Avid readers of Attract (that’s you, proper?) understand how a lot our editors love the Airwrap. The multitasking gadget has earned itself a number of Better of Magnificence Awards for its capacity to fashion hair shortly and effectively with out warmth, forsaking a shiny end. Now, the model is releasing a brand new, souped-up model—one way or the other including extra to a instrument that many thought already had all the proper bells and whistles.
Dyson is launching the Airwrap I.D. At first look, you would possibly suppose, wow, that appears…the identical! (Effectively, after all it does—it’s nonetheless an Airwrap.) However the gadget now has the power 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 stage, 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 kind, size, texture, fashion retention, in addition to your talent stage utilizing your gadget and your styling targets. When you enter that info, the app determines what number of seconds you spend wrapping your hair round your gadget, letting it set, and hitting it with a cool shot.
In accordance 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 function of the Airwrap. Hairstylist Devin Toth, who shouldn’t be 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 can fall faster when you skip it.”
Toth says the connectivity side of the brand new gadget may be useful for novice hair stylers—the individuals who wish to higher fashion their hair, however aren’t certain the place to start out. “There’s quite a lot of data packed into their concise questionnaire and if the app actually components all that data for you then it’s going to assist create the outcomes you’re in search of,” he says. He explains that professionals who’ve many purchasers won’t discover this operate as helpful. “For me, it is simply simpler to consider what look I’m making an attempt to realize on which hair kind,” he says. (He additionally has over 20 years of expertise styling hair, so it is sensible why he won’t want an app to information him.)
