For a current Hamptons getaway, I packed not one… not two… however three scorching instruments in my carry-on bag: a Dyson Supersonic blow-dryer, a GHD Platinum flatiron, and a Dyson Airwrap. All three have been essential to carry alongside. (Maintain any eye-rolling, please.) All three have been, in actual fact, used to model my hair all through the lengthy weekend. And although I’m not a lightweight packer—evidently, I wish to be totally accessorized—I might fortunately solely pack a single device if it may create the totally different types (straight and polished, a voluminous blowout, tender waves) I frequently put on and maintain my bangs glossy. T3’s brand-new Aire 360 would possibly simply be the answer.
At first look, T3’s pretty-in-pastel-pink gadget seems acquainted. To the Dyson Airwrap (I maintain each side-by-side) and the quite a few different air stylers in the marketplace, actually, but in addition to the model’s present Airebrush Duo that launched in 2021. That’s as a result of it’s an analogous idea: there’s a base full with three warmth settings, a cool shot operate, and three pace settings, plus 4 attachments (a concentrated dryer nozzle, an oval brush—it’s the identical design because the 2021 model—and two curling barrels for creating waves in reverse instructions). What makes it distinctive: “Our barrels are ceramic, not plastic, so the warmth administration is totally different,” T3 cofounder Julie Chung tells me on the launch occasion. She emphasizes, “It isn’t tech for the sake of tech.”
What meaning: the Aire 360 will get HOT. (Warning: Don’t contact the attachments after styling—besides on the heat-proof ends—or they are going to burn you.) However not too scorching in your hair: T3 did impartial testing on the device to find out precisely how excessive they might flip up the warmth to lock in a method—with out inflicting hair injury. In keeping with the model’s analysis, instruments over 320 levels Fahrenheit will trigger injury, particularly to moist hair. The very best setting on the Aire 360 is properly below that at about 237 levels Fahrenheit (Keep in mind to maintain your fingers—and ears—at a distance from the barrels!), whereas most curling irons attain almost 400 levels Fahrenheit. Even so, prepping with a warmth protectant continues to be crucial to protect your hair from potential injury.
And like most different “blowout brushes,” heated air is flowing by means of the attachments, however “air is not only air,” says Chung. Just like the model’s different Better of Magnificence-winning dryers, the SoftAire Drying Concentrator attachment emits ion-enriched air to hurry up drying time.
Once I went to place the Aire 360 to the check on my effective, wavy hair, I used to be impressed earlier than I even pulled the device out of its millennial pink vegan leather-based storage bag. Every attachment has a devoted pocket within the pouch. Chung tells me it’s known as the “Ashley bag” internally, named after her buddy who expressed the necessity for a correct, non-bulky, and elevated place to maintain all of the devices (as a result of, with most scorching instruments, you get a cumbersome field… or nothing) between makes use of and simply on the go.
