L’Oréal’s AirLight Professional Is the Quickest Hair Dryer I’ve Ever Used — Evaluation, Photographs

Put by way of rigorous testing—together with for sturdiness—the new-and-improved dryer options three warmth settings, three fan velocity settings, 4 pro-styling modes that provide preset warmth and air controls based mostly on hair sort, two styling attachments (a concentrator nozzle and a diffuser), and a helpful app that allows you to customise your settings out of your cellphone.

In regards to the know-how

It has additionally been tweaked to work on all hair sorts. “We did an infinite quantity of testing as a result of in the beginning [the dryer] solely labored on sure hair sorts,” explains Guive Balooch, international managing director of augmented magnificence and open innovation at L’Oréal Professionnel. “We began in our inner L’Oréal Professional salon, then we examined it externally with our salon companions, after which we carried out at-home use exams the place folks tried it with out us going to their houses and displaying them easy methods to use it. By way of all three testing rounds we needed to make modifications and [getting it right] was quite a bit more durable than we thought. That is why it took a very good 18 months even after the know-how was prepared.”

So how on earth is gentle going to dry your hair? The scientists and engineers who developed the AirLight Professional discovered their inspiration in nature. “When it rains, the following day, if it’s sunny and there is wind, the rain dries a lot sooner than if it’s cloudy. So the Zuvi staff requested themselves, How can we apply this pure phenomenon to moisture within the hair?” explains Balooch. “The scientists, who’ve a background within the physics of sunshine, knew that in nature a particular wavelength of infrared gentle is what dries the rain, so the problem was to make that gentle highly effective sufficient to dry the hair.”

The answer was to mix a circle of infrared gentle, which is positioned on the entrance of the hair dryer, with a standard motor and coils within the middle. The motor pushes the recent air by way of the middle of the ring of infrared gentle, permitting the sunshine to additionally warmth the air because it’s shifting towards your hair. This, in flip, makes the AirLight Professional extra environment friendly. “With conventional convection heating, the coils warmth as much as round 200 levels, which is then blasted out of the nozzle by the motor. By the point the air reaches your hair, nonetheless, it’s about 100 levels, which suggests 50% of the warmth is wasted and launched into the atmosphere,” says Balooch. “With the AirLight Professional, the infrared gentle is heating the air because it’s flowing towards your hair. This implies the dryer temperature can begin at 150 levels as a result of much less warmth is dissipating into the air, which, in flip, saves you round 20% on electrical energy [compared to traditional hair dryers].”