Avid readers of Attract (that’s you, proper?) understand how a lot our editors love the Airwrap. The multitasking machine has earned itself a number of Best of Beauty Awards for its skill to type hair rapidly and effectively with out warmth, abandoning a shiny end. Now, the model is releasing a brand new, souped-up model—someway including extra to a software that many thought already had all the correct bells and whistles.
Dyson is launching the Airwrap I.D. At first look, you would possibly assume, wow, that appears…the identical! (Effectively, in fact it does—it’s nonetheless an Airwrap.) However the machine now has the flexibility to be related to an app for added customization and even more-efficient styling. “Airwrap I.D. permits customers to enter details about their hair, talent degree, and styling targets on the MyDyson app, and the machine intelligently creates the optimum curling sequence with simply the push of a button,” says Robyn Coutts, senior design supervisor at Dyson.
In apply, what does this seem like? Within the app, you’ll have the ability to enter your hair’s type, size, texture, type retention, in addition to your talent degree utilizing your machine and your styling targets. When you enter that data, the app determines what number of seconds you spend wrapping your hair round your machine, letting it set, and hitting it with a cool shot.
In line with Coutts—and me, who has by no means hit the button in her life—many customers neglect to make use of the chilly shot characteristic of the Airwrap. Hairstylist Devin Toth, who isn’t affiliated with the model, says that is key to sustaining a hair look. “The chilly shot button makes the brand new coiffure and texture last more,” he says. “It would fall faster should you skip it.”
Toth says the connectivity facet of the brand new machine could be useful for novice hair stylers—the individuals who wish to higher type their hair, however aren’t certain the place to start out. “There’s quite a lot of information packed into their concise questionnaire and if the app actually components all that information for you then it is going to assist create the outcomes you’re in search of,” he says. He explains that professionals who’ve many purchasers may not discover this perform as helpful. “For me, it is simply simpler to consider what look I’m making an attempt to attain on which hair kind,” he says. (He additionally has over 20 years of expertise styling hair, so it is sensible why he may not want an app to information him.)
