Avid readers of Attract (that’s you, proper?) know the way a lot our editors love the Airwrap. The multitasking machine has earned itself a number of Better of Magnificence Awards for its capacity to fashion hair rapidly and effectively with out warmth, forsaking 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 fitting bells and whistles.
Dyson is launching the Airwrap I.D. At first look, you may assume, wow, that appears…the identical! (Nicely, after all it does—it’s nonetheless an Airwrap.) However the machine 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 degree, and styling objectives 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 follow, 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 degree utilizing your machine and your styling objectives. 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 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 characteristic 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 is going to fall faster when you skip it.”
Toth says the connectivity side of the brand new machine could be useful for novice hair stylers—the individuals who wish to higher fashion their hair, however aren’t positive the place to begin. “There’s a number of data packed into their concise questionnaire and if the app actually components all that data for you then it would assist create the outcomes you might be on the lookout for,” he says. He explains that professionals who’ve many purchasers may not discover this operate as helpful. “For me, it is simply simpler to consider what look I’m attempting 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.)