I discovered that out first-hand once I used the high-velocity Highly effective Air attachment, which is kind of the default attachment (the dryer’s directions explicitly state to not use the dryer with out one of many attachments), to rough-dry my hair a lot of the method. “For many hair sorts, [it’s best to] dry hair to roughly 90% earlier than utilizing a brush,” Farel tells me. And I acquired there in what felt like mere seconds utilizing the best pace setting and second-hottest temperature. It was additionally at this level that I spotted I’d been raw-dogging it and forgot to use any styling cream or warmth protectant. However fortunately, the Supersonic R’s know-how has been developed to skirt warmth harm.
The attachments—which, along with the Highly effective Air attachment, embrace Professional Concentrator, Flyaway, Diffuser, and Broad-Tooth Comb attachments —have RFID sensors in every attachment, “which talk with the hair dryer, robotically adjusting the motor and heater to ship optimum airflow and temperature for every attachment,” says Nyeow. “The RFID sensors additionally exactly bear in mind the final used setting on each attachment.”
I switched to the Professional Concentrator attachment, which focuses a extra exact airstream proper the place you’re aiming, to make use of with my brush, and I’m happy to report that, whereas I’m not all of a sudden a professional at utilizing each fingers for a blowout, the Supersonic R completely improved my potential to take care of management. Whereas the form feels unfamiliar at first, it virtually instantly turns into extra intuitive than some other design, older or newer.
Earlier than giving my hair a little bit of a smooth-down with Andrew Fitzsimons Prism Shine Softening Crème (I might need forgotten to make use of one thing on my damp hair, however I wasn’t about to enter the wild with out locking out Florida frizz), I used the Flyaway attachment, which ingeniously lifts longer hairs to the entrance and pushes flyaways into the remainder of the hair to make them much less seen. (That’s the entire aerodynamic Coanda impact factor that Dyson is so well-known for: a spinning vortex that draws the hair to assist management it.) All in all, I used to be capable of dry and elegance my lob in lower than quarter-hour, which, for me, is a private separate-brush report.
Attract commerce producer Sarah Hoffmann, whose hair is a couple of inches longer than mine, tied with me. (Not that it’s a race.) “It took me about quarter-hour to dry my hair whereas hovering and diffusing, and I believe if I might been drying it straight or going for a extra blowout-y look, it will have been even faster,” she says, raving about how light-weight it’s. “I used to be blissful to see that this new dryer got here with a diffuser attachment, plus the flyaway-wicking device and the concentrated tip that made my bangs look precisely how I like them in actually 5 seconds. My waves got here out a bit fluffy and fewer outlined than once I air-dry, however that is fairly par for the course for tremendous hair with a looser curl sample like mine.”
I’m not gonna lie: Utilizing the Supersonic R goes to take some observe since I’m so used to the approach (or lack thereof) that goes into utilizing a dryer brush, however due to its impressed new form and next-level know-how, it gained’t take practically as a lot observe as different, much less creative blow-dryers.