beyond, and Ulta. I have yet to see it sold in hair salons, but salons in your area may carry them. Editorial independence means being able to give an unbiased verdict about a product or company, with the avoidance of conflicts of interest.

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But if you’re in the market for a new hair dryer that will make your hair healthier and is a breeze to use, the Nural is definitely worth the expense. I am a card-carrying member of the Dyson fan club, and have used (and loved) the OG Supersonic hair dryer for two years now, so I didn’t think I could be impressed by a few extra bells and whistles. “For this review, I did a split-head test between the Airstrait and my Revair, both are wet-to-dry tools and both straighten. The Revair is like a vacuum for your hair — it pulls it into a tube to straighten it and get the water out. You can adjust the tension to get the hair as straight as possible.

Secondly, there seems to be an attachment for virutally any use case—from smoothing flyaways and frizz to defining curls to combing through thick tresses. When we first got word in 2016 that Dyson—then known for vacuums and fans—was entering the beauty space, we called in the device immediately. Since, our team has been testing it on a range of styles and hair types. Jessica (she/her) is a deputy editor at the Good Housekeeping Institute and a longtime product tester, reviewer, writer and editor of beauty and lifestyle content.

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I’m not blow-drying eight clients a day, but I’ve always awkwardly struggled to wield a brush and dryer at the same time, and the Supersonic’s ergonomics make it so much easier to maneuver. Paired with its zippy dry times, blow-drying my hair is no longer a chore so mind-numbingly bothersome that it makes me question my adherence to heteronormative beauty standards. “Hair dryers can be heavy, inefficient, and make a racket…they can also cause extreme heat damage to hair,” James Dyson, the British inventor and founder of the brand, said in a press release. I’m often asked for my Dyson Supersonic hair dryer review IRL. When my friend sees me blowing out my curls before my braids appointment. When my mom is shocked to know I can still talk to her on the phone despite the hum of the dryer.

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Speaking of which, the highest speed setting of the Dyson is can be a tad too strong to be used comfortably for the entire blow dry process. Ironically, the Dyson team should have made the 3rd speed just a little less powerful which would have possibly also made it less noisy. I find myself using the 2nd setting but wish I could take more advantage of the Dyson’s power. Figuring out how to use the Dyson hair attachments is a learning process. To maximize the results from the Dyson Supersonic it’s important to know how and what to use each attachment for. This was an improvement on what we had before, but it resulted in a bulky device with most of its weight in the top rear of the device.

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Among the models we tested, it tied for blowing the hottest and fastest air. I'd describe my hair as having a slight natural wave, and the texture is coarse in areas, which means limp roots aren't a concern, but frizz and flyaways are. My hair is also quite thick and long, so my drying time if often lengthy. Those styling attachments include the Flyaway and the Gentle Air attachments; the latter reduces airflow to help reduce frizz and define curls. There is also the new Powerful Air attachment, which ramps up the airflow velocity to dry hair more quickly.

We Tried Dyson’s Latest Hair Tool, the Airstrait, on Four Different Hair Types

I figured I could find out and if I didn’t like the Dyson Supersonic, I could always return it within the return policy deadline. I’m sharing the good and the bad in this Dyson hair dryer review, and why I don’t think majority of people should buy the Dyson Supersonic. I WILL say this is the kind of gift that would impress your mother-in-law. In this Dyson hair dryer review, I’m sharing my in-depth opinion on the $400 tool after 2 years of testing out the Supersonic Hair Dryer. When I was trying to decide between the Dyson Supersonic Hair Dryer versus the Dyson Airwrap versus other more affordable hair dryer brands, I ultimately went with the Dyson Supersonic hair dryer. There’s so much hype around Dyson for hair, and I wondered what makes Dyson so special besides the technology, futuristic design and being famous for its vacuums.

Those are the only features that matter for drying your hair efficiently. Because the motor sits in the handle, the nozzle is shorter and easier to maneuver. The Dyson dryer’s handle doesn’t vibrate (something that was not true of all the other high-end models we tested), and its noise ranked among the least grating in our tests.

Those with thicker or curlier hair types should opt for the highest heat level, while someone with fine or straight hair should go for the Dyson’s cooler settings. Although we’ve also gotten our hands on the Dyson Airwrap—the company’s viral, high-end hair-styling device that comes with multiple styling attachments—we haven’t put it through the same rigorous testing as our hair dryer picks. No heat damage.” That’s the claim Dyson makes with the Airstrait. As of press time, the brand was not able to provide information on the testing it had performed to back this claim.

At $499, you really have to love styling your hair straight to purchase it. Its closest competitors, the Revair and the GHD Duet Style, cost about $100 less, and some of our testers preferred their results. We found that unless you already have relatively straight hair, the Airstrait on its own is not going to give you a super shiny finish. With my Airwrap or flatiron, I get a glass-like finish — I didn’t get that with the Airstrait.

Pumping out negative ions cancels out the static that builds up when you’re touching, brushing and styling your hair. This can help protect hair (especially at high heat), reduce frizz, improve shine and remove static. Dyson’s intelligent heat-control system measures the temperature of the airflow, and feeds that information back to the microprocessor 20 times per second. If it starts to get too hot the system will cool down the heating element, which means the airflow will never exceed a certain extreme temperature at the outlet.

My hair felt incredibly smooth, and the Supersonic left me with a lot more shine than my usual hair dryer. I sometimes find that hair dryers make my hair quite frizzy at first, but Dyson's leaves me with an instantly sleek result. I find I mostly reach for the styling concentrator and smoothing attachment, which are great for smoothing down flyaways and tucking in new hair growth. To dry my hair, I first rough-dried it without any attachments until it was about 50% dry, before switching to the styling concentrator to help smooth the flyaways around my crown and add some shine to my lengths. I was really amazed at how powerful (yet quiet) it is, and it shaved some serious time off my standard blow-dry routine. Rough-drying from wet to totally dry took just seven and a half minutes—about half as long as it would normally take me.

Before I share my Dyson Hair Dryer review, it’s important to know that I have extremely thick, frizz-prone, wavy hair. My hair traditionally takes a long time to dry, and I’ve been through my fair share of hair dryers (at least 10) since I started styling it in middle school. It’s important that I style my curtain bangs every day or they’d just fall flat and straight. I use one of the concentrator nozzles (it doesn’t matter which; I’ve had the same experience using both) and the round brush that comes with the dryer to blow them out and give them lots of volume and shape. I caught on quickly and have used this method to do my bangs for months without fail.